Great Question! I made my living for many years as a wilderness fishing guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. I found out that I hated fishing! Day after day of taking walleye fishermen out and...
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Great Question! I made my living for many years as a wilderness fishing guide in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area. I found out that I hated fishing! Day after day of taking walleye fishermen out and...
I do a ton of fly fishing out of a canoe, in fact I am not sure that I know how to cast a flyline in any oher position than sitting in a canoe! As far as equipment goes, a long flyrod will...
There are some very comfortable PFD's on the market. If you look around, you can find some that are made for paddling, and once you get them adjusted right, you hardly know you have one on. I...
I have two very cool encounters with wildlife. The first was fly fishing for brookies on the Little Isabella River in northeast Minnesota. I hit a really deep pool, so I walked up onto the bank and...
You can also try a drift sock, I use mine all the time in a canoe. Depending on how you want to float down a shoreline, it can be tied at different parts of the boat to help position your cast.
I will post some pics -- as soon as my paddling partner sends them my way! Went back in this past weekend, different lake but only a couple miles away. Not as good of fishing. Temp was in the...
I just wanted ot let all of the other warm water fly fishers know about the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Northern Minnesota. I have been fishing this area for over 25 years and about 6...
Two goals for this fishing season
1) Catch a northshore steelhead!
2) Get out bass fishing when the smallies are hitting the topwater like mad!