Duane do you know this guy?

Bumpy ride but Cool. 

How about this one? http://forum.kayak4fish.com/viewtopic.php?t=8443

I got tired just looking at this.  Buy a PB

How about this one? http://forum.kayak4fish.com/viewtopic.php?t=8443

OMG! So much for simplicity in fishing
BTW, I've never seen a Malibu yak sit so low in the water

Z

like the spider but the kayak is just over kill on the wiring what hell
do you need all that for + all that silicone makes me want to barf

silicone is the reason I came up with the wireseal idea
I seen a kayak with the fishfinder wires coming out of the bulkhead
with silicone to seal it yuck 

I think the guy has got lots of potential but dam that is just crazy
did not see anything that turned me on 

I am truly humbled

   Yeah, way overkill I think (and I think he mentions somewhere in ther that he does too)...but to each his own.  It's amazing what people will do with time on thier hands.

By the way MickFish, sorry for the hijacking.

WTF is that guy doing??? 20ah of battery???  80 tubes of 5200...YIKES!!!

He could have bought another kayak for all the 5200 he used alone.  At $13 per tube, that's over $1000 in silicone.   What the...

I'd hate to roll that kayak in Bean Hollow on Linda Mar on a big surf day.......talk about "yard sale"  Or imagine trying haul that kayak up the hill....at the Elk Derby 

IMO: "KIS" Keep It Simple 

But, like Pacifico said: "...to each his own"


The way I see it is: if you rig your kayak with all that bling bling, just make sure you can lift it on and off your vehicle without breaking your back 

I'd hate to actually catch a fish off that rig......where the heck would you store it?

With the old school Scupper that I'm now paddling, I'm realizing that I need to be very careful about overall weight, as well as distribution. So when I saw a link to the heavily outfitted Malibu on an Alaskan Kayaking forum it just blew my mind.  11 rods? 20AH of batteries? Power Distribution Unit? Wiring diagram? But then read that he's down in SoCal, so I guess it's a perfectly fine tool for the job at hand. My guess is that the boat has so much inertia that he'd not be able to even make it out in decent sized surf (3 foot). So no need to worry about a yard sale at Bean Hollow on landing...

Regards,
Scott

Actually, now that I read the whole thread, that internal bait bladder is pretty sweet, overkill or not.  We should introduce this man to a downrigger and see what he can come up with.

I'd like to see some testing of baitwells vs bait buckets, vs bait wells.

If a bait tube will keep your bait alive for a day's worth of fishing, then in my mind it just doesn't make sense to add the weight and complexity of a bait well to your boat. At least not in the ocean here in NorCal.  Water is 8 lbs a gallon, plus a pump, plus a battery to keep the pump running. It would be pretty easy to add 15-20 lbs to the loaded weight of a kayak, a significant percentage. And then you need to consider the lee cocking effect of all that weight behind the paddler. How'd you like to not be able to paddle upwind? This might mandate the use of a rudder.

Compare that to the essentially zero weight, but slight increase in drag from a bait tube.

Regards,
Scott

Where's the stereo and DVD player???
It looks cool and all but WAY WAY WAY too much for me.