By Mark Halvorsen
Massachusetts
The S4 is awesome and perfect for cape cod bay in Sandwich and Scorton Creek. As long as it’s a south wind, which it is most of the summer.
I didn’t get the Tohatsu on it until fall and cruised from the Canal to Barnstable along the beach and caught a few fall running blues [bluefish].
I plan on doing some fly fishing for striper this year, and I was really pleased with how stable it is to stand and fish. It’s really the ideal boat for me and East Sandwich beach.
A couple of guys have amphibious boats in front of their cottages but the S4 gets me on the water and on fish for $six figures less!
Your website and the blogs are great for ideas. I’ve built a dolly from an old sunfish dolly so I don’t have to drag it up the beach. I’m currently figuring out how to stow all my stuff and I’ve gotten some ideas that will work. I’m going to practice my riveting on an old kayak before I drill holes in my S4!
Do most people lay the fish finder transducer in the hull way in the stern? That’s what I thought I’d do.
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Thanks Mark,
I’m happy to read that you’re doing well fishing with your S4 around Cape Cod. With plenty of wind and strong currents it’s not the easiest place to fish in, to say the least…
I very much like your favorable comparison of the S4 to amphibious boats! 🙂
Many people position their fishfinder this way, and others favor different setups. What matters is that you do it in a way that’s most convenient for you, and now that you’ve spent enough time fishing from your S4, it’s likely that you’d find the optimal solution.
Awesome bluefish!!
Yoav