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This is my primary fishing canoe. \u00a0As you can see, it’s a two man. \u00a0Old Town also makes a Guide 119 which I would love to try out, but I have never seen one locally. \u00a0This canoe is 38″ wide and has chines on the side which enhance its stability. \u00a0My version doesn’t have the chairbacks. \u00a0I hate the chairbacks; if you buy one with chairbacks take them out before they hurt you.<\/p>\n
Why? Because you need to stand to fish solo out of a canoe effectively. \u00a0The best setup would be to use a shorter standup paddle board (SUP) paddle, so you don’t shred your low back muscles. \u00a0I stand immediately in front of the rear seat, and use the front area for storage. \u00a0My canoe cart wheels and axle go up under the front seat. \u00a0Typically I have a small soft-sided cooler, my fly box, and a dry bag full of tools and carry ropes, etc., in the front-middle compartment. \u00a0In the rear area I keep a section of climbing rope tied to a bundle of chains, as an anchor, and my life jacket for easy access. \u00a0That’s my entire setup. \u00a0I just lay my rod across the central thwart and take it easy.<\/p>\n
What I like most about the Guide is its very flat layout and forgiving nature. \u00a0It is slow, terrible to paddle upstream, and somewhat cumbersome compared to a kayak. \u00a0But in that boat, *I* am much more agile than my friends in their kayaks. \u00a0Because I don’t have to worry about boat stability as much, I can rotate if the boat starts a slow spin and simply keep fishing, sometimes even facing backwards. \u00a0I don’t need outriggers or complicated storage solutions. \u00a0Car-topping is easy. \u00a0And best of all, I bought this boat on Craiglist for $350 with paddles. \u00a0There are lots of deals like that out there if you look.<\/p>\n
Rating: \u00a0<\/strong>4.5 Stars out of 5 (could be lighter)<\/p>\n Suggestion for Old Town :<\/strong> Make the 119 model with chines and a wider bottom for stand up fishing.<\/p>\n Price:<\/strong> $650 MSRP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" This is my primary fishing canoe. \u00a0As you can see, it’s a two man. \u00a0Old Town also makes a Guide 119 which I would love to try out, but I have never seen one locally. \u00a0This canoe is 38″ wide and has chines on the side which enhance its …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3103","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-gear-reviews","column","onecol","has-thumbnail"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/files\/2014\/04\/Guide147_red_angle_zoom.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3103"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3108,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3103\/revisions\/3108"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3103"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3103"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itinerantangler.com\/blog\/podcasts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3103"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}