Furthermore, jet boats are purpose-built machines, and you cannot convert an ordinary boat to a jet boat in the fashion that can be done with an outboard motor. The final factor is that mechanics who ...

MEDFORD, Ore. (AP) — A fishing club in Oregon is asking officials to ban jet-powered boat engines from a portion of the upper Rogue River. The Mail Tribune reports that the Medford-based Rogue ...

A jet ski operator was injured Wednesday evening at Lake Marion when struck by a boat propeller. The victim was hospitalized; condition unknown.

The logo painted on the back of Herm Elenbaas’ drift boat says: “Fear no rock,” a reference to the durability of the boat’s fiberglass construction. But after a mishap on the Bighorn River ...

A 50-year-old man was thrown from a jet boat and seriously injured Saturday afternoon when it struck a submerged tree on the Deschutes River near La Pine State Park, Deschutes County sheriff’s ...

Fishing guide Dan Gerak says this has been the worst year he’s ever seen for jet boats damaging salmon spawning grounds by tearing through shallow sections of the Pitt River.

Drift boats have revolutionized the trout fishing game – no question about it. Floating a river gives you shots at more fish, and it allows access to fish you could never reach on your own two feet.

I was a passenger on board the Wild Mustang, a New Zealand-style jet boat that’s the baby of Jet Boat Colorado, the only jet boat tour operator in Colorado. The company, which offered its first ride ...

Drift boat fishing guide Capt. Chris Mulpagano saved a woman Wednesday morning who while fishing slipped and fell into the Oswego River where it flows through downtown Oswego.

Dersham describes the evolution of one of the world's most famous boats — the McKenzie River Drift Boat — that took place in Eugene and on the McKenzie River.