Fly Fishing Kayaks

This article was originally titled "A Hunter's Boat" in the June-July 2021 issue of Fly Fisherman magazine.

Kayaks were first developed by indigenous hunters of the subarctic (Inuit, Yup’ik, Aleut) for the inland lakes, rivers, and coastal waters of the Arctic Ocean, Bering Sea, North Atlantic, and North Pacific oceans. Because of kayaks, these people could survive and even thrive in the frigid climates. These craft gave them access to and an advantage over their ocean quarry, and they built a range of different styles of boats for different purposes.

Though the modern definition of the word has stretched from a small, human-powered boat propelled with...

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