hey guys welcome back to wendell fishing darren here and i got good news for you i do not work for
native i am not an affiliate of native and that way you know you're gonna get an unbiased review
of the native slayer propel 10 behind me the good the bad and the ugly hey this channel is for all
things fishing i especially love kayak fishing and you'll see i have a ton of videos you can check
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and i will keep them coming all right let's hop into this kayak all right let's start with a
good i stand in this thing all of the time and for reference i weigh about buck 80 and i'm about 511.
the reason it's extremely stable is because it has a flat pontoon style hull and handles like a boss
i haven't fallen once or i don't even believe i've even like been close to falling next we've got the
scupper holes and plugs uh nice things things are out here in case you get a lot of splash and you
can drain the water out however if you take those plugs out i find that you get more water in your
yak there's eight of these scupper holes i also think they help with the structure of the kayak
so it goes all the way through the kayak comes out the other side and it helps keep big giant plastic
mold together also got some nice gear tracks all around this yak got some two in the front
i use this front one for my camera i run a boom sometimes it goes way out here and it holds it
just fine i mean i i'm dangling a 250 camera out over the water and so i trust these i got
two long ones on the side a couple more down here these are actually for the seat the slide back and
forth depending on your height but man i got my transducer arm on them i created a mod for my fish
finder i usually have the fish under here and run the cables to the hatch here i have two pro mega
yak attack rod holders and this is super solid i've never had anything bend i mean these things
are these things are awesome i also got some good tracks back here these things hold a ton of weight
because as you can see i have my landing gear back here and i attached them to the ear track
and essentially the entire weight of the kayak is on these gear tracks and it doesn't rip out
so they must be reinforced really well down in the hole so it must be a great design
so great job native and of course i attached with some shock cords and a kayak crate with
rod holders if you don't have one of these you want one of these i created a video i'll throw
up in the cards you can make one yourself i think i made mine for under 35 next we have
the propel drive this is the best thing about the entire kayak um solid design built tough i've had
no problems except for this this allen bolt coming out a little bit while i was kayaking but i always
keep tools i keep a tool for every single thing i have on the boat and so all i had to do is tighten
it back up and i guess you could put some loctite in there if you wanted to but man not an issue at
all i love fishing with propel drive i didn't like the pedals that it came stocked with i bought a 20
25 pair of mountain bike pedals that i put on and they came with plastic ones so that was
kind of a bummer considering how much you pay for these things they're pretty expensive so
i think if you buy one of these motors i think i saw them running 800 bucks it didn't come with
a weed guard also so i found one that was 3d printed uh i believe now they the newer models
do come with weed guards and i heard reviews that they are pretty good the only con on this propel
drive is that they're pretty difficult to work on if you need to they require a spanner wrench which
can run you a pretty penny there's some hacks out there but my advice to you don't open this
thing up if you don't have to there should be a little play before in the forward and reverse
i don't know if you can hear that uh just a little bit of play my dad's a machinist i was kind of
worried when i first got it i was like there's a lot of play right here forward in reverse and
he's like oh don't worry about that there needs to be a little bit of play out of her lock up
so he's been a machinist for 20 years so i'm gonna i'm gonna trust in him all right now the seat the
seat's comfortable um constantly up and down in this yak i literally fall back into the seat
and it's been holding up fairly well you can easily set the recline on this with the straps
on the side i wanted the seat actually be a little higher you can actually tell
i have some seat risers i wanted the seat risers one because i wanted to be a little higher up in
the kayak but two i wanted to fit some storage underneath and these things are incredible
if you pull these out just easy so you don't have to turn around and get into your kayak
crate it's easy storage and you can't do that if this is really far down here and really low if
you're interested in this i'll put a link in the description below all right we got the hatch some
good space in here over not very easy to access if you're out in the water but this is where i keep
my batteries i run all my light wires to here and here's also where i hook up my tether rope i mean
uh where else do you gonna put a hatch they're never really accessible so i can't complain too
much i'm not a huge fan of the design of just kind of this you kept push over push this over the edge
there and kind of snaps on sometimes it's really difficult and i run a ton of wires so it's a
better design it has some type of waterproof place where the wires can go in i've seen better designs
for hatch covers but nonetheless uh it does keep it nice and water tight so i can't complain
too much i mean it's a hatch all right next you have the center console this thing's really nice
uh it's held down with some shock cord which you can throw around these little hooks here
i love this because it fits my yeti cooler i have a bunch of coffee in there every morning
and then you can take this off really quick pull up your motor and what you'll be doing often if
you're anything like me because i'm constantly pulling this off pulling up my motor and getting
all of the lily pads the milfoil the coontail out of my motor and putting it down i can do that with
a matter of seconds so pretty nice solid you know having a little bit of space just to throw some
hooks being able to throw your lures when you're changing them out instead of constantly having to
put them back it's really easy place to do that so good design here so far it's been fairly good uh
however now we're getting to the ugly the steering system oh man i'm not a fan of the steering system
i'm not sure who is first it came with stock metal cables which if you follow any of the pages for
native uh a tendency to always snap uh in just a matter of time so this is why i upgraded to the
berkeley pro steering it replaces the metal cables with dyneema cord and it works but i'm still not
a fan because the steering is just man this is look at the play on that it's just pretty sloppy
there's there's way too much play in the handle and all the moving parts are plastic i mean i
follow native pages and i can't tell you how many photos of broken handles i see most end up
upgrading their steering and rudders to using rudders to boondocks also the stock rudder is
not long enough in my opinion it takes too long to turn
and my opinion needs an extension which is what i did here let's talk about the body of the kayak
i've been in a variety of kayaks and the cheap ones are just that thin and cheap so you get what
you pay for here uh it's a nice solid kayak haul reinforced with all the right places
in the front along the gear tracks i had my side kick on the far back like i mentioned earlier
it's unusual to have it on the back here usually people will place it a little bit further
right next to it but i i just like how my kayak crate fits in there so i have it back
toward the back which does create a lot more weight on this but it's been holding up just
fine so body not too bad it comes with the nice solid handles right here and i like the foam grip
makes it doesn't hurt as much and you got a couple more on the side i use the other side it actually
fits nicely on my fish grips and i just simply attach it here and this is where i leave it
so it doesn't move so it's a perfect kind of width to hold on to that fish grip to kind of
keep it out of my way so great handles great solid design and these things are heavy duty
all right the rest of what you saw and maybe in the video that i didn't talk about i have another
video for uh talks about all the modifications that i did for the kayak so i'll throw those up
in the cards you can check that out if you want to all right so what grade do i give
this kayak well you know what i it could be an a however the rudder and steering system
um kind of a bummer and since that's a pretty important part of fishing kayaks i give this
kayak a b my word of advice as a consumer is if native could fix the steering and rudder system
on this kayak it would be an incredible kayak it wouldn't take much dyneema cord instead of metal
cables a metal steering handle instead of the the plastic and then an extended rudder maybe even a
metal rudder and man you got yourself a fantastic fishing kayak yes you can upgrade all the things
i just got done talking about cord however it's expensive and it's annoying on principle
considering that you just got done spending a lot of money on the kayak stuff should come stock in
my opinion and so that's why i give this kayak a score of a b hey i hope this helped you out if
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