I know we all have preference to this as during off season I run a 16 foot
try hull with a 55 horse engine and also in the dark as I travel through three lakes and narrows. I could do this much easier with a canoe. And here they use alot of Grandlakers for what you discribe with a 9.9 motor.
But the idea of paddling gives us the ability to sneak around old bogs early
in the morning looking for that old buck out in the bogs. That is what I am saying. And I have used the canoe in the dark a quite a few times before
fishing white perch in around some old logs and getting back in around midnight. Just getting enough fish for a good ole fish fry the next day.