Pontoon Boats in Salt Water
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Hey gents-
Has anyone out there given pontoon boats in the surf or on the flats a try?
I have seen a couple pictures of Dave Scadden boats, long, skinny ones as I remember, out in the waves and even on flats.
I am in preliminary discussions with a saltwater magazine about an article on this (they saw a query for a sister publication and contacted me).
Hey Zach,
I would agree that a pontoon boat would be better in light surf, but I would use a kayak 100% of the time for flats and backwater fishing.
I tried to post a long reply, however, it got lost somewhere, so I’ll give the condensed version. Fly-boy hit most of the points. I find in saltwater there are two reasons to go kayak rather than pontoon, one is speed and the other wind resistance. Most of the time, I am chasing moving fish, so I have to be able to catch up with them, kayaks are much faster (except in the instance below). Also the wind is almost always blowing. I would hate to be in a pontoon in a stiff offshore breeze. Now that I’m used to it, I have no problem casting from a siting position in a kayak. In fact, I usually use a sidearm cast.
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