Henk and Friends, Fishing out of canoe is a good way to flyfish.
My canoes have been: 1) Grumman 17 footers 2) Old Town Kevlar solo 3) A wide bodied wild rice canoe 4) A 1950s Langford wood canvas I've solo canoed and fished extensively and I really like them. If you are going to anchor and fish like the Chronomid fishers, then two anchors is nice. I like trolling motors, but used a 3 H.P. Johnson circa 1963 to great effect in Minnesota. In any wind, a canoe can be a real effort to use as transportation. But at least you can get somewhere, pontoons would have been on shore in some of the weather that I have canoed in (does anyone remember the big windstorm that devastated a good chunk of the BWCA awhile back). Where folks get into trouble (including me, when I was about 15 years old) while flyfishing in a canoe is the broadside cast - all you have to do is to get the canoe to rock a little bit too much - and splash. Angle you casts from where you are sitting and there will be no wet experiences. Standing in a canoe is best done with experienced folk. We did it all the time in Northern Minnesota is the rice fields and lakes, but we were also poling too. My oldest boy will stand in my Langford, but he has been spotting rises and fish that way since he was a wee laddy. Alas, my only canoe near me is my Langford (recanvased about 1.5 years ago), a wood canvas is nice in some of these very cold water trout lakes in the Rockies. They fell warmer than the plastics and metal canoes. A major draw back to wood canvas, is that you have to be nice to them. My others are in Minnesota, and my friends are hoping that I don't go back to claim them. The pontoon boats really shine in two areas. The first is smaller lakes, especially some of the foothill lakes in Alberta. It is small water fishing and you can get off fast if the weather really picks up. The second area is floating rivers, I 've done this a few times and it is a real slick way of drifting for steelhead and trout out here in the West. Cheers, Alberta Al -----Original Message----- From: Henk Verhaar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 1:09 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [VFB] Fishing from a canoe??? *This message was transferred with a trial version of CommuniGate(tm) Pro* On dinsdag, maa 4, 2003, at 20:52 Europe/Amsterdam, Allan Fish wrote: > p.s.: I just looked up the Old Town website. They apparently no > longer make canoes out of Royalex, what a shame... > but use "Superlink 3" composition. The canoe I had, the Discovery 164, > is now 74 pounds instead of 59 pounds, but is much more abrasion > resistant. polyethylene is strong, but heavy, and not nearly as shape-fast as royalex, even in the current high quality versions. It is however cheaper as raw material and cheaper to work (rotomolding vs. vacuum-shaping for royalex or mould-layups and resin-curing for fiber-based composites (glass, polyester, kevlar or carbon)). > And that is good. The hull of mine did scratch easily. It never > punctured, but it did get pretty ugly from being pulled up on the > shore, etc. Royalex, i.e. the outer PVC shell, which apparently ONLY is a UV protectant for the ABS structural layers, is relatively vulnerable to scratching. WHile this may be cosmetically displeasing, it is structurally insignificant. BTW, ever though of a Royalite boat, or even a Kevlar boat. The best Kevlar boats can be lifted singlehandedly (really) but sadly are VERY expensive. ==========================Heisenberg was right!======================== | Dr. Henk J.M. Verhaar | | | Environmental Fate and Ecotoxicology Specialist | | Fly Tier | | | Stichts End 17 | e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | NL-1244 PK Ankeveen | phone: +31 35 656 2128 | | the Netherlands | ICQ: 15727113 | ==========================Uncertainty happens!========================= This communication is for use by the intended recipient and contains information that may be privileged, confidential or copyrighted under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby formally notified that any use, copying or distribution of this e-mail, in whole or in part, is strictly prohibited. Please notify the sender by return e-mail and delete this e-mail from your system. Unless explicitly and conspicuously designated as "E-Contract Intended", this e-mail does not constitute a contract offer, a contract amendment, or an acceptance of a contract offer. This e-mail does not constitute a consent to the use of sender's contact information for direct marketing purposes or for transfers of data to third parties. Francais Deutsch Italiano Espanol Portugues Japanese Chinese Korean http://www.DuPont.com/corp/email_disclaimer.html
