BUZZBAIT
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Nifty 50—almost. Harness and friend
Kevin Nakada at La Jolla. PHOTOS: COURTESY J. WADE HARNESS
DIGITAL EXTRA: Click here to watch Searching. [ S NA P CAST] LAY DOWN TRACKS WITH
ANGLER: J. Wade Harness PORT: La Jolla, California.
REAL JOB: Sound engineer and producer, Sideway Outernational Studios.
CLAIM TO FAME: Harness celebrates his catches with soulful reggae dubs. His music production company scores weekly studio time with veteran artists like Earl Zero, Uroy and Cornel Campbell. His two loves, fishing and music, come together in beguiling videos such as Searching, straight from La Jolla. Row fisherman row.
THE KAYAK FISHING REGGAE PRODUCER AS TOLD TO PAUL LEBOWITZ
J. WADE HARNESS
HISTORY: I was born in Detroit and lived all over. Canada, then Jersey for a bit. I retired down in Florida, then headed west for the action sport industry, skateboarding and surfing. It didn’t work out but it led me into music where my love for Dub grew until I suddenly and strangely realized I had become the assistant engineer to Scientist, who hails from the original King Tubbys studio in Jamaica.
KAYAK: I’m riding a Prowler 15, old school, one of the first to come out of the mold. It’s been in almost every body of water in the U.S.: the Atlantic, Keys, Lake Erie, the Pacific.
FISHING: My grandfather’s been a big inspiration to me. He taught me how to fish. I come from a freshwater background; I was born with an ice fishing rod in my hand. I got my saltwater experience in New Jersey on bluefish and sharks.
KAYAK FISHING: I like to find my own honey holes, different shelves and drop-offs, and to launch in remote, almost impossible places. I’ve been slammed so many times try- ing to punch through.
GO-TO OUTFIT: A 50-pound Sabre Pacific Meat Rod with a Daiwa Sealine 40SHA.
CONFIDENCE BAIT: Zman Squidz and Streakz. They get me the big ones.
TROPHY TALE: Harness missed the exclu- sive 50-pound yellowtail club by just a hair last year. “It was tough to put a gaff in it. I worked hard to earn that fish. It took me nine years. It’s literally the fish of a lifetime. I’m done trophy yellowtail hunting. If the next big one is healthy, I’m releasing it,” Wade says.
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