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Keith, Thanks a lot. Where does the 62.4 come from?

How do you figure out the capacity of your boat? I want build a flat-bottomed, zero rocker, zero flare outrigger canoe for mostly running up and down the river with a trolling motor. I'm thinking 21 or 22 inch beam, 16 feet length, with an eight foot outrigger off the port side. The trolling...

Yeah, I have a headlamp from my backpacking days. Coast Guard requires a 360 white light. That should be easy enough to mount. I want to catch big fish. It seems night time will be the best way to go. It's not too bad because I work nights anyway. I though of outrigging the pirogue to add...

Have any of you fish at night in a pirogue? I want to do some night fishing. I'm mostly worried about stability and falling into cold deep water in the dark .

Making a hatch DM, thanks for the clarification. When installing a hatch, do you glass the deck first then cut out the circle for the hatch? Or do you cut the circle first or what?

I assume that you use 1/4 (4mm) in plywood for the deck?

When adding a deck, do you glass the whole thing or just the part will sit on top or flush with the gunnels?

Very nice. It looks like you thought things out quit well.

Cool. That's what I was hoping. It seems simple enough and that'll give me time to make other modifications, e.g. deck, anchor trolley or maybe bow and stern anchor type system. Yeah, all I want in a boat to go chase after bluegill. Beater boats for the win. Thanks, man.

I dropped my pirogue yesterday trying to load in onto my Fulton hitch mount thingie. I got one end up onto the rack and began walking the other end around. Well, the thing began to torque. It was either sacrifice my back or sacrifice the boat. So I let the boat go and got out of the way as...

The waters I fish the wind changes direction often. Within 10 minutes you could have and almost 180 degree change in wind. It must be due to the high banking walls or something. Fly casting like that is miserable. Maybe I should just concentrate on roll casting. A trolley system would at...

No, I don't want a new boat. I'd just be nice not to fly cast on a swivel.

Yeah, great points. I've used drift socks, but I can never get the correct angle I need. The trolley system should work with any type of anchor, correct? I could just as easily use a drift sock, stake out pole, or a traditional anchor with that system.

Good point.

Hmm, sounds cool. I'll try it. Chuck, may I'm deathly scared of spiders. So many spiders cast webs in plant and stuff around these part. It nothing to have 4 or 5 of these thing crawling on your stuff. That's why I need to tie up some brown spiders.

So would adding a deck help or should I just build another boat? I plan on fishing creeks from now one, but this pirogue just get tosted about with even the smallest wind. That realy anoying with the fly rod.

I've been fishing in my pirogue for a season now. I'm having problems with boat control. I spend most of my time try to position the boat and very little time fishing. The wind keeps tossing me about even when anchored. I'm only using one anchor tied off to the side. What do you guys do to...

Cool Sound like as neat a method as any for maggots. I decided to start a meal worm farm instead. It seems a little easier since they are "vegetarian." Many of the pupae have morphed. Now I'm waiting for them to breed.

I was just wondering if super small hooks would be the best thing for maggots. I'm single so it's not much of a problem. So i guess you could make your own maggots with no problem? They're kind of hard to find in baits store here in the US.

Any of you guys fish with maggots? I was thinking of tying a very basic spider type pattern with the beadchain and silly legs only then tips the hook with a maggot. I have never fished with maggots. But I'm willing to try anything. I'm one of these fly fishing only or live bait only type guy...