| Water Strider™ Raft Kickboat: Inflatable Rafts for Fishing, Hunting and Whitewater Rafting. The best one man or one woman raft on any river or lake. Expedition river rafting equipment that's designed for real adventure. |
WATER STRIDER RECEIVES FIELD & STREAM 2005 BEST OF THE BEST AWARDS |
Water Strider chosen by Field & Stream 2005 Best of the Best Awards
for Fishing Craft!
Click here or on the photo below to read what Field & Stream Editors
had to say about the Water Strider. |
Dave Inks fly fishing from his Water Strider on the Lochsa River in Idaho.
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| The Water Strider™ one man or one woman raft system is a kickboat style self-bailing raft. The Water Strider raft is expertly designed to be the toughest whitewater fishing, hunting and fun raft on the planet. The Water Strider is the most dependable, most ruggedly made fishing raft or hunting raft available because it's made of the highest grade of raft making materials used by any manufacturer. This versatile one man or one woman raft really has no competition. There is no comparison, far superior to drift boats, pontoon boats and large rafts.. There simply isn't a better kickboat raft on any river or lake anywhere! You can watch a Water Strider in action video here. See for yourself! | New Improvements for the 2008 Season! Kickboat it up a notch! Get a Water Strider Kickboat Raft now and be ready for outdoor adventure on your favorite river or lake.
Only $1,595.00
Dave's New Zealand Rainbow |
| Download the new 2008 Water Strider Brochure by clicking here. |
Kickboat it up notch! Water Strider is now Expedition Grade. Get one for your next great adventure!
 Read about the updated 2008 Water Strider here.
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The first time I used my Water Strider we ran some serious Class III rapids on the Dean River in British Columbia without a hitch while carrying 120 pounds of camping and $10,000 worth of camera gear. Running rapids in a Water Strider is the most fun you can have with your waders on!
Ron Castle, Tennessee | Water Strider's Dean River Adventure is now on YouTube! |
NEW!
PROBAR the first great tasting, convenient, high-performance, meal replacement energy bar is now available at Water Strider.com! |
| New Zealand White Water Rafting Photos Rangitikei River January 2006 |
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 Water Strider™ designs and manufactures the highest quality expedition grade one man or woman rafts available on the planet. If you like to run rivers, if you like to float and fly fish, if you want to pack in to your secret lake, if you like to duck hunt, you don't have to use heavy, cumbersome, difficult to maneuver rafts or drift boats when you want to go float fishing, hunting or rafting for fun. You can do it yourself whenever you want to enjoy floating your favorite river or lake. When you're ready to fly fish, hunt or just enjoy a fun river float, a Water Strider raft is ready to go whenever you are. |
| Dave Lambroughton running New Zealand's Tongariro River |
| What the heck is a Kickboat? 
Water Strider's open floor design let's you sit on the air ride seat to propel and steer the Water Strider raft with fins on your feet while you keep both hands free for casting and landing fish.
In shallow water you can stand up and wade while the Water strider floats around you. There's no better way to fish! Makes a good hunting boat, too. Click here to see hunting ideas.
See Water Strider Raft Kickboat features in detail here >>
| The Water Strider Raft Kickboat is a complete system... and then some! Dave Inks is a raft master! This is the best fly fishing boat there is! Better than a drift boat. Water Strider™ has the flotation capacity to carry all of the equipment to enjoy river and lake kickboat rafting adventures. Dave's rafting equipment, camping and camp kitchen gear are designed to work together as an integral part of the entire Water Strider one man or woman rafting system. Check out Dave's complete line of personal kickboat rafting gear and discover a great new way to enjoy floating, fishing and hunting on your favorite rivers and lakes! Water Strider is rafting fun at its best.
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Dave Inks shows how it's done. You can stand up in shallow water through the open floor of your Water Strider to make your best cast. Even in current the raft floats with little drag. |
| How to fly fish from a Kickboat? Read Dave's how to article here. |
Kickboat it up a notch! Get a Water Strider kickboat raft now and be ready for outdoor fun and adventure on your favorite river or lake!
Only $1595.00Every new Water Strider raft now comes standard with: 3 Piece HD Oars with Storage Bag Inflatable Back Rest Water Strider Kickboat Fins Model K 100 hand pump Heavy Duty Waterproof Dry Bag Ruled Stripping Apron Patch kit & Instructional DVD New Roll Up Instructions
| Order your Water
Strider Raft Kickboat now!
Available in two colors: RED or GREY |
| Download the new 2008 Water Strider Brochure by clicking here. | 
A Montana Moment by J. Gilbert
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Dear Water Strider,This August for fifth time we took a float plane in to the Togiak wilderness in Alaska. This is a 2 million acre wilderness whose great rivers flow into the Berring sea in Bristol Bay. The three of us take your boats , bear fence and everything we need for 10 days of fishing and floating one the great rivers there. Many of these rivers have headwater sections with river depths of only a few inches and even when loaded to the max, the worse we have to is stand up inside the boat and walk a few feet and then sit down again. Being able to just stand up in the boat and stop and fish makes prospecting for holes efficient and about as easy as it can be.
We have modified our boats a little for long expeditions and extra heavy loads with a few extra rings and two rear handles so we can lift the heavily loaded sterns out of the fast water without having to drag them but otherwise they are just stock boats.
After probably 500 miles and 50 days in the wilderness they look brand new and nothing comes close to their performance and their tremendous load carrying capacity for a one man boat. We love being able to bring our boats up near our tents...carrying them with a couple of fingers instead of two men. There just isn't better one man expedition boat made. In between I have been using mine on the Big Horn, the Green River and the Snake and carrying this light weight marvel long distances into isolated trout lakes in the Boundary Waters Wilderness in Minnesota. These boats are simply the best you can buy for expeditions on Alaska rivers and its also one boat that will do it all as well as any other boat made. Jeff M.
November 2007 |
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