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.
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.
This way these guys have a good electric propulsion motor from the back and a
good fishing motor to use from the front.
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.
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