I'm on my second one of these little babys and I can tell you I've caught more and bigger fish out of these then my big boat ever came close to. The one thing I did that made all the difference in the world as far as a mod goes was to put my trolling motor in the front and a tiller in the rear (bow / stern). The way I made my tiller was to take an aluminum shaft canoe paddle, pull the hand grip off, slide it through an old trolling motor clamp, (shorten the shaft to taste), clamp it back on the stern/transum. Now, you have met your boating law for having a paddle, you can move the shaft up and down or tilt out of the way for really shallow water conditions and if you are playing "lazy river" just loosten the shaft tention and put the trolling motor on constiant then twist the paddle to steer the whole boat. Or something like that. Oh yeah, a big foot switch is a must for your trolling motor. Just mount it to a 5x14" scrap of plywood and lay it where your good foot is and off you go. Or something like that.