hey guys wanted to give you a walkthrough of the NRS Roku in case you're in the market for a high
quality PFD now I chose this particular PFD for a couple of reasons one I think it is the best
inherently buoyant uh kayak fishing vest out there especially if you power your Yak through a pedal
powered system now if you're looking for kayak fishing pfds for a while you've likely come across
the NRS Chinook now the Chinook and the Raku are only different in really one way because on the
front they look exactly the same all the features are the same the only difference is where they put
that flotation on the back on the Chinook there's going to be this high back floats that's really
going to put a lot of that foam back there and on the bottom it's going to be mesh but on the
rocku what they do is they take all that foam that would typically put up top here and they
spread it out all the way along the back leaving ventilation ports as well so the reason I like
this so much as you can see up here I own a bona fide p127 over here a native Slayer Propel 10 and
essentially these are both pedal powered kayaks so when whenever you're sitting in your seat you're
essentially sitting at a recumbent position and what happens a lot of the times if you have that
high back float it's going to be pushing up against your neck because you're sitting back
that is pushing at the top of your seat because it doesn't quite clear the top of your back and that
kind of pushes up and it's really super annoying and so that's why I went with the rocket let me
walk you through some of the other features as well so the Roku comes in two different colors
comes in a charcoal gray which you see on me and also if you want a louder presentation comes in
Orange more of a burnt orange so the Raku comes in three sizes you got your extra small slash
medium rated for users weighing in between 88 and 132 pounds leaving you with the large
extra large size and the extra extra large size rated for users weighing over 90 pounds the shell
made of rip stop nylon high quality stuff but it also matches the price tag on this guy it
has a five panel design to help it conform more to your body structure and the weight comes in at 2.1
pounds all right now let's get into the fun stuff all the pockets all of the tethers everything on
here that relates to kayak fishing so you don't have to keep turning around and grabbing it out
of your kayak crate all right so look inside here we got two large zipper pockets on the front I got
some accessory pockets on the outside which have a little bungee here stick your hooks on this little
guy right here is a little tether so depending what you had in here depending if you want to
tether something there I'll show you how I use that in a second but when you open this inside
got some straps up here in case there's something you want to throw in there
um two more accessory Pockets with a mesh zipper pocket on the inside you can also a little tether
hook got some drain holes on the bottom which is good in case you go in the water all right
the right side looks exactly as the same on the inside however on the outside here it's
really nice got yourself a really handy a pair of plier holders or a tool holder multi-tool holder
and as you can see here although the tether down here which I in case I dropped this from
River fishing or whatnot I'm not gonna lose it I'm surprised the zippers aren't welded but I
know that over time the welding has a tendency to come loose so definitely high quality here
next you have a sheath holder it doesn't come with the NRS co-pilot but I love the co-pilot
so it was actually designed for it this isn't going anywhere so these are extremely nice as
a safety knife kind of easily Clips back in moving up a little bit further you've got some reflective
accents on the front and also back here up over your shoulder all right next you might
wonder what this guy is you might have seen this little tab at the bottom but essentially this is
marked as a rod holder so if you take your Rod you take the butt in stick it through the loop
I want to sit at the top here
and velcro it over keep it nice and tight say if you're like walking the river or having a couple
of bags and need an extra hand you can put your ride right here now my opinion is a lot of things
you could have marketed this as a rod holder is probably the least valuable in my opinion
uh however I mean maybe a sunglass holder maybe a walkie-talkie which is what I use I'll show
you in a second one design that I do like instead of these that's kind of flapping everywhere they
made little holders down here can I tuck them in making this nice and tight and then I take
my radio and just shove that in right on the top and I'm good to go now this particular PFD has a
performance level of 70 might be like what does that mean well U.S Coast Guard is the maritime
law enforcement agency that basically approves or doesn't approves pfds based off their buoyancy and
their use now the old approval system you might be familiar with types one two three four and
five back in 2014 they changed that however and now they use performance levels and they
put numbers to them you get 50 70 100 and 150 50 designed for smooth Waters kayaking kayak fishing
not for weak swimmers then you get performance level 70 like this looks similar to your old
type threes and not designed to keep the wear safe for long and uncomm Waters they have performance
level 100 these are similar to your old type ones these are more for Open Water light waves
and then you got your performance level 150s these are going to be your offshore deep water jackets
now in my research I read about 30 to 49 five-star reviews to see if there's anything out there that
that would be a huge Con on the NRS Roku and to be honest with you all of the non-5 star ratings were
simply personal preferences oh it's too bulky it's too this it didn't arrive on time had nothing to
do with the design itself in my opinion they don't make them better to this so if you're
interested in a only cry once what I mean by that you only have to buy it once and you're going to
have it for a very long time PFD then I'll throw the link in the description below so if you're
looking for a PFD and you haven't quite landed on one maybe you're interested in Inflatables well
I did a video called The Ultimate Guide the kayak fishing pfds you can check that out [Music] thanks