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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.
 ------------------------------------------------------------------ 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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