Odyssey

The walleye season confuses me. So it closes mid April and reopens late May? I assume the closure relates to spawning?

In general, an artifact has a cultural context. Time is irrelevant in whether or not the item is an artifact. Field archaeologists will...

Should've replaced those CarbFibe rails with ash gunnels. lol

Cripes, I forgot what lake ice looked like in spring. Last time I spent any time on it we were playing shinny. Nice pics of a great...

It's been all work no play this year, haven't been outside at all this winter. Walleye season closed this weekend, so Irene and I...

Aslowhand and I drove for several hours into the French part of Switzerland to paddle on Lac de Joux. The paddle in to this favorite...

We launched from Kanu Klub Thun put-in. I also had a borrowed life jacket from them. It is the most comfortable and secure life jacket...

[Admin note: I have moved the following two posts by @Erica into their own thread in this forum from the Photo of the Day thread.] For...

funny story about spam- one time we were snowshoeing into an area looking for a lost lake that even the locals didn't know existed, it...

I have to challenge the idea that a skeg will automatically add efficiency to a canoe. I call on my sailing dinghy experience for this...

No need for a skeg or rudder on a canoe. Maybe it could be useful if you only paddle lakes for the rest of your life. I built a sea...

Many of us here own multiple canoes, for a variety of reasons. I'd like to think it is because each canoe does something better than the...

I'm told the riffles and rapids on Lawyers Creek are hard to read and mistakes can be very costly to deal with.

Not every relic can be recovered. We have indigenous grandchildren, one of whom is doing her masters degree in indigenous studies etc...

You mention things like optimum prismatic coefficient, Swede form, asymmetrical rocker, Kevlar, carbon fiber and CAD, all things that...