Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
March 29, 2024, 05:48:04 AM

Login with username, password and session length

Recent Topics

[March 28, 2024, 11:47:21 PM]

[March 28, 2024, 11:34:08 PM]

[March 28, 2024, 09:44:18 PM]

[March 28, 2024, 09:12:36 PM]

[March 28, 2024, 07:11:09 PM]

[March 28, 2024, 01:13:46 PM]

[March 27, 2024, 07:25:42 PM]

[March 27, 2024, 07:05:39 PM]

[March 27, 2024, 12:35:34 PM]

[March 27, 2024, 11:18:23 AM]

[March 26, 2024, 07:45:07 PM]

[March 26, 2024, 06:19:03 PM]

[March 26, 2024, 05:47:06 PM]

Support NCKA

Support the site by making a donation.

Topic: A Bigger Kayak for Dave  (Read 1668 times)

0 Members and 1 Guest are viewing this topic.

  • Dave The SynthGuy
  • View Profile
  • Location: Arcata, California
  • Date Registered: Apr 2009
  • Posts: 603
Yep.  I finally did it.  I've been tooling around in my little yellow Hobie Sport for a long time now.  It's been a great boat and will continue to be a great kayak for me, but I've had kayak envy for some time.   :smt003   It began when I needed help to bring in the huge fish I'd caught. (Overgrossed the Hobie Sport!)  :smt005   

So last Friday, when PacOut put some of their used outback rentals up for sale, I jumped.  The price was right.  I now have a green 2016 Outback with the GT drive.   :smt043

I can horse it on top of the Prius by myself just fine -- ok, it's heavier, but I can do it.  I'm thinking there's a trailer in my future, though.  :smt004

So I bought it on Friday and made a test run (where else) to Stone Lagoon with some good friends on Saturday.  The boat's got good mojo now.  I caught a nice little 13-"14" cutthroat trout there. (released)  I had two other fish on but couldn't seal the deal.

I promise I will try to make more NCKA posts.  I've been bad about that.  (Caught a lot of fish this season in the little Hobie Sport -- including salmon at Shelter Cove and big lings at Cape Mendocino!)

Here are the pix -- including some from Stone Lagoon yesterday.  I almost filed this under fishing reports! :smt006


Detonate the reality bomb.


SlackedTide

  • Sea Lion
  • ****
  • View Profile
  • Location: Weekdays a Prius, Weekends a Revo
  • Date Registered: May 2014
  • Posts: 2482
Awe...  you are my new friend. Prius and Hobies FTW!!! Good Deal.
2014 Hobie Revo 13
2011 Hobie Outback - bye bye
1997 Tracker 17 Deep V<--- Money Pit


When you look outside the window, and all you see is fishing. True Story.


  • Dave The SynthGuy
  • View Profile
  • Location: Arcata, California
  • Date Registered: Apr 2009
  • Posts: 603
Oh, Dude, I know how to do Hobie / Prius ... check this out    :smt044. ... I haul two hobie sports on my Prius all the time.  My wife fishes, too.  Although this photo is from a trip with my daughter to ride the tide at Hookton Slough to Gil's By the Bay in King Salmon.
Detonate the reality bomb.


masterandahound

  • Sea Lion
  • ****
  • View Profile
  • Location: Napa, CA
  • Date Registered: Mar 2014
  • Posts: 2107
Nice ! Congratulations !
Ocean Kayak Prowler Big Game


Sailfish

  • Manatee
  • *****
  • .
  • View Profile
  • Location: Prunetucky
  • Date Registered: Sep 2006
  • Posts: 25806
Congrats on the BIGGER ride Dave  :smt001
"Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass...it's about learning how to dance in the rain."