My fishing partner died a couple years back......we had about 30 years of good times. A great guy that had a cheepo drift boat......yeah, I know, WTF is a drift boat.....It drifts down rivers and has oars. Going up stream is a problem.
Now days, I'm a solitary bank rat with a fly rod......don't get much simpler than that.....and I still get Steelhead. No more expeditions wading down river a mile or so. BTDT and found several spots on several rivers. Summer only, I'm old.