How to Choose a Fishing Kayak | Compare Crescent Kayaks with Old Town, Bonefide, Native ...

When comparing fishing kayak brands like Bonefide, Crescent, Old Town, NuCanoe and others, don’t forget the critical importance of glide efficiency, handling on and off the water, interior “clutter”, and ergonomics.

When choosing the brand and model for your investment, work backwards from the kind of experience you want to have, given the constraints you are working with. Do you want more ease and balance of design or more complexity and more stability than any other hull characteristic?

A kayak worth it’s weight in gold, so to speak, has high secondary stability and medium initial stability which means the hull doesn’t drag, it slices and turns well, it handles chop or swells well, and is able to be stood up in. Stability, while important, can be accomplished in one of two ways when designing a hull. The high sided chines used to create water displacement and create a “ledge” to prevent a kayak from capsizing as it lists or is forcibly leaned also means the kayak doesn’t have to be as wide as those other more barge like designs common with Bonefide, NuCanoe, Ascend, etc.

That means you don’t have to lean as far to reach around the kayak when paddling or need to buy a 260+ cm paddle (which weighs more) to clear the width. Check out Crescent Kayaks. A great overview can be found here: https://www.northernexplorershop.com/blogs/news/what-makes-crescent-kayaks-so-special

Crescent Kayaks are simply the best paddle-first design out there built with the finest materials too. Plus: lifetime warranty.