01-23-2008, 09:46 PM
That's what I've been doing. Floating down one of the South Western Ontario smallmouth rivers in My Outcast Fish Cat 10 IR pontoon. I discovered that the pontoon boat was idealy suited for drift fishing in rivers. I can manouevre mine nicely effecting a nice controlled drift with my fins. I only use the oars when going through swifts and rapids. Last trip I took along an ultra light spinning outfit and seriously outfished my flyrod partner. When I finally forced myself to put the outfit down and pick up the flyrod I hooked the biggest bass of the day on one of my streamers. As you can probably tell by my handle smallmouth bass are probably my favourite fish. Love to catch them on top with my deerhair creations. a few years ago on my first river float with my kayaking buddy. I seriously outfished him taking a number of nice bass on top with rhe deerhair stuff. My friend actually got blanked using rapalas and other spinning rod lures.
Even though I am starting to take a long a spinning or light baitcasting setup I don't plan on leaving my flyrods behind. (One floater and one rigged with a full sink line.)
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Even though I am starting to take a long a spinning or light baitcasting setup I don't plan on leaving my flyrods behind. (One floater and one rigged with a full sink line.)
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