Advice needed: Aluminum boat for Fly Fly fishing

[Sheepdog8404]

I'm having a hard time finding information on converting/building a boat to be more suited for fly fishing. Particularly interested in casting decks. This boat will be mostly used for bass fishing in lakes and the delta. Right now I have a 14' Valco Aluminum V-hull boat with bench seats and lots of extra junk that fly line tends to get wrapped around. I'm thinking of pulling the benches out and building a deck in the front 3/4 of the boat for a fishing/casting platform as well as removing all the other stuff for trolling and lake fishing. Also, any other modifications to the boat that would improve it as a fly fisherman's tool would be very helpful. I'll take any advice that anyone has to offer! Thanks for looking.

Tight lines,
Gary

[Dave E.]

Hi Gary,

Almost every type of aluminum conversion, problem, solution and idea you can imagine has been tried or addressed by this group many with SBS photo's. It’s a huge data base to mine.

http://www.tinboats.net/forum/viewforum.php?f=21&sid=59c6db182d38fdb335452403c7802817

http://www.tinboats.net/forum/index.php

Some great builds, some iffy, but the answers are there.

Good Luck, Dave

[Sheepdog8404]

Thanks for the link, Dave! I'll check that out.