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Post by osprey on Feb 23, 2007 10:05:46 GMT -5
How many other paddlers we got on here? Canoes?? Kayaks???
I'm into both, even had a outfitting/guiding business for a bit, and still have my original 14' Old Town canoe and a 13'8" tandem OT Loon kayak. Probably use the yak more than anything - fishing, hunting, just tooling around and exploring creeks and looking for old washed out bottle piles along the marsh edges.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Feb 23, 2007 10:08:40 GMT -5
I've wanted to get a kayak for a while now, just haven't done it yet. A lot of small creeks around me to explore...just need to get a kayak.
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Feb 24, 2007 22:09:20 GMT -5
I have a canoe and kayak. Usewd the canoe a bit but the last action the kayak saw was about three years ago in the shendoah river. I did have it in my pool last year just messing around. It would be pretty neat to go out with a few kayaks/canoes to just take a nice ride. What are the bottle piles your tring to find. You collect bottles?
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Post by osprey on Feb 25, 2007 17:42:44 GMT -5
Yeah, another of my hobbies, guys at work got me into it. Got some neat stuff, 1800's glass from old dump sites. Lots of the tidal marshes were used as home dumpsites, now the stuff is washing out the edges as erosion takes it's toll. Heck, I've talked to a few clammers that dredge up piles while clamming 100-200 yards from shore! Find a lot poking about in the woods, too, both hunting and while at work checking for skeeter breeding sites.
What type kayak you got? Sit on top or cockpit design? I see so many people get the sit-on-tops, which are neat for summer and fishing, but then they realize when it gets cold they can't use them. I like a nice, big, open cockpit so even if you flip (which is nearly impossible down here, except for getting in and out) you're not trapped, plus the sides and solid hull make it so I can still use it in the winter. Throw a few decoys in and it's a duck boat. Throw the stand and bow in and it's a sika warrior. I probably use mine most March - May just poking around and exploring, partly because the water is clear enough to see bottom out to 4-5' on most days.
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Feb 25, 2007 20:45:51 GMT -5
Its an old town I got for free a few years ago. It was brand new at the time. Its a cockpit design but not real long so I'm always a little worried about rolling it. I'd like to take it out this year and do a little yaking. I have some real nice places to go down bt me. Macintosh stream that leads to brenton bay. I have wanted to go in spring to catch turtles. Maybe look for a new spot to bowfish for some carp. I also collect bottles. Not all kinds mostly old soda bottles. Throw the "coke" ones away and keep the rest. Find alot while hunting old farms where they use to bury there trash. Boxed all of them up six months ago to turn that room into another nursery. I also like going threw old abandoned houses and barns, exploring and looking for any cool old stuff. I like cool old stuff.
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Post by osprey on Feb 26, 2007 10:23:13 GMT -5
You throw the cokes away??? I don't keep the newer painted label ones, but the really old ones with the different patent dates and the manufacturing location stamped on the bottom are good ones. One of the guys at work collects the old stamped glass milk bottles, I love finding one he doesn't have and holding out for a good trade!!!
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Post by osprey on Mar 22, 2007 14:57:47 GMT -5
Got out for a bit today, checking some sika areas, bit of bottle hunting (founda good Davis OK baking soda bottle along the shore, like finding a $2 bill ;D). Here's going down a straight section of creek.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Mar 22, 2007 15:09:29 GMT -5
I think I recognize that small tree on the right! Guess I've got a new sika spot. ;D ;D
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Post by osprey on Mar 22, 2007 15:19:27 GMT -5
If you can find it from that you're welcome to have a go at 'em! Gives me a good idea for a game. I'll hide something in the recesses of sika country and give you a photo clue or two - we'll see how long it takes anybody on here to find it!
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Post by Hardcorehunter on Mar 22, 2007 20:35:04 GMT -5
Sounds like fun. You ever find any old Pepsi bottles out there. Like from the thirties or forties?
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Post by BIG FOX on Mar 23, 2007 5:21:49 GMT -5
he has some of those he bought when they first came out.. ha ha ha ha ha ha, got them for 2 bits......
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Post by BIG FOX on Mar 23, 2007 5:22:22 GMT -5
just jokin OSPREY i joke because i am so jealous...
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Post by osprey on Mar 23, 2007 6:37:42 GMT -5
It's okay Fox. Just remember that when your sika stand is two miles deep over an old graveyard and we don't come get you 'til midnight. I've got a few older Pepsi bottles, but not too many. Never found any as old as the Coke bottles. Anything that has a screw top I don't even pick up.
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Post by busco on Mar 23, 2007 6:45:56 GMT -5
went searching around an old falling down house behind my place 2 weeks ago. found a bunch of seagrams bottles from 1860's on up the only two soda bottles were a crass bottle and an upper ten bottle nothing really neat..
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Post by BIG FOX on Mar 23, 2007 6:51:43 GMT -5
osprey....... you make me laugh
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