Trad canoe ?

[horatio1226]

Great pics! Thanks

[ber643]

Always enjoy your "frontier" pics so much, Ron, as we've discussed before.

[John Nail]

Tim, I've rarely been without a canoe for almost 45 years. It's the stern for me.

[Brian Krebs]

I have paddled many miles with a 21 foot 'michicraft' canoe. It had a flat bottom; and about a 3 foot beam on it. I could stand up in it and shoot carp. My brother and I could slip right over 2 inches of water with it. I love the right canoe!!!

Laddy: gotta know; when you were duck hunting and shot a deer...it wasn't December 25th was it???  

[Ron LaClair]

That's me in my little 12' canvas canoe next to a friends 27' North Canoe.

   

[laddy]

It was back in the 80s, I noticed how the duck flights moved to the rivers.  I think because of hunting pressure.  The ducks mostly teal were holding in the back eddies.  We would lay low and drift by them and shot most while on the water.  One morning a small buck joined the ducks we spotted, shot him at about 18 yards, double lung pass through and a short blood trail.

[Ron LaClair]

Checking the map on a 100 mile trip along the North shore of Lake Superior.
   

I was the bow man in the 5 man crew.
   

[Dave2old]

Ron -- Up with little canoes! You da man! Dave

[Orion]

Laddy:  I've done a fair amount of floating small streams for ducks.  Good way to hunt.  During that time, I've also floated up to and/or past by some good bucks in the water or bedded on the banks.  This was almost always during bow season.  Just never thought about taking my bow along.  I have a 12 1/2 wood and canvas canoe I build for the purpose.  Maybe in the future, I'll stow my bow as well.

[Flinttim]

Well, I got it home today. It's a 15 footer and all I can find on it is a small plate that say "Explorer Industries-Pleasant Lake Indiana " That's it. Just some no name generic canoe, but we'll have some fun with it.
 The stern it is John. I like the bow best anyway. You get first look at what you are about to flip over on.  

[cvarcher]

When I think traditional canoe I think wood like this one (My Indian Girl)
 

[Orion]

CV archer.  Nice boat.  That's another model I build.  Rushton Indian Girl, 16 foot.  A joy to paddle.

[laddy]

I am supposed  to go to the Coon Rapids shoot the middle of June and we are taking my grandson on his second canoe trip to Canada for his second birthday in July, his mom was eight months along when he was on his first trip.  All this canoe stuff makes me just want to go canoeing and skip the shoot.

[Brian Krebs]

Ron - are those pictures from tintypes?

     

[Flinttim]

I once had a 16' Penn Yann boat. My brother in law bought it at a sale not knowing what it was. The canvas cover scared him away. He gave it to me knowing I worked in canvas anyway. Cane seats, brass oarlocks, brass everything. I stuck it in the corner of an old barn we had on the place, meaning to get to it someday. Years later I wanted rid of the old barn and with Fire Dept help burned it down.Forgot the old canvas boat was in there.Another lost moment.    

16' boat and a guy could pick it up and run with it.  

[barebow]

Ron,

Great photos! You've done the kinds of hunts that a lot of us have only dreamed about. Thanks for the inspiration.

[McGeeM]

Ron, you have the best pictures and some of the best experiences that most can only hope to have. I am one of those that can only hope