Flats Fishing Skiff "Indigenous"
The Beavertail Elite is a premier flats fishing skiff designed for anglers who demand both performance and versatility in shallow water environments. This vessel, crafted by Beavertail Skiffs, is known for its lightweight build, stability, and ability to glide over the skinniest of waters, making it perfect for targeting fish on the flats. Whether you’re fly fishing or spin fishing, sight fishing for bonefish, permit, or tarpon, our Beavertail Elite offers unmatched stealth and handling to give you the upper hand on the flats.
Length and Design: The Beavertail Elite is a 17’8″ skiff with a beam of 79 inches. It’s meticulously engineered to provide the perfect balance between a shallow draft and a stable platform, offering our anglers superior capabilities when stalking fish in just inches of water. Its sleek, lightweight hull design makes it ideal for maneuvering through shallow flats, while maintaining a quiet approach.
Draft and Poling Ability: With a draft of only 7 inches, the Beavertail Elite can access extremely shallow areas where other boats cannot go. This makes it an excellent choice for our traditional flats fishing anglers that wish to targeting species like bonefish and permit. The Elite’s stability and easy poling design allow anglers to maintain control, even in challenging tidal conditions, while silently stalking fish without spooking them.
Not For Everyone - Not Year Round
Using a flats fishing skiff is a traditional way to fish the flats. We will book this boat here at Dream Catcher Charters in the summer and fall for our clients wishing to use a traditional approach with our extremely talented flats fishing guides. We do reccomend that your balance and physical condition is pretty good. To fish the flats on this boat your fishing skills should be above par. Fly fishing or spin fishing.
We have alternatives to a flats fishing skiff these days and that is our highly technical bay boats. A much better ride, super stable, super shallow and equipped with state of the art trolling motors to cover more ground and very fast.
Mercury Marine Power - Of Course
Just like everyone of our boats here at Dream Catcher Charters the flats fishing skiff is powered by Mercury Marine. We have tried the 90 Four stroke and found this boat only needs a 60. A 60R From Mercury Racing is in order to do what needs to be done on this skiff while keeping the weight down so we can get super skinny. Click the button below to read an article written by Capt. Steven Lamp about the Mercury Racing 60R Four Stroke
Office 305-292-7212
Text 786-847-3808
Email info@dreamcatchercharters.com
Dream Catcher Charters
5555 College Rd.
Key West, FL 33040