I'm considering building a Wee Lassie for my brother-in-law, who would like a solo boat for fishing from that would be easier to car-top than their 70#, 17' aluminum canoe. It seems that there are many version of the Wee Lassie, but I've been looking at the 2 versions that are on the Newfound website.

Is the original style Wee Lassie stable enough to fish from comfortably? On the Newfound site it's 11' long with a 26" beam. They also offer a larger Wee Lassie II that's 13.5' with a 28" beam. I think the smaller one would be easier to paddle but might be scary to fish from. The larger one would be better for fishing from, but with the wider beam I'm wondering if it'd be more of a pain to paddle -- more knuckle banging on the gunnels, or too long of a reach.

Any advice would be appreciated. For reference's sake, the future paddler is about 5'6" and 150-160#...

Thanks,
Dean