![]() If you’re out of position, you’re often wasting your time. I spent enough time in a canoe on windy days to hate how these high-gunwaled boats caught the wind and got readily turned and re-positioned while I was casting.Ī great deal of fishing success, especially in freshwater and around shorelines and structure or cover, has to do with positioning. ![]() In more than two decades of kayak ownership, I’ve never felt a stability concern, which is something I cannot say about my experience in canoes, most of which had higher seats that provided slightly better viewing (into the water) but more of a tipsy feeling.Īn especially important fishing consideration in the canoe vs kayak deliberation was how it dealt with the wind. We do both general touring as well as kayak fishing out of recreational kayaks (as opposed to whitewater models). When we went paddling and the should-we-do-canoe-vs-kayak-question came up, it was always decided in favor of the latter. We sold our canoes more than a decade ago, as we’d been doing all of our paddling out of kayaks, and the canoes had long been sitting idle, dragged out only as a prop in a photo shoot or television show. So that should tell you where I stand on the canoe vs kayak debate for fishing. Now we have a small fleet of kayaks, at least three of which are set up, and used regularly, for solo sit-down fishing. Sold them all, including the high-end 12-footer with a middle saddle that was suitable for solo paddling (if you kneeled). For many years my wife and I had four canoes, two aluminum and two plastic.
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