The stock seat on my 2018 Pescador (non-Pro version) is just abysmal. Have any of you folks used the Feel Free Kingfisher, YakGear Manta Ray, Surf to Summit GTS Pro, or the Gone Fishin kayak seats?

 

I'd like to keep it $150 or less, if possible, and I'm not really interested in lawn chair-style seats. 

No sure on the other chairs listed, but my Moken Lite came with the Kingfisher seat and I did not like it.  While the back seems nice and tall, it is not very rigid so there was little back support above the area where the straps connect (about halfway up).  I changed to a stadium chair and feel like I have more back support even though it does not go as high.

For me, back support isn't really an issue. It's the seat bottom that's the problem. I guess I could try some of the cheaper "solutions", like the kneeling pads that are sold for gardening...but i don't really like makeshift solutions.

 

It's a silly thing, but I can't stand to have something that looks like it was just slapped together out of whatever was laying around. 

Walmart sells a gel seat for like $20 meant for cars. That's gonna be thicker, and more comfortable than any basic kayak seat you can buy. 

I wound up ordering the GTS Pro. Hopefully it'll be in sometime this week, so I can try it out next weekend. 

 

https://www.surftosummit.com/products/gts-pro-molded-foam-kayak-seat-no-pack

The GTS Pro is an awesome seat, but after placing it on my Pescador, it's just not what I'm looking for.

 

I owned a Wilderness Pungo for a short time that had an absolutely awesome seat, with all sorts of adjustment options. I'm going to attempt to build something similar, using stock Wilderness and Perception parts. 

 

http://topkayaker.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=119_14&products_id=1866

 

I bought the leg lifter piece for a Perception Zone DLX seat, Wilderness seat webbing and buckles, and some 1" stainless footman loops. Not 100% certain what I'm going to use as a seat pad, but I'm leaning towards a Wilderness, Perception, or Dagger stock pad with a .5" layer of dense closed-cell foam between it and the leg lifter. The extra support to the hamstring area should help alleviate the numbness without the bulk of an aftermarket seat (at half the cost), and look stock to the untrained eye.

Ok, so this is what I've come up with so far. Waiting on a set of Perception Zone DLX seat pads (bottom and back) to arrive from Topkayaker, and will probably slip a piece of 1/2" closed-cell foam under the bottom pad, or perhaps cut the original Pescador seat bottom to fit.

 

Well, I finally got it all put back together. 

 

Wound up going with a Perception Zone DLX seat pad and the standard Zone back pad. The DLX pad is thicker than the stock Pescador pad,, but I added some 1/2" closed-cell foam from a cheap Walmart sleeping pad for a bit of added cushion. 

 

The back pad needed a couple mods to fit the hinge area of the Pescador backrest, but you can't tell once it's mounted. Really wish it had been black instead of gray, but it doesn't look too out of place with the gray locking levers on the hatch.

 

A couple of questions. First how comfortable is the bottom seat?  Next, is it any higher than the original seat?  I have the same kayak and can't sit very long but I only use the kayak for river fishing so I can usually get out as often as I need.

The surface of the new bottom pad is about 3/4" higher than the original seat, but that's mostly due to the 1/2" layer of closed-cell foam I added under the new pad. Not sure if I'll keep that additional padding on there, but it was easier to add while I was drilling the new holes for the seat pad than it would be to add it later 

 

As far as comfort, that remains to be seen. I was hoping to get it out on the water today but the weather and chores kept me tied up. Feels good in the basement, though. ?

 

If nothing else, the DLX pad is a pretty big upgrade over the thin Pescador seat pad. Nicer material and a thicker pad.

Spent a couple hours on a local lake this afternoon, and no numbness or pain. Looks like the seat upgrade might've actually been worth the effort.

 

 

I have a Pescador 120 one generation earlier than yours. The thin seat finally rotted to the point I just removed it. I was in Dick's and bought a foam stadium seat cushion that is much better than what it came with. Later, after my dad died, he had a seat cushion in his Jeep. I just put it on top of my cheap foam one. I tried a folding cloth stadium chair, but it sat too high in the kayak. It was tippy. 

 

But I just bought a Pescador Pro 10 with the 2-position stadium seat. Can't wait to give it a shakedown cruise.