Thanks for watching everyone! What is your favorite cooler?

Why would they make it black. Not logical.

Word to the wise. Don't buy a cooler in any other color than white. If you're looking for ice retention in the sun you need a white cooler to reflect visible light so that it doesn't heat your cooler up. The only time I'd ever recommend such a bright colored cooler is if you're on a boat or in the woods where you may need a bright color to signal for and emergency.

I have a yeti 45 tundra that’s my go to cooler, you’ll always have a seat and a foot prop like you said. My wife has a medium insulated back pack and we use that when we wanna go drinking on the go... it’s pretty much like you said depends on what activity you’re using it for. We live in beach town u.s.a in Brownsville Texas. Sadly our beaches have been closed.

Jack I like my coolers myself. I have a yeti. My every day is the artic zone soft cooler from bjs. It’s zipper less and lasts. 40$ can’t beat it. I always have a first said kit in the front pocket. Great videos.

The soft coolers are handy in certain situations. But hands-down the hard coolers are your every day go to.

I love my Yeti Rodie cooler for sure, never fail me.

Why would they make the softsided cooler black?....retains heat.

I’m old school, I’ll stay with the old style hard cooler. They can take a beaten. Although I need to get one with wheels, ice and beer gets heavy.

We have both yeti tundra 45 and hopper 24. We use the hopper when we go to the beach. When we camp, we use both coolers.

Yak sure loves his coolers

You're very entertaining to watch, fast paced, informative and charismatic :)

Loving your Friday videos. Have you ever thought of including Engle coolers into your tests? Keep up the good work.

Nice job on the comparison

I’ve got a soft yeti hopper and I find it works better with a frozen ice pack than actual ice

Not really a decision. You need both types . I believe I have 6 coolers. 4 hard different sizes a couple have wheels two huge boat coolers and 2 soft style .

I need a king mackerel shaped cooler that fits in the hatch of a sea kayak and keeps ice for at least 6 hours.

Dog days of summer WOOOOO had me dying dude. Same over here in Tallahassee.

I use the Engle soft coolers for fishing to hold my catches. And the hard Engel coolers for Drinks and food.

Simple and to the point

Hey man how's it going this was a great video man. I will have to say it depends on the situation what's going on. I like both coolers. Around the house or at a picnic or on a trip or out on the kayak or boat I say hard top cooler. But if I'm like on the bike I can see maybe on the kayak using the backpack cooler. They both are good coolers. The ice can melt but as long as it stays cold your baggage will stay cold. I go through this all the time with coolers. This was a good one.

I have a Yeti myself, but Orca makes a very similar cooler that has a pouch on the back for your phone and koozies. Also, they are made in America. Orca will probably be my next cooler.

I am a hard cooker guy. I go car camping for several days and I like the hard cooler. It is made to take more abuse and I only carry it from the car to the picnic table at the campsite. I don’t sit on the cooler but I can put things on it like a table when sitting around the fire.

We have the RTIC cooler and it works great!!

I'm with you on the hard YETI !! We have the YETI 65 Tundra for the van and Motorcoach. The RODIE for the boat and kayak. Have you reviewed the YETI Soft pack coolers yet? Been eyeing them but not sure of value for dollars. Do you know, what's your take about them?

Hey Jack what's the price deference between the 3 coolers?

Great review!!!!

Personally, I go with hard coolers. I got an RTIC soft cooler as a safety prize, and it’s nice. However, I really don’t like the zippers. Too much trouble to open and close. Hard coolers work fine without the buckles snapped, but soft coolers don’t work well unzipped.

Its all about the beers!!! 🍻🍻🍻 cheers

I use my Yeti hard coolers basket it came with and place a zip lock bag for wallet keys etc.

I use my soft cooler backpack as a tacklebox and cooler combo with ice packs instead of ice for fishing on the bank and walking

Love it man. I'm sticking with you. Hard cooler all the way

Interesting comparison. 🙂

What do you recommend to someone who wants to keep his fish fresh for a couple days fishing in the middle of no where and no reason access to ice and doesn't want to drain the car battery running a freezer ?

My Coleman ends up (hopefully) with fish in it, so it doesn't need to hold ice for days, always been a non-issue for me. I don't want three day old fishy ice. Clean the fish, rinse the chest, fresh ice, fresh beer, fresh fish (hopefully) the next day, rinse, repeat. And like you said, I can sit on it to rest from all that (hopefully) catching fish!

Jack, since your roots are in kayak fishing you should do a insulated fish bag test. Times have changed and there are more options out there for fishing bags and new guys don't know what to grab or if you even need one. You probably still have that old brown one. Hobie/Reliable fishing, Feelfree fish bag, Viking fish bag, and even the small boat kill bags. Living here in the panhandle there are so many yakkers that I'm sure people would help get you test bags.

A can of tuff stuff and a drill will turn any cooler into a yeti! Thanks for testing friend🤠🤙

Love your videos

Awwwww...I was waiting for you to throw a bucket at that Beatle like you did at that Squirrel. 😂

Loved my lo-boy styrofoam coolers, they lasted about 20 yrs and I promise they insulated as well as Yeti. . You could stand on either of them. Used my larger one to ship some fragile equipment on e-bay, and don't know what happened to the smaller one (probably blew away during high winds). Seems ridiculous to pay 200-300$ for a hard cooler, when you could buy a lo-boy for about 5$. However, a small weak grizzly bear could easily tear them apart.

Try scrubbing slimy old trout smell from a soft side cooler. Might as well toss it out.

I have both the bag type insulated cooler about the size of your old red that broke, it's okay for short adventures 3-4 hours tops or if you're going a short drive and you can set it in the floor of truck with sandwiches and drink's it will last most of an 8 hour day. But in the end I'm like you the yeti roadie seafoam was on sale at Atwood's and it can do all things deer camp, road trips, back of the truck for week's on end just topping off with ice every few days

I'm impressed with Yeti products but I'm just too cheap to get one

I'd buy and bring both.

Love my soft cooler. I have one with pouch’s galore a bottle opener and it straps to my kayak great. Its a titan never seen or heard of them. Was given to me as a sample. 😂

Yak can you do a video on your aging Hobie kayak and how to take care of it

Thanks! Black absorbs heat, why did they make the rucksack black?

In other words if you're in a hurry or it's going to be a quick trip you want the soft cooler but if you're going to the beach all day or camping you want the hard color and I believe the one cooler would be a little better if it wasn't black, black absorbs all Rays from the Sun that's why black shirt hotter than others

I just bought an RTIC 65....I have tried all the others an there def is no substitute for a hard durable cooler that holds ice well! just have to bite the bullet and get one....

I want a $5 imitation old red!

Had both in Yeti... Yak’s right... zipper always goes out even in Yeti bag... but they have warranty at least

Jack, great comparison. I like the hard side cooler as well. Oh yeah, did you forget to renew your fishin license? Just wondering.

Let’s just drink beer till all the ice is. Gone

I’ll stick with my old Igloo for the reasons you talked about, if anyone ever steals it then I’ll have to assume that they desperately needed it ! It kinda smells like beer and fish anyway. 🤢

Your right, the zippers corrode and stop working. I’ve seen the all Velcro soft coolers this summer.

Your are the man!

Great vid!Black attracts heat.White repels heat.why would you make a black cooler.Still waiting for bush apple up here.

I’m looking for the yeti strap video. I got an ozark trail 16 qt.

For me the intended purpose determines the type of cooler. Weight is a big factor in my decision. If beach for a few hours then soft cooler is my choice. If fishing on beach for meat then I go with lightweight igloo playmate. For real fishermen perfectly ok to mix beverages with fish/bait. If on boat or have a 4 wheel cart then hard cooler is better although you may want both types. On cicadas. I call them “hot bugs” because they arrive and depart with hot days. They live in the trees. They are so loud I can hear them when I cut grass with using ear protection.

Where can I get a YAK THIS decal for my cooler? I didnt see it on T Spring. I need it in a few weeks. Coming down your way to Big Lagoon Park.🙂👍

You can actually sit on the m30 . Its air tight and quite comfortable lol

I've been an RTIC man since YETI ditched the NRA

Preach!

Ever tried any steel, or steel belted coolers?

How about a side by comparison of the Ice machine ice vs the ice in your frig? lol!

The thermos is the greatest invention EVER! It keeps hot stuff hot and cold stuff cold.... The BIG mystery, is "HOW DO IT KNOW?"

Where or how did you get that yeti cooler locked. ? Yeti is my best cooler💕👍🏼 Found The video thank you.

If you have to have ice the next day just go buy more, beer is not supposed to last that long any way.

Did you have a special talking on car freezer?

Why is the hell do they make black coolers? I try and only buy white or light colors. Keeps the ice a lot longer.

The tourit is going to automatically be warmer indide because its a dark cooler. So its not really a fair comparison in that respect. Should have used a dard yeti or a light tourit.

Yeti needs to make the Yak Motley soft side reflectex cooler wrap with waterproof pocket and straps! Basically a bag with extra insulation, carry straps and pocket. There you go. I just made you rich.

You gotta test the Yeti soft cooler against that soft cooler

I wonder how much better it would work if it were white instead of black

What about from a kayak perspective?

Why use a black backpack one .dark colors draw heat...

Now that's an educational video,what a deal,thanks yak

I'm from Texas, and how we love our firearms. We carry one...AHEM...well, actually... several for each objective. One carries old "faithful" in their vehicle at all times, but yet others are carried for other means. Therefore, these coolers, carry a parallel pattern for its own objective!!! 😉

Apples and oranges. Hard coolers for vehicles soft coolers for mobility. Wouldnt want to Chuck a fish in that soft cooler.

I'm military so I (by fault) hate Yeti!

Flaccid all the way

I like Kong.

Yeti is great BUT......TOO damn expensive . Do they really need to make that much profit ????

Love your comparison always down-to-earth and cool. But what about the Walmart lifetime cooler how about a comparison with yeti it cost 1/3 but I think it's about the same I love mine. Keep up the videos I bought pop up because of you

Yo

I bought a coleman with wheels at Walmart for $50 bucks, held ice twice as long as the Yeti. Kept both on the boat for 10 days in 95 degree heat. Someone in my party said well the Coleman was in the shade, so we switched them after a few days, coleman still out performed the yeti. (yeti makes better foot rest though).

Yeti also makes a soft side canvas type zip cooler that's pretty badass too. Of course it ain't cheap but you get what ya pay for😎

Teal.... Lol

jack remember when you used to fish.

Since yeti doesn't make that blue cooler anymore they replaced the 20 with the 24 you should get one of those and test it out.

never buy a black or dark color cooler....Ice jus wont last as long no matter.

Rtic way cheaper.. just as good as yeti.

A constant talking for nothing. Sounds like an informercial bs.