After months of relentless desert wind that prevented any kayak fishing, the watermanatwork.com kayak fishing crew is back on the water. Hard to believe this is the first kayak fishing trip of the 2023 fishing season. In the past few desert fishing seasons, we have seen dramatic weather changes that have had a major impact … Read more
It has been a long time since a kayak fishing photo or video has posted on the watermanatwork.com kayak fishing blog. The reason for that is there is no kayak fishing to be done here on the lower Colorado River. In the same place, a few years ago, it was easily one of the best … Read more
I’m sorry to report that there has been no kayak fishing lately. Of course it sucks when you go somewhere to go fishing and there is no fishing at all, but I think we are starting to see the results of the multiple environmental catastrophes here in the American west. Drought and extreme weather are … Read more
Happy New Year from watermanatwork.com and thanks for checking out the blog. I wish I had a good kayak fishing report or even a bad kayak fishing report to write about. The conditions on the lower Colorado River are so bad there is no fishing at all. Complaining about the fishing, even though it is … Read more
In this post, we are going to cover some kayak fishing basics that apply everywhere. We’ll start by showing a little winter kayak fishing on the Colorado River like we usually do this time of year, but things are different this time around. It has been very windy here in the Colorado River basin and … Read more
When we here at watermanatwork.com go kayak fishing for largemouth bass, our favorite lures are probably plastic worms, sometimes known as “senkos”, and plastic grubs. Plastic grubs also work great for smallmouth bass, but in this post we are sticking to largemouth bass. In this article, we’ll show you a simple grub mod for big … Read more
Sorry there’s no kayak fishing action to report because the desert winds have been howling, but there is always something going on. Early this morning there was a total lunar eclipse. A few clouds, not too many. Without the wind, we could fish all night by the full moon, which is very bright. The eclipse … Read more
On a recent kayak fishing trip, I noticed my seventeen year old Hobie Quest kayak was taking on water. Not too much, but any leak on a boat is bad and required immediate repair. It didn’t take long to discover the keel near the stern was worn through from years of dragging the kayak across … Read more
Leaving the absolutely massive salmon fishing crowds behind on the Columbia River, we headed south for the annual watermanatwork.com desert kayak fishing adventure. The trip got off to a bit of a rocky start, decline of American society and all as well as the Colorado River water level about as low as it can go, … Read more
Continued from Desert Kayak Fishing Season Under Way – Part 1 Ever since the watermanatwork.com fishing crew arrived in the desert southwest, it had been very hot. Hotter than we expected according to the forecast. 105°F or hotter during the day and about 85° at night for about a week, which was quite uncomfortable. That … Read more