gotmuddy

Anymore I can see no reason to pick a aluminum canoe over a plastic one, especially with the price of aluminum canoes nowadays. Any particular reason you want aluminum over plastic?

browns at C9R, thats amazing. I now know what I will be doing this winter while we are riding. There are some pretty good sized rainbows there also.

it should be possible but if the water is that high it will only take an hour to get to shipps ferry or less to get to cartney.

thanks, we are excited.

I hope to buy a boat in the next two years. That way the wife and I will have something to take on the river with our son who will be born in January.

You can float the buffalo at any level. The only time I have done Rush down in a canoe it was mid august, and the gauge was at 2.5' at Harriet(lowest gauge). We didnt do hardly any dragging. There is a small cut in the island that you can take which will help you get to Riley's easily. BTW, they do not shuttle anymore, but the place across the road from the rush turnoff does for $60.

I am hoping to be hooking a few reds when we go to TX in two weeks. Great eating.

I should be on the texas coast at the end of the month, and if I am lucky I will be doing some tuna fishing. I will be red and spec fishing regardless.

crawfish down in the flatlands are a completely different animal. they burrow in mud. go to NFoW, there is a stupid amount of crawfish in that river.

I would rather use them

Brian, I can come out this weekend and thin them out. Sunday likely.

the lower section of the buffalo HAS to be fished from a boat to be fished effectively. it is just too big. With only one access point you couldnt fish the buffalo from a canoe very well.

I have a 7x7 tent by timber creek. tellico is name.

my boat can be drug up gravel shoals but nearly as good as a fiberglass boat. IMO its like aluminum canoe's compared to fiberglass/royalex. before I had the boat I have now I had a 15' flatbottom skiff that was 41" wide. two people could stand up and fish just fine in it(two can stand up in my 36" boat too though). The wider the boat the less water it floats in. For durability, think about it like this: what hull material to all the boat rental places use? fiberglass. IMO they dont allow jet boats for the protection of people, not the river. When the river is as low as it is now even a jet can't run it without tearing up a hull.

my riverboat is a 18x36 aluminum boat with a front deck, 9.9 mariner, and a manual jackplate. I got it cheap so its ok but preferably I want a fiberglass boat. I may try using gluv-it on the hull to slick it up. That being said I would take a fiberglass boat over an aluminum one any day of the week. They slide over rocks amazingly easy. Depending on where you intend to spend most of your time (buffalo or white) the width of the boat would be different. If you want to fish buffalo mainly then I would get a 48" bottom shawnee or js boat. if you want to fish the white the majority of the time I would get a 42" because a 9.9 pushing a wide boat will be slower, and way slower in high water. I borrowed a boat from www.rileystation.com that was a 48" js boat and I absolutely loved it. If your in the market for a boat right now look in mtn home just east of cranfield road. There is a boat consignment place that has a older champion 42" bottom riverboat in excellent condition with a brand new looking 9.9 for 2500 or so.

get a 12v water supply and dip a bilge pump in the water.

that will be awesome, I will have to be there for that. Hopefully the weighin wont be extremely far from me.

The people who die on the white die from boats flipping and hypothermia. The only way I would try a boat like that is doing a drift float.

I have always loved Academy, talk about a BOLD move though.

fishing was poor. weather was nice.

a quick google sirch came up with a size of 26 acres.

the little black river runs just south of town. right by where we go 4-wheeling(bricks 4x4 farm)

I need to go fishing on NFoW this weekend! Chain pickerel are fun to catch.

I never fish lakes. I do have a box of jerkbaits collecting dust though. I am hoping I have a jet for my 25hp merc by the time it gets real cold so I can fish eleven point.

there is always some idiot that wants to ruin things for people. doubtful they will find out who did it. where does noblet lake dump into?