Why not more canoeists?

[TnRiver46]

37 minutes ago, Choporoz said:

This.  A couple windy days fishing alone in a canoe is what tilted the balance for me to kayaks.  Now that my boat is tied up outside my back door, the kayaks aren't getting as much use.  I will still kayak small waters away from the house, but most of the time now, I'm in a boat.

Solo canoeing in the wind you’ve gotta sit as close to the middle as possible, I sit in the front seat and face backwards and it’s pretty close. Anchor also helps. Anchor upwind of the spot and make adjustments til ya get there

 

but yeah sit on top kayak is the way to go on windy days but not everyone has both like lucky ole me. Sit in kayaks are even better at cutting the waves but you’re going to take on some water 

[Cuivre]

I used to sit in the front person's seat, facing the other way as well when I fished solo in my canoe.  It gave me some room behind my seat and, of course, helped the weight distribution/stability.  I always brought an anchor with me and either did a figure 8 around my TM bracket bolts or wedged the rope in my seat bracket crack.   

[flyfisher]

Only advantage a canoe has over kayaks is amount of stuff you can haul and potentially weight savings.  Other than that, a canoe is not the best choice for fishing over a canoe in the many different places I have drug mine too and through.  Fun part is it is all what works for you.  For me when i was in the boat market soemthing that was electric or paddle powered made the most sense given the water around me and I settled on a eletric powered kayak and it works great.  

[Motoboss]

Absolutely correct, to each their own @flyfisher ! I will say there isn’t any place I can’t take my canoe that I could take my AP120. I just appreciate the larger interior space and wider stability of the canoe.

[flyfisher]

22 hours ago, Motoboss said:

Absolutely correct, to each their own @flyfisher ! I will say there isn’t any place I can’t take my canoe that I could take my AP120. I just appreciate the larger interior space and wider stability of the canoe.

my dad has the AP140 and I am not a fan, very limited in where it can go and underpowered in my opinion and really sucks if you have to paddle that thing.

[padlin]

I was thinking about this thread yesterday, seems a good number of the ones with a bad taste from canoes have done so after fishing in 2 seaters, kind of like fishing from a tandem yak, executed the front resin at least has leg room on a yak. I would agree fishing the front seat on a 2 seat canoe is for the birds. Sitting bass ackwards in the front to go solo is only marginally better. 
 

One of these days I’ll borrow my son in laws fishing yak and try it out, not that I’d get one, I think.