Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: camtheman on April 10, 2011, 09:51:26 PM
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does anyone have one of these?
what is your opinion on them?
would it be more versatile then my 10' pontoon?
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For what? Traveling distances or trolling, probably. For almost every other application where you're fishing from your boat, the canoe will come up short. Canoes are hard to anchor, kites in the wind, uncomfortable to fish. The pontoon is a better choice for most fishing applications, but better still for lakes is a small aluminum or fiberglass pram or jon boat.
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yep for trolling and bookin it across lakes
as for anchoring, mounting pulleys front and back wouldnt be a problem for me
kites in the wind I have already and thats why I would go with a short canoe again making a removable rudder is no problem
Ive fished out of a canoe plenty of times and they really arent that bad although the pontoon with a seat riser is like a lazyboy
my biggest beef with my pontoon boat is speed and the time needed to set it up and take it down
as a fishing machine I couldnt ask for anything better but for a general toy it lacks
I cant really take a pram or something big as i drive a 2 door chevy metro hatchback ;D
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For what? Traveling distances or trolling, probably. For almost every other application where you're fishing from your boat, the canoe will come up short. Canoes are hard to anchor, kites in the wind, uncomfortable to fish. The pontoon is a better choice for most fishing applications, but better still for lakes is a small aluminum or fiberglass pram or jon boat.
What would you recommend for overall versatility if I was planning on fishing lakes, the fraser and drifting rivers? Would a small aluminium be my best bet? Only fished from the bank thus far but looking into the market for a boat
Thanks
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Until I inherited my fathers inflatable Achilles, I fished from an old 16 foot cedar canoe. This was never a problem. Very easy to maneuver on a variety of water, although I never took it on the Fraser other than down around Langley (Crescent Island area). I would run up and down the Harrison to the mouth, hunting pinks and chum. I could stand and cast (giving me even better sight lines than a pontoon for spotting fish on marl flats), as the cedar bottom is very wide and flat, making it very stable for a canoe. The cedar is also very light, making solo launching easy, even allowing me to pack it into lake where there is no road access or launch. If alone in the canoe, I sit in the bow facing the stern, this places me more in the center of the canoe making it more manageable in the wind (the bow does not ride up as it does when sitting alone in the stern). I can easily drop and anchor off the back behind me and this points me down wind. I can easily reach the front to drop a second anchor to avoid swinging too much if the wind is changing often. Now I would not recommend running in streams, especially fast ones, in a cedar boat as they cannot take as much punishment as aluminum, but for deeper smoother streams it is very nice and can even run back up the current if you pass a rising fish and want to turn and go back to try for it.
Now my cedar canoe was not an Old Town, it was a true cedar strip canoe (there are no cross form ribs so it used less wood) making is half as light as an Old Town of the same size (my 16 footer was only 43 pounds compared to the 80 pound Old Town cedar and canvas).
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Im looking at the discovery 119 which is only 43 pounds and being 11'9 isnt going to have as much trouble in the wind as the 18 ' canoe i use other wise
I do want to know if it will have more or less fun with wind as my 10' pontoon
If anybody has had one of these canoes and has something to say about them I do want to hear your 2 cents worth
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I cant really take a pram or something big as i drive a 2 door chevy metro hatchback
I had a 7'6" or 8' punt/pram that I used to load onto my 1977 honda civic and bounce from lake to lake throughout the interior on a regular basis.
(when I couldn't borrow the truck)
There's also porta-boat: http://www.porta-bote.com/stability.php (http://www.porta-bote.com/stability.php)
I think there's a dealer in Surrey ( think they they have an advertisement in the fresh water regs)
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Im looking for something that i can do everything not only fishing with
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Im looking for something that i can do everything not only fishing with
There is somethings else to do in a boat besides fish?
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I was wondering whether i should say that
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great profile pic btw sandman