About Shawn

Well I am a 40 years young Father of two from Upper Tantallon, Nova Scotia. I grew up in Grand Falls, News Brunswick around lots of small rivers and ponds. I have learned to fish Trout from my friends back in high school and my passion to fish grew from there. We use to go camping along rivers and fish all day with worms and spinners for Brookies and Eels. From there I joined the military as a Naval Electrican and moved to Victoria, British Columbia where I did lots of Hiking, camping and fishing in the back woods for Salmon and whatever else we caught on our tight lines.

I will always remember the time that me and my best friend went hiking the West Coast trail and caught a couple of Salmon then we both turn around and saw two bears looking at us and slowly moving toward us! We then gave the fish to the bears and quickly cross the creek and off in the woods to get away from our teddy bear fish thief’s lol

In 2005 I moved back to the Maritimes provinces where I settle in to my new home in Upper Tantallon. I then stopped fishing for 4 year due to being deployed 90 percent of the time with Canadian Navy. The next year I started Smallmouth fishing and Trout fish in lakes around the Halifax area. It was also around this time frame that I joined the forum CKA where I met John Gigbson a good friend of mine which introduced me to Kayak fishing. A few weeks later after talking to John I went and purchased my first Kayak. I now presently owned two Kayak an Ocean Trident 13 and a Hobie Revolution 13. I personally prefer my Trident 13 Kayak for fishing because I believe it’s the best all-around fishing Kayak and it’s the first kayak that I have learned to kayak fish from.

A few months ago I started to fish the Atlantic ocean inside coves for Mackerel and Poluck. I know find saltwater fishing just has much fun as fresh water fishing.

I also love taking my 10 year old son with me on my Trident 13 fishing as often as I can. Nothing more fun than spending quality time on the water kayak fishing with my son Ryan and this is how real memories are made from.


The BBQ side of me started about 16 years ago when I got my first BBQ and my passion for BBQing as grown real fast from there. I am also the owner and author of Papa Shawn's Creative BBQ that has lots of traffic. I always loved trying to cook new stuff on a limb on the grill and to share all my recipes and tips with my readers and followers.



I decided to start this blog to introduce everyone to the two biggest passion of mine Kayak Fishing and Grilling. I try to meet as many people as possible on the water and constantly try to introduce as many people as possible to the sport of fishing and to the art of grilling.

My future goals are to become a Fishing Pro Staff and a sponsored fisherman and I am also in the planning stage to start a non-profit learn to fish for youths in my Tantallon community next spring.  

I am presently a member of the Kayak Fishing Chef team. I loved competing to meet new kayak fisherman and to learn from the other fisherman. Plus I am currently a global moderator at the new fishing forum Halifax Fishing under the user name Protecteur.





Hopefully I see you all on the water in the near future and hopefully enjoy a great BBQ lunch after.