KAYAKING & RAFTING

Jackson Kayak took the acclaimed Nirvana, and cranked up the dial for their newest creek boat design, the all-new 2023 Gnarvana. The Gnarvana brings more bow rocker than Jackson has ever produced, and the list of design features keeps rolling from there. The goal, to produce high-flying boofs, fast skips, a dry ride, and most

Kayak fishing in the United States is a nationwide phenomenon with dedicated anglers in every corner of the country. We asked experts in every state if they had one day to fish, where would they go, when, what would they target and how would they fish? The responses uncover the top fishing grounds of the

ICF News Published on septembre 6th, 2022 | by Kayak Session Germany’s Andrea Herzog and France’s Nicolas Gestin took slalom gold and Great Britain’s Mallory Franklin and Czech Vojtech Heger extreme kayak gold on another day of high drama at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Cup final in La Seu, Spain, on Sunday. Gestin took

[embedded content] Published on September 5th, 2022 | by Kayak Session After hearing about it from a Kent fisherman friend, we couldn’t resist going to find it. To do so, we went to the GPS point following the directions. What we didn’t know was that we would come across Camp Club Gatineau on our way

News Published on septembre 5th, 2022 | by Kayak Session With less than 3 weeks to go till the start of the Oetz Trophy, the start list is full, and the race course is set but the main question is are you ready?! Damiano Benedetto/ Staff photographer On Friday the 23nd of September the kayaking

Cross-continent canoeist Mike Ranta is known for dreaming big, and his 110.5-foot-long paddle is the latest proof of the paddler’s larger-than-life mindset. Affectionately called the Big Dipper, Ranta’s mammoth bent-shaft blade was confirmed in 2021 by Guinness World Records as the world’s largest paddle, ousting from the record books a 60-footer in Golden, British Columbia.

My four-year-old son held up a grotesque soft plastic lure he found at the bottom of the tackle box: “I want to fish with this.” I have a B.S. in Zoology and I have worked in biology research labs at three universities, but I could not identify the lure as a representative of any creature

[embedded content] Published on September 3rd, 2022 | by Kayak Session White Gold features a new school crew on an Idaho classic. With no agenda, their motivation is simple: the love of kayaking. Watch the next generation of paddling legends embrace the chaos of high-water laps on the South Fork Clearwater. Filmed & Edited by:

ICF News Published on septembre 2nd, 2022 | by Kayak Session A weekend of surprise canoe slalom results continued in Pau, France, on Sunday, with Czech Gabriela Satkova winning her first ever ICF world cup gold and 2016 Olympic gold medalist Denis Gargaud Chanut finding his way to the top of the podium again.  Australia’s Jessica

There always seems to be another lesson in rigging floating around the internet. When Jay, host of the Simply Mountain Biking YouTube channel, sets off for a mixed paddling and pedalling trip he’s met with a puzzle. How will he rig his mountain bike to his Crescent sit-on-top kayak? As kayak anglers, we are constantly

Those with a lot of training and experience outdoors like to think we know what we’re doing when making decisions in risk environments. Our ability to make sound judgments about the terrain, timing, group management and safety is something we generally believe improves the longer we spend in the field. But the oft-cited threshold of

North Of Inn Valley, the waters of the Brandenberger Ache cut decisively through the limestone of the Austrian Alps. The pinching walls of this section of the river are known as the Kaiserklamm, or “Emperor’s Gorge.” The whitewater ricochets around in the swirling potholes, making for a natural wonder, and alas, burly whitewater run with

There are a thousand ways to catch a bass and hundreds of rods designed for specific tactics and lures. But kayak anglers don’t have space for a full quiver of the best bass rods. Nor do most of us have the budget to stock a tackle shop on our boat. So, plastic boaters are looking

The Riversport OKC paddling center on the Oklahoma River was built with the intention of training Olympians and hosting international-scale events. On August 26-28, 2022, Riversport put its vision on display as the host of a global gathering in Oklahoma City that spanned the paddling spectrum. Oklahoma City held three paddling events melded together into

[embedded content] Published on September 1st, 2022 | by Kayak Session It’s almost that time of the year again! To get the stoke up here’s a video of what Zack Mutton got up to in the week leading up to the race, from countless laps down the race course, to pushing the limits with a

It’s never too early to practice for an upcoming tournament. In fact, we’d generally just call it a good excuse to go fishing. For angler Melissa Kegg, a rumor of a vanished grass bed was reason enough to make the drive over to East Harbor State Park for some incredible dawn bass fishing on Lake