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"Hooked" wrote:

But can you put a trolling motor on it? That's why I'm buying a pontoon
boat. Plus it'll let me sit a little higher.

You can put a trolling motor on the Hobie or any yak as well as a canoe.

If you insist on sitting while you fish I have no real answer though I
doubt you will be sitting much higher than you would in a canoe and I
doubt if you will have an option to stand with the pontoon at all.
Trolling motor or not you still have a very high wind profile. This is
one liability even of a canoe. I have heard several stories of canoers
getting in a tight spot as they can make no headway with the wind. Of
course a fast moving storm with high wind is a bad time not to be able
to go where you want. This was with a trolling motor. Probably with
considerable more thrust than the pontoon can accomodate with the
battery requirements.

Pontoons provide a stable platform but are, in my opinion more for
drifting than additionally getting from point to point. You can drift in
anything. And even though I have seen the pontoons rigged with oars I
still think that is more for providing postioning while you drift with
the current.

It will be interesting to see how the pontoon handles getting in/out of
breakers as well.

As always 'different strokes' but I can say I have rarely seen any
pontoon craft in my sal****er trips. On the other hand I have been to
some gatherings with over 100 kayaks, canoes with a piroughe or two for
good measure.
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"Atlanta Joe" aka Joe Webb
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