NATIVE FALCON 11 FIRST IMPRESSIONS VS THE FEEL FREE MOKIN 10 FISHING KAYAK

welcome back friends today we're here at the goat ranch with my newest acquisition this is my native falcon 11 fishing kayak this is going to take the place of my vibe seacoast 130 which is a 13 footer and this one is an 11 and the reason we're switching is man we just got back from north carolina here a few weeks ago and did a little kayak fishing while we were up there and i got to tell you i told the wife that might be our last trip on the oc ghost that thing is just getting a little too big and a little too heavy for me to lift up and down off that rack drag down to the water so when we got back i started looking at you know facebook marketplace and craigslist and stuff and i discovered two things there's not many kayaks out there and the ones that are are really expensive so with this covid anything outdoors related bicycles rvs campers boats anything like that they're scarce and they're expensive plus everything out there was like you know bonafides and old towns and hobies all these these uh pedal propulsion kayaks you know 2,500 3,500 i don't want any of that i wanted something smaller and lighter and more stable that's what i was looking for now i really like my seaghost but there were a few things i didn't like about it number one it was heavy so when we got it back home and i got it unloaded i weighed it with nothing but the seat it weighs 91 pounds so i don't care what the spec sheet says it weighs 91 pounds when we got this one in put it right on the scale it weighs 71 pounds with the seat so right away one thing down that i want to accomplish a lighter boat number two accomplish that right away it's a shorter boat by about two feet this is an 11 footer so it's going to be a little easier for me i can even throw it on top of the old subaru out back here if i want to i don't need to take the truck which is really great the other thing is i wanted something that was a little more stable and when i went over to mariner sales here in dallas they're a big kayak canoe and paddleboard company and he told me you're really going to like this it's going to be much more stable you're going to be able to stand and cast out of this and let me tell you uh you had to be pretty good balance wise if you're going to do that in the oc ghost so the hull design is completely different here's what it looks like and if you look down there in the middle yep that's a space for a transducer for you guys that want a fish finder just to let you know talk about that in a minute the other thing that really sold me on this boat we already talked about the weight and the length but the inside width here across here believe it or not as big as my sea ghost is it is only 19 and a half inches wide there this thing 23 and a quarter so came to almost four inches right here so it's going to be easier to stand up and get a good nice wide stance for stand-up casting that'll be great you can see here it comes with some some padding here in the floorboard kind of an anti-skid so it's going to be quiet and you're not going to skid around the other thing i noticed by just eyeballing it i told duke i said man that seat sure looks like it sits up higher than mine and sure enough it does it sits up about an inch and a half higher than mine now if i was a flat belly and had six you know six pack abs and all that probably wouldn't be a question but i don't so it's going to be a and stand up and make cast but just in case i went ahead and added my lanyard here this is my stand-up assist lanyard from the oc ghost we put her in here too so we're accomplishing everything right away what i wanted to do it's going to be more stable it's going to be lighter it's going to be shorter the other kayak i was looking at as well and fortunately they carry them too and that was the feel free mokin 10 so i was able to set these side by side on the showroom floor sit in them compare them and see what i liked and some of the things i'm going to point out the differences right away it does have ample amount of tracking on the mokin except you're going to notice it's completely different than this they're using their own proprietary tracking if you're going to use any kind of mounts like this rail blazing over here scotties or whatever you're going to need some adapter plates to make it fit in that the native here just has your standard track and it works with just about everything you're going to see your handles here are molded in here whereas on the feel free it has large molded in handles at the front both sides in the rear and that's probably one of the things that accounts for being a heavier boat this one weighs 71 pounds and i don't care once again but the feel free says even on the spec sheets it shows to be heavier boat than this one so that's something else you want to pay attention to the other comparison that you're going to look at is they both have these center consoles which are great this one's held on by bungee cords uh theirs is a latch but this one already has some integrated track here and what's good about this is we talked about that big old square in hole you saw a minute ago there you go your transducer wires go right through there you can run your electric through the front and your battery can go in this front compartment so for you guys that are running fish finders that's a plus right away the other thing here is this front hatch the feel free does not have a compartment up here it just has a well and it has some bungee cord running across there this one you actually get a hatch you get some bungee here for your paddle a couple nice little rubberized hatch or uh latches it comes up like this and you actually have an apartment and as you can see i've got my one or two piece paddle and this is my longest rod it's a seven foot uh loo and so can you put stuff in there uh sort of but you got to hold your tongue just right it's going to depend on what kind of equipment you have and i was able to fit mine in there i had to put it in there a couple different ways from a couple different angles but yes you can put stuff in there is it going to have as much room as my sea ghost no it's much bigger boat but it's going to carry everything i'm going to have in here which is usually paddle rods pfd my safety flag and that's what stays in here all the time now in order to do that let's talk about this hatch here real quick while we have the lid up it does have a seal in it i'm going to say it's water resistant not waterproof now here's what's cool about this and they knew this was going to be a problem so they have this little hinge here and all you have to do first you have to lift it up a little bit and it just comes right off so you can get a straight shot down at whatever you're wanting to put in there so i thought that was just a hell of an idea that they did with that let me see if i can one hand that and i can't there we are so that was one of the big selling points on this over the feel free so come around talk about some other stuff the feel free does have your foot rest and they're made out of plastic just like these are heavy duty might be phenolic or something like that but they do have some levers so you can actually change them from uh from your seat if you want to whereas these you're going to have to manually operate those and that's no big deal like i was saying the seat sits up higher than my ghost which is going to be great also gives you plenty of room under here to store things uh over here you can put some 3600 series tackle boxes in here you're probably gonna have to add some bungee cord in here just to hold them in place customize that the way you want i did that on my sea ghost and you can like i say add any kind of camera mounts you can see here we've got railblazing here i've got this one that still has to be mounted used to live here but we may put it up here so you people can see my fat little face when i'm paddling or maybe when i tip over so not sure yet but there's plenty of room to add more track back here if you want you have two built-in rod holders they are completely sealed so they will hold water uh the ones my seaghost had little flapper lips on here or covers but they were always open anyway so they're pain in the ass this works out pretty good now this is one of the things i was wondering about is all my stuff that i'd already spent a lot of time rigging on my seaghost is going to fit in here well as you can see the answer is yes now this compartment this well is not as big not as long and square as a seaghost but that's okay it comes with some bungee cross bungee in here i just simply undid the knot took the bungee out threw my crate in here and used the existing hardware easy peasy everything fit in here carry my little cooler just like this and this is my probably close to 20 year old kayak crate don't ask or kayak dolly don't ask me where i got it because i can't remember but it has been great speaking of a dolly transporting down to the water it also comes with this not sure if that's stainless or just plated nice little wheel but as you can see it's not flat and it's hard mounts right here so you can grab the handle from the front and theoretically you can tow that thing right down to the water problem is when you do that or at least in my experience it always wants to tilt one way or the other and you're fighting it all the way the water not so much with my little kayak dolly that i just hold in place with a couple tarp bungees in and out on and off pretty easy so i told them not to mount that in there but you still had this mounting area here to the back where you might want to put a drop skeg on there you might want to put a rudder system my seaghost had a rudder system to tell you the truth i only used it when it was super windy and i was in big water but where i've been going lately not gonna need it i didn't use a rudder at all on the lakes in north carolina it worked out just fine but people also add a plate back here they mount electric motors anchor poles whatever you've also got your drain plug here so it's got all the basic features that you're most kayaks you can see i've already put my anchor trolley in here which is just something you gotta have where i fish but other than that got some mounts here for camera already ready to go got the seat adjusted the way i want and we are ready for our maiden voyage and that video will be coming but i just wanted to give you a quick walk around and i wanted to give you some comparisons between the feel free kayak and the one that's in this particular market as well and why i chose this one for a little more money about 125 bucks over the feel free so if you got any comments or questions just let me know put those down below if you like our little goofy videos don't forget to give us one of those and subscribe and share with your friends so until next time you guys be safe and we hope to see you out on the water adios