This article from Kayak Angler Magazine is a very good read. Thank you @Glenn for allowing me to share it.

https://kayakanglermag.com/tactics-skills/strokes-techniques/skills-how-hunt-fish-stealthy-paddling/?fbclid=IwAR3Gjy6yufh-jnMrwl2erSZ-_BA2cB_BqiK8H1YWN0WK9W0j4X_RbjzaTKY

9 minutes ago, Harold Scoggins said:

This article from Kayak Angler Magazine is a very good read. Thank you @Glenn for allowing me to share it.

https://kayakanglermag.com/tactics-skills/strokes-techniques/skills-how-hunt-fish-stealthy-paddling/?fbclid=IwAR3Gjy6yufh-jnMrwl2erSZ-_BA2cB_BqiK8H1YWN0WK9W0j4X_RbjzaTKY

Thanks for sharing - some good things for me to think about.

5 minutes ago, Chowderhead said:

some good things for me to think about.

You know you've mastered the stroke when you can cruise right by a bass suspended just below the surface and he doesn't make a move.

Or when you can paddle by a Great Blue Heron without him noticing you.    Which I've never done.

Early morning, I head out in the fog before anyone is awake in my 21 foot bass boat.  Get through 2 canals and about 5 miles from the cottage.  Not another person on the lake.  Fishing a stretch of bank enjoying the solitude and nature when all of a sudden there is an absolute explosion from the back of my boat.  I screamed like a little girl and jumped 4 feet into the air.  When I finally got my heart back in my chest, I turn around and there is my brother in law laughing so hard he can hardly breathe.  He paddled up in his yak and slapped the back of my boat and I never heard him coming.  That’s stealthy paddling.???