Love it!

This is a fantastic idea i was trying to figure out how to fish lake michigan salmon while trolling

Have any tips for increasing the size of the rudder? rudder size seems inadequate in current

The plastic guides that you fish the wire through on my kayak came out... I can't seem to get it back in. How screwed am I? I tried to fish the cable through the holes but I cant seem to get it to come near the back where the large circular storage cap is. My next though is to use a magnet to try to fish it back there? any ideas?!?!!?

Was that 1” PVC cut in half or 3/4

I was a scuba instructor and as you go down the water column color loss is as follows like in a guy’s name ROY G BIV. Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, And Violet. Color loss occurs above every 20 feet in natural light, and less on cloudy days or sunrise and twilight.

Thank you

Thank you Kayak Mike. I’m looking for ideas on homemade down riggers. The very basic hand-crank downriggers made for canoes and kayaks are far too expensive considering how simple they are. None of them seem to be made very well and I can’t help but feel like I’d be a victim if I bought one.

Mike, at seven minutes you remove a small black plastic guide from the center of the control dial, but I didn't see you replace it as you were putting the washers and screws back in?

Brilliant! Thanks for the idea!

Thanks for making this video Mike! Was worried that replacing the cables would be somewhat challenging but was relieved to see it was as easy as I had hoped.

Here's a nice juicy comment to feed the algorithm. I am your kayak twin, blue pescador pilot.

how has the gorilla glue held up?

We just bought our kayaks when should we do this ? And where do you get that cable ?

Your videos are very helpful and have a nice balance of how to instruction and practical explanation. Learned a lot (that rudder cable swap video and recommendations were CLUTCH), stoked to see more from you!

What pole is that!? Looks like for canoes also

I made my own Down Rigger reel for my perception Kayak too. It's not a whole lot more sophisticated than what you have but it is using braided line. I've noticed that I get a lot of buzzing noises from the DR line do you get that with the para cord too? kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2XYk6uVZt15b7M

Do you know what size you bought? There's like 5 or 6 on amazon: www.amazon.com/Strand-Stainless-Steel-Coated-crimps/dp/B00NIX1MDA

Man this was a nice video you did. That was really easy changing out the rudder cable. Look like it take no time to change it. I also like how you did it barefooted 👣 too. That's how I have to do things too is barefooted 👣 because i have big very very wide feet sz15 6 EEEEEE wide with very fat wide toe that are equally straight across making my foot very very extremely wide. My foot is 6 1/2 inches wide from my big toe to my lil toe and they do not make a shoe , sock , or boot that's wide enough for my foot. It really really sucks have a foot this extremely wide with very fat wide toe cuz the only Footwear that will barely and I mean barely fits on my foot is flip flops which still not wide enough for my foot cuz my toes are wider than the flip flop straps and both of my little toes hanging off the footbed of the flip flops. I make some people laugh when I wear my flip-flops because my little toes are hanging off the foot bed but that's the only Footwear right now that will fit my foot. So this is why I'm 95% of the time barefooted 👣 all year long. Like right now it's 27 degrees outside and I have to wear flip-flops in rain , sleet , or snow. It is awesome to see other people doing things barefooted 👣 since my foot outgrew tennis shoes 33 years ago. It is weird haveing to live this type of life style. Again great video thank you for sharing. I apologize for this being so long.

well... you didn't specify the size of cable in the notes and I bought the wrong size and struggled for hours because it wouldn't work until i zoomed into the packaging you are holding. UGH! FML!

Great video. Going to follow your guide with my new Pilot. Did you also swap out the cables on the rudder lift? Any suggestions?

Did your upgrade but it only lasted a week.... And the coating on the the new cable starting gualling "bunching up" and jammed the steering system! So I went back to the original cable and "it's just a matter" of keeping everything right and always adjusted". I even used your washer system from the beginning ..... but it failed me!

Nicely done. And I really like your workstation and the pool noodle backdrop.

Do you know where a new cable spool with the locking but can be purchased?

What tubing to do use. I would like to use the cable and don’t have tubing through my kayak and would like to not have my cable cutting into my body of my kayak. I have a foot peddle one

Hey mike, your videos are really helpful. I saw you installed a metal gear trac, did you put a support on the inside of the kayak?

Us short gals don't like feeling like we're almost laying down to pedal 😅 ill def try this!

Which fb forums? I can't find good ones for pilot

So much good information. Well done. Feels like I am in another kayak out of the camera view and you are giving me a lesson. I would like to know what reel you are using?

Yale reservoir in Clark county? If yes, get St Helens in your video, man. One summer I saw a HUGE column of Kokanee not too far from the dam between 40-60 feet. Nice video. Good luck.

Does the paracord rub and wear on the side of your kayak?

Great idea!! Using the line counter on the primary reel instead of buying another is simply brilliant. I plan to jury rig mine with with an old reel, loaded with braid and cut-off rod. Thanks!

Thanks for the video! I did mine today and it's so much better!

7:36 - My two bolts were the same size.

Anyone know if the remaining bit of line is enough for another use? I used exactly the amount needed + like 4 inches of tag end combined. I'm too lazy to measure what I used or what I have left. I think it is just by guessing. BTW, you should pin a comment stating what diameter line you used. Towards the beginning of the video, you're showing a shot where the packaging says 1.8mm and you're covering the bit where it says 1.4mm.

Great mod, just did this today. Can confirm that the allen/hex size is 3/32 SAE, I have a metric set of hex keys and none of them worked (1.5mm was closest). The kayak has SAE and metric fasteners, I wish they just chose metric. It's a bit tedious to dial in the rudder to be perfectly center. I think the crux of this problem is it's hard to put enough load on both sides of the stiffer replacement rudder lines to reduce all the slack. So finding that perfect center point is a bit ambiguous. I might have have another person hold one end, or use a vice, to slack in rudder lines.

Hey did you upgrade your stock rails? If so which did you do you go with

Great tutorial thanks

Just did mine. Nice and smooth, thanks

Mike, I just did this mod just like you described on this video. I don't see any difference in the steering tension. Any idea? I used the 1.8mm 49 strand stainless steel black coated cable. Was this cable to large in diameter? Thanks Gary

Also have you ever tried this with a paddle kayak?

What time do the Kokanee start running out there?

Nice job. I have the same kayak in the same color. I bought a large roll of off brand sea deck and did almost all of the surfaces. The roll cost me $70 on Amazon but I did many more surfaces than the precut 3 pieces that harmony sells for $100+. Even did the middle raised deck that goes from the seat to the pedal scupper. Came in a teak with blue pinstripes between the "boards". Looks awesome. I used painters tape and 8 inch paper masking rolls to create my templates. My goal was to have it appear to be one seamless flooring with the stores and boards aligned. Turned out pretty good.

what size washers did you use to lift up steering control

Great video! My wife and I both fish out of Perception Pilots and love them but the steering has always been less than smooth. Have two sets of cables order! If you run across a hack for a rudder mod for a little sharper turning radius please share!

Go Cougs!

Very helpful videos. I see there were a couple of comments re how hard it is to raise and lower the rudder. I have read that some people say it works better if you set rudder for a full left turn so the cables pull straighter. I will note that we bought the newer designed perception crank 10 first. The rudder set up looks the same as the pilot 12, but the lines run inside the hull. Other wise same. On the crank the rudder is so easy a child could do it. We bought the larger pilot 12 second and about the only disappointment is the rudder deployment. Why does it work so well on the crank 10 and so poorly on the pilot 12? mark

Just got myself the stainless steel 316 marine grade 1.5mm cable and two stopper/crimps to redo as well. I’ll go ahead and do what you did and see how it works. Thank you again for such a clear and easy video instruction

What size cable wire there a few to choose from

Thank you, my cable broke this weekend and your video was very helpful