28" wide is fine. You'll be surprised at how stable it is once you get used to it and build confidence.
Take your time on the rigging. Use it for a while and decide what will work best for you. One Scotty mount in front is fine. You get too much gear on there and it becomes a Chinese fire drill in short order when you get a decent fish on.
I used to go out loaded for bear, but soon learned less is more. Two rods and species specific tackle, a couple other goodies and you're good to go.

I have a buddy of mine that speckle trout and puppy drum fishes from a kayak. He loves it and he also wears the fishes @sses out on it!!

Thank god!!! I was hopin you didnt say $1000+. Im askin for 1k for mine but as I mentioned before its loaded. Garmin, livewell and rudder and its a fishin macheen!!!!

Let me know if you need some tips for riggin it. I have a cool way of mounting the transducer......

Ssiredfish does your 160 have a rear tankwell or the closed compartment? How did you mount your transducer? The dsi transducer must be mounted outside the hull. Once I looked at the 160 and got the price I pretty much said I will take it. I was planning to add a livewell but will try a floating bait bucket for now. All I will have for bait is a few dozen shrimp. Once I get into offshore I will rig a larger livewell for pinfish. My main target now is Sheepshead. So two small spinning reels. And a big reel for a flat line. I see my problem being tackle. I like to be ready for anything and I have a duffel bag with five big plano boxes full of pre made leaders, hooks, mono and flouro leader of all sizes, etc. I have been looking at tackle bags with the slide out plano boxes. It seems like a good way to limit and organize tackle. But on a yak I doubt I will need 130 lb leader. :haha: Is a Penn Torque overkill for a yak? Its the reel I use on the boat all the time. What about fish storage and drinks? Cooler or fish bag?

Well things changed. I am not getting the 160 Tarpon. I am getting a 2013 Native Mariner 12.5 Propel. I spent four hours on it on mlk day and fell in love with it. The seat alone made it worth the purchase. We went fishing Saturday and I tried out a Native Slayer. I just do not like having my hands tied up with a paddle. I decided on a Lime Mariner. So now for a name. What goes good with Lime?

:thre:

Jason - change your signature!

No pics yet. Waiting on my refund to be deposited and I will be picking it up.

what goes good with lime? Tequila!

:haha: A Margarita.