Fishing from small boats - Small Boats and Real People

Here you will find some small boats and their owners. Some of the owners I know, some I don't. But all these will be small boats used by real people who love fishing enough to spend some time figuring out how to use their boat in the waters they want to fish.

We'll start with my small boat, a 15 foot Alumacraft with 15 horse Mercury 4 stroke tiller motor. It sports two Humminbird fish finders and a big 50 lb thrust Minn Kota foot controlled trolling motor. It works. I love it.

Small Boat picture

These guys were at Lake Dardanelle all the way up in the end of Illinois Bayou where a waterfall spills into the lake. The area can produce lots of catfish and some white bass sometimes. They did what they needed to do to get to the fish. The boat they are in looked to be about 15 feet long and they had a trolling motor at both ends.

The guy in the hat below is the brother of my good friend, Ralph Pyles. He met us at Sugarloaf Lake near Midland Arkansas on this day in this little flat bottom boat that he carried to the lake in his pickup truck. They made their way about half way around the 330 acre lake before they left.

The guys below are demonstrating the versatility of a small craft that could be used on a small river, fast moving stream, or lake. This purple canoe was seen on Sugarloaf Lake in Western Arkansas. The fact that the canoe did not have a flat stern didn't deter these guys from mounting a trolling motor on it. They fished methodically and effectively from this canoe the morning we spotted them on the lake.