On Apr 29, 7:02 pm, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On 29 Apr 2007 15:36:35 -0700, wrote:


I know that locally, there are a quite a few fisherman who have
fishing kyacks and canoes with smallish electric motors. I'm a little
too big to use something like that, although now that the Princecraft
is down south, I might think that one through a little more. It's
tough to launch the Ranger on smaller ponds. However, with the
arthritis problems I have, a kayack or canoe is a little small for me
to be comfortable - not to mention that at 6'3" and now 235 (from 270)
that's a little cramped.

I've been thinking recently of getting one of those little Coleman
skiffs, a pontoon type boat I can throw in the back of the pickup

I have seen guys your size try to function in boats that small. Many
times they either need a mate on board or I have even seen them use
sandbags just to keep the boat in a maneuverable attitude. Do yourself
a favor, save a lot of wasted money and test drive one a few times
first. And I trust you know better than to assume you will always be
in ideal conditions. I just don't think the pickup truck boat will do
the boating I assume you want to do. As to fishing canoes and kayaks,
I can't see them as being useful in any kind of adverse conditions at
all, especially if you want to fish and not swim and I can't really
imagine you crawling back into a necky. You may be stuck with a couple
of boats. I might try something under 20 feet (big low power skiff)
for inland trips, giving up speed and space on skinny water, but the
guys who still want to fish off shore won't have much of a choice,
unless you want to charter I know I may be presumptious here, but
the future is coming fast and many of us may need to make some serious
changes, real soon. Guess who the greenies will be after when they are
done with the SUV's?


I think it's a little early to make that kind of determination, but I
take your point.

Phew, I am trying to be more coherent and pithy here, even if I still
can't spell.