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EDITOR PICKS: Every year at the ICAST show, dozens of lucky winners are chosen the Best Of ICAST for their respective categories.

There are dozens of other companies whose products might not have won Best Of, but their innovative gear certainly deserves some recognition. Join us as we celebrate our selections for the Best Of ICAST 2019.

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Garmin’s new Force Trolling Motor won overall “Best of Show” at ICAST 2019, held at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando in July. It won top honors out of more than 1,000 new products showcased.

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Vibe obviously put a lot of thought into their new fishing kayak. By combining features kayak anglers customarily had to choose one over the other, the Shearwater 125 is the most versatile fishing kayak on the water.

This streamlined fishing vessel has an open deck as well as center-console storage. It’s comfortable and stable with a high-low seat, a standing perch and ample floor standing room. Rudder steering is pedal and hand controlled. It can be rigged for paddle, pedal and motor power with Power Pole mounts. There is open bow storage for easy access as well as hull rigging access. Four flush rod holders are complemented by four horizontal rod holders. It’s got a tunnel hull and a keel for maximum stability and speed.

And all of that is just the beginning of a long list of well-designed features.

With innovation that provides all of the functionality anglers look for in a kayak, Vibe’s Shearwater 125 begs the question, “Why choose when you can have it all?”

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Bixpy Kayak Outboard Kit Looking to extend your range and save energy for fishing? The Bixpy Thruster is an electric outboard motor designed to fit any kayak or other small boat. It reaches speeds of up to 7 mph, opening up a whole world of opportunity for folks who fish from small boats.

This extremely powerful, efficient, light and portable propulsion system helps you fight wind and current, explore new places and extend trips. A single charge allows for up to 10 hours at trolling speed, and at full speed it will push a kayak to about 7 mph for up to 75 minutes of continuous use. The Bixpy Outboard Kit, which includes a thruster and an outboard Power Pack is emission-free, weighs only 9 pounds and is easy to mount, operate and transport. All components are waterproof and safe for fresh and saltwater use. This little outboard turns your kayak into a micro-skiff, allowing you to go farther and faster, wherever the fish are.

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My Coast Outdoors Knockin Tail My Coast Outdoors, the Houston-based lure maker that brought us its innovative Controlled Descent line of soft plastics, has released another one-of-a-kind lure to the industry.

The Knockin Tail paddletail swimbait made its debut at ICAST 2019, and it raised eyebrows with a unique design that’s proven to stimulate feeding behavior in fresh and saltwater fish.

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2019 HOTTEST NEW FISHING GEAR Every angler knows the benefits of sound and vibration paired with visual stimulation to convince fish to feed. With the Knockin Tail, there’s a rattle built into the tail. Not only does this eliminate the need to purchase or insert rattles, it outperforms traditional noisemakers, which only produce sound when the rod is twitched. This lure puts out a continuous fish-attracting sound with every flutter of the tail. Whether it’s twitched, bounced, on the fall or with a steady retrieve, the Knockin Tail rattles to stimulate the lateral line.

Beneath that innovation, Knockin Tail is also a carefully designed soft plastic that’s as durable as it is action packed.

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Nauticus EZ BOARD

With its EZ BOARD removable boat boarding assist handle, Nauticus designed a simple solution for those of us not blessed with the agility of a spider monkey.

Made of strong and durable, corrosion and UV resistant PVC, the EZ BOARD is the handhold you need to safely and easily board the boat. It slides right into most flush-mounted rod holders, which makes it as convenient as it is helpful. When it’s time to board, insert the EZ BOARD into the rod holder and twist to lock it. When everyone is safely aboard, slide it back out of the rod holder and stow it.

It can be oriented while on the water to provide a handhold for boarding or disembarking from either a dock or the swim platform, depending on where it’s needed.

Made in the USA, the EZ BOARD is lightweight, requires no special tools and comes with a five-year replacement warranty. It is available in 36” and 48” models, and there’s even a 24” model to help with getting in or out of a kayak.

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LIVETARGET Flutter Sardine With its new Injected Core Technology, LIVETARGET hauled in the hardware at ICAST 2019, winning three best of category awards. The idea behind these lures is to show a realistic baitfish profile to fish, while hiding the unnatural mechanical elements that give lures their action.

The ICT Flutter Sardine has the enticing twitch and falling action of a standard jigging spoon, but its exceptionally realistic profile sets it apart from everything else on the market. Injected Core Technology enables a lifelike sardine profile, while the Exo-Skin gives the lure its signature flutter action. Perfect for a host of saltwater fishing applications with a saltwater-grade hook, it’s available in five weights and six colors.

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This vehicle-mounted rod storage solution allows anyone from recreational anglers to professionals to arrive at their fishing destination with baitcast, spinning and spincast rods and reels intact, fully-rigged and ready to fish.

Two aircraft grade anodized aluminum tubes hold up to six fully rigged casting or spinning rods up to eight feet in length, and a locking reel housing area easily fits most baitcasting and small to medium spinning reels. Protective polypropylene liners inside the Rod Vault eliminate rod on metal contact, protecting guides and rod tips from abrasion. A large entry tube accommodates initial line guides up to 2.5 inches out to 40 inches from the base of the rod. It’s perfect for rigs deisgned for bass, inshore and other warmwater fishing.

Included mounting brackets secure the Rod Vault ST to the top of any vehicle with rooftop crossbars and are built to accommodate almost any factory or aftermarket crossbar design, including aero and square tubes up to 3.5 inches wide and 1.5 inches thick. An innovative t-slot mounting design and movable tube clamps provide flexible options to fit most vehicles.

The Rod Vault ST was specifically over-engineered to keep valuable equipment safe in almost any circumstance. Stainless steel hardware ensures the Rod Vault ST will remain rust free no matter the fishing environment, and fiberglass-infused nylon construction protects the reel housing, mounting hardware and aerodynamic nose cone from UV degradation. Whether storing rods to fish before or after work or traveling across the country on an epic fishing trip, the Rod Vault ST is deisgned to keep gear safe.

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Soft Steel USA Fluoro-Stretch Line Soft Steel USA has come up with a fishing line that might finally end the perennial debate over monofilament vs. fluorocarbon.

With its new stretchable fluorocarbon, Soft Steel USA found the meeting point that provides the benefits of both fluoro and mono. It’s a real game changer.

Soft Steel’s new Fluoro-Stretch line is a 100 percent fluorocarbon line with the stretchable properties of monofilament. It has the abrasion resistance, low visibility, sensitivity and toughness of fluoro as well as the tighter knots and shock absorption of monofilament.

Tight knots have always been an issue with fluorocarbon, especially when it comes to line-to-line knots. The new Fluoro-Stretch allows for a tighter cinch, which elevates knot strength to 95%, which is much stronger than standard fluorocarbon lines.

Available in breaking strengths of 10 to 150 pounds, the new FluoroStretch will be available in 25-yard spools and coils as well as 5-yard single-shot lengths.

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Snook strike aggressively, fight hard and grow large—into the 20and 30-pound range of true slob snook. The Florida state record weighed 45.75 pounds. It was caught by Heather Lynn Conners near Sebastian in 2015. But even the slot fish—those in the 28- to 33-inch range you’re allowed to keep one of—will test your gear. It’s one of the most explosive and exciting gamefish on the planet.

Snook are extremely temperature sensitive, and tactics vary according to the season. From the beaches and nearshore, where they spend their summers, they will move over the next few months seeking warmer water in sheltered winter haunts. First, you’ll find them in deep water adjacent to the shallow flats. Then, driven by cooling sea temps, they’ll push all the way up into the creeks and rivers, residential canals, warm water discharge from power plants, upper estuaries, and anywhere they can find suitable water conditions. The harsher the winter, the more pronounced the move. Fall through winter is the time when big, line-snapping snook will hunker down in areas that might seem highly unlikely to the uninformed.

With the mild winters of the last decade, much has been made of the northward spread of snook. A tropical species, they historically thrived only on the southern coasts of Florida, up to about to about Sebastian in the Atlantic and Tampa in the Gulf. However, in recent years, snook have set up shop farther north, in areas that would have been unheard of a decade ago. These days, it’s possible to target snook at Homosassa and farther north along the Nature Coast of the Gulf and up toward Jacksonville in the Atlantic. They have also shown up much farther north. This summer, Coastal Angler Magazine reported on a juvenile snook caught in a cast net way up in Winyah Bay, South Carolina.

First timers seeking to do battle with snook should hire a captain.

Along with being big and strong, large female snook are notoriously smart and usually require specialized tackle, techniques and a good deal of patience. Their tendency to hole up in the structure of mangroves, rocks and bridge and pier pilings makes break-offs common, and the expertise of a good guide increases your chances of actually landing one.

The good news is, snook have been relatively unmolested by anglers during the closed season of the last three months. Now is as good a time as any to fool a big cow nosed into the current under some residential canal dock. They feed best in low light of the early mornings and late evenings when there’s a rising or falling tide. The stronger tides around the new and full moons are optimal for catching them.

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Stripers are a migratory fish

If you want a chance of catching a keeper Striper this late in the season you are going to have to find the water that is in that range they like. Therefore you have many options of where you can fish for them. Some great spots are places like Cape Cod Bay and the Cape Cod Bay side of the canal where the water is colder and where the fish are going to be more active because they are going to be following the mackerel.

Some lures that you should be using are big white soft plastics and white or mackerel colored top water baits, like poppers or big Zara spooks.

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for is big birds and fish blowing up under them on mackerel. You also want to more aware that the smaller fish might be under the birds eating small pogies and the bigger fish might be out of the pod eating mackerel. So keep your mind open to not just around the birds.

Well I hope these few tips help you catch some big fish before they leave and the summer is over.

Also try to be out really early in the morning at like sunrise so that the fish are more active or late at night at like sunset.

Another good way to catch these fish if you can’t get them to bite is by using live mackerel and live lining them on the bottom so that big fish on the bottom don’t have to work as much for their food because they are lazy and want to move as little as possible.

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Braeden Smaykiewicz is a 14-year-old avid fisherman. He began fishing at 4-years old and has experience catching everything from fresh water species to saltwater, inshore to offshore.

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Summer fishing has been fabulous off shore and inshore in Maine. Check out some of the nice the nice Pollack, haddock and monkfish caught offshore on the F/V Nor’easter and the flounder and striper caught inshore by Mariner Fleming and 11 year old Moose.

Shelley (Fleming) Wigglesworth is an award-winning freelance journalist from Maine and a mate on the F/V Nor’easter out of Kennebunkport, Maine. Her work can be found in the following publications: The Village Magazine, York County Coast Star, Yankee Magazine (online), National Fisherman Magazine, Commercial Fisheries News, Points East Magazine, Coastal Angler Magazine and The Maine Lobstermen's Association's "Landings."

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Brian Beneduce is a millionaire businessman from Chatham, Massachusetts and a boat enthusiast. He has also been living with crippling fear for much of his life. In this exclusive excerpt from his new book Anxiety Warrior: A Scared Man’s Path to Success and Happiness, Beneduce describes how his boat helped him conquer his fear.

“When I had enough money, one of the first things I splurged on was a small boat. It was a 22-foot Center Console powerboat and I kept it docked in a scenic harbor on the south coast of Rhode Island. I loved the name that was already on the boat, so I kept it -Dreamcatcher.

Buying the Dreamcatcher was a turning point in my life. I was drawn to it, and I viewed it as an opportunity and a tool to help me try to act normal. I tried to project a glamorous image as a true yachtsman without a care in the world.

I looked out across the dock past the marina, untied all three lines and started the engine. Slowly, I made my way out of the dock and through the guide buoys.

I had been on boats before, so I figured I knew what I should be doing. The water was calm so I kept my idle speed low. I steered with one hand and while waving at other boaters and pleasure seekers with my other.

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As I passed through the breakwater at the rocky inlet of the marina, I found myself in Block Island Sound. I looked to my left, then to my right, and could see nothing but dark blue ocean clear to the horizon. The water was no longer as calm as it was in the cove, and two to three foot waves now slapped against the side of the boat, causing it to rock a bit. I then realized I was completely alone.

The beast was stirring. My anxiety levels surged upward from a level one to a level five. I started to worry that I had been too cocky back at the dock and that I shouldn't have pretended I knew what I was doing. I probably shouldn't have pretended that I was normal in the first place.

Despite the anxiety that was building in my mind, I pushed forward and headed out into open water. I could have turned back, but subconsciously, I was testing myself. I was trying to learn how much I could take. I motored along cautiously for about a mile, then looked back and saw an ominous bank of fog slowly rolling in. I hadn't told anyone I would out here today. I had placed myself in a vulnerable position and the Thing wanted to drown me.

“What if the engine quits?” the beast whispered in my ear.

“What if you have to swim to shore? Where is the shore? Why wait for the inevitable to happen? Just slip over the side and end it all.”

I felt my throat start to close, and my heart began to race.

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Suddenly I pulled myself up and grabbed the wheel. I would not let the Thing bring me to a level 10. I refused to let it kill me.

“The worst is over,” I shouted. “I made it. Now it’s time to find my way home.”

I turned the boat around and focused solely on the task at hand. I navigated back toward the marina and could think of nothing except getting beyond the rocky entrance of the break wall and back into safety. As I entered the cove, I tried to convince myself that the water was too rough out there anyway -- turning back had been the right thing to do. I quickly found my slip and re-tied the boat to the dock. Then I went about washing it down as if I had been out on a three-day cruise, smiling and waving to anyone who might walk by, trying to make it look like I was a savvy veteran boater with decades of experience. I was faking it -- just like I did in my car, on the road, and basically everywhere….

I went back out in my boat a few days later. It was early in the morning and my anxiety level was at seven even before I even set foot on the dock. I had been obsessing about the trip all night. The weather was warm, the sun was shining and the wind was dead calm. It was better conditions than anyone could hope to ask for. The night before, I bragged to everyone about how great my day on the water was going to be and about how I couldn't wait to get out there. Yet deep down, I was praying that it would rain and give me yet another lame excuse to have to stay home.

boat. All my senses were heightened.

I had a radio onboard, but I knew it would take the Coast Guard at least an hour to find me and by then I would have either hyperventilated to death or would have pounded my head into the hull of the boat until I was a bloody, dead mess.

That’s what the Thing wanted me to do.

I gripped the wheel until my knuckles were white, as the beast attempted to pull me away and over the side of my boat.

“Peace of mind,” I muttered to myself. “You control the beast.

This monster doesn’t control you.”

I could feel the Thing wrapping itself around my body and once again, my throat began to close. At that moment, I looked off to the golden horizon as a seagull soared over head.

I breathed deeply as the rush of salt air filled my lungs.

I felt safe.

At that moment, I didn’t know if I was alive or dead. I had given myself completely to the beast, and yet I felt exhilarated and free.

“No matter what happens from now on, at least you’ll have this one true moment of inner peace,” I said aloud. “You’ve pushed yourself to a near level 10 and you’re okay.”

In fact, I had found clarity.

My heart was pounding at two hundred beats per minute, yet I kept pushing myself and took the boat deeper and deeper out into the calm, majestic waters of Block Island Sound. I had decided that on this voyage, I would test myself and take myself to the very edge, and accepted that this time, I might not be able to return.

I took a deep breath and looked down at the ignition key. I was about to cut the engine, inducing my panic in an attempt to lure the beast out of its cave.

The engine was humming in a soothing rhythm. How could I do this? What's the worst that could happen? What if I can't restart the boat? What if the motor just turns over and over and over again?

“Take the hits,” I told myself. “Absorb and endure the pain and fear.”

It was time to find out if I could break the sound barrier of fear and explore that point of no return. I turned the key and the engine went silent. I could hear nothing. In the distance, I could see one fishing boat probably twenty miles away and it was unlikely he could see me at all. I remember admiring the fisherman's resolve, and feeling jealous that he could go out anywhere he wanted -- no bad thoughts, no fears, no worries, no "what ifs" -- just go.

I breathed in the smell of the sea and the oily exhaust from the

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