Author: PawPaw ….

For quite a while now I have been reading about Jackson Kayak’s new Coosa Elite and how everyone likes it.
Unfortunately,  no one that has one lives very close to me.  A few days ago, I contacted Ocmulgee Tim who lives in Gray, Georgia and he was kind enough to drop off his Coosa at my house to give it a test ride and for me to evaluate.  I currently have an Ocean Kayak Drifter and have river fished out of it for quite a few years.  I am now 61 years old and weigh 250 lbs. (If you don’t eat,  you’ll die!!!)
Anxious to try this new kayak out,  my friend, Sandbar Martin and I went to a local 5 acre lake to try it out.  While there, we also wet a line for the first time in 2011.  Anthony in the first 5 minutes catches his personal best largemouth!!  Check out the video to join us in our excitement of catching our first fish of the year,  highlights from 2010 of another good friend of mine,  Smiley and finally the evaluation of the Coosa from my perspective and how it will fare for  “FatBoys”.

Originally Submitted by: JustFish……

This is a series of videos with tips on cleaning/servicing a bait-casting reel.

…Part I

…Part II

…Part III

Here is a short video where I try to explain how to fix a problem I was having with my baitcasting
reel and how I was positioning my hand/fingers on the reel handle.  I was occasionally banging
my index finger knuckle into the reel handle nut when making a hard hookset mainly when fishing
plastic worms or jigs slow on the bottom.  If you have the same problem I did,  this video should help.
If you don’t have this problem, be thankful!!!

We have all heard from our fishing buddies that fish with tube baits how effective they are.  Great news!!!!  How do you fish with them without getting hung up all the time though?  The solution is quite simple!  When fishing with these bad boys,  rig them with a weedless jig head.  How in the world do you get the weed guard inside the tube bait without the weed guard sticking into the sides of the tube bait?  This video will hopefully share a simple trick I learned to do this!!  I think you will be quite amazed how simple the solution is!!  I hope this you will help you to become a better tube bait fisherman.

…. When you kayak fish and you catch that fish of a lifetime, are you able to get a good photo of you and the fish together or do you just photograph the fish by itself?  Well, this has happened to me more times than I remember.  Just a few days ago I was watching some videos on YouTube and found a video made by Florida Kayak Angler guide Robert Duerscheidt that showed me how to build an inexpensive camera mount that would mount into a Scotty Rod Holder base.  I thought it important enough to share with you how I made mine.

For the past couple of years, I have struggled with different ways of rigging swimbaits. Some ways were better than others; until recently, I have not been completely satisfied with any of them. In this video, I will share with you what I have learned. Hopefully, these tips will help increase your catch rate on this awesome bait!!

Join me and two of my good friends, TyGa10 & Rocky on the Flint River while we fish for shoal bass!
Rocky is a long time friend of Robert’s that he has known for many years.  Rocky and Robert played baseball
together when they were growing up.

Have you ever thought to yourself…….. “I’m getting pretty good at this river fishing thing!”
I know a lot of you out there watching this video have probably had that thought but probably
won’t admit it. That’s OK !  Here’s something new you might consider trying!

No shoal bass were injured during the making of this film and were all released
healthy back into the river!

Have you ever been on the lake or river and been accidentally impaled with a fish hook by your fishing partner, yourself or even a fish when trying to land it?  Well, if you have,  you know it puts you in quite a predicament!   Do you leave immediately for the emergency room at a hospital or doctor’s office to have it removed? It all depends on where the hook is embedded and whether any of those facilities are nearby or accessible.  There are other alternatives.  This video shows one of them. Hope it helps you if this ever happens at a time you least expect it!

This is a video of me kayak fishing with two of my Riverbassin.com friends on one of our favorite rivers in Georgia. The weather was hot…hot…hot this day but the bass were tearing em up!!! All three of us caught around 60 fish together!! Wooooooooooo! I had just viewed a video the night before of Kevin VanDam demonstrating how he fishes the “swimming jig”. I had never fished this type of bait before but will now!!! It was a killer!