August 19, 2025
By In-Fisherman Staff
The latest edition of Kayak Fishing Fun is on newsstands and is the best one yet! KFF Editor Jeff Weakley sits down with Thomas Allen who is the Senior Editor of KFF, and renowned kayak pro angler and KFF contributor Bailey Eigbrett. The guys discuss the new magazine, new products released at ICAST 2025, state of the industry and some great kayak fishing discussion throughout. Learning about how much fun kayak fishing is the first step to building your passion. This podcast will help get you started.
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00:00:03.480 --> 00:00:35.560: You're listening to Storyline, North America's top voice in multi-species freshwater angling. Here is your host, Thomas Allen. Hey, welcome to In-Fisherman Storyline. We are perched in the LL Bean Studios which is at the very top level of the Twin In-Fisherman Towers overlooking beautiful downtown Brainerd, Minnesota. We just dodged a big thunderstorm here.
00:00:35.560 --> 00:00:54.980: It's that time of year, but it's also a time of year to talk fishing, to talk tournaments, to talk cool magazines that have come out. And I got a couple of cool guests here. My friend and editor of Florida Sportsman magazine and Kayak Fishing Fun, Jeff Weakley. Jeff, thanks for waiting for me to make it into the studio this morning.
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00:00:54.980 --> 00:01:15.420: My pleasure. Good to catch up with you guys. Question is: Are you wearing pants today? I'm wearing surf shorts, man. We're always ready to go. That's right. Next to him is Bailey Eigbrett. Bailey is the best kayak fisherman In the world, he will never tell you that. But proof is in the pudding, my friend. Bailey, thanks for being here.
00:01:15.420 --> 00:01:39.060: Yeah, of course, dude. Appreciate the invite. We have something in common, the three of us. We love to kayak fish, and I've got in my hands the most recent edition of kayak fishing fun. If you flip through these pages, you will see names like Jeff Weakley, of course, and then Bailey contributed a couple features and I might have inked together a few things, and we're going to talk a little bit about what's inside the magazine.
00:01:39.060 --> 00:02:05.939: But, Bailey, let's jump right into your last couple of weeks. You've been on the road a bunch and notched a pretty big win on the Bassmaster kayak trail. Yeah, it was. It was a good couple weeks. Obviously, I had that one tournament up on Lake Champlain, and that was the outside of the championship at Lake Fork this year. That was the only national tournament I was going to do, being that it was in the home state. So I had to. Could not jump into it.
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00:02:06.180 --> 00:02:46.020: And obviously, the goal was to at least top five so we could make the championship for next year. And I'd say we had an efficient year this year of being one for one on the national trail. I was more excited. I was going up there to spend the following week up in the Adirondacks and explore and camp and travel. And that I think the Champlain dub was just a little bit of a cherry on top. Well, it's not a simple trail to fish. I remember this has been a few years when I worked at Bassmaster. I was a part of getting the kayak series off the ground. And kayaks have kind of Kayak fishing wasn't something I thought I would get into. We'll put it that way.
00:02:46.100 --> 00:03:23.700: And when I was there, I was asked to kind of create some content, get involved in the kayak space, and it's really kind of turned into a passion. And where we live in Minnesota is a lot like the Adirondacks, which is, of course, not unlike where Jeff lives. I mean, you guys have all kinds of small, hard-to-access waters down there that are just like custom built for a kayak. Yeah, the Adirondacks are pretty cool in that, where it's, you have some places that'll be, you know, like a nice ramp, or it'll be literally looks like a dirt road that just goes into a lake that you can access, or ones that you can. Take like an inflatable that I like to do, take an inflatable and put it on a backpack and trudge through a mile of woods to get to it because it's all public land…
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