Hey Mac how skinny can that jon boat go? Been thinking about doing the same.

good layout in the boat. You should be able to drift\fish some skinny water.
Nice job!

Thank you gentlemen. I built the floors and decks out of OSB and put three coats of oil based paint on them. Then I carpeted the whole interior. I built the poling platform and stools out of galvanized conduit, welded them up and put two coats each of primer, paint and lacquer on them. All the materials I got from Home Depot. I bought some deck lids from Cabelas ( those are pretty pricey but they are easy to install and look good). I also bought the push pole from cabelas - NOT a $ 600 pole. I wired it up up with navigation lights, courtesy lights and a bilge pump. Old Jon boats tend to leak a little. I thought it turned out pretty nice for a thirty year old boat. It'll run in about a foot of water. Takes about two feet of water to get up on plane - the sacrifice of not having a big motor with electric tilt and trim. I can pole it in about five inches of water ( shallow enough to get into trouble - I've had to get out and push it back into deep enough water to float again).
This is a pic taken before I built the center console but it will give you an idea of how shallow you can get.

That's an awesome pic. Makes me wish i was on the water instead of work

Nice Pic! at first I thought you were zeroed in on some fish....then I realized you are just dodging the fly-line!!!!

My first "flats" rig was a polarcraft aluminum tunnel with a forty. Decked it with aluminum road signs and a shallow sport console. I can't tell you how many thousands of pounds of fish that rig brought back to the table.

Don't confuse equipment with knowledge. Still have twits laugh at my scooter but there isn't a fiberglass boat made I'd trade for.

If you are talking about the scooter in your signature line then those guys are nuts! That's a heck of a nice boat Pat!

Love the road sign idea. I would have never of thought of that.

X2 Capt. Mac, there is a bit of satisfaction you get when you find yourself fishing the same water as a boats that cost 10 times what yours did. I found my RFL in Corpus and didn't pay through the nose, just had to be patient and wait for the right deal,

if you're looking for a used flats boat, check out the trailer very carefully and if its [censored] (which mine was) use that as a bargaining tool ( I didn't) and just replaced mine

Hah and they said you couldnt get a tunnel hull for less than 5k

Yea, when pat got his first flats rig gas was probably 35 cents a gallon, and a fishing license was $12

Gas was .80 and a fishing license was six bucks. It wasn't that long ago.

First boat?
Gosh I was seven years old. 12' johnboat with a 4 hp mercury. Put our huge lab Kingfish in the front to level it off and gone all day we'd be. It was a simpler time for sure. Sixty cents would fill up the tank, and that was good for a week.