Kayakers and back country visitors

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swm77
swm77 Posts: 18
edited July 2010 in All Encompassing Trip
Ahhhhh, my time of the year is here, time to go into back country and listen to PJ on my cd player which was born to meet my kayak.

Muskoka is awaiting me.....what is awaiting you?
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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,590
    shakeyrage wrote:
    Ahhhhh, my time of the year is here, time to go into back country and listen to PJ on my cd player which was born to meet my kayak.

    Muskoka is awaiting me.....what is awaiting you?


    nice...i am no expert kayaker by any stretch of the imagination. but my pops has a few kayaks that we bring out to a pretty big lake near us sometimes. i also like taking one of them out in the back bays down the shore. good times...good exercise too. i love it.
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  • swm77
    swm77 Posts: 18
    I do about 20km in a day trip.
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    Quetico Park. Freaking amazing canoeing / kayaking.
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  • guacamolejoe
    guacamolejoe Posts: 2,396
    edited June 2010
    Down here in Florida I take the kayak out in the ocean & go fishing. I hooked a 6' tarpon this past week. An incredible site to see it dancing on its tail before it spit the hook out 8-) .
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  • polaris_x
    polaris_x Posts: 13,559
    hey ... if you're ever in toronto - let me know ... some decent urban paddling here ... heading to superior in September ... 8-)
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    guacamolejoe wrote:
    Down here in Florida I take the kayak out in the ocean & go fishing. I hooked a 6' tarpon this past week. An incredible site to see it dancing on its tale before it spit the hook out 8-) .
    Haha -- that's awesome. I caught a 15 lb pike in a canoe and it pulled me all over the lake.
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    Kayaking has always looked like a lot of fun, I'm now wondering why I haven't done it. :?

    By the way, your avatar pic is beautiful.
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  • swm77
    swm77 Posts: 18
    Thanks here is a link to my flickr page with more pics

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32963301@N03/
    Songburst wrote:
    guacamolejoe wrote:
    Down here in Florida I take the kayak out in the ocean & go fishing. I hooked a 6' tarpon this past week. An incredible site to see it dancing on its tale before it spit the hook out 8-) .
    Haha -- that's awesome. I caught a 15 lb pike in a canoe and it pulled me all over the lake.

    15 lb pike NICE! How did you get her off?
  • neilybabes86
    neilybabes86 Posts: 16,057
    dcfaithful wrote:

    By the way, your avatar pic is beautiful.





    unlike yours :lol:
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  • dcfaithful
    dcfaithful Posts: 13,076
    neilybabes86 wrote:
    dcfaithful wrote:

    By the way, your avatar pic is beautiful.





    unlike yours :lol:

    Piss off. :twisted:
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  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    shakeyrage wrote:
    Thanks here is a link to my flickr page with more pics

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/32963301@N03/
    Songburst wrote:
    guacamolejoe wrote:
    Down here in Florida I take the kayak out in the ocean & go fishing. I hooked a 6' tarpon this past week. An incredible site to see it dancing on its tale before it spit the hook out 8-) .
    Haha -- that's awesome. I caught a 15 lb pike in a canoe and it pulled me all over the lake.

    15 lb pike NICE! How did you get her off?
    My canoe actually ran aground on a shallow reef near an island and I got out and landed the fish -- which I let go -- I can't filet a pike properly and I'm not sure that a big one would taste all that good anyway.
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  • swm77
    swm77 Posts: 18
    All the big fish I catch I release, I've caught a lot of big Walleye, but no pike over 10 lbs. Most fish that big the meat is no good in my opinion. Plus the big fish have good genetics so they will strengthen the herd.
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    I'm smoked a big pike and it was all right.

    Never ate a walleye (pickerel) over 5 lbs before. 1.5 pounds is perfect for a pickerel. Biggest pike I caught was 44" (figure around 20 lbs as it was pretty thin). Never measured the length of the 15 lb'er but it was smaller than 44" for sure.
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  • swm77
    swm77 Posts: 18
    Walleye are great to eat, I agree with 1.5lbs are the best eating, biggest I have caught was 12 lbs(released). Oh yeah.

    Caught some big catfish too around that size.
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    12 lbs is huge. I've been in the boat for a 10 lb'er once. Biggest I caught is a 7-lb'er.
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  • swm77
    swm77 Posts: 18
    Bay of Quinty my friend, me and my brother caught over 10 walleyes all over 10 pounds, including a double header with two 12 pounders. We were out in the boat in January about 3 years ago when we had that really mild winter.
  • Songburst
    Songburst Posts: 1,195
    I didn't realize that there were trophy walleye in Southern Ontario -- learn something new every day. Haven't got out yet this year.
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  • eyedclaar
    eyedclaar Posts: 6,980
    The Payette River flooded big time this weekend. Roads and bridges taken out. Chaos everywhere! Cats and dogs getting along; it was fucking crazy. So, while the police and Forest Service were evacuating the back country, my wife and I sat tight and waited for everyone to leave and then drove in around the high water on roads half missing or undercut and about to go. We made our way into one of the deepest little outback primitive resorts in central Idaho with a huge natural hot spring and tons of wildlife and we had it to ourselves!

    The owners were impressed with our gung-ho attitude, and happy to have any business at all.

    We saw some scary big roaring water for sure! Awesome spectacle.
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  • Jason P
    Jason P Posts: 19,289
    I just got back from a week long canoe trip to the Boundary Waters in northern Minnesota last week and had a great time paddling around and fishing. I did OK with the walleye and small jaw, but the damn pike would not leave me alone.

    This was my first extended trip into BWCA and I can't wait to get back up there later this summer. I love how everything interconnects up there.
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  • swm77
    swm77 Posts: 18
    Just got back from doing 45 km in 3 days! Fun shit went down some rapids hitting rocks which turned me sideways then went down the rest of the way backwards.

    Hoorah!

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