Show me the canoe!

I'm shopping canoes, more or less, right now. I decided last fall I wanted one, and I'll probably take the summer to outfit it for fall or next year. I'm going to start seriously looking this month. I think I want something in the 12-14' range, with a good beam. This is going to be for isolated ponds I can't get the boat into.
A fellow fly fisherman in Louisiana put this awesome package together (hope you don't mind me using this here, SL!) and it's pretty much what I want to accomplish:'



Show me some of your canoe rigs. I'd love to hear your ideas and maybe help me build them into mine!

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[This message has been edited by RStouff (edited 11 March 2006).]

[lee s]

Awesome accessorizing!
We are kida sorta looking for a canoe also. Traditional style. We are aiming for simplicity though. Something to drag off the PU, toss in the water, add pole, paddle, and dog and embark. Oh yeah...lunch in a water proof container too.
....lee s.

[Russ C]

I have had a Blue Hole Prowler for several years, and I love it. It is a great all around boat, for camping, fishing, one or two people, car-topping and carrying.
Here is a link:
[url=http://www.riverriders.com/blueholecanoe.htm:d2749]http://www.riverriders.com/blueholecanoe.htm[/url:d2749]

[white43]

Mine certainly isn't rigged with that much weight -- until I get in it! Instead of using the anchor board I used U-bolts to accomplish the same thing with less weight. Nor do I use outriggers. Mine is a tandem woodstripper made from cedar, so I put a stadium seat in front of the back thwart for a seat. You should look into building a stripper, Roger. With your boat building ability this should be a snap. Mine weighs 50 lbs, but I am planning on building a Merlin this spring that should come in at 35 lbs and is 15 ft. long. JGW

[Royal Wulff]

Roger, RW here

I use an Old Town Pack Canoe, made of Royalex. Tough but light as a feather. Has served me well on small waters for almost 25 years. It's a solo canoe, 12 feet, 33 pounds and really moves out with a small electric motor. Rated for about 400 pounds and it will go anywhere. I wish I had a nickel for every fish I've caught using it. I could probably buy another whole rig and have money left over.

Later, RW

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"Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed." <John Gierach>


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[Jim Hatch]

Hey Roger,

The canoe you posted is pretty darned
neat.*G* I finally found a small bassboat
I liked and could afford, but once while
between canoes, I built this little 8'
pontoon out of plywood. It cost me $100
in materials and took a long weekend to
build. I fished it over a 4 year period
before the non-marine plywood and house
paint gave up the ghost. I've still got
the hardware and hope to build another
using marine ply and glass. It was a total
hoot to fish. It would scoot around in
water that was ankle deep as well as in the
chop of the big lake. Warm regards, Jim

[teasels]

If you have never been in a canoe with a FF fighting a 4-5 lb LM bass you will never apriciate the outriggers.

RS the outriggers can be had from canoegear.com I have a pair,they are pretty much universal fit.I can sit on the side of my canoe and not flip,Standing to cast is easy.My wife is not real stable in a canoe likes to lean into the paddle stroke and fights a cross wave.The outriggers solved the swimming and argument problem.
We use a pelican 15 1/2 foot plastic like a coleman our dog doesn't sit still very well and doesn't like not able to look over board. You put an unstable wife a 300lb man and 80 lbs of dog in a canoe,you got a FULL boat.We love our "TRAINING WHEELS".
Reaching over the side to land a fish is easy.
Dennis

[bassman]

I like the canoe setup, I have turned a canoe over and lost all that I had in it. The outriggers would have saved all my gear. John
[url=http://home.comcast.net/~bassman540/johnsfliesandswaps.html:5d00c]http://home.comcast.net/~bassman540/johnsfliesandswaps.html[/url:5d00c]

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I wish you all everlasting flies and tight lines.

Jim that is TOO clever!

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[nick0danger]

we had a pontoon boat thing made out of heating ducts, welded together. Worked great 2 people and a 8hp motor. caught many pike from it. Left it at the cabin when we sold it, they where still using it a couple years ago.