What KAYAK is BEST for YOU?! (Fishing kayak walkthrough of Hobie models)

[@adictosalapescaconpelonher9826]

Watching from Columbus Ohio

[@macmcelroy6165]

buckeye lake here

[@lowlifeangler]

South central here but I always do better fishing northern Ohio

[@chuckd853]

Have a Hobie PA14 360 fully loaded on a trailer for big water and a Linx for skinny water. Best of both worlds.

[@kristinefischer2289]

YEP! Getting my lynx soon

[@leewiseman4778]

You and I met two years ago in Lebanon Tennessee at the outdoor show you showed me the pro 14from Music City in Nashville. So I bought it, love it and it’s loaded. I fish in it every weekend. Catch more fish then I ever caught in my bass boat

[@leewiseman4778]

Kristine did you send the prize link

[@shaundendy2173]

I've had my pro angler 14 360 for just over a year now and I'm really glad I went with it to begin with. Yes it's heavy but it'll work for nearly everywhere I plan on fishing both fresh and saltwater.

[@zachg5356]

How do you transport them? Does it come with a trailer?

[@shaundendy2173]

@@zachg5356 I transport mine via my truck by using a bed extender that attaches to my receiver hitch. Once I get to where I plan to fish I use wheel dolly designed for my kayak to move it where I want to go. No it does not come with a trailer but there are companies that manufacturer them specifically for kayaks. And no the wheel cart does not come with it either. When you buy a kayak, especially a Hobie it comes with the drive, a seat and a paddle. Everything else you purchase separately.

[@Drumguy48]

I started Kayak fishing with an Old Town Sportsman 106 paddle version. I quickly realized the need for a peddle style Kayak. Being 61 , I wanted something that was easy to load on the roof of my Golf Sportwagen. I went with the Hobie Lynx . The ideal kayak for me.

[@hobielbnysusanclark1660]

Great video as always! Don't forget about the hobie adventure island and tandem islands. Beast for fishing! Can't wait to see your next video! Tight lines!

[@haroldrogers6566]

Love watching you guys fish out of a kayak, but I like going fast and having 15 baits tied on the deck. And being able to fish reasonably comfortable in 25 mph winds. So I’ll keep watching y’all and going 70 mph with the wind in my old hair.

[@danielleissner9430]

Bought used 2019 outback 2 weeks ago, still rigging it up. Love your vid's

[@charlescurryfishing]

When they roto mold the Lynx and give it some storage there will be no beating it. Loved my Lynx. Had many hobies and went back to a 2023 PA14 just for the storage.

[@BasicFishingNZ]

I took a course b4 getting a kayak to feel a traditional kayak and how it works and afterwards it helped me to pick a suitable one. i currently got a native watercraft slayer 13. mean and works very well especially for sea fishing

[@pitchkapizda8355]

From Australia I have the PA14 and luv it

[@jefbrewer]

Great vid, K-Fisch!!! We gotta get you out on the west coast for some big bass fishing on Clear Lake!

[@ulydoingthings]

Saving my lunch money for a PA! Great video!

[@adictosalapescaconpelonher9826]

First like 👍

[@lawrenceconstantine7735]

I lean toward Old Town but I am from New England and have been using their product since birth. 67 years.

[@andybales7318]

Old town durability is unmatched...Hobie falls short with hull durability

[@dustinsanders9994]

Just bought the lynx kayak. Loving it.

[@dustinsanders9994]

Is this legit?

[@bigredbass7898]

Thank you. Valuable info and im sure you put a lot of work into this as you do with your fishing! Youre awesome! 🐟🎣

[@CentralTyrantInvestigations]

Hobie has too many parts in their drives that break and it sucks replacing. Let’s be honest here

[@jimjim5245]

My GT Drive is bulletproof, the 180 I own is awesome but have snapped an idler cable and ran aground needing bearings replaced. I comp fish and do abuse my Hobie and it’s drive but tbh rate it super highly for what it does.

[@FullTimeFishing]

New camera? Video looking crispy! Great info.

[@dawnparker2014]

You getting a new one! I want to see😊

[@chefmatt6299]

Love our local shop

[@scottmoyer4518]

Great review thank you

[@kristinefischer2289]

Thanks for watching!

[@johnwhite993]

Great information as always Kristine. Did you get all your stuff replaced from the accident where you kayak came off the trailer. Love all your videos and enjoy when your catching the big ones

[@zachg5356]

As a Florida bass angler which on is better for me the Pro Angler or Outback? I enjoy launching in small lakes and ponds that most people wouldn't dream of getting into. I deal with a ton of vegetation though. Currently I'm using a stealth 14. Pretty basic and the seat sucks. But I do like staying low. Thanks!!

[@paulya1269]

Great video Kristine! I have always been a motorboat fisherman, but the more of your vids I watch, the more inclined I am to get into a kayak.

[@db9818]

You should, I was on the fence for years. Once I finally started fishing off a kayak I was hooked, I haven’t even used my motor boat in years. I do however plan on getting my boat back on the water, but will still take Kayak primarily.

[@MrCaissed]

The best Kayak for me would have to be free! Hobie great kayak let them know I want one

[@Phukifino]

Any chance they have a promo code going? I am probably buying one and picking up on saturday

[@MaineStreamFishing]

Buy once… cry once! I hate it but its true!

[@jimjim5245]

Hobie is worth it. The PA14 is a fishing machine.

[@dcpack]

Just realized I am not rich enough for Hobies.

[@erikdrouin1328]

You guys ship to Canada? Ottawa region? Say i want a fully rigged pro angler 12?

[@Hightideoutdoors]

If I had them as a sponsor I'd love them too. They should send me a free kayak lol😂

[@VictorVectorMusic]

Someday maybe....but for now its still the good ol blow up intek lol

[@kmilesSC]

The Hobbie Drives Break Belts bad in Salt Water

[@kmilesSC]

Dont know of any better though

[@ThatGuy-qg4ww]

None, I can't afford any of them 😂😂

[@academicmailbox7798]

There are some cultures in the world, where the generations are born, grow up and live their lives practically on water, in vessels such as kayaks.

[@academicmailbox7798]

One of the Rolling Stones in Britain was born on a canal barge, and his folks basically lived their entire lives on the water. If one really wanted to get wild though, one would have to include mention of Waterworld and Hollywood adaptations of that story. Which was Kevin Costner's version or slant on what Mel Gibson did with 'Mad Max' in 1980's popular culture. Nowadays we've got Kristine Fischer. Which granted is less 'Hollywood' for certain. But equally a part of this same mythology or story. Foynes island was a place near where I grew up. And they had graves of people on the island, that no one had any connection to (on the west coast of Ireland, if you go back to the 1500's there was the tail-end of a culture that went back for centuries there). They really were a people who look at the land from the sea. As opposed to looking at the sea from the land. Conor O'Brien who first sailed around the world a hundred years ago, setting out in March of 1923 and coming back in 1925. Published a book, Sea-boats, Oars and Sails, in 1941 about what he learned. Conor grew up on that island, although it had been inhabited earlier by a different community. That no one could remember by the twentieth century any longer. Conor's own origins, his family dated back to the time of Vikings. When they first created places on the west coast of Ireland. That are now cities, Galway, Limerick, Waterford (these were the equivalent of airport terminals practically, back in the day). As the Viking realm back then extended all of the ways from the Baltic sea around the western coast of Europe. And all of the ways back into the most eastern parts of the Mediterranean. That culture persisted in certain ways until as recently as the 1500's (Queen Elizabeth was the last monarch in England to officially meet with the west of Ireland Gaelic leaders, a lady who owned a couple of hundred boats then named Grainne). Grainne didn't speak English, nor did the Tudor monarch speak in Gaelic. However they could communicate just fine in Latin (most folks were bi-lingual back then, because trade and nautical-based commerce all revolved around Latin as this universal system of communication). A bit like the internet today. That was the one legacy of the 'Roman' period that different cultures had carried on (things such as currency, writing and reading literacy, manufactured goods of all kinds disappeared). As people went back to 'Iron Age' systems of life after Roman had collapsed. The part of Sweden where Hobie held their 'World' event last summer was just part of a much bigger system for a time.

[@academicmailbox7798]

Something on the history of that part of the world (Norway, Sweden, Scotland, Ireland), from a whole saltwater and water perspective. The Scotland History Tours channel had an episode about the Vikings, Normans and many of the other waves in history that affected that landscape. And how it all evolved. What was interesting was the number of families who came out of places like Scotland and ended up in north America over time as well. I noted once, that the name Clunn, had it's origins too in parts of Scotland at one stage in time. Bruce at Scotland History Tours tries to make some sense of it, and goes to the various locations and sites. In order to explain his stories. In the same way, 'Fat Cat' Newton who co-presents with Luke Dunkin on their show for pro angling. Talks about the commercial fishing industry they grew and were part of, less than a hundred miles from Washington DC in the east. Where that commercial fishing industry literally started in a lot of these British Isles places (Bruce in Scotland talks about the earliest Norwegian settlers of the Orkney islands in the far north of Scotland). Was with the waves of those Vikings that gathered around coastlines of Ireland or Britain in the eighth and nineth centuries. And a thousand years later on, that is also moving to the eastern coast of America. Where as Fat Cat explained to Matt on BTL, that community as it had been established was going away now. These are actually big stories, with a lot of parts to them.

[@academicmailbox7798]

That conversation about 'Fat Cat' and Luke Dunkin. The 'Oak Mapping' channel had a piece a few years ago, showing the Scottish clan history over time (including the name of those such as Newton in Scotland), between 834 and 1707. The year 1707, when the 'Act of Union' came into being, where Scotland and English court jurisdiction was the same (in Ireland the Act of Union of 1801, brought Ireland into that same courts system too). In which it remained until 1922, when part of Ireland left it. The clans were really formed in the aftermath of the Norman invasion from around 1,100's and 1,200's on (as one gets into the era of medieval knights and armies in western Europe). Many of the folks I have talked to in America with Scottish routes. Explain how their ancestors moved from various waterways and rivers, and estuaries. And moved to Virginia, North Carolina and such places (moving further west into Tennessee later on, which might explain how the Dunkin's arrived there). While the Newtons preferred I guess, to hang around the coastlines. Reminding them of home. You'll observe on the map too, the Sinclair was one of the first Scottish clans to come into being. Which is near to Orkney, where the Norwegian Viking influence was most felt. And approximately in the area of the old Pictish lands during Roman occupation times. Where families such as the Clunn had been.

[@OkieOutdoorAdventures]

I ended up with a seastream angler 120pd. I’d love a Hobie but that would directly lead to my immediate divorce 😅😂 I’ll eventually have one though, maybe.

[@edgars00789]

I wish you could help me win a kayak so I can complete my mission of saving our beautiful waterways universe. Please, can you help me out.

[@seanmyhre1305]

I’m looking at a PA 14 180 drive. I currently have a old town predator 13. It’s a great kayak. So my question is this. In my predator when I’m paddling and pulling up to a fishing spot I can stick my paddle in the water and quickly stop or turn to one side to setup and fish. How do you do this with a hobie 180 drive? I never see anyone try to stop one of these.

[@andybales7318]

Stick with old town....durability is unmatched

[@seanmyhre1305]

@@andybales7318 for sure. Just sick of paddling

[@andybales7318]

@@seanmyhre1305 old town's pedal drive, can go instant reverse...can stop immediately, from what I've seen

[@seanmyhre1305]

@@andybales7318 yeah that’s true. But…. What’s wrong with hobie?

[@andybales7318]

@@seanmyhre1305 seen multiple hulls not even last a year...very thin, which probably helps with weight..but for the price, hulls dont seem to be durable enough...especially if u launch in rougher areas like concrete boat ramps or rocky areas.....probably just depends on launch areas u use..otherwise, hobie seem like great yaks'...I still have my 1st kayak, old town vapor 10 angler...6 years I think, and hull is still strong, with some scratches..