Johnboats

Guided float fishing from motorized johnboats is popular; wading fly anglers do best in shallower riffles such as those in the Rim Shoals area. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Even the dozen or so of us along for the ride in johnboats a few feet away can hear something trying to hammer its way out of the box deep under the rolling water. ❋ Unknown (2002)

Sportsmen -- and duck hunters in particular -- favor unstable craft such as johnboats, sneak boats, and canoes, and tend to overload them. ❋ Unknown (2004)

In the years shortly before and after World War II, guides in long, wooden johnboats ferried angling sports on rivers such as the White in Missouri and Arkansas. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Tractor-trailers roar up and down the Dalton, groaning with loads of air-boats, johnboats, construction equipment, pipe, and generators the size of mobile homes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Took two johnboats and put them like a tug and pushed them right up to Highway Fifty-Three to the forestry station and put them off. ❋ Unknown (1999)

A half-mile up the submerged road, dump trucks piled sand on dry ground and Mr. Petty's friends bagged sand and loaded the bags into the johnboats to be transferred to the levee. ❋ By JAMES CARD (2011)

It's a great place for johnboats or paddle craft, such as kayaks and canoes.

LAKE TRAFFORD: It's still hard to launch a bass boat in the Immokalee lake, but anglers with small johnboats have been catching bluegills and Mayan cichlids.

Four men and three dogs fell into the choppy, 60-degree river after two small johnboats tied together capsized. ❋ Unknown (2009)

A portable Junior model even clamps to the gunnels of small boats such as canoes, johnboats and cartoppers.

And some duck hunters are checking out their johnboats just in case their retrievers go on strike.

The rescue, which took nearly eight hours and the help of 30 people, entailed using a large net and Conoco-Phillips johnboats. ❋ Unknown (2009)