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Solo trip or with a buddy? Combine your gear if with a buddy. Have one pack for fishing gear/ waders and one pack for the rest of the stuff. Buy a set of lightweight waders if you need em. or cut down a pair of chest waders into hippers and make do. Or wet wade. depends on the time of year, but 99% of my trips in this fashion I wet wade.
Patagonia hip/chest pack. Either as a lumbar pack or slung over the shoulder like Indiana Jones’s satchel.
The uhmw plastic shoe is screwed on. Glue don’t stick to it. It is a 1/4″ thick piece of plastic. They have a flaw though, too. The contraction/expansion rate of the plastic versus wood is very different. This tends to cause the shoe to pull the screws out of the wood.
Go over to my other home. http://www.woodenboatpeople.com and learn about all of the various bottom treatments folks have used over the years. There is age old debate on what the *best* bottom treatment is.
There is a revival in the old fashioned wood shoe. I’m one of the folks re-using this method, having done plastic shoes, glass bottoms and other various treatments to wood boats. The wood shoe is essentially a 1/4″ “sacrificial” plywood shoe over the 1/2″ or 5/8″ bottom. The shoe is meant to be worn out (It will take you YEARS) and replaced.
There are many ways to do it. I run a Class 3 and the wood shoe is what I use on three of my 7 builds. My future builds for myself and my customers will all be wood shoes. Also, the better rower you become, the less hits you’ll take!
Bike lock man!
Lock a bike to a tree, use the same lock to lock the boat up.
people tend to not mess with a registered boat. Or I have been lucky so far.
Dan,
Considering your last name is “Wood”….
You need one of these.http://www.itinerantangler.com/cgi-bin/board/YaBB.pl?num=1317419423
Under $800 as built.
Motors well. Has been dragged through the woods 75 yards over rocks, gravel, logs, rebar and concrete to the river last week to shoot ducks.
Stick it in the bed of a full size truck, no trailer needed.
Don’t underestimate the value, durability and class of wood. It is not the “rotting” material modern boat makers lead you to believe.I’ve owned em all and come back to hard boats in wood every time.
All of these drags are some sort of friction disk/dissimilar materials and some sort of compression mechanism.
Go over to http://www.fiberglassflyrodders.com or Cameron might be able to help you out.
Glass is a cool period in fly rod development
