Hey all! I'm thinking about purchasing a personal watercraft to get access to a little more water, and avoid the combat fishing gauntlet. Drift boats and rafts look wonderful but are very expensive, and having to be shuttled back to my car would complicate trips and lead to the boat not getting as much use as I would want. A close friend of mine studied Summer Steelhead on the Skagit with WDFW last Summer, and they almost exclusively traveled around the upper Skagit (Newhalem-Rockport) using them. Looking online they are pretty inexpensive and would be even cheaper used. They are also easy to transport, and would be nice to use on stillwater, or on calm days get me that extra 20 feet from shoreline that gets me close enough to Humpy's. From a safety perspective, how dependable are pontoons on water like the Skagit. I'm also interested in fishing the Sky below Sultan, and the Snohomish.