BELOPRE What's going on everybody welcome back so it happened. I got the lifetime Tamarack kayak. I got this for two reasons one I wanted to get on more bodies of water so that you guys can see more fishing videos. And two I'm going to start competing in the KBL the kayak bass league. They hold tournaments in Illinois and Wisconsin. There will be four events with a fifth event being the championship. Super fun idea. Now the downside is I'm going to be going up against a lot of guys that spent a small fortune on their kayaks. I did not. I bought this thing at Walmart for under $200. It was like 175. It was a great deal. I couldn't pass it up and I figured hey I can at least get on a bunch of bodies of water. So that means we're going to be taking the $175 kayak up against $2,000 kayaks in tournament. That's going to be difficult. I'm not going to lie. I mean this is not a high end kayak by any means but I want to see if you can compete in a kayak tournament with an inexpensive kayak. So let's go over a few of the features of the Tamarack. It is 120 inches or 10 feet. This is the angler and it is going to be a pretty basic bare bones kayak but I have a lot of videos that I'm going to do with me upgrading this here in the near future. So let's jump into some of the features that it has. First and foremost it does come with a Scotty Mouts rod holder. I'm going to decide if I want to get rid of this or if I want to keep it here but it does come with it. I've watched 100 videos on this thing. This seat is garbage. Everyone says the same thing and it's just a crappy seat. It really really is. It's not going to be a good seat. It's not comfortable. It's just not good. So the first thing we're going to do is get an extra seat and upgrade this. So yes there's going to be a lot of modification videos coming in in your future so please keep an eye out. The actual paddles kind of okay ish does have a very nice back space back here for my kayak crate. And then I've seen a lot of videos where people put things right here so that it's like a little plate but I have a better idea for this. It doesn't lock. There we go. And then you just got that little area down there. You can use it for storage. Some people put sonar on here. I'm not going to put standard sonar on here. I think I have a better and easier idea. Things going to be pretty cool. On the back here there are two one two rod holders. I do think I'm going to use maybe one of these two for the camera and the other one as a normal rod holder. So there's that. That's going to be pretty cool. When I did get this it came with obviously one handle here like a toe handle here in the back and it also had another toe handle here on the front. However, as you can see this piece has broken off. So I have a better idea now that this piece is already broken off. I think what we're going to do is make this a through hole. Kind of drill this out and take this off of here and switch it with the one that's there. That's going to be step one and what we will do put the handle back here through that and then use the through hole that's going to be there and use it for a battery charger for my phone. So when you're doing kayak tournaments you need to have your phone always charged and I feel like it's going to be a situation where I'm going to need more cell phone space, more battery life, lots of it. So I went out and I bought a bunch of those little recharge kits, the little recharge power banks. So I think those are going to be my saving grace if you will because you have to take a bunch of pictures with your phone and I'm also going to use my phone as a GPS for all the amount on the legs. So it's going to run through a lot of battery. But if I have those battery backup chargers I should be able to survive a much longer period of time with my phone. I don't know how many I'm going to truly need so I bought a few and we're going to basically take it and put it underneath inside and we're going to use that as our battery bank for my phone. I don't want to spend a lot of money on this. The whole purpose of this kayak is to not spend a lot of money and be able to compete in kayak tournaments. That's the game plan. I have already gone out and bought all the bits and pieces that I need for the basics. But I'm going to just put it kind of together so you guys can see how my loadout's going to be. And one of the things that we have to do is have a leash for our battery. So I figured that will go right here. There's already a piece to kind of hold it in place. So we will grab this bad boy right here in the handle. It's got a clip. Then this piece of belt is right on it. To the handle. This is something cool that the kayak vastly forces people to have. They do not want people basically getting out there and stranded without this, without their power. So that is actually a part of their regulations for the tournaments. So step one, complete. Step two is the kayak crate. Now I'm going to actually take all of this stuff. But as you can see, it's going to have to go back here. Now how do we get out of that? Well, I think first and foremost, let's set it here. Space we need. I think we're going to want it to be moved back for extra storage. And this is come off. Well, this is locked in here already. So. So now the question becomes, oh, look at that. Now if we go up and over like this, look at that. It's going a bunch of nowhere. So without even knowing, that's going to flip. So we just need to find a way to anchor it in front. But all in all, that's going to look pretty good. Maybe do it like that. Yeah, like that. I don't even need my stuff inside. And I think we just need to find one more anchor point for that. So what I did is I just ran over and got a carabiner. And we're going to take the carabiner and just clip it onto the box. And I'll show you guys this here in just a second. And then use the carabiner to lock that front piece down. So let's take a quick glance at that. So you guys can see it all. So all we did was we strung this over. So it's going to lock this in place. Then we took a carabiner, attached it to right here. And to this, and it's going a whole bunch of nowhere. And then of course we have the paddle and the leash. We'll line up perfectly to right there. And go. And for step one, it's really about it. You don't really need to do anything else to go out and fish. We're ready to go. We have a bunch of storage. We have places to hold our rods. We have safety first. There isn't much left to do here. So this would be the absolute minimum. I am going to attach an anchor trolley. I think an anchor trolley is going to be key. And after that, a couple more minor changes and we're done. So that's easy, easy. Let me squeeze it. Thanks Rob. Appreciate that. Tag line. It's good stuff. So let's just take a look at the final product here, huh? Thank you guys so much for watching. I really do appreciate it. I have a lot more kayak videos coming here in the very near future. Updates changes. I'm going to take you guys out with me when I hit up these tournaments. The first one is going to be on May 6th. That is going to be my first tournament. It's going to be on Lee Cuffeein down in Canaphanil. I guess it's a few hours from here. So fishing videos. Lots of them. I'm going to be mostly doing fishing videos unless there's a fuzzball tournament or some kind of fuzzball event that happens. So thank you guys so much for hanging out. Make sure to like, comment, and subscribe. And if there's any type of things you think I should do to this kayak, I would love to hear them. I really want a lot of stuff of what people have done to make their kayak something special. The goal is to not spend a lot of money. I want to keep the entire kayak build as inexpensive as possible, as modular as possible. So I can make changes to it and knock it locked in. I just think it's the best way of doing a kayak with how often you change it, depending on the body of water or everything. And I want to keep it inexpensive and go up again to some of these huge kayak guys with multi-thousand dollar kayaks. That is going to be a tall order. Thank you guys so much for watching. And as always gentlemen, and ladies, happy fuzzball.