NEED SOME ADVISE ON A KAYAK

[brokeassboater]

Hi my name is Gregg. First post on this board. I posted this on BD forum and a guy suggested that I try here. Hope to get some friendly help from you guys even though Im a newbie here.
My wife has been chirpping for sometime now about getting a kayak. Now Ive been informed that "this is what she will" be getting from me for xmas. So let me set this up to all of you so I might do this right the first time. Her nor I have no experiance with this other than her renting one 15 years ago for a couple of hours on a very small river. She thinks she wants a tandem. I have only luke warm intrest at best at this point. A tandom tells me that I must be included in this little idea of hers. My plan is to rent some yaks and let her (and I) see if this is something that might be fun. Here's where I need the help. I would like to rent a size and shape that would end up buying. It should be fishable, can carry live jumbo minnows, a place for a small FF, rod holders, maybe small ice chest. We live right at the doorsteps to the delta so most of the time we will be in sloughs and rivers that have tidal currents. Stability and and slips thru the water if its possible to have both. Occasional trips to the bays along the coast. My wife is 46 yrs old and good physical shape but not a overly powerful in strenght type of girl. So I want to have something she can handle with some gear onboard and paddle sometimes against a current. Cost is important since if this is something that we like we'll need two since the tandom dosent sound that great to me. Also this would just be an additional way, not our only way to fish so the high end yaks would not be concidered.