Lets take Lake Sonoma as an example. There are 3 places to put in with a kickboat (that I know of). You could run to basically two spots. Running with a boat you could fish the whole lake. Defiantly not an even playing field. Clear lake has many spots that you could not get to even if running with a car and then rowing unless you rowed all day. Once again with a boat you could be there in no time. It simply would not be a fair to the guys without boats.