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Strategies & Market Trends : Fascist Oligarchs Attack Cute Cuddly Canadians

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To: E. Charters who wrote (854)	12/2/2002 9:45:01 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (2) of 1293

Now, see, this is what I mean. The Great Canadian Pastime. Nothing quite like talking about canoes in winter, although drinking coffee and telling tall tales and lies about past winter snow and ice storms comes a close second. Interesting about the paddling strokes. I use all kinds depending on the river, the wind, what mood I happen to be in. I keep an old Sportspal here that I use when I want to train a young dog how to travel quietly in a canoe. However, it is a barge to paddle, especially solo with a couple of big dogs as ballast in the front end. But one thing the old Sportspals are excellent for is as a kid's canoe. I occasionally come upon children using them for fishing and doing their Tom Sawyer - Huckleberry Finn thing in the creeks and marshes in some of my local paddling haunts. Probably no safer canoe for kids to go out in -- better than poling around on a homemade raft and they can't get into a hell of a lot of trouble with one when paddling on the backwaters. Always remember meeting some young boys..probably around 10 year olds, floating along in a Sportspal. They had caught a terrific largemouth bass under one of the big willow trees that shades the local creek not far from here. They held it up out of their canoe to show me. Probably as big as any of the trophy bass I've seen come out of the river that the creek runs into. The Sportspals go along pretty well with the oars that come with them. Would never take one out on rough water though. A couple of guys that I know took one out at someone's cottage. Wind came up and the little lake started to get rough. They tried rowing the canoe across the lake and as they rowed over the rising waves, the gunwales started to bend... Probably not so much the canoe's fault as much as these being rather..ahem.... BIG lads. They rowed like hell and got back to shore just before the canoe buckled in the middle. Well, December 2. Only another...oh....4 months until Canoe Season. Damn. This could be a very long winter.

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