FS: Sweet Low-Pro Hyde Drift Boat

[Keef Riffhard]

I hate to do it, but I am selling my custom Hyde low-profile drift boat and trailer, fully loaded. Comes with Cataract composite oars, anchor, life jackets, and all the fixin's you need for fall fishing. Plus, it has a one-of-a-kind custom factory camo paint job, so it's good for hunting as well. This is a pro staff boat (I used to be a guide), is in great shape, and is set up ideally for serious western river fishing. Dry box rower bench, dry bow storage. Looking for $5500 but will take offers. $6000 and you can have a Honda 4-stroke 2hp motor too. Boat is in Jackson Hole, available immediately.

[schwerty]

Nice boat! Too bad my Wife won't let me get another. :cussing:

[72Twenty]

Would you take a 1995 Subaru Impreza with only 160K miles on it in an even trade? :p

[schwerty]

In 2nd thought, I'll give you my Wife's car as a trade. ???

[Keef Riffhard]

Bumping...it's still for sale.

$5000 for the boat and trailer, $5500 gets the motor too.

[72Twenty]

Man, I'd love to get it if I had the money right now.

My dad and my uncle share a Clacka, but my uncle doesn't use it very often (my dad uses it 90% of the time, and he lives overseas :rolleyes:). Anyway, I am thinking in the near future I may buy my uncles half of it and share it with my dad - especially since he and I are usually using it together anyway.

Related question - how did you guys learn to row/navigate a drift boat? Trial and error? Learn from a friend? I was thinking I would like to take some kind of class on the subject someday. I think my local shop/guide service does classes on it, but it may be expensive.

[schwerty]

I learned from a couple of buddies...one was a fishing guide, the other a whitewater guide. Learning from them turned me into a guide... I wouldn't suggest learning on a hard boat by trial and error on big, fast moving western water. Especially if the rivers you are floating have a lot of snags/stingers! We see quite a few boats sink to the bottom of the Snake and South Fork every year...many are brand new. It ain't rocket science but it takes some practice to safely navigate a big river. Then comes the learning how to row so people catch fish part.......

I'll be happy to give you a lesson if you and the fam are still heading up this way in July.

[72Twenty]

Yeah - I know how to row a boat - it is the navigating the river and the guiding the fishermen part I would like to learn. I rowed a large pontoon down the North Platte on a solo mission before, but a pontoon is easier to navigate and the pontoons handle hitting rocks a bit easier.

For the most part I will be piloting the Clacka in the Platte down from Gray Reef to Casper, but we may also be taking it into the Snake, Green and Wind River/Big Horn from time to time.

I'll PM you about my Driggs trip...

[fez]

i grew up doing stupid shit in rivers (class IV in an innertube for instance) and also whitewater canoeing. then in college i rowed crew. i pretty much just watched other people row and how their rowing affected my fishing and took to it pretty easily.

[fez]

Then comes the learning how to row so people catch fish part.......



one of my favorite moments rowing was spotting a rising fish down stream in some light rapids. i saw the fish, pointed it out to the guy in the bow. i was able to get him into position where he had to make one tough cast to get the fish, he made the cast perfectly and boated a nice bow. turning fly fishing into a team sport was a pretty cool feeling.