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Watertown Daily Times | Fishing from kayaks grows as healthy outdoor recreation

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Fishing from kayaks grows as healthy outdoor recreation By MIKE SEYMOUR JOHNSON NEWSPAPERS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2012 PHOTO PROVIDED Ingrid Niehaus is among the growing number of anglers who do their fishing from a kayak. PHOTO PROVIDED Ingrid Niehaus is among the growing number of anglers who do their fishing from a kayak. ARTICLE OPTIONS A   A Little Big Town’s “Pontoon” topped the country charts this summer just as pontoon boats have headed the list of sales for many boat dealers across the country. If this song-and-boat trend continues, I expect the next hit song will be “Kayak” because kayaks are gaining in popularity among a variety of boaters, especially anglers. Kayak Angling Recent fishing competitions give credence to the growing popularity of kayaks in the angling world. One such event was the 2012 Musky Fly Fishing World Championship held on Tennessee’s Caney Fork and Collins rivers. James McBeath of Ontario, Canada, w

Jig Fishing Today

www.rod-fly-fishing.com This is better than messing around with smelly bait, then there is the bait unused to take home and refreeze Jig fishing today Boonville Daily News "Bill Binkleman, the founder of Fishing Facts Magazine, was a proponent of using jigs to catch fish, especially bass, crappie, and walleye. In the 1960s, which was Fishing Facts formative years, most jigs had a round or pill-shaped lead head with a ..." http://www.boonvilledailynews.com/article/20121123/SPORTS/121129682  If you have not tried it and not sure go to your local fishing store and ask, better still check with some one who uses it.

Core Interest

The term “core interest” might sound like simple editorial boilerplate or a harmless diplomatic cliché Will China Arm Its Fishermen to Protect a 'Core Interest'? "Images of Wednesday's front pages from a number of Chinese newspapers have been collated (with translated headlines) by China Digital Times, with stories denouncing Japan and claiming the islands as Chinese territory. The state media, it appears, is ..." http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/12/will-china-arm-its-fishermen-to-protect-a-core-interest/ “We should militarize our fishermen,” said He Jianbin, the head of the large state-owned Baosha fishing corporation, referring to confrontations near the Spratly islands, another of Beijing’s disputes in the region.    www.rod-fly-fishing.com