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First off it's pronounced "Sock-a-knee". Secondly you are the only person I've seen that has had that issue. Kind of sucks but maybe it's something you did to cause it? Did you put them in the dryer or something?
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@@manny4491 I would say you should be good. I haven’t been on one of the newer ones to see the water issues. Becky interested to maybe try one sometime.
Not dying for me. Easiest way to get on the water without worrying about gas / maintenance/ trailer of a bass boat. Used boats are caulked and motors are abused. Weather Conditions like you said can even be bad on a boat. I always watch the weather the week before the I plan to go out on the kayak. Kayak are great and work for me. 😎🤙 Oldtown sportsman 106 Pdl w/nk180pro PPP- Paddle, peddle and Power motor for distance Fits great in the back of my Chevy Colorado. I made a Kayak kart at the same height of my truck, quick load in and out. Made about 52 trips this year. Caught my PB bass 23” , 9 lbs 10oz while positioned offshore towards the bank. Buying a kayak was a night and day game changer. Now I told my wife when I get older, my retirement money will go to a bad ass bass boat off the lot. 😎🤙
Because you can see the fish on livescope does mean that you can fish for them more effectively and therefore catch more fish. Please don't try to make it sound like it doesn't by saying just because you can see them doesn't mean that you can catch them. That makes me think that you're not an experienced enough angler to realize that it can help you catch the fish better than someone without livescope. I mean you can watch the fish and their reaction to your lure all throughout the day therefore keeping your lure in front of the fish an enormously higher percentage of the time than a person who does not have livescope which adds up to a bigger bag of fish. Using livescope makes people feel like there a better fisherman than they actually are because they can catch more fish using it. Its weak character in my opinion because Bass fisherman should be working on their skill of instinctively finding the fish and catching them without a direct visual of where your lure is under water and where the fish are. It's called fishing! Hello!!! Live scope makes it more like catching or harvesting. Like Randy says there is no fair chase. I mean should NASCAR allow some drivers to have faster cars than others? Should guys be able to play in women's sports? Should golfers be able to use a drone with a camera on it to drop the ball in the hole for them that they can't see from afar with the naked eye? At what point do you start limiting the technology to protect the integrity and nostalgia of the sport as well as the resources meaning the fish themselves so that tournament fishing can continue to exist at the same quality of the past? I mean heck I wouldn't even be interested in tournaments having forward facing sonar even if it were given to them for free and everybody had it on their boat. I'm with Randy 100% on this. The fishing field is already getting smaller in MLF. It will probably continue dwindle. Why don't they just get it over with and put two commercial fishing boats out there competing? 🤔 Team 1 and Team 2? Let's see who can net the most Bass and pick out the five largest ones and come in with the heaviest weight!!! SMH
Congratulations on finishing you should be proud of yourself. I heard the swim was rough for a lot of people, including my brother. It was his first one and he swallowed a lot of water because of how choppy and crowded it was. He said he will probably never do another open water swim again.
It was really choppy out once we got out towards the bridges. The swim start got jumbled up because of some problems at the start which led to a lot of faster swimmers being in the back. There were people all over each other during the last half of the swim. Tell your brother congrats on finishing a hard race. Those hills were no joke. It was also just plain hot out on the run.
WWBDOJHWD. I think they need to think What Would Bill Dance Or Jimmy Houston Would Do! LOL! Shallow in a kayak, forward facing sonar is good! I use it to pull out 12” bluegill in my favorite slues. They fry up something awesome in some lager beer and a little olive oil with some Cajun spice.
Thanks for your review. I tried H2O Audio Interval Bone Conduction Swim Headphones for Apple Watch Series and I honestly couldn’t hear the audiobook speech on max while swimming because of the water bubble sounds, it was a no-go for me so I ended up using h20 with in-ear earbuds and I got the cheap version of Apple Watch that has my audiobooks offline and that has been working for me well, at least when I properly apply the ear foam sealant and reposition the earbuds few times during swim as they start coming out. It’s not perfect but it gets the job done. For me swimming without audiobooks is not an option, I just wouldn’t swim at all, 35 minutes without some learning content to engage my brain with is a no go for me. So I’m super interested whether the new Ver 2 of Zygo is able to really deliver on the battery issues and is the sound quality really that good as they advertise
@@NikolaStan thanks for the comment. I agree with needing something to entertain you while you swim. I just need a little something. I will probably wait and see some non-biased reviews before I invest in them.
"Comparison is the Thief of Joy." How true is that. It is hard to find happiness when you spend your life chasing the next thing to make you happier. More is not necessarily better. As I get older, I have found much joy in being content with the most simplest of things. Nowadays, I don't envy the equipment I see people fishing with, I envy the fact that they have the time to fish.
I think the real reason is as you stated, in that the kayak fisherman is using "finesse" baits where as your typical bass boat fisherman is in general "cover water" mode and the main reason is because he can. A powerboater can simply go down a bank / point/ hump and run the big motor 5-10 miles down the lake. Thats the definition of a power fisherman. And just like me after beating the bank all day during a tournament with a bladed jig, crankbait etc you end up at the end of the day and find out some local won with a shakeyhead or ned rig - LOL ; on these highly pressured lakes the power fisherman will lose 90% of the time and he just needs to learn how to slow down and drag / flip a finesse bait. Good luck !
For me, once people mount motors on it that makes it a boat and not a kayak. In my mind kayaks are powered by the user whether that be a traditional paddle or those peddle drives.
The motors really did change a lot. I liked when it was pedal drive or paddle drive only. Now I think tournaments and kayaks are glorified single person bass boats. The self powered aspect I think gave it a more competitive appeal
I say let the market decide. The almighty dollar will figure it out in the long run. I feel like interest will fade, and the tournament trails will be forced to adapt. When people stop showing up, watching, and buying - things will change. I am not a fan, nor do I rely on fishing for a living. Just out there taking it in. To each their own.
Following the tournaments used to be fun to watch and it’s waning. I enjoy fishing for myself but the tournaments rely on viewership and sponsorship. Hope to see it change.
@RhinoJoeOutdoors Back in the day you could actually learn something from them. Now it's just flashy camera angles with an occasional Tank highlight. I'll stick to watching Bill Dance, Tactical Basssin, Rhino Joe, and The Outdoor Navigator.😁
Zygo app Canada blocked problem. I was gifted Zygos and would like to use in Canada but app only works in USA. Nordvpn located to USA is not working. I also turned off location services. Using Samsung S24 Ultra. Anyone have any ideas how to get Zygo app to work in Canada? I'm also waiting for shipping of new model (delays, delays) and will be pretty pissed if I can't get those to work either.
I dont know if stealth is all that as far as a factor goes, both types of vessels can give off plenty of noise in one form or another. Of course the quieter you can be the less spooked the fish are gonna be. What I do know, is fishing from a Yak, I cant run around the lake every 5 minutes looking for easily duped fish. As such I feel like its made me a better fisherman as I am really kinda forced to pay attention to detail and make the most of every cast with what ever bait is appropriate for the moment to the fish that are there.
Not sure what its like in KY, but here in PA, all of our rivers have consumption advisories and the shenango river, which is awesome for white bass and hybrids, has a "do not eat" advisory for all species due to extremely high PCBs. They say it's 10x worse than that of other rivers near industry. The Allegheny, Beaver and Monongohela are 1 meal per month, and the ohio is 6 per year. Such a shame.
@@wherewolf2760 yep there is statewide guidance here and also specific water body guidelines also. Very sad. I barely ever keep fish anymore to eat. I just kinda got out of doing it. I fish the Ohio some also and haven’t kept fish out of it even though the guidelines for most fish is one meal per month due to PCBs.
@RhinoJoeOutdoors Such a shame that we even have to think about contaminants in our wild caught fish populations. We do have a state-wide advisory here of one meal per week I believe. I think pa in particular is so bad because of all the steel industry we have near the creeks and rivers. I know there is a huge push to clean up all the rivers though, so I'm hopeful. Thankfully, we do have several lakes here that are clean enough to consistently keep and eat fish from. Just stinks that the best white bass fishing is in all the dirty rivers.
While I have zero experience fishing from a boat, I find that I catch more fish wading than kayaking. I don't know if I am any stealthier, but know that my game plan and equipment are stripped down and my attention is less divided. I wonder if that same addition by subtraction works as well in the boat vs kayak.
Very good points. I fish better when wading. You take the movement of the boat or kayak out of the equation and I think that’s a big part of my success when fishing that way. I just really enjoy wading a stream. There’s nothing like it in my opinion. What is your preferred gear when wading?
@@RhinoJoeOutdoors Shorts and sandals. I have a ML spinning rod, usually spooled with 15lb braid and I play around with a lighter flouro leader (I use the same rod on Floyds Fork and the Falls). Baits are a small Keitech swimbait, any Nikko product, cheap squarebills, and a few Bobby Garlands with 1/16 jigs. I used to way overpack, but wound up only using the aforementioned baits. If I'm short on time and not hunting smallies, I keep a 5' ultralight Uglystick and a trout magnet kit in my trunk.
Whatever people end up calling it, it’s bad ass. As long as you’re good with using a trailer and not the back of your truck, this thing is going to be up on the top of the list for fun to fish! Can’t wait to get on one and try it out. There are a lot of kayaks that are bigger than this one and have never been questioned. I think the reason people are questioning what it is is due to the great layout and how you can even stand on top of all of your storage, which makes for great site Fishing. The fact that the layout is so great and gives you so much more standing room is mainly what is throwing people off I think.
It's a micro skiff. The concept has been around for ages. Do you call a Suzuki Jimmy/Jeep Renegade a 4x4 or a compact car? It is what it is and I like it
Fishing kayaks are typically bigger and most are optimized for a motor/s. Tournaments around my area are even allowing 2 motors now. There’s plenty of fishing kayaks around the same size, some even bigger. Jackson Big Rig Jackson Knarr Hobie PA 14 Native Titan 12/13.5 Native Titan X 12.5 Old Town AP 132 NuCanoe Unlimited NuCanoe Frontier 12 That’s just kayaks on top of my head, I’m sure there’s more out there.
I agree with what Chad Hoover said when he was deciding if this kayak could be used for kbf tournaments “if the manufacturer labels it as a kayak then it’s a kayak”
It will be interesting to see where the organizations go if they go with this logic. What do you think is the biggest “kayak” they could market as a kayak? Thanks for commenting.
@@RhinoJoeOutdoors I think 14 feet should be the max length and no wider than 45 inches but it surprises me that so many people question this kayak considering the pro angler 14 is 14 feet long and only 2 inches smaller in width
Like most things nowadays, it will create a division amoungst a group, and require yet another category. Also creates the need for a new label - maybe Kaboat or Boyak? I personally feel like if you cant pick it up and carry it to the water, it probably should be called something other than kayak. Great question! Curious to see the answers.
Agreed, excited to see what others think. It's a great concept but just because its plastic doesn't make it a kayak. 180lbs fitted weight without gear is insane.
Had a boat. Sold it. Got 2 kayaks now. One is a river boat. One is a lake/river boat. I'll never go back. The used covid kayaks are gone. Good deals happened last fall/winter. In your world, kayak fishing is dying. In my world its growing. Weird huh.
What do you use as your lake boat and what kind of river boat do you use? I think it’s all relative. In my area I can find tons of premium kayaks used. Finding a boat was actually much harder. I say do what makes you happy but like I showed in the video the overall interest in kayak fishing dropped off per google data. Sales data is a little harder to interpret because of inflation and factors within the market. My main point was I think it’s leveling out after the pandemic. It’s not for everyone and anyone that tells you kayak fishing is 100% better than boat fishing is either biased or lying or both.
I’m starting to hate kayak fishing. I catch way more fish shore fishing. It’s takes too long to load and unload and a total waste of time when you can’t get a hook up.
Each to their own. However comparing kayaks to a boat is not apples to apples. I believe a boat has its place and a kayak has its place. The lakes I fish is hp restricted or electric only. You could have the best of the bass boat and it does no good. Yes , u may find a deal on a nice boat. Keep in mind kayaks have increased in price but so has everything else. Also u show one of the most expensive kayaks on the market. You can buy a pwr 129 with a motor and battery for less than the pro angler. Guess it all depends on one’s situation.
@@charliescustom it all depends on ones situation for sure. We all have different driving factors. Like the waters around where someone live might be more conducive to kayak angling. Where I am in KY a boat makes more sense and is safer for most of the waters around here unless you strictly want to creek fish.
Both kayak and boat bass fishing are down cause of inflation and all the new electronics its hard to compete. Bass fishing is turning into a rich mans compatition or a man in debt. Owning a boat cost 100% more than a kayak but with a boat your whole family can enjoy the day.
@@greghicks9401 that was my motivation to get a boat for “lake fishing” is because I wanted to take my kids with me. It is becoming a rich man’s game especially on the tournament side. We had a bass fishing high school team here local and they no longer have a team because they lost the coach and most parents can’t afford to support the demands that come with a fishing team.
Living in an apartment, unfortunately a kayak is all I can get. Would much rather get a used boat for slightly more money, but storing it somewhere for $200+ /month isn't reasonable. And I completely agree that it's on a downward trend with how expensive and big kayaks are getting now.
I’ve tried to get some people I know interested in kayak fishing around here in Austin, TX. No luck. I just broke the bank adding xi3 and Garmin 93. Motor because I’m tired of fighting the wind. The Slayer Max can be a sail boat lol. Need the Garmin to up my offshore game. I do believe a lot of the COVID kayakers have dropped out now.
The wind battle is exhausting. I completely agree. It's still hard managing position in a small boat. It's part of the struggle and worth getting off the bank but it's something to deal with. I used to pull up next to the bank and cast out but you can't do that on busy days when boat traffic is crazy. I agree a LOT of people tried kayak fishing during covid. Many of whom dropped out now. Hope the motor helps you with your kayak fishing adventures! Thanks for commenting.
I definitely think that kayaking and kayak fishing were trending during and just after Covid. A lot of people that jumped on the kayak train, have bailed. The challenge of keeping boat position can be very frustrating. For the hard core fisherman this could definitely be a deal breaker. Your range is also limited by how far you want to paddle. Then to extend your range you spend a fortune to upgrade to pedal or power. And you really break the bank with accessories!😢 I personally just fish to get outdoors. If the fish ain't biting, or the conditions are unfavorable for fishing - I put down the poles and enjoy a good paddle. Whatever style (bank, kayak, Jon boat, bass boat), it has to be about enjoying your time on the water. Like the thought provoking video! Cool thumbnail!
@@TheOutdoorNavigator thanks. I feel very much the same about just doing things to be outside. The simple enjoyment of being outside and enjoying the outdoors.
