Rod N Paddle Kayak Fishing

11/10/2025

IS THIS YOU.... 🤔🎣

02/10/2025

If you do nothing else this season, try to remember to wear one of these things, and look on it as a fashion accessory, that just may help save your life. If, like me, you wear a vest, then give it a thorough check over (and clean 😁), and if you wear an inflatable - also check out, and maybe replace the gas cylinder, Bill.

19/09/2025

Hobie Kayaks have been purchased 🤔
Well, that's the rumor that is circulating at the moment, and it suggests that the new owner is Bass Pro, and American retail giant, think Bunnings, but for the fishing and hunting brigade, and from what I am reading, a lot of your Hobie tragic are not at all happy.
BassPro is a very successful retail chain giant with over 180 outlets, which include the Cabelas chain of stores they purchased in 2016, as well as golf courses, resorts and the like. It has a huge reputation as a very profitable business, which started 50 odd years ago in the back of a liquor store in Missouri, and constantly features high in employer ratings.
Hobie was purchased in 2021 by a private equity firm, who have stripped it down to improve its profitability for sale. This has made many believe that the post 2021 Kayaks are not as well made as earlier ones, and many ha e complained about quality, breakages and service (from the parent company,not Hobie Aus or its dealers).
If the rumors are true, I suggest it is too early to say what sort of direction the BassPro group may take Hobie, but I would suggest that it may be a good thing, given that they are a very solid, stable operation, that tend to look to further growth, not reductions, strip backs and the like.
Lets wait and see what happens.
Edit - No longer a rumor- it has been made official.
Bill.

01/09/2025

With the weather not being conducive to my fishing brain lately, I thought I would do a bit of a tidy in the garage on Saturday, I had decided last time I was on one of the estuaries around here that I needed to do a lure restock for the crate.
Now I have decided I may have a problem, whats your thoughts 🤔.

26/08/2025

Check this out - amazing what nature can do...

In the shadows of coral caves, a hunter waits with a secret.
Its body coils like a serpent, teeth gleam at the surface — but the real weapon hides deeper, inside the throat.

The moray eel.
At first glance, it looks like any other predator of the reef. Long, muscular, mottled with earth tones, sliding in and out of coral crevices. Its jaw snaps with power, clamping onto passing fish. But what happens next belongs to science fiction.

From within its mouth, a second set of jaws shoots forward. The pharyngeal jaws — an inner pair of teeth-bearing jaws hidden in the throat — lunge outward to seize prey and drag it down into the digestive dark. Unlike most fish, whose throats merely pull food backward, the moray’s hidden blade actively bites.

It is nature’s answer to a nightmare. The eel strikes once with its outer mouth, then again from within, a double assault that leaves little chance of escape. A weapon within a weapon.

Morays are not small. Some stretch three meters long, with skulls large enough to swallow entire reef fish in a gulp. Their faces, twisted into what looks like an eternal snarl, are actually just gills pumping water — but to divers who glimpse them at night, the effect is monstrous.

Yet behind the terror lies elegance. The pharyngeal jaw evolved as an innovation to handle slippery prey. Morays live wedged in reef holes, unable to create the suction that other fish use to swallow. Evolution gave them a second mouth, one that could reach out and finish the kill. In design, it mirrors the alien monsters of human cinema — but here it is real.

Coral reefs echo with life, and the moray eel plays its role as both predator and guardian of balance. By hunting fish, it shapes populations, pruning the reef with every strike. Hidden in its throat is the reminder that nature always builds deeper, stranger tools than we imagine.

A creature with two jaws. A throat that lunges.
An eel that hides a knife.

Learn more:

National Geographic: Moray Eel Feeding Behavior

BBC Earth: The Secret Second Jaws of Moray Eels

NOAA: Coral Reef Predators and Their Roles

25/08/2025

If you want a sneak peak at my latest video, that does not come out until this time tomorrow, you will need a Youtube account, here is a link you can use to view it.
What's it about - well a about 18 months ago I decided I needed to replace the Ranger, and I looked at many different options - I wasn't sure what I wanted, I just knew I didn't want another of what I had, and I needed to try something different.
This is what I did https://youtu.be/36h6J63EvuE

25/08/2025

Well now, it looks like we will have the rain gear out over spring and early summer - hopefully without the winds- my pet hate, fishing and wind.

24/08/2025

How good do these look. Going to have to get me some I suspect...

15/08/2025

A year ago, but firmly stamped in the memory bank, a really big Snapper caught on the kayak, in a wash zone, check it out ....

absolutely my PB Aussie snapper, great to catch it in a wash zone, loved the fight - probably because I won

10/08/2025

What about you ???https://www.instagram.com/reel/DNHq0y3hOsi/?igsh=NHJrNHQ5MzlqOHd6

10/08/2025

An oldie, but still relevant today, even more so when you consider how much it can now cost to get onto the water with a fishing kayak. Right now, in Ozzie dollars, you can spend between $10 and $12k, yes, that's thousand, and that will get you a reasnobly decked out Hobie PA360 with trailer - because you will need one, but that's not the limit, you can spend a hell of a lot more than that on accessories like motors, screens, anchor system and all of that is before you even land a fish.
Now, in the states, they are talking spending upto $20k US - I will attach a link in the comments below to a Vid by Chad Hoover, who is one of those that's been pushing the tech in kayak fishing, and the comps they run.
What got me into kayak fishing initially was the simplicity, and even today I still love those days when it is just me, a kayak and a rod. I currently have 3 kayaks, for 3 different purposes, and whilst I don't have the masses of tech that means such a huge cost, I do have motors, screens systems, anchor systems and so on.
But, the fish, well they don't really care how much you spend, and on what, the reality is, you will either catch them, or you won't - and if you don't agree, just check out Matt Nelson from NDYakangler on Youtube and tell me Im wrong.
Anywho here is my video on getting a kayak for fishing

What is the best fishing kayak for me ? With these tips, it will help you make the right choice, for you.Here are my thoughts, on what suits lakes, large riv...