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Flounder · 09-20-2020, 11:22 PM

I have a pa12 and use a ob on occasion for ocean fishing. I grew up fishing rivers with driftboats and yakking with sit ins. As long as you don’t have to portage the pa would do well with the extra loads draft is still pretty shallow, but you won’t make it upstream paddling very long. It’s responsiveness is that of a canoe but if you understand that you could pull it off. Hell my pa is smaller than my first canoe that I took down the river all the time. Also the double steering handles get in the way of the paddle all the time, takes some getting used to.

09-20-2020, 11:22 PM	#4
Flounder Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2017 Posts: 101	I have a pa12 and use a ob on occasion for ocean fishing. I grew up fishing rivers with driftboats and yakking with sit ins. As long as you don’t have to portage the pa would do well with the extra loads draft is still pretty shallow, but you won’t make it upstream paddling very long. It’s responsiveness is that of a canoe but if you understand that you could pull it off. Hell my pa is smaller than my first canoe that I took down the river all the time. Also the double steering handles get in the way of the paddle all the time, takes some getting used to.