Archive for fishing
Calvin Tom owner of Boardfisher.com maker of stand up paddle board fishing accessories caught a nine foot Thresher Shark off the coast of Encinitas California near the popular surf spot Swami’s. It took him more than an hour to reel in the large shark and it towed him about about a mile and a half from shore.
For more information read the article here.
T.J.Saeman is known for his stand up paddle adventures. He has been SUP surfing all over the world, running rivers across North America on a SUP and especially SUP surfing the famous Newport Beach California wave the Wedge in out of control conditions. He also likes to hunt and in this video he combines his love of hunting with his love of SUP.
T.J.Saeman is hunting for Pacific Eider duck on Adak island in the Aleutian island chain off the coast of Alaska. When the weather gets too rough for the hunters to go out in their zodiac boat, T.J. decides to take his inflatable Hobie stand up paddle board out into the ocean to bag a duck. He slings his shotgun over his shoulder and paddles out in rough, cold water for over a half mile offshore and gets his duck. The video is from tjsaeman.
Luke Hopkins from Stride Standup Paddleboards, (known for their inflatable river SUPs), along with Shawn Hash from Tangent Outfitters have introduced a new camouflage inflatable paddle board for hunting and fishing called the Stride Airlite BC. The BC stands for blast and cast, blast for hunting and cast for fishing.
The Airlite BC comes with repair kit with directions, hand pump, 12 volt electric pump,carrying strap, backpack gear bag, and a removable bungee net. The Airlite BC offers the optional angler package for fishing which is a sliding and removable system and includes: measuring tape and cutting board, quick attachment for milk crate, scotty swivel rod holder, two tackle boxes or water bottle holders, and extra tackle bungee net. The hunting options include: waterproof gun drysack, drysacks on front and back and an accessory kayak seat.
Here’s a video of Shawn Hash doing a little river fishing for small mouth bass aboard the new Airlite BC.
The next two videos are the first we’ve seen of SUP hunting. In the first video they are doing some goose hunting and in the second they are doing some duck hunting. They call it SUP sneak hunting. Read More→
This guy hooks a nice tarpon fishing from his paddle board in this video from neptunesurf.
For information about the SUP-er tray and the SUP-er harness products that he is using see our post on sup fishing accessories.
Neptune Surf Products has a couple of innovative SUP fishing accessories designed for the SUP fisherman. They have the SUP-er tray which is a storage tray for fishing, spear fishing, diving, or just to carry any kind of gear and they have the SUP-er harness which is a waist belt to hold a rod for trolling and keep your paddle handy at your waist while you are fishing. Both of these products look very useful for organizing your fishing gear on your paddle board.
