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Fishing Kayaks For Children


Fishing kayaks should offer high performance not just as fishing platforms for adult fishermen:  Children too like to have fun fishing and paddling with adults or by themselves.


Video: Children surf playing at the beach and touring the river (2 minutes)

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Stability:
Although children are smaller than adults and therefore are less prone to destabilizing their kayak they are also more careless and forgetful, and tend to get overexcited and sometime even to panic.  This is why in order to be considered fit for children a fishing kayak needs to be very stable to begin with, and the W fishing kayak is unrivaled  when it comes to stability.

Comfort:

Children should feel comfortable sitting and standing in a fishing kayak, and you can be sure that even children as young as five feel perfectly at ease doing both in our W fishing kayak.

Ease Of Use:
Children are usually less skilled than adults when it comes to paddling, and it is important that a fishing kayak be easy for children to launch and beach without an adult's help. It should also be easy for children to track as well as turn their kayak without having to use a rudder.  Here  too, W fishing kayaks are easier to use and handle than any other type of kayak or canoe.

Versatility:
Fun means different things for different people in different times -
It means you may want to play with your fishing kayak in the surf or let your kids or grand kids do it by themselves - solo or in tandem.   Here too, you will find that our W fishing kayak offers you and the children you care about more than you'd ever expected.

Excitement:

The W fishing kayak presents new opportunities for children to paddle fast, paddle standing and play in the surf. 

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girl standing in green fishing kayak
Girl paddling standing in her fishing kayak
Kids standing in their fishing kayaks on the river
Kids paddling standing in their kayaks


Children in fishing kayaks at the beach
Kids kayak playing in the surf, NH
10 year old children paddling their fishing kayaks
Kids scouting the river in their W kayaks


Group of kids in green and yellow fishing kayaks
Children kayak racing in tandem
7 year old kids tandem in yellow fishing kayak
7 year old kids paddling in tandem


kids in their fishing kayaks
Easy and intuitive for small kids to learn

10 year old boy in his yellow fishing kayak - ocean
10 year old kayak surfing


4 fishing kayaks on a regular cartop
Cartop up to 4 W Kayaks on a regular rack
Two kids fishing in a yellow kayak
Two kids fishing from their kayak


Mom_and_boy_tandem_in_fishing_kayak_in_the_ocean
Mom and boy tandem kayaking in the surf
Mom_and_6_ year_old_boy_in_fishing_kayaks_in_big_waves
Mom and 6 year old boy surf kayaking


kids seal launching their fishing kayaks from a dock
Kids seal launching from a dock
Mom and kids in yellow fishing kayak
High performance in family fun


Kayak fishing with kids
Kids can get excited during a fishing trip
Mom and boy in fishing kayak with canoe paddles
Paddling a W fishing kayak 'canoe style'


Three kids playing with their fishing kayaks
Kids' naval battle in fishing kayaks
Two kids in fishing kayak at the beach
The easiest fishing kayak for small kids


Kids in a yellow fishing kayak in the surf
Two boys having fun kayaking in  the surf
6 year old boy with his mom paddling a fishing kayak
5 years old with his mom in W fishing kayak




Ten year old boy in yellow fishing kayak over a big wave - ocean
10 year old surf launching (video)
2 kids kayak surfing in tandem in green fishing kayak
Kids 10 and 7 surfing in their fishing kayak
Kids in green fishing kayak surfing
Kids catching waves in their fishing kayak
Mom and boy - tandem in yellow fishing kayak
Mom taking kid for a ride in a fishing kayak
10 year old children paddling fishing kayaks
10 year old kids paddling standing

6 year old kid kayaking with his dad in a fishing kayak
6 year old boy paddling with his dad
Three kids in fishing kayak in winter
3 kids in a fishing kayak on a cold winter day
9 and 6 years old kids paddling their fishing kayak
9 and 6 years old boys paddling in tandem
5.5 year old kid paddling his fishing kayak by himself
5.5 year old kid paddling his kayak solo

Two 5 year old kids paddling yellow fishing Kayak in tandem
5 years old kids discovering paddling
Dad and two boys in yellow fishing kayak with side floatation
Dad with two boys onboard fishing kayak

5 year old kids paddling in tandem a yellow fishing kayak using canoe paddles
5 year old kids paddling standing in kayak
Dad and two boys in yellow fishing kayak
Ideal for family kayak fishing trips
Boy standing in his green fishing kayak
Boy standing in his fishing kayak
2 boys standing in their fishing kayak
7 and 10 year old boys paddling in tandem