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Reply #10 - Oct 20th, 2013 at 8:08pm
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What's up? No trip report, not even some pics to look at? Come on dude your slacking. That had to be one cool trip.

  
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Reply #11 - Oct 21st, 2013 at 1:42pm
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I hear ya, and will get working on it. As a preview I did meet a guy using a SeaWind canoe, so I think you'll be interested in what I learned from taking to him.

While I review and gather my notes, whatever happened with your Kruger style boat? Did you ever get it? Did I miss some pics?
  
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Reply #12 - Oct 21st, 2013 at 2:04pm
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Yup I finally got the boat. Took a long time to get it. Mostly my fault as I kept telling Scott that I wasn't in a hurry. The boat came out absolutely gorgeous but is plenty scratched up now since I had the bottom half of the boat painted instead of the top half. I disliked the idea of an 18 ft white torpedo underneath the water sticking out like a sore thumb while up against the mangroves. I should blend in nicely now so miss big snook might not spook.

Anyway, I took it on basswood for some 10 days and had a surprisingly enjoyable trip. Whacked lots of quality fish and had a superb time. The boat is exceptional and about half the price of a sea wind with more tripping volume. I think the sea wind might be be sturdier vessel however. I would not want to put the expedition under sail and run it up on a bar.

The basswood trip report is on my blog. The link is at the bottom of my posts. Dig around.
  
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Reply #13 - Oct 22nd, 2013 at 12:48am
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MT -- so I guess my WHITE fiberglass boat is not the ideal snooking craft.  Damn!  Will also affect my success with speckled trout and reds?

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Reply #14 - Oct 22nd, 2013 at 12:44pm
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Puckster wrote on Oct 22nd, 2013 at 12:48am:
MT -- so I guess my WHITE fiberglass boat is not the ideal snooking craft.  Damn!  Will also affect my success with speckled trout and reds?

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Don't sweat the small stuff. I'm a bit anal about not being "loud" when stalking big fish in skinny water. If they don't know your there the odds go up considerably that they will eat.

On the other hand, when fish look up they must certainly get used to seeing big white objects, either in the form of clouds or an endless array of fish catchers.
  
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Reply #15 - Oct 22nd, 2013 at 7:46pm
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OK here goes.

Martha signed up for 2 weeks, I was to join her for the 2nd.

July 22-27 1st week, Rossport to Hattie Cove. They had rough weather all week and never made it all the way to Hattie Cove. The group was one guide (the owner), Martha, and another gal we didn't know. The other gal said she had done trips on Superior before, but seemed unprepared for this trip. Martha had to loan her gear. Her clothes weren't warm enough and she didn't have rain gear, just some kind of windbreaker. During one heavy headwind travel day the guide had to tow her. Later I heard from the owner's wife that he was very impressed with Martha. The trip ended short at Neys Park. One of the drawbacks of guided trips is you don't know the abilities of your group members.

Martha stayed in Marathon near the start of the 2nd week trip, Hattie Cove (Pukaskwa National Park) to Michipicoten.
  
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Reply #16 - Oct 23rd, 2013 at 1:17pm
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I meet the outfitter near Goulais River for the ride up to Marathon. We had a nice gal, Chantal, from Quebec joining us for the trip and we picked her up at an alternate meeting site. Marathon seemed nicer than I expected. I remember hearing how polluted the area was from the mills but it was pretty nice. Soon we had Martha and continued to put in at Hattie Cove. We wanted to get out from the car camping/lodge area, just a few k’s. We found the first point in open water was a bit lumpy, so we took a break in a small bay and reset our paddling gear for a brief but tough paddle. Not much of an easy warm-up to paddling on Superior, but everyone did fine. There was another point we wanted clear. But it would only have knocked off 3 more k’s and we had thunder. So we found a campsite in Playter Harbor and stopped. The rough weather pattern seemed to be settled in.
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Reply #17 - Oct 23rd, 2013 at 1:31pm
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What kind of craft were you paddling? Could you camp anywhere?
  
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Reply #18 - Oct 23rd, 2013 at 1:51pm
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We're all in single seat British style kayaks.

I think you could camp anywhere. We used a cobble beach one night.
  
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Reply #19 - Oct 23rd, 2013 at 1:56pm
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July 31, 2013
We got an early start but we got caught in some heavy rain. Bruce (our guide) lost his graphite paddle while pulling out his Gore-Tex top. So now he’s using his spare. We pulled up onto a beach and rigged the tarp, and it dumped buckets of rain. After the rain slowed a bit we paddled a bit farther and stopped at Willow River. The day was cool, thick fog, rain, and thunder. The area is a popular camping spot for hikers. The only hikers camped there were leaving and we waited and got their choice spot to camp.

Later 4 young gals came hiking through. They didn’t speak much English, long story short, they were in bad shape. Turns out they were from France, Chantal did some translating and Bruce used his new InReach to get the park to come rescue them. They didn’t have great rain gear and no bug juice. One gal’s eye was almost swollen shut from the bug bites. The park showed up in a Zodiac and after a brief assessment hauled them off.
  
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