I love fishin from my kayak.I bought a 9'6 Pelican kayak last year, planning to fish out of it more on the lakes and ponds in N.Y. than my Radission canoe. But I come to find out that I use it more to navigate miles of small untouched streams to catch piles of native Brook Trout. You can take them anywhere, there very light, and hard to flip by accident.