Jonny Boats Bass 100: First Look

morning y'all dan from the headwaters kayak shop and I'm back in Lodi store today and behind me I have the new Johnnie boats bass 100 we just got these in yesterday and I wanted to give you guys a quick walk through it seems like the new solo skiff one-man boat is becoming a thing so I wanted to introduce you to Johnny show you the features and just talk a little bit about what's happening in the industry so here it is a little bass 100 and they call this the Johnny with the idea being it's a kayak and a John boat sort of making a baby you know a lot of people nowadays are getting into kayaks because of the portability the small size the ease of standing you know the ease of using them off the water but a lot of guys are also still putting trolling motors on them and that's where the Johnny boat or the new pelican that just came out kind of come in where they're not quite kayaks are not quite skiffs they're just there this new thing this little guy right here is 10 foot long almost 36 inches wide and has a 400 pound capacity so pretty huge capacity for a 10 foot boat as you can see it's almost like a rectangle carries its width all the way from the front all the way to the back and it's not a kayak hole design you guys it is a planing hole which means it's designed to have a motor on the back it's designed to plane out or flatten out it's not gonna squat in the stern like you a kayak would if you were to put a motor on it I think the biggest surprise about this thing is the cost it comes in at $8.99 and you know if you're looking at other things in the market in the same range there's not a whole lot in that space I know a lot of people that have taken the big fish 105 and use the center pod with the trolling motor and then put the rudder on the bat so they you know have the motor here for propulsion and then the foot controls for steering in the back and you know that's a pretty good option they actually have a trolling motor kit a little pod that you could drop right in this little guy right here so for 479 so for less than 1,500 bucks you can have the motor-pod up in the front you can have your foot control for steering and you know you can have a nice stand up stable craft but that is kind of the cool thing about the johnny is they give you ton of rigging options a ton of versatility you have this pod here which opens up and it's actually inside all right so you could use that as battery storage you could use that as a fishfinder sonar pod on Eclipse there rotates up or you can use it as a motor pod you could also like we do here we have the torque Ito travel motor in the back and you can use up to a two and a half horsepower motor off the stern of this thing so just a ton of different options you could have this as your sonar that is your motor you could have as your motor that is your steering or you could do both in theory I mean if you wanted to if you wanted to do the trolling motor up here and then as you're going spot to spot that thing can just rest up there out of the water and then you could use your trolling motor when you get to your spot to to move around they also do a second Jonnie pod console that actually has a steering so your motor goes inside here but then you have what we call the eight ball shifter which is same as what they use on a Toronto for steering and underneath your motor will pivot and spin so I'll be getting all those accessories in you guys I got the boats just yesterday the accessories we're still a week or two out but I wanted to just introduce you to the boat show you what it looks like show you what you're getting for that $8.99 price point and then just talk about this new space what do you guys think me as a paddler it's uh you know kind of hard I honestly think that this is going to take people away from kayaking it's going to put you know the sound of motors out on the water but I also know that there's a lot of people that are coming from the boat world or wanting something more like a powerboat that this is gonna suit really really well so what do you guys think I'd love to hear your thoughts leave them down in the comments section below and the rudders they'll have a few different kits you'll see these little inserts here so they have a kits that allow you to steer the motor from up here that allow you to you know there's something that goes over here to make you go forward reverse and neutral anyway all those tips are available online you guys if you want more information go check out Johnny boats con you can see all their different accessories or rudder kits tracking fins trim tabs the wheels the wheels are kind of a cool thing they actually plug right here into this little groove in the bottom and then you just strap through the handle seems to work really well again I'm gonna go take this thing on the water and try it out I don't have all the accessories yet but I do have my travel torpedo 10:03 motor use on my blue sky I'm gonna throw it on the back of this thing and take it for cruise and of course as always I'll bring you guys along and give you guys my thoughts if you have any more questions or want more information about the Johnny boats leave those in the comments section I'll try to monitor this and get back to you as soon as I can thank you guys so much for watching and until next time this is Dan wishing you happy motoring

Channel: Headwaters Kayak

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Keywords: headwaters, kayak, feelfree, native titan, jonny bass 100, jonny boat, john boat, coleman crawdad, bass tracker, bass buggie, bass boat, one man bass boat, kayak bass fishing, solo skiff, one man skiff, bass 100, hobie outback, hobie proangler, kayak tournements, 3 waters big fish 105

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Length: 4min 53sec (293 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 19 2019