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Topic: New Revo 16....Rigging Questions  (Read 1654 times)

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C.Salp

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After saving $$ for quite a while, I recently picked up a new Revo 16 (likely one of the very last 2020 models available), and I am looking to get it set up/laid out.
Rigging questions for Hobie Revolution owners, particularly re: salmon trolling rodholder mounts/configurations:
 
What has worked well for folks in mounting a fore trolling rodholder?  (photo attached of my existing trolling rodholder).
FWIW, in my existing/previous boat (an older OK Trident 15), a Scotty 444 round base mounted just past the end of the foot well has served me well, but I am reluctant to put that big a hole in the deck of my new Revo.

I would look forward to hearing insights (and seeing pictures) of trolling rod arrangements -- AND rigging/deck layouts generally -- that are working well for Revo owners.  (I have poked around in the archives here and found a couple of somewhat useful threads from a few years back, but thought it would be worthwhile to ask about this again...
 
Also, which length/types of tracks (yak attack/other) are recommended?
 
Many thanks,
Chris


bogueYaker

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Congrats on the Revo 16 -- fishiest boat that Hobie ever made as far as I can tell.

Attached is a pic of my trolling setup. The rod holder is attached to a Yakattack Geartrac. If you go this route, absolutely spend the money for a backing plate. I bought this boat used w/ the geartrac already installed. Had I installed it, I would have installed a smaller (8"?) one, and mounted it a bit closer to the seat.

As far as deck layout... Not a ton of space available, but I don't think it's necessary. I throw flashers into a bag (brown bag pictured at bottom) and throw the bag into the back depression... Also throw tied leaders back there. I've thought of using the space beneath my seat for storing flashers & tied leaders, would be easy to engineer a retrieval system.

If you're looking to outfit w/ a downrigger, there are a couple great pages on here for how to do that on a Revo.


YakHunter

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Nice base you created for your Canon downrigger bogueYaker.  It can be challenging setting them up in our yaks.
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bogueYaker

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Nice base you created for your Canon downrigger bogueYaker.  It can be challenging setting them up in our yaks.

All credit for that goes to pmmpete (NWKA, NCKA), g-force (NWKA), and god knows who else:

https://www.northwestkayakanglers.com/index.php?topic=12575.msg138905#msg138905

I went w/ g-force's implementation because it seemed easier. lol.


 

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