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

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.

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

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.

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.

If you prefer to spend your time on the water than on dry land, you'll want to know about activities in the Thousand Island-Seaway region of New York that involve boating, canoeing and kayaking.

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.

Are you new to the sport of kayaking and feel a bit intimidated by all the choices and unfamiliar jargon? This quick how-to guide provides the information you need to know before heading to your local kayak retailer.

This article provides information on popular water bodies to canoe, boat or kayak at in the Adirondacks Region of NY.

Most visitors to the century old, southern New Jersey resort of Cape May, New Jersey, visit the beach, take a spin on a family fishing boat or spend a few hours parasailing. But kayaking is steadily gaining popularity among the thousands of vacationers visiting each year.

Kayaking used to be for professional sportsmen, but today's manufacturers offer a wide array of products for people of all persuasions, and the author offers some good reasons to be persuaded

You needn't go far to kayak or canoe if you live in or are visiting Saratoga Springs, NY. If your short on time or just don't feel like driving, don't worry, you aren't far from a great paddling place. Below are only the best area paddling places.

This article will offer tips on kayaking safely.

"If you are a family canoeist or casual floater or you just like to paddle downriver with your dog and your binoculars and your fishing pole, Middle Tennessee is the perfect place," Says Skip.

If you are new to kayaking, you should familiarize yourself with kayak and paddle design as they can affect your performance in the water.

Kayaking on whitewater can be scary- why not learn in one of Seattle's lake first? Here are some good places to take lessons.

Thinking of picking up a new sport? This article will teach you the basics of kayaking, including equipment, skills and places to paddle along Colorado's Front Range.

A quirky festival focused town with galleries, fine dining, art and theatre, world class recreational opportunities and beaches unlike any you will find anyplace in the world; Bandon is famous worldwide as a vacation destination.

The landscape of Georgia offers a variety of camping experiences. Providing many unique and varied opportunities to beginning and seasoned campers all wrapped up in one beautiful state.

An overview of the family friendly activities available at the South Street Seaport, along with a sidebar featuring other activities along the Hudson River.

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.

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

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.

Kayak fishing is gaining momentum in the Gulf Coast fishing community. It is affordable with no gas, no trailer, and no annual licensing fee. Kayak fishing lets the angler get close to the fish up on the flats or further out into the bay.

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

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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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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?

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,

Of course there are many different kinds ranging in price but your average one-seater ocean kayak will be about $300. There are numerous places to take your kayak, including, oceans, lakes, ponds, rivers and whitewater kayaking.

If you'll be traveling to the Niagara region of New York in the near future, you might want to look into these activities for boating, canoeing and kayaking.

Learn about the Rimu tour offered by Active New Zealand. A 12 to 14 day tour package that offers glacier climbing, sea kayaking, mountain biking, hiking and city tours. Wine tasting, helicopter tours and other adventures also await you on this tour.

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.

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.

Kayaks come in a lot of designs, with many intended uses. Often sales people, especially in large chain stores, have never used or don't fully understand the nature of the kayaks they sell. Here are some things you should look for when buying a kayak.

A comparison of sit on top vs sit inside kayaks, and which is best for fishing.

Whitewater kayak designs have evolved quickly and drastically. Whitewater kayaks are a mere shadow of what they once were. They're shorter, flatter, and blunter; yet the basic maneuverability still comes from the same place...the knees.

The Folbot ® kayak and I'd already experienced the "nuclear force winds" of the Columbia River Gorge and the unforgiving waters off the Oregon and Northern California coasts. Paddling the flat waters of the Snake River reservoirs would be a new experience.

Squirt boating is a subcategory of whitewater kayaking. The boat is designed to be as low in volume as possible and still be able to float. 80%-90% of the boat sits underwater.

Kayak travel on streams is becomming more popular.

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.

Learn the basics of chop hopping downwind to double your kayak speed. Or use a small sail to go faster with half as much effort.

Review: Pamlico 135T Tandem Kayak

Living Adventures offers an exhilarating new travel program that brings adventurous women together. Based near Bayfield, Wisconsin on Lake Superior, they are a passionate group of kayakers that have recently implemented all women's kayak groups.

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.

The hot summer is just right around the corner and it is time to dust of the old fishing rod and get ready to cast the line into the water for fun fishing.

A brief description of the exciting whitewater rapids in the Snake River Canyon at Jackson Hole Wyoming along with a guide to some of the commercial whitewater rafting vacation guides.

A Columbia jacket is right for you if you're very active outdoors and need a lightweight, breathable jacket that's colorful and perfect for activities like water sports: white water rafting, canoeing or boating.

Plum Island Sound's flats' intricate matrix of channels, embankments and guzzles hold large schools of striped bass during the fall migration. Fish here with a kayak and you can stalk the flats on foot. Here's where and how.

The Mulberry River can be very seasonal for whitewater rapids depending on the amount of rain fall for each season.

This is a travelogue regarding a kayaking trip on the US/Canadian border in Northern Maine. The author describes how a kayak releives stress. There are interesting and picturesque details about wildlife.

People hustle to the Truckee River to cool off in the kayak park. Navigating the white water rapids takes skill and finesse, which can offer quite a ride even to the experienced kayaker in the new racing course.

Wilderness Adventure at Eagle Landing offers a variety of outdoor summercamp experiences for ages 8 through 17 for exciting trips cycling, kayaking, hiking, or climbing.

There's more than thrill rides and dinner shows around Orlando, Florida. Spend a refreshing day kayaking to really enjoy Florida.

There are excellent outfitters all over northern Arkansas, which supply everything needed for a full or half day of great canoeing, fishing, kayaking, or just tubing.

This article provides information on the most popular water bodies in the Finger Lakes Region of New York.

An overview of some recommendations to enjoy Maine by the water.

Don't settle for boring gift giving.Give your girlfriends adventure, romance or empowerment.Try these unique ideas - from ice kayaking to urban hiking for a gift that will be talked about for years to come!

This lake offers visitors great camping as well as excellent fishing and boating opportunities.

Virginia Beach, Virginia, offers more for outdoor lovers than just a great place to get a tan on a sunny afternoon.

This year, the Broward County Park Service is celebrating 50 years of service to the local community. With an average daily high of 90�F in the summer and 78�F in the winter, a day at any of Hollywood's parks is a good idea!

The thought of traveling in the warmest months of the year keeps many people at home and bored - but don't let it stop you! Plan your vacation around Lake Superior and have all the fun of a beautiful vacation without all of the heat.

Luminescent waters, baby powder sand, and sun that shines eternal; you are in paradise, you are in the Caribbean�but with so many islands and literally thousands of accommodations, which one is right for you?

Tui Tai Adventure Cruises brings active travelers to Fiji Islands, offering a variety of activities and cultural experiences. Travelers can choose how much or how little they do each day- anything from hiking to waterfalls to reading a book on the beach.

Self-support whitewater kayaking trips are fun, but somewhat daunting to prepare for. The basic one or two night trips are the most common but whether you're planning for one night or a whole week the gear you'll need is basically the same.

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.

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.

One sure way to avoid kayaking crowds is to strap your boat on in the winter months. The normal summer boat crowds will be nonexistent and you'll have the same great water all to yourself.

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.

Park and play kayaking by definition is putting in at a wave or hole, playing for a few hours then taking out at the same spot. No river miles are logged, only river time.

Findleey Lake, New York is a small resort village that offers fishing, boating, water actitivities and shopping. It is a destination for all seasons with planned events.

Sea kayakers are often plagued by sore heels, feet that fall asleep, and an inability to contact friends and family to let them know that they are okay. They also have to overload their boats with provisions while camping. Here are solutions.

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.

Fishing the waters of Boston Harbor during the striped bass fall run, one writer takes his first keeper and promptly spoils it.

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.

Article describes areas to go kayaking in Northern California. Includes river names, locations, schools and training facilities. Also explains the benefits of kayaking and some basic info about kayaking.

The most common injury to whitewater kayakers is the dislocated shoulder. However, this injury is easily avoided if proper techniques are followed. By doing one basic maneuver you can eliminate shoulder dislocation almost entirely as a potential kayaking injury.

Safety is paramount, and of the many ways to enjoy a safe and successful offshore trip, none is more important than using a trip monitor.

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 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.

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.

Boating season is upon us and once again thoughts of the water, the boat that sat idle all last fall and winter, fishing spots and gear, or other types of water sports begin to occupy our every waking moment.