Cool Flats Boat

[Byron Begley]

Flatstalker

Byron

[TroutAssassin]

Yep, I believe one of my Shallow Water Angler mags has a short article on those or ones just like it. Pretty Neat!

[bigpopper]

Hey Byron, do think somebody could fly fish with one of those flat stalker boats on the Caney Fork where I live? Thanks.

[Byron Begley]

bigpopper,

I think you could if there was no generation and it was a warm day. I have floated the Caney many times in a canoe during the summer. I never turned over. Back then the generation schedules were not accurate. You never knew when they were going to turn on the water. I wouldn't float any of the tailwaters in something that could easily tip over during the winter because of hypothermia. I had a friend become hypothermic on the Caney one day. We got him to the truck and warmed him up. He was OK. I knew a couple of other men who were swept down the Elk River by an unexpected generation event. They almost didn't make it. Someone got a boat and rescued them while they hung on to logs. It was a close call. I would hate to float the Caney in one of these boats during generation. Too many things can happen.

Byron

[James Buice]

I could see myself fallilng out of one of those ;-) Pretty cool looking. Byron, have you checked out the Gladesman? Pretty neat microskiff. We fished in one down in Titusville a few weeks back.