I've got a 13' Smokercraft Alaskan with a 15 HP Yamaha 4-stroke that I use to fish the sound and the local lakes. I'd love to be able to use the boat to fish for coho and winter/summer stealhead but because I'm not intimately familiar with the rivers around me I'm afraid that I'll whack my prop on the bottom and get stranded.

Are any of you fishing the snohomish, skykomish, or any of the other rivers in the area using a propped engine? If so, can you let me know what sections of what rivers you run? For example, where you launch and where you run to?

I'm guessing that I'm going to find out that I can't run much of the rivers and someday will have to get a drift boat or a pump.