We got my wife a hobie revolution 16. When she wants to paddle she uses a wilderness tarpon 160, that also doubles as my boat for gravel shore line or rough landing long paddle days. Last night I just picked up a wilderness atak 140. This is my catfishing boat. So much easier to throw castnet from. It's gonna be a great year of fishing!!!

Sounds like you're all "yaked" up, so wish you and your wife the best of luck this season....

Kinda. The new addition makes 8 kayaks.

Enjoy the year. Stay safe out there!

Always liked that kayak... WS makes some of the best! Did you get the 12 or 14?

The 14. I've never been a big fan of the short kayak fad. Originally I really wanted a nucanoe pursuit but this came up for sale at a price I liked and this will do nicely. All flat cockpit and my first ever lawn chair type seat!

glad to see you still have some pride... the 14 is the only way I would go too! especially in a lawn chair

I've always liked the WS ATAK kayaks but settled for a used Jackson Cuda a few yrs ago. I could not pass on a good deal. Have you fished out of yet...how do you like it?

So, we went fishing sat morning at ray roberts. First trip out in the atak 140. I was easily able to stand, throw my super heavy castnet and paddle around never feeling like I would fall out. I love the flat cockpit floor. One thing I will say about it was, it sure doesn't paddle as well as any of my other kayaks. I didn't really expect it to paddle as fast but it was really a big difference. That said all of my other boats are skinny long fast paddle kayaks. Over all for lake trips and some camping trips, it will do very well. I am just going to have to get used to the fact I'm not crusing at 4.5-5mph. It's hard to not love the fast kayaks once you have grown accustomed to them. The lawn chair seat is nice. I haven't had one before. The space inside,,,,it was so much I was loosing all my stuff. I'm going to have some figuring out to do for places to put things etc. Over all I really like the boat although if I had to only have 1 kayak this wouldn't be the one I'd pick. It will be specific to 1 type of fishing for me.

i never realized 5 MPH ( however many knots that is)
was the speed we paddle
nice

how fast will the stable platform go?

cheers

I cant definitely say. I bet at most was 3 mph. I will just have to get used to the fact every kayak doesnt.paddle like my reload, tarpon or fisha 500.