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Brewster's saltwater flats, off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, a striped bass hotpot during the spring and fall runs, are mostly inaccessible to powerboats during low water. Here's how to fish the flats from a kayak, tin skiff, or other small boat.

The northern and western shores of Cape Ann, from Annisquam to Rockport, hold large schools of stripers along rocky shorelines, within numerous inlets and coves and in the mouths of tidal rivers that empty onto large shoals.

Using a kayak or a jonboat, the adventuresome angler can sightfish striped bass and bluefish in Duxbury Bay's intricate matrix of low-tide flats, sandbars, saltwater creeks and embayments.

Read about how to use the 4" shad lure and a lead jighead to fish for striped bass from a kayak during the fall and spring run. Details include where to fish in the Boston area.

Known as spring tides not for the season but for their extremity, the lowest tides of the month, on the full moon, can be an enchanting time to fish for striped bass on the saltwater flats of Massachusetts. Here's one angler's South Shore kayak fishing story.

Wood End and Race Point at Cape Cod Ma.'s Provincetown, are reliable keeper striper hotspots so long as the water is warm, full of bait, and if the winds are down. But what about the day when the angler gets skunked?

Buy an inexpensive kayak to easily reach saltwater species that too often frustrate from shore.

After spring's striper blitzes along Cape Ann and the North Shore of Massachusetts begin to calm down, you'll have to work a little harder if you're looking for fish off spots like Manchester, Boston, and Cape Ann.

Located a scant half-mile off the coast of Rockport, Massachusetts's Pebble Beach, Milk Island is a productive, lightly-pressured area to fish for striped bass during the fall run.

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Adjacent to deep water and beaches, surrounded by ledges Cape Ann's Salt and Thachers Islands are productive on striped bass, pollock and inshore cod.

Between Sandwich and Barnstable, Cape Cod lies Sandy Neck, a barrier beach whose waters and shoals are rough, ridden with tidal currents, and frequently filled with bluefish. Paddling the area can make you a better kayaker and fill your fridge with fish.

With a few simple hand tools, a few lengths of surgical tubing and fifteen minutes time, you can build for about $2.00 striper tubes that ordinarily retail for $10.00 or more.

After spending a season fishing from a commercial striped bass boat out of Gloucester, Massachusetts, here are some of the keeper tricks the writer learned.

Winter sea kayaking in New England can be a pleasure if you prepare and carry the right gear. You need towlines, drysuits, vhf radios, and rescue skills. Here's how one trip almost went wrong.

Plymouth Bay's most prominent feature is Browns Bank, a centuries-old shoal that lies beneath the waters of Plymouth Beach and which, at low tide rises to cover nearly a dozen dry acres. It can be a fine place to kayak surf, picnic and fish.

Rigging with soft plastics is a handy, economical way to fish for striped bass, especially from a kayak. They're easy to store and easy to make. Moreover they work on a variety of species including not only striped bass but bluefish, pollock and cod.

The striper technique known as chum-and-chunk is dirt simple: buy a bucket of herring, chop several herring into bits, toss the bits overboard followed by a herring chunk on a bare hook.

With waters as vast as those off Cape Cod and many more islands to fish around and land on, the waters of Salem Sound from Marblehead to Manchester, Massachusetts are productive on stripers, bluefish and flounder.

An overview of activities available to outdoor adventure enthuiasts traveling to the Outer Banks including hang gliding, water sports, and fishing.

Accessible by several put-ins and trailer ramps, the productive fall striper waters of Rockport's Straitsmouth Island, Avery Ledge, Loblolly and Whale Coves all lie within a half mile of each other - good fishing during September and October.

A tiny and obscure sand island located in the southwest corner of Nantucket Sound off Nantucket, Muskeget is surrounded by vast sandbars, fast tidal currents and difficult-to-navigate waters. Two sea kayakers make the trip during the fall.

An overview of areas where the fishing enthusiasts can access the Connecticut shoreline.

One of the simplest ways to fish the tidal rip off South Monomoy Island is by drifting in the current while trolling a treble-hooked plug or swimmer. If you're not up to to paddling the entire distance, hire one of the many charter services to drop you off in the area.

A kayaker who launches into the waters off Chatham from Morris Island or Hardings Beach gains good access to the bonito grounds in northeastern Nantucket Sound off Monomoy Island.

It is just after dawn on the waters off of Chatham's Monomoy Island on the elbow of Cape Cod Massachusetts. Your fishing guide is standing 6 feet above the water's surface on the polling platform of a Florida flats style shallow draft fishing boat.

With a long and irregular coastline that includes Cape Cod, the North Shore and the South Shore there is plenty of sea kayaking to be had in Massachusetts. These locations are among the best for their sheer beauty and the wildlife that abounds.

Sea kayaking is the perfect mode of transportation to explore the beautiful waters of Alaska.

Learn about Milford Sound, sea kayaking and how to plan a sea kayaking adventure.

Sea kayaking is becoming more and more popular and may even be replacing hiking for many people while creating new horizons for nature lovers, canoeists and active travelers.

Cape Cod offers many choices for a family vacation

Billingsgate Shoals' striped bass feed on the area's thick biomass of sandeels. Fish the area's shallows and structures with spincast gear and trolling rigs or the wire jigs known locally as hoochies.

Some of the best striped bass fishing in the Northeast coastal areas can be done using this dynamite trolling technique. The method involves using a plastic "worm" that is approximately 16 inches to 18 inches long.

Black sea bass require the simplest of techniques and gear: chopped sea clams, a bank sinker and a small hook or two.

Use a variety of dumbbell and medicine ball drills to strengthen your core for faster sea kayaking and increased boat control.

In the San Francisco area, you will find schools teaching sea and open water kayaking lessons and while each one of them teaches the same basic lessons, when you get to the advanced courses they each have different special lessons available.

Kayaking is a great way to navigate places where large boats cannot go. Down the narrow waterways of the back country or navigate the rapids on a fast moving river.There are Kayaking schools and clubs in Seattle that have a wide variety of Kayaking Lessons available.

Take a look at these schools in Chicago that have kayaking lessons, Each one is a bit different, with a different approach. One even had a special children's program.

A kayaking vacation in Maine is a great way to get to explore some of the most beautiful wilderness you will ever come across.

Kyaking can be a great adventure for the whole family, provided you are all prepared and have taken the right type of lessons for the type of kayaking you want to tackle.

An anadromous, fastwater-loving fish, striped bass are drawn to the tidal Merrimack River's Joppa Flats by the flats' forage, tidal currents and mixture of structure and deep water.

Kayaking is fast becoming a very popular sport. It is fun, adventurous, not as expensive as other types of boating. But just because it is a small boat and looks so easy, it does not mean that you should just get in a kayak and set out.

One of the lesser-known urgency calls to make on a VHF radio is the securite call. It's used to inform other boaters of your presence at night or in fog and during times of lowered visibility. Like the mayday and pan-pan call, the securite call is made on channel 16,

On your vacation to Hawaii, do something you don't normally do at home. Kayaking is adventurous yet safe and simple if you follow instructions. And it's great exercise.

Massachusetts commercial fishermen have to be resourceful, able to fish one species one season, another the next, requiring frequent retrofits.

Kayaking can be a wonderful, relaxing sport, what better place to do it than the scenic, nature filled area of the Indian River Lagoon in Central Florida.

For those of with an interest in kayaking this article is designed for you! This article explain the basics of kayaking as well as tips!

One of the better ways to handle a sea kayak rescue in an onshore wind is with so-called bulldog and a tandem-rafted tow.

The Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California is the perfect place to kayak and see nature at its best. Surfing Champion Mike Lamm took me out for my first time.

A rundown on what Whittier Alaska has to offer for visitors and those that stop there on cruises.