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Agreed, there are circumstances where a shorter pole is fine or even preferrable

The clanking noise is my least favorite part of poling. One solution is to go back to shoeless and keep trimming off an inch every time the end gets to smashed up and frayed. My first pole was just a spruce snag, cleaned up but with no shoe. Worked pretty well my first season. 10ft is...

Dang, I would love to paddle in some deep snowy woods like that!

@kahel a year later and I have a trip upcoming and am finally looking to make myself a hanging table like yours. Can I ask the dimensions? What radius did you use for the curve? Are you happy with the size and shape or would you change it if you were making another?

A quick paddle before work is the best way to start the day.

Sounds intense! Given that I'm usually by myself poling, I might hesitate to try such a move. But maybe with other folks around

Thanks for the explanation, Rick, that makes sense. Steve, it sounds like you're describing a turn almost broadside to the current, but perhaps the angle of boat to current is much shallower than the word 'turn' implies? But if I follow, your pole is on the main-current side in the eddy as...

Right now we're leaning towards the Clarion, with the Allegheny as a low-water back up. As intriguing as the Little Muskingum is, we need approximate travel times to do our vacation requests for work - the PA rivers are close to each other in drive time. We're hoping that by getting on the...

Another advantage to back-country tripping.

Both Harry Rock and Garret Conover explain in their books that the advantage to being trimmed upstream end light in a current is that the current slides under the bottom of the hull, exerting minimal force on the sides. With the upstream stem in the water, any angle of the canoe to the current...

Seems like the answer is: "it depends". Thankfully when poling, trim is easily adjusted on the fly by means of hopping.

Right and right. I just picked a single simple example to imagine, but yes I assume a mid-stream would serve as well.

The last cabin I stayed in also had an awesome free-standing coat rack made from a whole small tree with the branches trimmed and rounded off, and a lumber base added. All sanded smooth and finished nicely, form and function. My hooks are all function and no form now, but functioning is a start.

Modern technology is awesome sometimes. Sometimes the old ways are just as good or better. It's nice to find traditional practices that still work great today. That axe might ward off the lawyers....let me know if you can get it to stop the robo-callers!😆

Let me see if I understand correctly. Say you're facing upstream in an eddy on river right (so the shore is on your left). Is your pole on your left (shore) side, or on your right (towards the main current)? Assuming a straight reach with an eddyline parallel to the main current, how much...

I appreciate tradition and experimentation. If you want to, I say try it. But personally I'd start with reversible modifications. Try hanging something off the back and see how it feels. Of course the dynamics might be different sticking off the back vs placement a foot or two forward of the...

I'll just add that I think weight can be a really important factor. If it's a pain to get it on the car, you won't use it as much. I can't say how much weight that is for you, but for me the difference btwn a 50lb and a 60lb boat is the difference between one I don't hesitate to throw on the...

Ok, so the post is actually about hooks for poles, and they're not on a wall, but the idea could be applied widely. I wanted easier access storage for my poles, so I'd been playing around with attaching some scraps to the back of my rolling boat rack. At first I was using some trim to support...

Thanks, Steve, that's all helpful info. The last video looks more like the creek I was on last Sunday - shallow, gravel bottom, consistent current and gradient; drops were more riffles than ledges. I felt like I did pretty well there. My spot on Friday evening where I was really struggling is...