Something that occurred to me after my post (which happens to all of us
from time to time) regards what is IMO the single most frustrating
characteristic of belly boats and kick boats.

When you use your fins to orient the boat, you inevitably take yourself
farther away from where you want to cast. Your energy can't be converted
into rotation with perfect, or even close to perfect, efficiency. You
will cause some translational movement, and it will be away from where
you'd like it to be. The casts get longer and longer.

I've fished schools of risers, getting no takes at all, or maybe few,
and then had to turn around 180 degrees and fin or row back into the
action, usually putting them down. That sucks.

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