Side scanning sonar? Heck I can't get em to bite sometimes when they are right under the boat. Several yrs ago when we traveled, I was forced to fish out of a 12 ft porte boatm it had a 5 hp motor and a rear trolling motor. guess what I caught one heck of a lot of fish, red fish weak fish[sec trout] LMB walleye and trout. Now if my sonar isn't working I give up and go home.Best fishing day I had in many years was on a small weed chocked lake, the only way through was OARS, guys in bass boats couldn't get into the spot with a trolling motor, and it was a HP limit lake.I watched an old timer catch crappies up the yazoo, how? Sculling paddle 14 ft cane pole.A big boat couldn't into trhe brush like he did.Any one here remember sculling paddles?