Quote Originally Posted by white43
I use my 50 lb, 17 ft. cedarstrip canoe for solo fly fishing all the time by placing a temp stadium seat in front of the back thwart. Obviously it'd be easier getting in and out without the yoke in the middle but I'm still doing it at 63 years of age with a bad knee and a belly full of opulence. JGW
JG,

I was already thinking along those lines. I was going to let him try my 17' canoe with the Spring Creek Seat Yoke.
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http://www.canoegear.com/catalog/home.php

Being from MN you might have seen one of these gadjets. It replaces the center thwart and functions as a yoke in the position shown or flips over to become a seat as shown with the rowing kit. When I used it for fishing, I actually did not flip it over to the "seat" position. The extra height helped, I think.

At a little over 80 pounds (fiberglass) that canoe was a handful to load and unload myself. So I got a kevlar UL solo that weighs 35# for when I go solo.