Drift Boats - advantages and disadvantages

jeff miller wrote:
Halfordian Golfer wrote:


In summary drift boats can be a hell of a lot of fun, but they're fun
even without the fishing aspect. Still, as my dad always said (we
realize how right Dad's are later in life), "The happiest 2 days in a
man's life are the day he buys a boat and the say he sells it".
Guilt replaced the creel.


i hate drift boat flyfishing for trout. it just aint natural. it's a
hurried tourism, not fishing, on a trout stream.

however, that said...i'm still a "wind in the willows" kinda guy. i
love messing about in boats.

jeff

I've never had much luck fishing from a drift boat -- while it's
drifting, that is. I think the boat puts the fish down. They see it
coming. Sometimes I've had good dry fly action when I can cast to the
banks and other spots away from the boat, but the floating is mostly, in
my mind, to get access to otherwise inaccessible spots for wade fishing.

There are places, notably on the San Juan and the Bighorn in my
experience, where guides can drift their clients time and again over
great holes and catch lots of fish, but that's not for me.

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