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Right now, my great fear in canoeing are "strainers", or fallen trees on a river.

Hello Robin, The first one makes a better 'bumper' or truck sticker. Fonts on second one are hard to see at a distance. Simple is good. Cary

It does look good, although I think any picture with a tilted horizon belongs in a Recycle Bin.

My favorite smallie lure is either a Bomber Model A or Rapala Fat Rap, either one in crawdad color and used with a bait caster reel and low stretch line. Cary

Enjoyed it! :)

Hello FM. I have a Camper too and bought a smaller recreational canoe to make things a bit easier solo. Hope to hear more of paddling in MI and make it up there too.

Thanks for this. I enjoyed it. Cary

Thanks for this, yellowcanoe. I love a photo essay and detest clicking on thumbnails. Can you tell what you did to get the pics to display without the thumbnails? thanks. Cary

Congratulations on your new canoe! It is a good feeling.

You are uploading thumbnails. Please use pics that are large enough to see.

Thanks, I enjoyed seeing the pics. It looks great!

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pblanc: I definitely want to hit the Sugar Creek. That is Turkey Run, no? Probably best to wait for school to start up again before going there. Thank you yellowcanoe! I took a trip a little further south and paddled J.C. Murphy lake at Willow Slough FWA. Picture is from yesterday at my rest...

Thanks to everyone. I want to learn what I can before making my first trips on the Kankakee. Sadly, it is not the case with everyone and the Kankakee claimed a young canoeist's life in the last week. Details I saw were sketchy, but I thought it was easily preventable with some forethought (4...

Again, thanks. I saw of what you mentioned about the different gauge locations when I checked others up river. When the river makes the news at flood stage, it is the Shelby location that is reported, so I will keep track of it and get a feel for what the river is doing. I'll get an average mph...

Thanks very much. I will look into the link.

Hello, Now that I am a paddler I take great interest in my closest river system, the Kankakee River. I use the following NWS Hydrograph to keep track of conditions: http://water.weather.gov/ahps2/hydrograph.php?wfo=lot&gage=slbi3 Could someone define KCFS for me please? It is the unit of...

Thank you for the report. I enjoy seeing it and the history in the photos. Even at 10 mph, a canoe is still slow :)

Good luck to you Pete.

Thank you for visiting my thread Robin. I drove over to Rock Island, IL to pick up the canoe and the folks at Navarro were just great. I'll be retiring relatively soon and will be spending much time up North, but for now my adventures start down here. :)