New Gear

[421sd]

I'm putting In a request for a TR every time you use her this summer

I want a ride in one of those TRs.

A buddy made it 8 or 10 years ago off plans from the old Charley Barnes White River paddle jon design. I had subleased it from him for a couple years for guide trips and bought if from him last year. Hope it's in the family until I can't paddle it no more.

You got a copy of this book Stovetop?

[SLSS]

Renewed old gear
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I'm putting In a request for a TR every time you use her this summer

Yeah, I'm putting in a second on that. Love seeing a handmade boat getting put to work. Hoping to get time to re-skin my Old Town this summer, get another 20 years out of the face-lift.

[Stovetop]

You got a copy of this book Stovetop?

I don't and would love to read it. Bring it when we float.

Yeah, I'm putting in a second on that. Love seeing a handmade boat getting put to work. Hoping to get time to re-skin my Old Town this summer, get another 20 years out of the face-lift.

It'll be worth it and good luck gettin' the time Rick. I burned some weekends getting The Lumper finished by Spring. Summer weekends may be too precious.... just put it off until Winter and instead go fishin'....

[SLSS]

Yeah, I'm putting in a second on that. Love seeing a handmade boat getting put to work. Hoping to get time to re-skin my Old Town this summer, get another 20 years out of the face-lift.

It'll be worth it and good luck gettin' the time Rick. I burned some weekends getting The Lumper finished by Spring. Summer weekends may be too precious.... just put it off until Winter and instead go fishin'....

Oh yeah, of all the canoes I've had, she's my favorite. I should have had her done a few years back, but life got in the way. Hopefully before Im out of decent weather this fall at the latest, but I may have reason to want her before then- we'll see.

[421sd]

I don't and would love to read it. Bring it when we float.

Deal. It speaks a bit on Charley Barnes and his boat building for Jim Owen. The book overall is based mostly on Owen Boat Lines float trip stories. Good stuff.

[Ginseng Sullivan]

Thanks Stovetop and 421st for more info on that boat.

The cover photo goes a long way to answering my subsequent design/use questions.

[ironman]

The rocks were still more interesting.

Until it was time to net fish.

In unchartered water. If anyone has any insight to the best approach to introducing kids, I would be grateful.

[SLSS]

In unchartered water. If anyone has any insight to the best approach to introducing kids, I would be grateful.

Don't fish yourself, make it all about them.

Bluegills with topwater bugs- lots of visuals to keep it fun.

Snacks.

[austrotard]

protip: go high.

[rampant]

Learn to untie knots and tangles

[Randall Dee]

Make sure you over correct them on the 10 o'clock/2 o'clock thing.

And when you're up on the Flathead in the Bob Marshall and you catch a nice cutthroat on your last night out on a 7 day hike, and then you beat that trout on the head just to have something nice to eat, make sure the kid see's that trout shake and die a violent death. They'll be hooked forever.

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[SLSS]

[quote="Randall Dee"]and then you beat that trout on the head just to have something nice to eat, make sure the kid see's that trout shake and die a violent death. They'll be hooked forever. /quote]

Daughter #2 could match Roland Martin with her Zebco and a little Mepps. She'd been fascinated watching me clean birds and fish, but once she hooked a Splake in the gills and we kept it for dinner, I lost my fishing buddy.