Featured Rig: Inside Ike's River Kayak Build
When a Bassmaster Classic champion and Hall of Famer decides to build a kayak specifically for moving water, the choices he doesn't make are as telling as the ones he...
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Myth Buster - Why the Highest-Priced Kayak Motor Isn’t Always the Best Performer
In kayak fishing, it’s easy to assume that the most expensive motor must be the best. High price is often confused for high performance. But real-world results tell a different...
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Featured Rig: Jimmy Entwistle's Bonafide RVR 119 River Build
Rivers punish gear. Shallow shoals, relentless current, and long runs up-river means a river rig has to be light, balanced, and properly motorized before. Every Friday we're breaking down a...
Ewing Minor Secures Susquehanna Win and AOY Lead
Most of the field looked at the eelgrass and turned around. Ewing Minor looked at it and reached for his lift line. Minor won the 2026 Newport Bassmaster Kayak Series...
Ike and Vegas Iaconelli are Trading the Bass Boat for a Kayak on Susquehanna River
Mike Iaconelli is stepping out of a bass boat and into a kayak. On August 1 & 2, he'll be doing battle at the Newport Bassmaster Kayak Series event on...
Newport Field Notes: ICAST 2026
Newport Field Notes: ICAST 2026 ICAST 2026 is in the books. For four days, the Orange County Convention Center was packed with the biggest names and newest gear in the...
Lovejoy & Entwistle Win the Juniata Regatta on the NK300 HD
Jordan Lovejoy of Annapolis, Maryland, swept the Juniata Regatta this past weekend, taking a Triple Crown across three divisions at the Kayak Adventure Series stop in the Juniata River Valley....
Brannon Runs Away With the Clear Lake W
When the Newport Bassmaster Kayak Series rolled back onto Clear Lake for the first time in five years, the 44,000-acre California giant did what it always does: it humbled some...
Newport Bassmaster Kayak Series Returns to Clear Lake
The wait is over, West Coast. For the first time in five years, the Newport Bassmaster Kayak Series presented by Native Watercraft is rolling back into California, and it's landing on one...
The Dock That Won It All: Ewing Minor Takes Santee Cooper
The Dock That Won It All: Ewing Minor Takes Santee Cooper The 24-year-old from Dandridge, Tennessee, had set up early on Day 1 of the 2026 Newport Bassmaster Kayak Series...
NK180 HD Rock Guard: Skinny-Water Smallmouth with Ethan Sommer
There's a particular kind of water that holds the biggest smallmouth bass. Shallow. Rocky. The kind of creek where you can see every boulder under the hull and hear the...
Introducing the Newport Rock Guard: Armor Built for Impact
Introducing the Newport Rock Guard: Armor Built for Impact Every angler knows the feeling. You spot a promising stretch of skinny water - a rocky shoreline, a stump-studded flat, a...
Ike's Firsthand Look | NK180 Series Control Foil
When Mike "Ike" Iaconelli takes the time to talk gear, hardcore kayak anglers listen. The Bassmaster Elite veteran and Hall of Famer just dropped a firsthand look at Newport's newest...
How-To Install the NK180 Series Control Foil | The Best 2 Minute Upgrade
Watch how Newport does it: This is, hands down, the easiest and most effective NK180 HD or NK180PRO upgrade. Purpose-built. More control. A two-minute upgrade that will change the way...
Introducing NK180 Series Control Foil: Control the Water You Fish
If you've ever watched your kayak slide off-track, fought a hard turn in tidal current, or backed off the throttle in skinny water because the prop was ventilating, you already...
Tyler Anderson’s NK Motor Setup for Bass Boat-Level Control
Newport elite, Tyler Anderson @tylersreelfishing talks about being a Skeeter bass boat fanatic and, at first, worrying that jumping into a kayak would mean giving up that sense of control....