I have allot of decent ponds and small lakes near me. Something like this I can literally throw in the back of my work van and go. Allot of my fishing is a couple hours at a time. So the grab and go is important. I think I’m finding this is the happy medium between having some space for some gear, ease of loading and launching quickly. As well as being a quality product. Would love to hear what you guys think. 

The weight is incorrect. It weighs 50 something pounds. 

There's been guys who've really tricked out a 119 and turned them into mean fishing machines. Do a YouTube search on 'Canoe mods' and a lot of what people have done to other models can be done here.

 

Not to toot my own horn, but I've done extensive mods to my Sun Dolphin 14' Square-Stern - some of those would also be adaptable to the 119.

 

Those and the Native Ultimates have some of the best features of canoes, but can be paddled with a kayak paddle and have a decent seat.  They are more stable than a sit-on-top (SOT) kayak of the same width with the seat height the same.  They're light for their capacity relative to a SOT.  You have more flexibility on where you place loads.  The Discovery boats are 3 layer polyethylene, where as the Native Ultimates are rotomolded HDPE.  Both are impact resistant, durable, and in general tough.  These are most of the positive attributes.

The SOT kayak will have a deck for mounting things, where you'll be restricted to the gunwales and thwarts (or whatever OT and Native call those things that serve the same purpose).  If you swamp one, self-recovery in water above standing level is more difficult relative to SOT.  And mounting a the transducer for your graph is harder; there's no scuppers to snake the wires down and the mounting transducer is pretty much an arm mount or a through the hull affair.

In my opinion, this is a really good option, especially if you like keeping things simple.  The hybrid canoe/kayaks have a good resale if you find out you don't like it, a good condition Wilderness Commander will fetch $750 or so, and they haven't been made in 5 years or so.

9 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

There's been guys who've really tricked out a 119 and turned them into mean fishing machines. Do a YouTube search on 'Canoe mods' and a lot of what people have done to other models can be done here.

 

Not to toot my own horn, but I've done extensive mods to my Sun Dolphin 14' Square-Stern - some of those would also be adaptable to the 119.

 

I’ll have to check it out. Thanks. 

4 hours ago, CountryboyinDC said:

Those and the Native Ultimates have some of the best features of canoes, but can be paddled with a kayak paddle and have a decent seat.  They are more stable than a sit-on-top (SOT) kayak of the same width with the seat height the same.  They're light for their capacity relative to a SOT.  You have more flexibility on where you place loads.  The Discovery boats are 3 layer polyethylene, where as the Native Ultimates are rotomolded HDPE.  Both are impact resistant, durable, and in general tough.  These are most of the positive attributes.

The SOT kayak will have a deck for mounting things, where you'll be restricted to the gunwales and thwarts (or whatever OT and Native call those things that serve the same purpose).  If you swamp one, self-recovery in water above standing level is more difficult relative to SOT.  And mounting a the transducer for your graph is harder; there's no scuppers to snake the wires down and the mounting transducer is pretty much an arm mount or a through the hull affair.

In my opinion, this is a really good option, especially if you like keeping things simple.  The hybrid canoe/kayaks have a good resale if you find out you don't like it, a good condition Wilderness Commander will fetch $750 or so, and they haven't been made in 5 years or so.

Thanks for all that info