Fellow Utahn here, good sir. I find that my PA14 pretty much matches my foot speed. That is, if I watch my "trailing" foot as it comes back, it pretty much matches the water surface. Those fins are VERY efficient! So a slow walk gives me about 1.0 mph on the GPS and a bit more gives me 2.0 mph. That range is more than enough to troll for kokanee or trout, and almost enough for summer wipers. I have to concentrate to go slow enough to pull a bottom bouncer rig for walleye.
This summer, I hope to try some "poor man's downrigging" for kokanee at Strawberry. I'll be using a three-pound weight on some heavy braid fishing line for the downrigger, but I did buy a proper line release to pull behind that. (I coded the braid with marker: a narrow band for five feet, a wider one for 10. So two wides and a narrow means my weight is down 25 feet, for example.)
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