Kayak Fishing Magazine Fall Striper Issue

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	Kayak Fishing Magazine Fall Striper Issue

STRIPERS! We like them Big, Mean and Plentiful

For pulse-pounding excitement, not much can beat casting a giant swimbait or popper lure smack into the middle of a classic striped bass feeding frenzy. Stripers are an extremely adaptable anadromous species.

Kayak anglers have the advantage of easily hanging just beyond the surfline and throwing poppers towards the breaking waves, and getting into the tight spots and shallow waters of the estuaries and bays. You can hunt them day or night, in freshwater, salt, and everything in-between.

Besides being available in a wide range of geographic locations, stripers are also famous for their ferocious hits, multiple dogged runs and they can get really really big. It’s no wonder that stripers are a favorite target for our US kayak anglers on the East as well as the West Coast.

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Tri-State Stripers

Living in the northeast, stripers are my main target fish for about 7 months out of the year. There are endless ways to fish for stripers and at different times of the year, all work great. You can fish shallow waters in back bays, deep water in the ocean and just about every way you can think of.

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California Stripers

Striped bass are not indigenous to the West Coast. They are such an adaptable species that fish brought to California in 1879 quickly established a foothold in the San Francisco Bay and Sacramento River Delta.

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New England Stripers

For pulse-pounding excitement, not much can beat casting a giant swimbait or popper lure smack in the middle of a classic striped bass feeding frenzy. Stripers are an extremely adaptable anadromous species found in freshwater, salt, and everything in-between. If you look at a map of the Massachusetts coastline, you’ll see it’s perfect for hunting feisty stripers, with over 1500 miles of tidal shoreline.

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Guide Spotlight:
Loon Pond Outfitter

Hope Eagleson hails from Hillsborough, New Hampshire. She is one of the few, perhaps the ONLY female kayak fishing guide in the New England region. Hope is involved with a broad array of outdoor activities. The thread of continuity that runs through them all is her penchant to lead, teach and share what she knows about the outdoors

New Sections at KayakFishingMagazine.net

We recently created two new sections at KFM.

Electronics
We see time and time again that electronics confuse people. With that in mind, KFM has created a section for everything electronics. In the future we'll demystify everything from battery life to VHF range. But first we start off with a feature on entry level fishfinders.

Fisheries Affairs
There are many initiatives out there that affect our ability to participate in our chosen pastime, kayak fishing. It is important that we stay educated and active in order to ensure we continue to enjoy the rights we have. We go to the Pacific Northwest. where recent fisheries management actions had the potential to shut down one of relatively few kayak fishing access coast along the rugged Washington coast.

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Electronics:
Entry Level Fishfinders

There are dozens of fishfinder models available on the market today. It almost seems you need a PhD to decipher which is which. Say you are looking for an entry level, no-nonsense fishfinder- where to begin? KFM weeded through many models to distill our list down to three units: the Lowrance X-4 Pro, the Eagle Fisheasy 245DS and the Humminbird PiranhaMAX 170.

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Fisheries Affairs:
Bottomfish Closures off Washington Avoided for Now

As an unfortunate byproduct of this closure, kayak anglers were severely impacted. In Washington, there are relatively few launches into the open ocean that are kayak angler friendly.