If you'd like to fish by boat, but want to keep it simple and relatively inexpensive, a kayak designed for angling could be just the ticket. In 2007, about 20 percent of people buying new kayaks aimed ...

This was not your father’s kayak. Last week, I slipped into a dark green 13-foot, 8-inch Hobie-made boat and tested the hottest new thing on the water: the fishing kayak. The kayak was outfitted with ...

I grew up fishing with my dad from the shore, or sometimes from a rowboat or canoe. We never caught much. Although these were "fishing trips," I recall spending more time paddling than casting.

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.