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I’d sure be more comfortable. More fish?, who knows, though after spending that kind of $ I’d probably spend more time on the water.

looks like Pennywise. Scariest was some sort of snake trying to get in the canoe, hard to run if it gets in. 2 mink playing on the waters edge about 10’ away. 4 otters at one time, in a small pond. A log that I pushed away with my hand to find out it was the biggest snapper I’ve seen.

In the same boat I let out roughly 3’ or 4’ after it hits the bottom, works for me. When I drop the anchor I want to stay where I am, not 20’ away.

If I didn’t use an anchor, and yes sometimes 2, I wouldn’t fish. I use shot filled pvc to avoid getting one snagged. Of course I’m in a canoe so I have room for such.

As a kid we had a gas reel type, had to wrap the pull rope around the spool to get it running. It was power driven and would eat anything it ran into, you had to push down on the back to lift the drive wheels so you could drag it backwards. I tried looking for pics but didn’t turn up anything. Used a manual reel when we lived in Omaha, the yard was less then a 1/4 acre. 60 years later I use a Bad Boy ZT, I actually enjoy cutting the lawn again. i used to be pretty anal about a green weed free lawn, then the town started banning water use every summer so I gave up. A guy down the street tried having a well put in so he could water, no luck.

Nice going. I wonder how many years it takes me to catch 1000 fish.

I use Seagaur Blue for abrasion resistance.

When I first started cigars I used Macanudo Golds in the Hampton Court size, besides being light enough for a rookie the tubes work well to keep them from getting crushed in the tackle box. Fairly hard to find but one can order them from one of the bigger online stores.

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I say something if I get a big one on, mostly just telling it to stay on in some form., maybe a whoop of some sort if it gets landed. I most certainly do say something if it gets off, like what you yell when you bang your head working on the bathroom sink piping.

I started canoeing to go canoe camping in Maine and NY when I got too old for backpacking. I enjoyed the solitude of canoeing with my wife on uninhabited waters and started doing it locally without the camping aspect. When my wife stopped wanting to go I needed something to do while on the water so I started bass fishing. I’ve always saltwater fished, this was my first try at fresh. Takes a good while to learn when you have no one to teach you. Learned mostly trial and error, books instead of the internet.

more then once. Left lane hogs.

People that park in handicapped spots that obviously are not handicapped when you see them walk into the store.

While I use the truck bed or up on the roof depending on which boat I bring, your post begs the question, what constitutes “car top”. Is a kayak on a trailer “car top”?

Dewalt plugin here, works great, easy to change blades. If I were buying now I’d go with whatever line of battery powered I was using, in my case the red ones. Not exactly a finesse tool so brand isn’t a big concern. Ryobi is probably good enough if you want to save a few $.

Thanks all, just called one of the parks, they consider a motor a gas motor, electric is okay. At least that was their understanding, not like I talked to a ranger.

It’s not a registration question, it’s can you put a yak with a tm in a pond that says no motors?

For some of you kayak folks… Looking at some state park ponds in central Ma, the web sites say they allow car top non motorized boats. Is a trolling motor powered kayak considered motorized?

I run my fingers down the line a few inches after every fish, if I feel a burr it gets retired, at least I try to do this. I still get bit off now and then but not nearly as much as I used to.

“Ironically, her house is the newest house on the pond. She's only been there for two years and seems to have already claimed the water.“ This is what I had guessed before I saw your reply. If one were to post a pond name and how great the fishing there is, she would likely get many more visitors. Of course that would be the end of the great fishing.

I wouldn’t necessarily blame the front office folks, somehow there was something checked saying you had a visit too. I’d put up a stink and make sure the doc knows whether it was her mistake or something else.

Good deal, you got lucky.

I look at the projected wind on Wunderground on Sunday and pick a weekday with the least wind to go out and check on it a few times as it gets closer, last time before I head out. It’s an hour drive and stinks to get there and have to turn around.

Average is probably 5 hrs on the water, can’t sit in the canoe much longer than that.

Yup, same little one Daubs shows. Can’t take it with you on planes, already had to sacrifice 2 of them.