My humble yak

[Chamelion]

Hi there,

Recently picked myself up a Kayak. She's a Dagger Cayman 3.75m x 0.72m 28kg. Came with the sounder, 12v sealed lead acid battery, paddle, scotty rod holder, two flushmount rod holders (with pvx extensions to keep reels well away from the water), seat, anchor mod, anchor, anchor rope, landing net, for a neat $450.. Can't be unhappy with that. Thanks again Fishbutler :cool:

The kayak trolley pictured is something I knocked up today using $29 worth of bunnings hand truck, $6 worth of pool noodle, 25c worth of zip ties and a borrowed angle grinder.. It works really well! Can pull it over grass, dirt and sand no worries.
The kayak is held in place on the trolley by means of two tie downs given to me by a good mate.. I'm pretty sure they were used to hold BMW motorbikes in place inside crates during shipping?
Theft of the trolley shouldn't be an issue. I think my super chunky cable lock is pictured below somewhere. I just chain it to something near the water.

The bag behind the seat was the result of some clever lateral thinking. When I bought the kayak less than two weeks ago it came with a tub in the rear. It contained the kayak's battery and created room for tackle trays and what not. But what really bothered me was that if I was to capsize the kayak the container and everything inside would be more or less lost (lid came off very easy).
Well, whilst sitting at the PC trying to work out what I could do about it I spotted my wife's old shuttle carry bag... Turns out that it's absolutely PERFECT for the job. In the front is a pocket that carries spare trebles and in that pocket are a couple of sleeves that hold my leader perfectly. The 'lid' of the bag has a zippered mesh pocket inside that's the perfect size and place for my soft plastic lures whilst the main pocket has enough room for my sounder battery and some lure boxes. There are a couple of side pockets too, which aren't in use at the moment.
Keys and wallet get kept in a plastic bag inside the hull. Phone gets kept in a partially inflated snap lock sandwhich bag in the seat's rear pocket.
The bag is kept in place by another two of the forementioned tie downs. I'll be able to roll the yak over and the bag + contents will be more or less safe. I'm pretty sure the bag is quite water resistant too.

She paddles really well, cuts through chop far better than I expected it would. Stability is good enough to keep me out of trouble, but I'm not yet confident to take my best rods/reels on board.

Some pictures

[Just_chips]

Way to go. $450 plus a bit for the extras, can't complain about that. The more you use it the more things you will think of to improve it to suit what you want to do also.

Kev

[paymetofish]

im jelouse awesome yak, and a great model.
im hoping to build my own from scratch and trying to find idears to use

[cuzzamundi]

She's a ripper! Well done, especially in terms of saving money.

Cuzza