As Dave Cisek silently glides along the rivers and streams of Long Island in his kayak, he never knows what will greet him. One day there may be crabs skittering below him, another day striped bass ...

My kayak is now a boat. Sure, my Hobie Mirage Compass was a polyethylene fishing machine before, but it was pedal-powered. Now, a Newport NK180 electric kayak motor pushes my 12-foot vessel to ...

For kayak fishing, you have two basic choices for shoes—something that is designed to get wet, or no shoes at all. For me, I’m not really a barefoot kind of fisherman, or even a flip-flop kind of guy.

Some of my favorite fishing adventures were fishing for speckled sea trout, jacks, pompano and redfish from kayaks in the backwaters of southwest Florida from St. Petersburg, Fla., to Sanibel Island.

I’ve grown pretty fond of kayak fishing over the last seven years. It is a nice reprieve from the chaos of the big boat world. Though many of the newest fishing kayaks are dang near bass boats, ...

Fishing kayaks dominate the Old Town display at Canoecopia, reflecting a broader shift in the paddlesports industry toward wider, more stable, fishing-focused boats. Credit: Joe Foran What would cause ...