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Lookin good Ron!

Pretty impressive stuff! Thanks for sharing that!

Using flashing puts me in the mind of Robb White's Making a tin canoe. He took roofing tin and stomped it into shape the formed up the bow and stern by using 1X2 material and sheet metal screws.... Little bit of roofing tar and he was in business! :mrgreen:

Glad ya made it out Joe. Was your high spot a little island just below Lemon lake? I'll slow down sometime here and get out for a few days. Still exploring the upper creek here in Venus. Dad sent me pictures yesterday from his SC house and his boats are covered in SNOW.

3/4" x 1 3/4 for stems no such size to be found Should be 1X2 actual sizes 1 1/2" x 2" for ribs no such size to be found 2X4 ripped down 1 1/4" x 3/4" for rails no such size found look in the moulding department. should be able to find some flat moulding that will work thats close to that...

Great report! The trees along the upper river are swamp tupelos. People generally aren't allowed to hunt at night. Unless they were hog hunting on private land.I might have been tempted to call the game warden. and finally, man you can cover some river miles!!!! I've paddlled the sill to...

AG Russel woods walker with me every day with the hip pocket sheath Just started carying this one a couple of weeks ago and really like it as a necker Both fairly cheap but take and hold a good edge.

Wife decided that the "theme" would be food that we have grown or harvested from our new home in the woods so its a wild hog roast in a mango glaze. sweet potatoes, green beans and key lime pie. To drink will be lemonade from the wild rough lemon tree by the creek.We had to cheat a bit as the...

Its all good Ron. Any bow, compound or stick is a challenge for sure. One thing I forgot to comment on was your comment about flyfishing. I may be one of the few florida boys that have started out at daylight flyfishing for bream in Florida and by that night be up in Georgia setting limblines...

Your not offending me at all Ron. Good stuff indeed and your thoughts paralell mine in a lot of ways. My respect for the animal has made the decision to stick with the recurve one of the hardest. I am shooting that magical 3 inch circle, on paper. 100% of the time within my range. I've stuck to...

Thanks guys, Catfish. You guessed correctly on both counts. I had to track that doe thru a nasty deep wet swamp and it was about 90 degrees that evening. Jack. I'm back to the stick and string for a lot of those same reasons. The compounds today are just to dang complicated. I grew up hunting...

I'm doing ok this season. One big old doe and a little 6 point last night. :mrgreen: This is my first year going totally stick and string. No wheels or gun. Been a trip for sure! I don't know how many I'd have in the freezer if I could take reliable shots at more than 20 yards. Not the the...

Looking good! I've laready purchased the plans and they are very nice. I'm assuming that the kit will be the ribs and transom like the pirogue kit? Theres a bunch of bevels to cut and I don't own a table saw. Hmmm, buy the kit or a table saw? Decisions decisions...... :twisted:

I'm not so sure it wouldn't plane out. I'll know a bit more when I get the plans but it sure looks allot like a gheenoe. Chuck and I both know what those little boats will do with a 5 or 10 hp on it! :mrgreen: But at any rate, I plan on using it about like everybody else. Little 3 or 4 hp...

Uncle John just sent out an email saying the plans are ready. I already ordered mine :mrgreen: Now all I got to do is get thru this wedding, and hunting season and I can start making sawdust!

Hmmm, Think UJ can get the plans done and I can get it built before the 15th of this month? :lol: Going from goodland to hog key for the honeymoon and this would save about 12 miles of paddling! :mrgreen: Naaa, bet I'm paddling....... I like it!

just can't seem to catch it right can ya Chuck? I've made it as far as lemon lake as low as 1.40 with a loaded boat but its more walking in 2 or 3 inches of water than it is paddling. Before you blow it off completely you might look into the possibility of going downstream from the campground...

you had it right Chuck, the little beach and grassy area is about an hour upstream from the take out. except it was no doubt under water at 5.5. Heres what it looks like at really low water. Like 1.5 or so. Perfect level to fail at making ice cream in one of those useless ice cream making...

I went back and checked my pictures and notes and Erica and I paddled the creek 6 months ago at about 5.5 feet at the palmdale guage. Where mac is standing in the first picture, there was enough water to float a boat then. We camped on river right just below sand lake on that trip. Wasn't much...

I've been on the upper stretches a time or two. Real pretty up there. Not sure on the camping prospects though. Once you get below the state park it becomes tidal and spreads way out into a bunch of different channels. Then west of I75 its mostly houses to the bay.