{"id":19873,"date":"2018-12-14T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2018-12-14T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?p=19873"},"modified":"2019-10-21T17:07:01","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T21:07:01","slug":"big-lake-small-boat-big-fish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/14\/big-lake-small-boat-big-fish\/","title":{"rendered":"Big lake, small boat, big fish"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">By Pyt Rotary<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Ontario, Canada<\/strong><br \/><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I own a Wavewalk S4&nbsp; kayak motorized with an electric Minnkota of 80Lb thrust 24V, and a Yamaha 2.5Hp 4 stroke&nbsp;gas outboard. I fish and have fun with it almost every week.<br \/>I use it mostly for fishing and trolling in big lakes &#8211; lake Ontario, lake Erie, Georgian Bay and lake Simcoe.<br \/>Sometimes I fish with it in rivers and swamps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"614\" src=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/big-fish-caught-from-a-motor-kayak-in-a-big-lake-1280-2-1024x614.jpg\" alt=\"big fish caught from a motor kayak in a big lake in Canada\" class=\"wp-image-19874\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/big-fish-caught-from-a-motor-kayak-in-a-big-lake-1280-2-1024x614.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/big-fish-caught-from-a-motor-kayak-in-a-big-lake-1280-2-200x120.jpg 200w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/big-fish-caught-from-a-motor-kayak-in-a-big-lake-1280-2-640x384.jpg 640w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/big-fish-caught-from-a-motor-kayak-in-a-big-lake-1280-2-768x461.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/big-fish-caught-from-a-motor-kayak-in-a-big-lake-1280-2-1170x702.jpg 1170w, https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/big-fish-caught-from-a-motor-kayak-in-a-big-lake-1280-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>This year for me was the best fishing year in my entire life, and that is because I own the S4 coupled with the gas motor. I had a Honda 2.3Hp, nice and light but too weak and not great for trolling on big lakes because it has a centrifugal clutch. I sold that and I got a Honda 4Hp 4 stroke, great motor but too heavy (30+kg). Sold that one and got a Yamaha 2.5Hp \/ 4 stroke, great motor, has Drive and Neutral but some time I need more power. Next motor I will buy will be a Tohatsu 3.5Hp. This one should be the best option for me:<br \/>1) weight under 20kg<br \/>2) best trolling speed in idle mode on drive<br \/>3) give me more torque when I need to go 10 miles inside Ontario\/Erie lake.<br \/><br \/>2018 was the year when I got my best fishing experience, lots of fish caught (salmon, walleye, pike, trout). I do fish mostly by trolling andjigging. I never got so many fish, and that is because now I can access and cover a lot more water fast and cheap.<br \/><br \/>Next year I will buy the new Tohatsu and I will experiment with a Scotty downrigger. The downrigger will even put more fish in my boat than ever.<br \/><br \/>Due the nature of S4 I can launch whenever I want.<br \/>Really funny to see boats in the morning in queue waiting in line and me just bypassing going on sandy beach&nbsp; and launching. Also I have numerous places where I have access but no boats can go.<br \/>I do car port my S4 in a Dodge Caravan 2004 (the short version) by sliding the S4 inside my mini-van.<br \/><br \/>Tight lines and have a great fishing year in 2019.<br \/>All the best from Canada, Ontario.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/?s=pyt+rotary&amp;searchsubmit=U\">More fishing with Pyt<\/a> <br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year for me was the best fishing year in my entire life, and that is because I own the S4 coupled with the gas motor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":19875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-category"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19873"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21294,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19873\/revisions\/21294"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19875"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wavewalk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}