Kayak fishing

Kayak fishing is fishing from a kayak, a type of light human-powered watercraft propelled by handheld double-paddles or pedalled fins/propellers. Recreational rod angling is the predominant form of kayak fishing, although other fishing techniques such as handlining, netting, trapping, spearing, snagging or even shooting can also be used.

Having long been a traditional means of waterborne transport and seal hunting by the Eskaleut indigenous people of North American Arctic and the Bering Sea, kayaks have been adopted by European settlers and gained popularity as a form of lightweight recreational boat fishing in recent times due to its convenience of deployment, agility and versatility in narrow waterways, and small draft that allows access into shallow, snag-prone waters that are typically risky and thus unnavigable to motorboats and yachts.

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