Pro Angler rigged for tournament fishing

Author: josh

Category: Videos

Created on Monday, 12 April 2010 17:41

Written by Josh

Who better to show you around the Pro Angler fishing kayak than veteran Victorian Hobie dealer Scott Lovig, who not only knows the boat very well by virtue of being a hands-on kayak dealer, but also as someone who uses it in tournaments regularly and even as someone who had some input into the drawing board when Hobie were thinking this boat up. Oh... and not only does he use it in tournaments, we're talking ding-ding-ding-the-king here, and by that, I mean reigning ABT/Hobie kayak series champion. In short, he knows his stuff.

I'm impressed with how the tourney vets are rigging these kayaks up into fishing platforms from the future. Some really neat ideas here that are ideally suited to kayak fishing in protected waters, estuaries, rivers and lakes. I was also rather impressed by the purpose-built trailer Scotty has collaborated on. These kayaks are heavy weight (all those features come at a cost) and as I speculated on in my Hobie kayak buyers guide, a trailer is a highly desirable addition to a Pro Angler.

Oh... and as for the moniker 'anal probe' - that made me laugh out loud. A bit more daring than the 'Balls of Steel' title I gave it when writing about it here.