Author Topic: Fishing Vehicles (Read 722 times)

matt d · « **on:** October 22, 2003, 07:58:02 AM »

I own a kayak to fish the local lakes and oceans and a float tube to fish ponds and smaller lakes. Lately I have noticed some odd looking contraptions out on the water and I was wondering if anyone uses things like those inflatable pontoon boats with oars, or other newer methods of stealth fishing transportation? Are they gimicks, good, bad, etc...

williamlayton · « **Reply #1 on:** October 24, 2003, 03:46:16 AM »

ya know ya brang up a good point. i like to wade and a boat is only fer transportation-so to speak. i been thinkin fer years that some of them personal water crafts--ya know them thangs that tha bildge spits tha water way up high outta it :roll: :roll: i'm jest foolin boys. anyway to digress--seems if'n tha thang was rigged right it might be a fair way to go. course ya buddy would be left at tha dock lessen he had one too. always a problem to a perfect solution aint it.
blessings

Eddie Ferrer · « **Reply #2 on:** November 02, 2003, 02:25:13 AM »

I used to use a 17 ft. almun. canoe with a electrical mini kota motor for trolling with a big deep cycle battery, that give me great results when trolling. I had a low budget Eagle fish finder on the canoe, I had the skimmer attached to the trolling motor. I would use the fish finder to find out how deep the big ones where hanging out in the water and put either a deep runner or a shadow runner to pass over the heads of the fish, Rapala deep runners (shad rap) gave me the best results, I used these lures with a shad attractent with amino acids. Then I would troll at speed 3 on my 27 pound thrust mini kota around all the hot spots in the lake. I had to fish rod holders on each side of the canoe and trolled the lures about 100 ft behind the canoe.

Even when every body else fishing on the lake hadn't caught anything all day long, I would always fill a 5 gallon bucket with fish using this method with my canoe.

Sadly I sold my canoe because I got married again and needed a bigger boat for the family. But I still use this method from time to time on my 12 foot skiff, but the results were better with the canoe I guess since the canoe was smaller/thinner, made less noise, the fish noticed it less.

Eddie

matt d · « **Reply #3 on:** November 03, 2003, 09:47:30 AM »

The fish gods probably liked your canoe idea and rewarded you for it. Isn't it great to have a small, inexpensive, "homemade" fishing rig and catch more than all the "cool" people with big, high priced set ups? :roll:

williamlayton · « **Reply #4 on:** November 03, 2003, 10:58:11 AM »

well fellers--in my case i'd be one with the small, inexpensive boat AND no fish ta boot. ya might as well be comfortable if all ya do is boatin with tha excuse your fishin.
blessings