Sold to Tyler and his young beginner!

I ended up picking up a yard- sale square stern canoe and have run out of space for boats so my tarpon 140 has to go.

Full details:
The Bad - I bought it used and it looks like they'd stored it right side up, so there's a touch of english to the keel if you look hard enough. There's also some slight oil canning in the center of the hull (all visible in the photos). The backrest was also cracked when I got it, my solution involved heavy gauge wire and epoxy which has held for me over the last year or so. The hatches on this era of boat also have a tendency to let some water in if you're taking a lot of water over the top.

The Good - It floats! I added flush mount rod holders in the back and replaced all of the bungee with fresh orange bungee cord. I also installed an anchor trolley and some yakattack mighty mounts. While it's not much for standing and fishing, it's a pretty darn quick kayak and I found it to be very stable when sitting. The side handles have been replaced. I've also treated it semi-regularly with 303 to try and keep it fresh.

For NCKA I'm thinking $330 $280 seems a fair price. I'll definitely miss it, but my kiddo just keeps growing and very much prefers the space in the canoe.

Located in the Sacramento area. 

Great to meet everyone and do some kokanee fishing!

My morning trip was uneventful though a bit later than would have been ideal, everyone was already on the water by the time I arrived! Naturally instead of introducing myself on the radio I mostly kept to myself and lurked around trolling.
Call it a shy streak? I managed to catch one koke near the brown-trout-pens very quickly, but couldn't put together a pattern. By noon I had three, each one deeper than the last. I moved from brad's kokanee cut plugs to teardrop dodgers and purple pink hoochies.

Come noon I made my way to the beach, donated to AOTY prizes in a roundabout way and did my best to make friends! It turns out quite a few folks here have reckless motorcycle histories and I had fun reminiscing.

Since I had somewhat limited time I excused myself from camp after lunch and decided I would try my luck at worst-time-of-day fishing. My efforts were rewarded by a 4th and final koke and my first glide-bait fish!

Young bass are so ambitious.



I can't wait for the next one!

Looking forward to the weekend!

Here's hoping the work-week goes by quickly.

Do most of these trails require plated vehicles, or would green stickers suffice?

My "4x4" is basically a minivan, so for any serious offroad I'd have to bring something a bit smokier.

Seen a few of these videos and just makes me think that this is another FnS sinking:

Well they certainly had an adventure. I expected the first because of the thumbnail, but number 2? Why all the duct tape on the hull?

That's awesome, you've inspired me to do the same (whenever I can make the time).