I would rather be on my boat and fish more than anything else but ill go put a canoe in a lake, easy to fly fish out of. Sometimes i just go to the farm lake and fly fish
since the weather has been crap lately so not much fishing
Interesting to see I'm not the only one who has these issues. There are many times that the skiff is a pain in the ass to manage solo and I simply don't feel like cleaning it properly. A paddle craft has limitations in the wind and also range. I have been on the hunt for a small skiff and lucked into what I consider a perfect solo boat. I picked up the original billfish 14 which is all cored and probably only about 120 lbs. It's 14ft x 48 inch beam so it has a small narrow footprint which makes poling or paddling pretty easy. I will be hanging a 9.9 2 stroke on it and should be able to run about 20 mph which gives me the range of my normal skiff just not as quick
Honestly I can hook up my skiff and launch it in about the same time as a kayak. We have pretty significant tidal swings here That make a full day of fishing unreasonable, so my typical fishing trip with hooking the boat up and tucking the boat away is about 5-6 hours
Agree, takes me more time to get the kayaks out than the flats boat. I like the kayaks on negative tide days, I can get to places even the tech skiffs can’t.
I often fly fish for baby tarpon in ponds and small canals/backwaters where it is not possible to launch my Fury. Use a 14ft old town fishing canoe. I can carry it on my shoulders for a hundred yards when needed and it is wide enough to stand and cast without worrying about falling into the alligators. Sure helps when the red tide takes a toll on the more salty water.
I don’t have pictures on my cellphone, but down in Mexico i have seen people who uses the shell of a jetski and just puts a 5 or 10hp outboard in the back, seems like a cheap and easy setup
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