Jet Yak

[Gavin]

There was a fellow with a Mokai who made several trips to the upper Current. From all accounts...it didnt work so well up there...sucked allot of gravel, and drug bottom allot. Saw the guy towing it down to Baptist Camp 4-5 years ago and reported it...Havent seen him since.

[Smalliebigs]

There are at least two or three of these designs commercially available. From everything I've read about them, they are all NOISY (more so that a jet outboard of comparable horsepower) the craft is too heavy to carry or cartop--needs a trailer and a launch ramp--and the engine compartment takes up a lot of room, leaving little for your gear. To me they are about as desirable on the river as a jet ski, which is to say that if it wasn't illegal to do so, I'd probably shoot them with a high powered rifle as they buzzed past me the second or third time (the boat, not the operator, of course--it would be imminently satisfying to watch the smoke erupt and hear the engine die).

darn Al, that's brutal!!!!.....but funny as hell!!!!!

[jdmidwest]

From the video on the DVD that came from Mokai, it seemed like the engine was pretty quiet. It popped out for transport.

My first thought was for the 11pt River, where jet boats are running all the time anyway. There are times it would come in pretty handy on days I did not want to float and shuttle or did not have access to a jet boat. Most trips I take are solo as it is hard to work things out with others I fish and their schedules. It would not be worth any thing on most of the other streams I float as they are too shallow.

[ollie]

A couple of years ago I met a guy on Elk river that had a trolling motor mounted on the back of his yak and he got upstream pretty fast and quiet. He mounted it permantly to go straight so he steered with his paddle. Of course he had the weight of the battery, but man that thing was fast. Not like the video, but he was moving upstream fast enough I lost sight of him in like a minute.