Stryker Lynn "Mish" Bauter built fishing boats in his Hammondsport boat shop from the 1920s into the 1940s. An avid fisherman himself, he built a functional boat specifically designed for trout fishing on Keuka Lake.

Bauter's "one-man" (12 ft) trout boats are characterized by carvel planking (13 planks per side) clinch nailed to steamed oak
full-length ribs, a rounded transom set plumb to the water, a two-piece gunwale (inwale & outwale), and a scalloped forward deck beam.