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Old 06-10-2007, 11:05 AM   #1
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Default I think I'm going to get my canoe out next week some day...

...and go fishing. I'm going to try my hand at snagging some bluegill at a local reservoir with my flyrod.

Drunkrussian's question about flyrods yesterday got me thinking about fly fishing.

My canoe is a 17' Michicraft. Really a nice solid canoe. It's just been sitting behind my shop and hasn't been in the water for a few years.

The burned place is weeds that I burned off in the fence row behind my place yesterday afternoon. The farmer that owns the field hasn't been mowing it, so I cleaned it off and burned it before it would grow up to become a fire hazard.

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Poor Canoe, having to just lay there in the sun, all this time.
Yep, it definately needs some attention and recreation.

Have a good time, canoe, and you too pogo! :
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I want a motor ,I'm tired of going up that creek without a paddle !!! LMAO
Have a great time Chief and don't over do it !!
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Pogo you have more fun in a week than i do in a year

But a canoe scares me, i never fancied something that can turn over and me be stuck in it.
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Pogo you have more fun in a week than i do in a year

But a canoe scares me, i never fancied something that can turn over and me be stuck in it.
Well heck, try kayaking then.

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Thanks Pogo, but i like a little bit more room than that.
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Hope you have fun. Canoes are fun, but besides the few nice days we had a month ago it has been too chilly here to go again
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Hope you have fun. Canoes are fun, but besides the few nice days we had a month ago it has been too chilly here to go again
Darn, it's too cool in your area? It's mostly been up in the 80s or higher the last week or so here.
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I just got mine out today. Gotta clean it up, and refinish some of the wood pieces. Plus i'm ready to order the outriggers, and mount for my trolling motor.
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I enjoyed one man kayaking when I was in Huntington Beach , California some years ago . 2 man sucks because if you don't work together then expect to get wet alot .

When I went fishing with the Fire Department last year I saw alot of kayakers taking advantage of Long Isands slips and rivers . Looked like alot of fun .
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Darn, it's too cool in your area? It's mostly been up in the 80s or higher the last week or so here.
Yeah it hasn't been that hot here. I think last week we had one day in the 80s. Been really cold in the mornings. Woke up today and I thought someone cranked the A/C down without telling me, turns out the windows were just open.
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I think I should take the old plywood canoe down to the river and set it free.
Paint the name "Free Willy" on the side first.

A few tacks and some silicone caulking and it should float for days.

Pitty the poor guy that rescues it.
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Pogo, that wooden yak you built has gotta be worth a couple, few grand. I never tired of seeing that picture posted!
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Pogo, that wooden yak you built has gotta be worth a couple, few grand. I never tired of seeing that picture posted!
It truely is a piece of art.
Should be in an exhibit.

My cedar strip canoe didn't look half that good.
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Pogo, that wooden yak you built has gotta be worth a couple, few grand. I never tired of seeing that picture posted!
Thanks for the compliment. I don't take it out that often. I've taken it out in the Atlantic a couple of times. Once out of Biscayne Bay down near Aviator's home, and once in Newfoundland. And I've put it out in Lake Superior, and Lake Michigan, and on a couple of big reservoirs in Indiana. But, I won't take it out in creeks or rivers, although it would handle them OK. I just don't want to damage it. I want to keep it, and pass it on to my son. I hope he respects it and realizes how many man hours I had in building it.

I built it in two parts - after I built the forms. Then I had to join the upper half to the lower half after a lot of fitting. Then I fiberglassed it inside and outside. I triple reinforced the fiberglass in the cockpit area both inside and outside. And double fiberglassed the lower half the entire length.

The kayak is made out of cedar and cyprus that I cut into strips. The coming around the cockpit is made out of rock maple that I cut into fine strips and steam bent and laminated before fiberglassing the entire area.
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