Ric Burnley
Bic Cross Adventure is a fishing SUP and much more.

BIC knows boards. After years building some of the most popular sailboards, surfboards and SUPs, they’ve turned their experience to fishing. Teaming up with the team at YakAttack, BIC has built a utilitarian boat that is perfect for fishing, family cruising, yoga or whatever. We got our first look at the Cross Adventure during the 2015 Outdoor Retailer show Demo Day.

With the boat outfitted with YakAttak BlackPak, Gear Tracks, rod holders, paddle holders and more, the Cross Adventure turned a lot of heads. A GearTrack in the bow holds fishfinder, transducer and rodholders. Deck attachments hold YakAttack and RAM mounts. Two Gear Tracks can accommodate a cooler to hold the catch and serve as a seat or standing platform.

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Aft of the cooler, a YakAttack BlackPack holds gear and YakAttack’s new paddle holder. The board is built with BIC’s ACE-TEC construction that layers fiberglass and EPS foam in a thermoformed hull for superior strength and lightweight. The hull features a keeled nose to keep the board on track in wind and waves. Paddling the Cross Adventure was easy.

The board stays straight and turns quickly. Stability was no problem, but the stability is loose enough to take waves and turn easy. Whether sitting, standing or perching on the 25 quart cooler, I was able to operate the SUP without worrying about taking a swim.

YakAttack and RAM Accessories with a Orion 25 quart cooler make Cross Adventure the ultimate fishing SUP.

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Ric Burnley
Kayak Angler editor Ric Burnley has been kayak fishing since the dawn of the sport. In 2007, Burnley wrote The Complete Kayak Fisherman, with chapters on how-to make a PVC rod holder and glue a fish finder transducer to the hull. In 2013, he landed his dream job as editor of Kayak Angler magazine. Burnley is a regular contributor to Salt Water Sportsman, Sport Fishing, Outdoor Life, In the Bite and other print and online publications. Burnley lives in Virginia Beach with his wife, adult daughter, daughter’s boyfriend and daughter’s two cats. Experience In 2004, Ric Burnley stole his first milk crate from behind a 7-Eleven and fashioned it into a gear crate for his Ocean Kayak Prowler 15. Many years and many milk crates later, Burnley has witnessed the rise of kayak fishing from a bastardized fringe element to a legitimate industry with millions of devotees. The journey to becoming an angler started early in Burnley’s life. His father, Eric Burnley, is a renowned outdoor writer and former fishing guide, so the boy grew up in the cockpit of a charter boat and in the pages of national magazines. After college, Burnley lost easy access to his father’s boat, but not his passion for fishing. Once he had exhausted the limits of land-based angling, Burnley decided to try out a new thing called kayak fishing. About the same time, Burnley was looking for extra work to pay for his expensive addiction. His father, editor of the Mid-Atlantic Fisherman Magazine, offered him freelance assignments for the weekly publication. That led to a position as regional editor at Salt Water Sportsman, publication of The Complete Kayak Fisherman and editorship of Kayak Angler. Meanwhile, Burnley and his partner-in-crime, “Kayak Kevin” Whitley were exploring the boundaries of kayak fishing. With the bountiful Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Ocean as their playground, the two anglers were the first to target big red drum, cobia, trophy striped bass, monster black drum, sheepshead and many other species. Once inshore species were exhausted, Burnley loaded his kayak onto motorboats and fished for bluefin tuna, blackfin tuna, king mackerel and amberjack. All the while, Burnley shared his experiences and knowledge with anglers through print, photos, video, radio, seminars and online. Almost 20 years later, Burnley continues to fish obsessively and share the stories. His recent projects for Kayak Angler cover the latest trends in forward-facing sonar and remote-controlled electric motors. Over the past two decades, kayak fishing and Ric Burnley have come a long way from PVC rod holders and stolen milkcrates. Education ● Radford University: BA English; Virginia Teacher’s License. Highlights ● Other Interests: Mountain biking, traveling, hiking, surfing and skateboarding ● Day Job: High School English teacher at an alternative school for at-risk students Fun Fact Ric’s name is a contraction of Eric. Ric is named after his father, Eric Sr. To differentiate between the two Erics, Mrs. Burnley removed her son’s E. To this day, she writes the boy’s name ‘Ric, with an apostrophe replacing the E.

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