Okay, I'll be 16 in a few days and obviously working at the burger joint flipping burgers can't buy me a new skeeter.. So I really want to buy a fishing kayak, I fish a lot of tiny pothole lakes and smaller lakes where I know big bass lurk. But I know absolutely nothing about fishing kayaks. Here are some of my questions.

1.) in what fishing Kayaks can you stand in? I only will buy one if I can stand in it, I'm about 180lbs and 5'10".

2.) what's a good length or width to look for?

3.) I know there's paddle drivin ones and the foot pedal and ill probably prefere a paddle one due to price. I assume they would be cheaper?

4.) what are some good brands that I could look into for <600$$? Or is that number just way to low for a kayak? I don't need any with electronics

There are a bunch of threads about this already if you will do some searching.

There are a lot of kayaks that claim to have enough stability to ˝stand in", but most of the time that only holds true if you are on glass calm water and standing perfectly still. So a bunch of them make a claim that just isn't realistic. I have heard, however, that there are some truly stable ones out there if you do your research right. Unfortunately, I don't know which ones those are because that's a different type of fishing from what I am used to, but I was able to find this link which looks like an excellent way to modify most any kayak into what looks like an extremely stable little craft that I would stand in without hesitation. Check it out, and if anyone else has heard of this thing, or owns one, I would be really curious to know what your thoughts are. It looks like it could make a rock solid platform out of even the narrowest of kayaks. Not sure what the price is though.

http://standnfish.com/snf_home/index.html

Native ultimate, wilderness commander, nucanoe classic/frontier to name a few but all are probably out of that price range unless you happen to find one on CL used. I can only personally speak for the nucanoe frontier, and I am about the same size as you and can stand easily even in choppy water. Well worth the price in my opinion, (about 1200 new). Only advice I can give you is try a bunch of them out. If you settle and just buy something, you will likely regret it down the road and have wasted your money. Seat time is a must if at all possible. Also plan on a few extra hundred dollars on a PFD and paddle. Also check out the new WS Ride 115x that should be out soon. Again probably higher than you want to spend but looks to be a nice rig. 

It seems like almost everyone thinks standing up in a boat is the only way it's possible to fish, but once you get down into Kayaks and Canoes (and even John Boats) one that will be stable enough to stand and fish will also be pretty heavy. My thinking is that once something is heavy enough to need a trailer to haul it and launch it, you might as well get a John Boat that's just a smaller version of a "real" Bass Boat. I fish out of a solo or tandem canoe hundreds of times every year and although I can stand in the tandem I really don't. I do realize that you way want to flip or pitch, and where I fish from little community lakes to Beaver and Table Rock there's tons of docks that I skip lures up under - much easier sitting down closer to the water.