We’ve finished converting another kayak fishing video to a higher quality .MP4 format, this time it’s kayak fishing on San Diego Bay launching from the Shelter Island beach by the boat moorings. You can find the video on the Kayak Fishing on San Diego Bay – Shelter Island page on the watermanatwork.com website. The weather … Read more
Some friends came out to visit here in the Columbia River Gorge so we spent some time out and about to show them what summertime in the Gorge is all about. Fortunately, the weather was really nice so we were able to get out and do something every day. There is a lot to do … Read more
Finally, a short break in the windy conditions here in the Columbia River Gorge allowed us to get out for a couple days of kayak fishing on the Columbia River. It wasn’t dead calm, but compared to the daily 20mph winds we’ve been having, it was calm enough to safely get out on the big … Read more
The Columbia River Gorge is famous for it’s wind and it has been living up to that reputation lately. Great for kiteboarders and sailboarders, but bad news for kayak fishing. The Columbia River is also running petty high and the currents are strong in spots. High winds and strong currents mean very dangerous kayaking conditions, … Read more
Springtime here in the Columbia River Gorge means that the weather is going to be constantly changing and it’s almost a daily certainty that it’s going to be windy. It has been windy for the past week or so and it looks like next week is going to be windy as well; fine for the … Read more
The bicycle riding has taken a bit of a backseat in the activitymobile because of the good smallmouth bass fishing, but as is so often the case here in the Columbia River Gorge, the wind has come up and we haven’t had a relatively calm day for a week or so and the upcoming five … Read more
The editing and conversion of videos continues at the WatermanAtWork.com studios. We are slowly but surely changing over from short, low quality MPEG and WMV videos to longer, higher quality MP4 videos. It’s a time consuming process and we’ve got a lot of video, but we are getting it done. The latest video uploaded is … Read more
It’s been a hot few days on the Columbia River and the smallmouth bass fishing has been pretty good for this time of the year. There was one session a few days ago where we got blown off the river by wind that came up very suddenly, causing treacherous wind waves and cross chop that … Read more
We’ve had a few windy and wet days here in the PacNW that has been putting a damper on the smallmouth bass fishing. Starting today, looks like we are going to have a few days of ideal fishing weather so we are going to be out on the Columbia River fishing every day we can. … Read more
We got the kayaks back on the water a week or so ago and we’ve been out a couple times since then, but, to be honest, there really has not been much to report. We did not catch any fish and only had a few half hearted nibbles. That’s not uncommon this early in the … Read more