My love affair with competitive kayak fishing began five years ago. I was working on a customer’s compound bow at an archery shop when someone brought in a flier for a local kayak fishing tournament.

KENTUCKY LAKE — The rivulet that feeds the creek that spills into a bay that’s large enough to swallow 10 football fields before joining this nearly mile-wide reservoir is barely knee-deep, narrow as ...

If your perception of a kayak is a sun-faded, sit-inside piece of plastic with an aluminum paddle, you’re about to go from black-and-white to high-definition LED. Today, kayak fishing rigs resemble ...