An inflatable kayak can get you into some really cool places to find big fish. Unless you have a motor, larger inflatable fishing boats can be pretty difficult to row great distances. With a kayak you can move quite quickly, because of the boats hydrodynamic design. Snaking around the shoreline can be some of the most productive fishing you can ever experience. Fish love to hide out under shoreline foliage as the days grow hot, and the sun beats down on the water. Fishing a shade covered area can even prolong good fishing for an hour or more in the early morning summer hours.

Most of the time, however, when a shore angler is casting out from shore, they are spooking the biggest fish that are cruising the shoreline for frogs, mice, and tree dwelling insects. When you are on the shore, you are usually casting out over the fish, and bringing your lure out of the water where most big fish are, that is, right next to your feet. The biggest fish don't like to swim quickly around in deep water chasing lighting fast bait fish. They like to eat anything vulnerable in shallow water. In the early spring, big bass will even eat inch worms that fall into the water by the thousands.

A good deal of these inch worms blow into the water right next to the shoreline. Bass will gorge themselves, until they can't eat another one. Many insects come down from the trees in the spring and summer that cause feeding frenzies in shallow water. Most anglers would be shocked to see some the biggest fish in a body of water, sitting under tree branches in a foot of water, slurping teeny, tiny little bugs. Fish are lazy, like humans, and they will eat 1, 000 insects that they don't have to move for before they try to chase one minnow.