Fly fishing from a canoe?

William Claspy wrote in
:

On 6/6/06 2:55 PM, in article
, "rw"
wrote:

Tom Nakashima wrote:
"rw" wrote in message
m...

A kick boat is a far better choice than a canoe. You can use the
oars for speed and you can use fins to control the boat while
fishing.


I take it you are kidding rw?

I'm not kidding the least little bit. Kick boats are designed and
built for fishing. Canoes aren't.

That said, the guy HAS a canoe, (probably) doesn't have a kick boat,
and sounds like he is just getting started in fly fishing, potentially
on a limited budget. In which case, his canoe will do just fine. :-)

Pete, I fished from a canoe just two days ago, in a pretty steady
wind. As Tim suggested, you will find an anchor and/or another
oarsman helpful in this kind of condition.

My canoe fishing is almost exclusively for warm water species, and at
that almost exclusively top water, popper* fishing**, for which a
floating line is fine...

Actually, that sounds exactly like what I'm aiming for. I love topwater
fishing; I think that's what drew me to fly fishing to begin with.