I have a question for you guys - I just sold my 14 foot aluminum boat last year which I had for 3 years. My sort of rule with a boat is if I own a boat I want to use it. No sitting in the car port unused, if I'm going fish and there is a boat in the drive way I'm using it to go fishing. Perhaps sort of a rule, especially when it's tough to find time sometimes. I'm sure some of you must feel the same. For years I was always the type who floated around with the different river fisheres. Steelhead and Cutthroat in the Winter/Spring, Salmon/Chinook, perhaps Sockeye in the Summer, some river rainbow trout fisheries (e.g. Skagit River, etc.), and then fall salmon or steelhead on the local rivers or the odd up north. But lately I have gotten the urge to get into salt water fishing and buy a more salt water friendly boat (e.g. something 17-19 foot for the local Vancouver waters). I really enjoy fishing out of a boat, but if I bought something such as an Arima boat (or similar) I'd want to use it. ON one hand, what I like about it, is it is more family friendly to fish out of a boat, as well as being easier to go fishing with friends/family who aren't good or knowledgeable about fishing (it's much tougher to get people dialed in river fishing or fly fishing in comparison - on the boat with downriggers you just set them up and pretty much troll and wait for one to go off, etc.). On one hand I can fish a lot locally without having to drive much, but on the the other hand if I own a salt water boat I always figured I'd be missing out on a lot of BC - camping, fishing other rivers, lakes, etc. (mind you I've never been much of a lake guy for some reason - I'd rather be out on the ocean than a lake). So did many of you start out like me - river fishing with dabbling in salt water and then move strictly to mostly salt water, or do you still find enough time to dabble in both? What is the draw of salt water fishing for you and what makes it worth missing out on other oppurtunities such as river fishing for trout/salmon or interior lake fly fishing? Do you find it more relaxing, or enjoyable or?