I’ve had some inflatable kayaks and my brother has one. Contrary to what has been posted, they are not hard to paddle at all, in fact it’s quite the opposite. My brother uses his on the Delaware River in swift tides and says its nearly “tide proof.” His regular kayak gets dragged by the current where the inflatable just floats on top of it and skims along. If the performance was so terrible on inflatables, why does the coast guard use them? Also inflatable boats are tough, a fish hook doesn’t just pop through them like a balloon and you go down. Most everything will bounce off the bladders. I’ve paddled Fishing rafts on 10 hour trips that had a few pinholes in them, just keep a hand pump on board and pull over to pump maybe twice a day on lunch/bathroom breaks. If inflatables were so easy to pop and sink, why would they use them in the biggest baddest whitewater on the planet? The only drawback I can imagine from fishing out of an inflatable is boat positioning on windy days