Water Dog

Now that is interesting! A club devoted to bass fisherman who take pride in being poor. ;D I went to the site and what it amounts to is that you design your own rig and add all of the creature comforts that you want. I like that. Another link or two that they list <http://www.ibbf-team.it/main.htm> , <http://www.calfishing.com/> Again thanks for the info.

Thanks for the info! It's good to know that the BP model will handle a trolling motor, I didn't know that it had a mount or do you have to jury rig a mount? I need a trolling motor for my jon and was considering one of the more expensive pontoons because of the mount and the ability to use the motor on two boats. The downside of the more expensive model besides the cost, is the weight and I am pleased to hear that the backpacker model is good enough quality to do the job. Being able to use a motor would be another big plus.

That's about what I figured. 4 or 5' wide pontoons ain't going to make it between some of the rocks I have gone through with the canoe and jon for that matter. OK, that kind of limits me to small lakes and the $200 backpacker from Cabela's ought to work fine for a few years. I was just wondering if somebody had been taking his toon down the Colorado; for example, snagging the fish nobody else can get to. I guess not.

I have thought about one of the stable kyack, some of them are pricey, but would go between the rocks like the canoe. I like the idea of sitting upright in that comfortable chair on the toon but I am wondering if it would go into a death spin on some minor rapid. ;D Things like that happen to me.... There are a lot of choices and a lot of prices with both the toons and the kyacks. I'm wondering if a $300 toon is safe enough on a river or $1000 one for that matter. I know that kyack is safe, stable, but your sitting flat on your backside with not much visibility. I recon the Eskimos think a lot of them. I guess, that I need to find a kyack that I can borrow. One other question how do you work out the shuttle with a canoe after a float trip? That's always a problem, it basically takes two vehicles to make it work for me, have I missed a better method?

Anyone have experience with personal pontoons for river fishing. They have everything from 50#backpack models to two man rigs with a motor mount. Right now I'm feeling pretty safe with my welded jon boat but there are areas that a jon can't make. Finding the ideal craft for the water is a challenge. I'm wondering how much of a lick that a small pontoon will take and how well it will go over shoals, and rough water. My canoe does very well but it isn't very stable as a fishing platform. So anyone outthere nearly kill themselves with a pontoon?