anybody have any experience with crosswinds in the bonafide? it looks like it has a bit of a high profile

Skipper pupper has taken up his position and we are ready to go lol!

Nice crew

Mofishin1990 will have a personal answer soon, but one of the things that the boat has to offer is the low profile side height. It was designed not to have the huge sail area of other kayaks. Remember that Chad Hoover was involved with this design and he was also involved with the designs of the ATAK series by Wilderness and they also boasted low profile, less wind effect designs. The guys that fish other kayaks with high profile sides have to constantly battle the wind.

Mofishin1990, is that a long haired Yorkie? Looks ready to hit the seas. The young one is also ready to go. My oldest was on the water with the wife and I in a Coleman Scanoe at 6 days old. Have the little one grow up on the water and enjoy every minute of it. They grown up quick.

The winds should be managable late this afternoon!

Even the low seat is pretty high on the Bonafide. On every kayak with high/low seat position options I have sat in, it makes a demonstrable difference in the "balance" feel, this even for a super stable Big Rig. My previous Cuda LT was stable in the low position, felt toppy just a few inches higher in the high position.

So true about the low side profile of Wilderness and now Bonafide kayaks. Chad Hoover is a big guy and his tankwells always look about 1" from taking on water to me. Hoover is almost always seen in videos fishing back in coves it seems, not out in more active water, say middle of lakes. The low profile definitely has its merits in certain circumstances.

Speaking generally about circumstances, Aliex on YouTube went out with a friend and tried to launch a Bonafide into a fairly heavy surf and they gave it two tries with no luck. On the first shot at getting out beyond the breakers, the kayak flipped and it tore the seat loose on one side from the hull. The second try broke the seat loose altogether, both sides. He mentioned that the vessel doesn't "cut through" the waves as needed to get out on rougher days. So, where the Bonafide would excel would be fishing flats, not so much taking it out through rough waves. The kayaks that do that best would not be as well-suited to flats fishing either.

Brad

He is a yorkie! Named him Ajax. Have an appointment this morning to get him a hair cut, so he won't be long haired for very much longer! When I finally get out there to fishing I'll be able to let yall know how it handles the wind. Also how it handles in general. I don't have any sort of anchoring on it yet so we will see if I end up getting pushed around a little bit.

Whelp. No fishing today. Has those darn responsibilities creep up on me! Maybe next weekend I'll get lucky.

it was waaayyyy to windy anyhow!

That's what I figured. While I was out in Sherman running errands it was dang near blowing me over at points.

Ajax and the rest of the family look very good on that boat. I know that everyone dreams of the powerpole Micro on these rigs, but have you seen the new low profile anchor wizard? They are about a hundred bucks.

In current, I'm running a system like this:
Anchoring in current

Currently thinking about incorporating an anchor trolley and an anchor wizard - something like this: Anchor Wizard with Anchor trolley

Anchoring is an interesting topic. Note: just don't mount it in the middle of the boat. Very bad if the wind comes up, you could take a swim whether you want to or not.

Thanks! I think Ajax might not be as ok as he is in the pic on the water lol. The little one on the other hand, I'm praying that she will grow up enjoying to fish. We will see.

I would love to get a micro power pole but they might be just a tad too expensive for me to justify to the wife getting one, and to myself frankly. I was going to get a low pro anchor wizard but am holding off right now just to make sure it something that I really want on there. Both those anchoring setups look like they would be really handy. The anchor wizard and trolley was what I was going to go with when I was thinking about getting one. I saw another method of taking a 8" piece of Yackattack gear track, the heavy duty one with two rows of screws, and mounting it to the rear of the boat on one of the flat areas for the chute to mount to. Then taking the wizard and mounting it to the track just behind the seat. That way I could just reach behind me and drop the anchor right off the back of the boat.

How do you like the kayak?

I've only been on it once for about 30 minutes because the wind was crazy when I took it out. But I really like it. It was my first time on a kayak but, I never felt like I was going to tip over, it felt really stable. The wind was pushing me around everywhere so I never stood up in it but I'm thinking there won't be any problems when i do. It paddled really well. The whole time I was paddling into the wind but it still felt really easy to paddle.

Mofishin1990/All,

Check out the video on kayak fishing on Naconiche up in the "video" section here on TFF.

Three anglers and the man with the camera shooting the coverage of them that day is fishing out of a Bonafide.

Pretty cool video, great lake, nice kayaks they are all using, three different makes.

Brad