Crescent Light Tackle Kayak Modifications 

Nice fish at 16:30, great stuff.

That a nice setup. I'm getting a LiteTackle II & the 2 mods I like the most are the rod holders which I'll try & your pontoon system. Great video presentation

I have to say, that is some impressive stuff. I love the ingenuity of it all. Great job.🎉

Hello again! I was finally able to launch my LT this morning, which turned out to be a discouraging launch. First a little background- I'm a big paddler at 375. My previous kayak experience is in the Nucanoe Frontier 12, which has loads of primary stability. I drift with the wind sideways to waves jigging with no issues. The downside- she's a monster to paddle. Enter my decision to purchase the LT: I wanted a better paddling kayak. Given the LT's hull design v. The Frontier, plus vids and reviews, I knew the primary stability would be much less. However, I thought I'd be able to adjust to the "tippyness" of the LT. This morning a swell (big lake) kicked up at first I was ok. Then the swell height increased and the rollers hit my kayak more frequently. The LT was rocking and rolling, which tripped me out...I panicked, which I've never done in my kayaking, canoeing, boating, experience. I fled for shore. I'm super disappointed that I panicked like that, but at least I realized my lack of composure and got off the water. My brother was out with me, so we were playing it safe. When the LT was rolling I felt like I had zero control over the kayak's movement in terms of balance, and that any moment I was going to get dumped. I don't know how I'm going to get comfortable with that. My first question- any advice on adjusting to a kayak with low primary stability. Now onto outriggers. I have large outriggers that I purchased for the Frontier, but they weren't needed: www.islandhopperoutboards.com/kayak-outriggers.html Scroll down to the "super jumbo size" to see what I have. It's aluminum tubing that insets into a, what I think is, a flag pole holder, which is adjustable. The Frontier has long gear tracks that run along the deck. I put a 1x6 board across the gear tracks and tightened it in place, forming a cross beam. I bolted the flag pole holders to the cross beam, into which the aluminum tubing inserts. I'm trying to figure out to mount a cross beam in the LT using the gear tracks along the rear tank well. It looks like the these tracks aren't perfectly level, laterally. I wonder whether I can use then to mount a flat board 🤔. Any ideas? I love your design, but with my weight and the beefyness of these floats, I'm concerned about the strength of the pvc. Plus, I'm not sure how to mount these floats onto the end of the smaller dia. PVC tubing that inserts into the larger dia. Tube. Thanks for reading this and for any insight 🙏

Heck of a great job....everything is so well thought out. It's amazing how you did all of this without drilling into the haul

I like this Kayak! I have the nice but heavy Lure 11.5 and I will defiantly be looking at adding this Kayak also to use on my fishing RU-vid channel YakAngling for those long pulls in.

Awesome modifications on your Kayak. Great video presentation. I may use some of your ideas for my ROBOYAK/KAYAK Cruiser/Angler model C10 specially the rod holders. I used PVC pipes as well and they're great for connecting pieces together.

Can help but notice your St Pete sticker! I live right by Weedon Island and also fish from a Tan Lite tackle!!!

A great piece of ingenuity I’ve had the same idea for pontoons and the anchor system is great Thank you for sharing

I have the same yak. Can you please share size and how you made the pontoon system. This is exactly what i need. Thank you.

Coolest crescent mods yet.

Can you do a video showing how you fabricated the seat blocks?

Nice mods and video. Thank you.

I really like some of your ideas. I love my lite tackle. They make a riser for the kayak you can order from Cresent. You might want to look into that.

Just a thought, a bungee across the top of your padded rod bar in front of you could clamp the rods down If you wanted to lay them in transit, especially helpful if you are paddling under vegetation...

Nice kayak. Do the dark pads on the deck get hot in the sun?

Here is a video of my Crescent Light Tackle Kayak in real live fishing situations! Here I catch Snook on a Zman Chatterbait in the Florida Everglades. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kIps2T4M-YQ.html