Hobie's new Mirage Pro Angler 17 Tandem does a battleship one better. This is the Nimitz class carrier of fishing kayaks, with room for a full crew. Did you see this one coming? I didn't.

The sea was a whipped, white-capped froth. Kayak Fish lens man Aaron Schmidt and I were aboard a borrowed Hobie Mirage Tandem Island a long mile off a stony line of Oahu cliffs. It was the very ...