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I fished for four years with only a paddle. It actually gets to be second nature, keeping the paddle across your lap and becoming the master of one handed steering and moving forward and backwards a bit while fishing, not as easy as peddle but not all that difficult after you get the hang of it. I have a Bixby now, I skipped the peddle part because they are just as expensive. I have a Shearwater on order so if I decide to go the peddle route I can add it later.

I remember that well! We're old!

I think warmer water areas start up way before pre-spawn. I won big bass at a tournament in April last year. It was cold, water was cold, every few casts I had to dip my rod into the water to get the ice off the guides. Everyone was fishing the deeper water. The sun was just starting to hit the northwest corner of the lake that happens to be a flat that is between 3 and 4 feet deep. I went to that corner and began running a chatterbait past the submerged trees and caught my big bass. Three feet of water, water temp was 38. Water temp everywhere else was lower 30's.

I had a Wilderness Radar 115 that I sold to a friend just getting into kayak fishing. I didn't believe it was big enough for him. I'm 5-09 240 and paddled it out for him to see, I rocked side to side like crazy, sat sideways in the seat, stood on it and casted, and when I got back to shore I just stood up and walked off the bow to get onto the land. He then went out on it and did the same thing except for standing because he just wasn't confident yet, it was his first time ever in a kayak. He bought it and loves it, he's 6-03 315 pounds.

My top spot is 30 minutes away. I always try to mix things up, looking for new water to put the kayak in. I try to keep it within 90 minutes but have gone up to three hours away.

There's a huge price range too, so it depends on what you want to spend.

I entered! I've never won any of these internet drawings but this would be a nice one to win!

I switch lures before locations. I went on a boat with a buddy who fishes a certain lake and he swore that plastic worms were the way to go, every time he went and there was no need for anything else. We're fishing the docks and not getting bit so I put on a Keitech paddletail on a weighted swimbait hook and started getting bit. After awhile he reluctantly took me up on my offer and started using the same and started catching. It doesn't always work but it's quicker to change lures than move to a new spot.

I'd go with a MegaBass Orochi XX Braillist and a Daiwa Tatula SV TW.

I use crankbaits all the time. About the only time I don't at least try them is when vegetation won't let me. I do well with them too. But I also throw jigs all the time and spinnerbaits and plastics and...............

Dirty Jigs Pitch'n jig in watermelon with a watermelon Sweet Beaver trailer.

That's probably about right. I don't fish a lot of big lakes, mainly quarries and strip pits. I mainly got it to keep up with the motor kayaks in the small tournaments I do.

There's the peddle, the motor, and a storage option. You don't even know the Bixby it on the rudder. It is so small and light. Yes, you need the proprietary battery. Only time will tell if it will be worth the cost. I like the 9 pounds total weight of the battery/motor. I have yet to use even 25% or the battery life in an outing. My big test will be on Lake Tomahawk in Wisconsin this summer. I plan on some long treks to a couple of spots.

I didn't get any of the center hatch add ons, and I'll be keeping my Bixby on the rudder of the Shearwater. That will give a lot of open deck in front of me.

My current Vibe Seaghost 130.. I have a Vibe Shearwater on the way and will be transferring all this over to it but also upgraded my FF to a Garmin Echomap 73SV UHD

I'm sure there are plenty of places out of reach distance wise for me and my kayak. But there are two places I fish that have back quarries connected by to the main quarry via a cut channel that are maybe 40 inches wide and a good 50 yards long. No land access to them either.

I agree in that you can spend a lot of money but I can also guarantee that I can and do get my kayak into waters even a jon boat isn't getting to.

I've never owned a boat but do like occasionally fishing from one. I started out with a kayak and can't see myself ever switching to or even adding a boat. The end of last summer I added a rudder attached motor to my kayak, the Bixby and it opened up even more fishing ability to me. Every summer I spend a week up at Lake Tomahawk in Wisconsin. I fish out of my son in laws bass boat up there but this year I'm bringing my kayak. It's a very large lake and the motor will really make it easier for me to get to the spots I want to.

3/8 oz swim jig in Threadfin Shad color with a 3.8" Keitech paddletail. Didn't weigh it, it was 22.25 inches.

The Tatula SV TWS was the cause of my switch from Lew's to Daiwa.

What are you looking to spend. I love my MegaBass Orochi XX Braillist enough to have two of them. One for swim jigs, the other for bottom contact jigs.

Yes they are still in business.

As soon as I won't be skating my kayak on top of the ice!

Now I just need to get good at reading the sidescan!