On certain rivers fishing is not allowed from boats. These rivers are not in the lower 48- Without going into zipper detail, the reason they don't let people fish from boats is because they don't want you pulling plugs.... You can take the boat down the river but you have to get out of it to fish. It is a good tool for taking the pressure off the fish. At the same time none of those rivers allows any harvest of steelhead. None of these rivers have hatchery fish. It is true "sport fishing" at its finest.. It kicks butt.

So I won't say that its a good tool for all rivers, far from it. It would be a good tool for some of the smaller rivers for sure.