one other note. with the current sit-on-top kayaks, they are fairly
stable.

In my case, I was easily able to hang my legs over the side and change
my angle of fishing during various drifts with no trouble. I could
imagine a sit-in-kayak (SIK) might present more troubles in this
regard.

The majority of anglers fishing from kayaks around here use the SOTs
rather than SIKs
for this, and also the ease of ingress/egress for wading as well.