East Cape Kayak Fishing has put together the most experienced and professional group of kayak fishing guides in the country to insure you have the trip of a lifetime. In addition to their scheduled trips, all of our guides are available for private trips to our regular destinations as well as locations of your choice. Our extremely experienced guides are willing to travel the world to help you get on that fish of a lifetime. We are available to guide on mothership trips as well as trips to other local or exotic locations of your choice. Tell us what you are interested in and we can put you with the right guide. We are also available for personal appearances, seminars, and video work. Please read the bios below to learn about our professional staff of kayak fishing guides. Please fill out our contact form for more information about our scheduled trips or to book one of our guides for a private kayak fishing adventure.
Jim Sammons
Owner: La Jolla Kayak Fishing Adventures and East Cape Kayak Fishing
A San Diego California native, Jim has spent most of his life on or near
the water. Whether, during his youth, paddling his inflatable raft on
San Diego bay, pin heading for free trips on the local sport boats or
paddling his long board out to the kelp beds of La Jolla. Jim always
found a way to get on the water in a manner that would not break his
very small bank account. Receiving his first kayak as a gift, he has
never looked back; starting La Jolla Kayak Fishing guide service in
1995, he has been on the leading edge of this fast growing sport.
Jim holds the distinction of landing the first, and only California
caught Marlin from a kayak. He has also landed Thresher sharks up to two
hundred pounds and a personal best Yellowtail of forty five pounds all
while fishing the La Jolla coast from his Ocean Kayak. Some of Jim's
proudest accomplishments are guiding more clients to Billfish from a
kayak than any other kayak fishing guide in the world, starting the La
Jolla Kayak Fishing Billfish club, and setting kayak fishing records
with a 65 pound bull Dorado and a 125 pound Yellowfin Tuna.
Jim has worked closely with Ocean Kayak™, from conception to finished
product, to make the finest line of fishing kayaks on the market,
starting with the Prowler 15 and the new Prowler Trident series of
boats.
Jim also has worked with Shimano on their line of kayak fishing items
including the new Bristol Bay live bait system. Everyone was very
excited when the bait tank won best new product at the 2007 ICAST
show.
Jim is an IGFA certified, and California Department of Fish and game
licensed guide and runs La Jolla Kayak Fishing Adventures instructional
trips locally as well as guiding trips to northern and southern Baja. A
contributing writer with several fishing publications Jim loves the
opportunity to give tips and relay stories of successful kayak fishing
adventures. In 2007 Jim began working on a video project titled Kayak
Fishing; Game On which was followed by Game On 2. These kayak fishing
adventure films were so well received that the project morphed into a
now airing TV show title The Kayak Fishing Show with Jim Sammons, which
can be seen each week on WFN, the World Fishing Network. During the show
you will see Jim and his friends travel the world targeting some of the
baddest fish around from their kayaks.
Kayak fishing is Jim's passion; addiction or some would a say sickness
with no cure. He has managed to turn that passion into a career through
guiding and sharing his love of the sport with others.
The Game On videos are now available through his Web site store.
Jim can be reached through the
contact form
or you can call the LJKF office at (619) 461-7172
Jeff "Rhyno" Krieger
Owner: RhynoBar.com
A La Jolla Kayak Fishing affiliate
Born and raised on the island of Oahu, Jeff was introduced to the ocean
at an early age. At his island home he learned to paddle outrigger
canoes, kayaks or anything else that would get him on the water. Of
course, that is also, where he got his first taste of fishing. The
Krieger family relocated to the mainland in 1972 settling in Santa
Barbara. One of the original, modern day kayak anglers, Jeff
started guiding in 1990.
Jeff has been featured in two episodes of the Inside Sportfishing
television show, Threshers Yak Style and Marlin from the Kayak, winning
the Telly award for “Special Guest Host”, for the Thresher
video.
Jeff will be giving kayak fishing tips and reports on, "Western
Fishing and Boating Radio Show" on am 1540, heard every Thursday
night, 8-10 Pm, in the Los Angeles area starting Jan 2005. A regular
seminar speaker at the Fred Hall Boat and tackle shows, and many fishing
clubs, Jeff loves spreading the word about our sport through speaking
engagements or via the articles he has written for publications such as
Western Outdoor News, Pacific Coast Sportfishing, Rabid Angler and
others.
A CDF&G licensed guide and member of IGFA; Jeff is featured in the
book, "Kayak Fishing the Revolution", by Ken Daubert.
Known throughout the kayak fishing community as Rhyno, he owns, and
Rhyno's Guide Service. Seeing a need for a strong rod holder for his big
game fishing adventures, he invented the Rhynobar in 1995
Some of Rhyno's more memorable catches from the kayak include, Striped
Marlin and Roosterfish in Baja (Thanks Jim and Hotel Punta Colorada),
50lb California Halibut, and 50+ lb White Seabass. Jeff has made a real
name for himself for catching Thresher Sharks to 250 lbs, bigger ones
were let go!
Jeff will be guiding kayak fishing adventures from entry level to
advanced in the Los Angeles area, as well as his yearly groups trip to
northern California. He also makes a yearly trip back to the islands
where he guides a few clients.
Jeff can be reached via his Web site
RhynoBar.com
or on the La Jolla Kayak Fishing forums where he will be answering questions
for our readers. You can also book a trip with Jeff through the La Jolla
Kayak Fishing office
Sean White
Raised near the banks of the American, Sean spent nearly every waking
hour of his childhood chasing fish in the river. Sean realized his
dream of chasing fish professionally after receiving his degree in
Fisheries Biology from Humboldt State University in 1991.
Sean bought a kayak in 2001 as a "temporary measure" to fill a void
after selling his power boat. The temporary measure instantly became an
obsession and has become a lifestyle for Sean and the rest of the White
family. Sean and his wife Leah opened the Great White Kayak Company in
2003. Sean and Leah also host two of the largest kayak fishing
tournaments in NorCal including the "Elk Rockfish Fiesta" and "Bendo at
Mendo". Sean is also a California Department of Fish and Game licensed
guide.
As a life-long Northern California resident Sean spends a lot of time
kayak fishing for cold-water species such as striped bass, steelhead,
lingcod, and halibut. However, the entire White family makes extended
annual excursion to Mexico to soak their feet in warm water and target
Baja's amazing assortment of incredible game fish. While kayak fishing
in warmer waters Sean has caught tuna, roosterfish, yellowtail, jack
crevalle, dorado, pargo, mullet snapper, and sierra mackerel.
While Sean enjoys hanging a big fish himself, nothing makes him happier
than putting kids on their first trophy. Sean has successfully guided
kids to quality dorado, jacks, pargo, mullet snapper, skipjack,
stripers, and largemouth. Sean believes that these early positive
experiences lay a strong foundation toward creating active youth with a
love of the outdoors.
Mark Pierpont
Having grown up fishing the waters of Malibu, backpacking and fishing
the mountains of southern California; Mark has always been close to the
water. It wasn't until he bought his first kayak in 1996 that his
fishing career truly exploded. Since then Mark has spent countless days
on the water perfecting his kayak fishing skills. Mark travels
extensively to fish in such countries as Costa Rica, Belize, Panama,
Guatemala and Mexico. For the last four years Mark has shared these
skills with other anglers as a guide. He finds great satisfaction
putting others on fish.
