Thanks for all the continued feedback. Both of us are 'river novices' when it comes to rowing and navigating, but have been around rivers wading/fishing almost our entire lives. I've been down the rivers listed a few times each on my single man pontoon, and of course as a passenger in a drift boat. I have also done my fair share of boating on stillwaters throughout my whole life. As such, we know our limitations and fully understand the risks and danger that water poses. Neither of us would dream of buying a raft and going out to try to fish a class III or IV river the next day. That is something we might aspire to do in a few years, but we have a lot of learning to do first.
The use of the boat is very likely to be limited to the rivers I listed for at least the first couple of years as we learn the sticks. Everyone has to learn somehow, and this is something we both want to do. It would be great to buy something we can grow into as our capabilities and confidence increases, but as JasonB said, boats are like fly rods...good for some things, not great for others...and I wouldn't be totally miffed if I had to sell it and upgrade to something else a few years down the road. So, I guess another "must have" is good resale value
In this case we are looking for something easy to store and transport that we can do some learning on. Mostly day trips, I certainly expect to be able to fish directly out of the boat but of course would also use it to get between runs and walk/wade.
JDubP thanks for the heads up on the SRB option, that looks promising and the fact that they do a loan-out pre-test program is awesome.
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