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First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭✭✭
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Any of you paddle a kayak? Here's a couple of picts of me and my halfside doing what we like to do. Great way of observing nature. We always see eagles and ospreys and herons when we get on the water. image The place is Lake James about an hour down off the mountain, image
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  • wahooschockwahooschock Posts: 792 ✭✭✭
    i have always wanted to but no one I know wants to do it with me.
    I love my pack and a good community (cigars/Vape)
    "I'm at the point in my life where if it doesn't taste good,I'm not putting it in my mouth"
  • Andrew_DzikoskiAndrew_Dzikoski Posts: 381 ✭✭✭
    I picked up some cheap ones from Kmart for $200 a piece and they are a ton of fun but I wont go out with the water this cold around here late spring through summer.
  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The day after 9/11 after watching the second plane hit real time i loaded my kayak and hit Lake James. No planes in the sky no boats on the water. I dug in and hit a rhythm and in four hours paddled 20 miles, 10 up to a dam and back. I thought a lot about my war and the war that was going to be fought by out young men and women. I loaded up my boat and was home time for supper. No big relevations just time by myself.
  • RainRain Posts: 8,958 ✭✭✭
    I was in middle school.
  • FireRobFireRob Posts: 1,890 ✭✭✭
    No kayak, but love to take my canoe out with either the wife or my oldest daughter.
  • TNBigfoot68TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭✭✭

    My son wants to know when we are going again @Bob_Luken

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  • genareddoggenareddog Posts: 4,261 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited August 2020

    We try and go out once a week.

  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Very NICE
    We have 5 SOT Kayaks love paddling through the mangroves and fishing. Used to dive the 2nd reef off them also

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  • YaksterYakster Posts: 28,545 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Down to two SOT Tandems, need to get out in the water again soon.

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  • WylaffWylaff Posts: 5,408 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @VegasFrank said:
    So that's where the man in the boat is! My wife has been telling me to find him for years....

    Once you find him, you have to try to knock him out of the boat. That's how the game is played.

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  • TNBigfoot68TNBigfoot68 Posts: 2,763 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @First_Warrior said:
    My kevlar C.D. Gulfstream. 16'8" by 32". Weighs 37 lbs. My size 13 feet fit in it.

    Looks like the right size for my size 16's lol. That's sweet man.

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  • First_WarriorFirst_Warrior Posts: 3,534 ✭✭✭✭✭

    The Gulfstream is a sweet ride. Comfortable, roomy cockpit, drop down skeg for tracking, and handles weather well. I've been digging in up wind and had the bow buried a few times.

  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @danielzreyes said:

    How do you like that seat? While I do not think it would work on my Caper, I believe it would be fine on the barge (fish n dive)

    It looks like it might be tippy?

    Great set up, looks like a fine fish catching machine

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  • danielzreyesdanielzreyes Posts: 8,771 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Diver43 said:

    @danielzreyes said:

    How do you like that seat? While I do not think it would work on my Caper, I believe it would be fine on the barge (fish n dive)

    It looks like it might be tippy?

    Great set up, looks like a fine fish catching machine

    The seat can be set a lot lower than pictured. I have it at the highest setting because it's easier for when I stand. When I am actually fishing, I am standing 90% of the time. Believe it or not, when you fold the seat down you can attach a standing perch to it. Excellent for sight fishing.

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  • GuitardedGuitarded Posts: 4,715 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @danielzreyes said:

    Anyone else notice that this is shaped like a huge stogie stand?
    I’ve looked all over it and can’t find the Opus X or Davidoff logo.
    Nice rig DZR!

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  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    OK Thanks for the info. There is no standing to fish on a Ocean Kayak Caper, unless your goal is to get wet. The Cobra Fish n Dive there is no problem.
    I am going to check out a seat like that. Looks pretty comfortable

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  • Amos_UmwhatAmos_Umwhat Posts: 9,122 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    I've been too busy to kayak so far this year, but this weekend is looking promising.

    Harpeth River?

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  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 11,055 ✭✭✭✭✭
    edited June 2021

    @Amos_Umwhat said:

    Harpeth River?

    Maybe. I'm not sure really. Judging by the deep and slow looking water, that pic could have been taken on the East Fork Stones River above Walter Hill Dam east of Murfreesboro. But we have been on the Harpeth before, at a place they call "The Narrows" near where Montgomery Bell had an iron furnace. He dug a tunnel there through rock of a narrow ridge and diverted water through it to power a hammer mill in producing iron in the early 1800s.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montgomery_Bell

  • Bob_LukenBob_Luken Posts: 11,055 ✭✭✭✭✭

    Here's my sad face after realizing she did indeed pirate (commandeer, appropriate, steal) my new boat. My plan was for her to move up a grade from the crappy old orange boat to my nicer old blue boat, but I'm still in "old blue".

  • Diver43Diver43 Posts: 2,169 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    So I find this kayak on facebook marketplace, bought it, took it for a spin, and all through the process Deb tries to convince me that the colors are too girly. But mainly she just wants it for herself. I really like it too. Now I need to find another one just like it in battleship grey I suppose.

    While that boat does look a bit girlie, it sure looks sleek and fast in the water
    Bet you need another just to keep up with her

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  • IndustMechIndustMech Posts: 5,107 ✭✭✭✭✭

    @Bob_Luken said:
    Here's my sad face after realizing she did indeed pirate (commandeer, appropriate, steal) my new boat. My plan was for her to move up a grade from the crappy old orange boat to my nicer old blue boat, but I'm still in "old blue".

    Goes with your shirt

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