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Your Hobie Outback is a fully-loaded fishing machine, and this alone makes it ideal as a vessel for pursuing stripers during the fall run.In much of the Northeast, late October through early December sees explosive striped bass action as schools of fish, sometimes in the thousands, pursue bait up and down the coast.This time of year the stripers (and the bluefish that often follow them) are gorgin …

There’s one area in which modern fishing kayak manufacturers are all vying for supremacy: the respective realms of their pedal drive systems.Some are made with automatic kick-up fins, as in the case of the Hobie MirageDrive. Others are capable of full power in forward and reverse. Some can even produce thrust that can be vectored, producing pinpoint, precise controls.Others, like the Jackson Knarr …

There are lots of reasons to hit the water in the winter when the rest of the sportsmen are either in the field hunting or at home keeping warm.For one, the crowds on the water usually dwindle to a trickle in the winter. You just won’t be fighting for space on the water like you would be in the summer.Another is the weather. Granted, there is sometimes heinous weather on the water in the winter (d …

Let’s face a simple truth. Some fishing kayaks are better than others for certain pursuits and disciplines. For instance, paddle driven kayaks - or those with integral electric motors - offer more mechanical advantage and power for fishing on moving water, such as in tides. As a general rule, they also make it easier to cover more open water more quickly.But in the backwater, and in other tight sp …