I keep a Kayak on my pond. Yeah, I know it is hard on the plastics to leave them exposed to Ultraviolet. I keep it stored when I am not using it often, and I have a cover for it as well. I have looked for a protectant to apply to the surface. I recently found several UV protectants online while I was looking at different Kayak accessories. I'll leave a link for this at the bottom of this post, and I will review this one and any others I find in the near future. This Kayak is new to me this year. I have another one, but I saw a deal I couldn't refuse on this sit-on-top Emotion Tandemonium model. These are pretty popular and I like this one a lot, but I am having to customize it to my satisfaction. I have wanted one of this style kayak for fishing for a while now. My other one is a more conventional type Kayak with a entry cockpit that you sit inside, which is fine for some things but as my personal mobility is increasingly compromised each year with age and illness, I have difficulty using the sit-inside style kayak.It is not ideal when you find tht the easiest way to disembark from your boat by intentionally capsizing in water deep enough to swim downward far enough to clear it.
There has been a explosion in the varieties of kayaks available today--from the more conventionally shaped sit-inside plasic craft to the sit-on-top plastic variety which lends greater stability and accessibility for big (fat) guys like me. My age and health may hinder my mobility walking and even being able to stand from the flat sitting position required by the sit-on-top model, but with a little ingenuity it does not have to prevent me from fishing from this more stable and portable platform. Using my bean-bag style kayak Ass-Set portable seat and flotation device, if I can get my old body there, I can then fish from the boat. The Ass-Set provides both back and butt support in good comfort as well as enough height above the kayak surface to make embarking and disembarking--from the seat, the kayak, and the water--if not easy, at least possible. The seat is light-weight and portable and it doubles as a flotation device in the unlikey event of capsizing. In such an event, the sit-on-top kayak style is more easily righted and boarded--even by a crippled old fat man.
Boats are quite often pertinent to any discussion of fishing methods. Often getting there is one of the most important ingredients to successful fishing. My dad usually kept a Jon-boat, which is a small flat-bottomed boat made for one-to-three passengers for fishing in lakes typical of the South that have a lot of Cypress trees and stumps growing in them. These boats are small and light-weight. They are sufficiently wide enough to provide a great deal of stability even while standing. they are usually built with two or three bench seats. They can be used with or without a gas-operated outboard motor or electric trolling motor. The stern of a Jon-boat is about half again as wide as is the bow.Jon-boats are also used to navigate and fish smaller streams and rivers, but not large ones or big waters with white-capping winds.
The bow of a Jon-boat is slightly up-swept along about the last quarter of the length with make forward navigation easier. A fisherman can sit in the bow of the boat and reach forward with a short sculling paddle and propel a boat slowly but precisely into very small nooks and crannies to tie up and fish or check trot-lines and whatnot. This is done by moving the paddle in a figure-eight pattern in the water while slightly forward leaning, which pulls the boat along very efficiently.
Jon-boats are now commonly made of aluminum. When I was a child, it was common to have Jon-boats made of wood. I remember when I was five years old, Dad having a local boat-builder make him a wooden Jon-boat. I recall the smell of fresh unfinished wood when he brought it home in his '57 Ford pick-up truck. Dad let me help him paint it with gray enamel paint. I am not sure what kind of wood the boat was made of but it was common to use black-gum or cypress to make boats because these woods are naturally impervious to water-logging; such trees thrive in swamps and lakes. The longitudinal boards of a wooden Jon-boat follow the grain of the wood and are carefully seasoned and then planed and put together very precisely and both nailed and glued to cross-pieces that keep them flush together almost as one piece. Jon-boats are still popular in the South for fishing.
The kinds of available small fishing boats have changed a lot during my life-time, as can
be said for so many things. I suppose that my generation is one of two
or three who have witnessed more changes than any others in history. This has had
its upside as well as its downside. I have mostly enjoyed the changes.
When I was a kid, kayaks were seldom used--except real ones by real
Eskimos who invented them. Canoes were fairly popular, but even they
were not in widespread usage in many places. For those who did use
them, aluminum canoes were the thing. They floated high, drawing very
little water, lending them to shallow streams where others could not go.
They were relatively heavy for portaging and getting to and from water,
but they could be carried on top of a vehicle easily enough. They were
tough too.
Canoes were originally developed and used by Native Americans--also known as Indians by some of us. Canadians apparently don't approve of this term, nor do they like the term Eskimo. However, most American Natives that I am acquainted with are from the USA; they are pleased to be called Indians or the most part, named more specifically by tribe. Inuits are what Alaskan Eskimos are now called, to be politically correct, but there again, all whom I know have no problem being referred to as Eskimos. I know a lot of them from my childhood family escapades, living in the Alaskan Bush. I am of very mixed heritage; but both my wife and I have substantial Indian lineage ourselves.
Apparently Canadian Native American Natives of the non-Indian, non-Eskimo variety are said to be more sensitive about this. This is problematic for me because I can never remember what they do like to be called. I am not trying to offend anyone, so I will look it up and get back with you after using this place-holder until I find it. Native Americans of what is now Canada and the Northern United States fist develop real canoes. Canoes can be differentiated from more primitive dug-outs in that they were made by first building a light frame from pliable green limbs that were allow to dry--and then covering the frame with bark. I feel sure that so e other barks may have been used, but I know that Birch Bark is light and tough an d can be stripped off of trees in large pieces. The bark was then seamed with cordage and various resins to make the seams water-tight. These craft were so light that they drew very little water, were reasonably tough, and could be easily mended by readily available materials on the fly.
Flat-bottom boats, also commonly called Jon-boats, are made of wood or alluminum. They are a common site as used for fishing on small Southern fishing lakes. These rental boats at Lake Herb Parsons in Western Tennessee provide a lot of stability for family fishing. Such boats are commonly used with paddles or with small electric trolling motors and small gas-powered outboard motors. They are also popular for duck-hunting. A savvy fisherman can manuever a Jon-boat into position manually using a short-handled sculling paddle while seated in the more narrow bow by leaning forward and moving the paddle in a crepeated figure-eight patern--which slowly propells the boat forward. Oar locks are not generally used with Jon-boats. One or more occupants change the side from which they use their paddles to provide direction and momentum.
White European fur-traders and frontiersmen immediately saw the utility of canoes and adopted them for fur-trading. Though recognized widely as unique North American boats and used regionally, they did not catch on much elsewhere. European settlers and specialty boat-builders made beautiful canoes of spruce timbers finely chosen, fitted, and finished to a high luster. These are works of art. They are almost too fine to mess up by actually using. paraffin treated canvas has also been used to make canoes. Fiberglass and plastics --the difference in which is largely academic, were starting to be used when I was a young man. Fiberglass canoes were tough but heavy. Coleman was the first company to make wide use of modern plastics to make canoes. Those original Coleman canoes were tough, but relatively heavy, owing to their wooden or metal infrastructures. Fiberglass and plastic canoes draw more water than do aluminum, or canvas canoes (Canvas canoes can draw lots of water as well, depending upon the weight of the frame).
Who says cats don't like water. This crazy stray loves to ride--giving new meaning to catfishing. My waterproof Ass-Set bean-bag uses boyant lightwieght filling in lieu of beans. The filling can be portioned, increased, or redistributed using a secondary bag. It is portable and impossible to sink and the whole thing is waterprooof. The seat provides enough height for me to get up and down inspite of my weight and imobility issues.
[The term draw, when used in the context of how much water a canoe draws, refers to how far down or how high up the craft rides on the water. Thus, saying that an aluminum canoe draws very little water, means that it rides very high on the water and therefore is capable of crossing shoals and other shallow areas more easily than a craft that draws more water. Generally, canoes and kayaks draw very little water because of their design and their light weight. This has always made them suitable for navigating shallow and narrow inland waterways.]
When I was in elementary school I lived in the Arctic. Canoes were not used there. The frigid waters during the brief summers were so cold that it was unthinkable to consider a craft that could be so easily capsized. The life-expectancy for one who falls into these waters is a matter of minutes before hypothermia causes death. However, during this time I became infatuated with the idea of canoeing and fantasized about traversing the rivers of the South where my roots lay. I got my hands on several books that dealt with the principles of canoeing and the various strokes that could be used to quickly and precisely navigate canoes with one two or three passengers.
I dreamed and visualized enjoying such activities so much during this time when there was no opportunity or even possibility of actually doing them that when I was finally able to get into a canoe--with the exception of briefly having to learn the trick of keeping ones weight centered and evenly distributed--that I took to using a canoe like an old timer. I have often thought of this unintentional use of visualization as an example of how skills can be learned, perfected, and practiced completely within ones imagination, in preparation for the real activity.
The Mississippi and Arkansas Rivers are too big and treacherous to be used with canoes except by the very experienced and daring. But many smaller clear-water rivers and streams in the south are ideal for canoeing. The Buffalo National River and Little Red River the White River are scenic North Arkansas rivers upon which I have spent many hours as a teen and young adult. In Southern Arkansas, the Saline and Quaita Rivers flowed and were part of my youthful recreational experience. Some of those once familiar sections of these rivers are now part of reservoirs that offer a different kind of recreational experience. This is not a bad thing--just different.
I remember when the Heber Springs Dam in Arkansas that harnessed the flow of the Little Red River near where some of my uncles lived was visited by then President John F. Kennedy. He dedicated it as an example of a great hydro-electric dam project, that brought abundant electricity to the area. The electricity that it brought was a good thing, but the Lake it created, Greer's Ferry Lake, was a wonderful adjunct for sportsmen and outdoor lovers in the area. The cool waters created by the depths of this lake also created a new phenomenon in those parts. Trout-fishing was introduced and has thrived ever since.
Cow Shoals, not far below the Greer's Ferry Lake Dam was created by the release of waters from the bottom of the lake when electricity is being generated. There is a trout hatchery located near there. The success of the transplantation of Brown Trout, Rainbow Trout, and Cutthroat trout into the tail-waters of the Little Red Red River here is one of the great successes of bringing tout to an area that previously had very few waters cold enough to have natural trout populations. I have fly-fished the Cow Shoals area for trout many times. The last I recall, the national Brown Trout weight and length record was caught in these very waters.
A similar story can be told regarding sections of the White River that artificially forms a number of lakes in Arkansas including Beaver Lake and lake Norfork. As a Boy Scout lving nearby, I was a participant in the first annual White River Invitational Canoe Race. This was a hundred mile race down a scenic section of the white River below the Norfork Lake Dam. There were three kids to a canoe. We began near Norfork park where the now famous Gaston's River Trout Resort hosted a fish-fry for us the night before we put in. I remember how our few canoes were borrowed from a local University on a whim so that we could participate. We were met with specialized Scouting High Adventure Explorer Posts from all over the nation and their sleek racing canoes, participants wearing racing wet-suits, and back-packed water bottles with racing straws and mouth pieces such as we had never seen (designed for the canoeists to drink without breaking the rhythm of their paddle strokes).
The following is a link to the Annual White River Canoe Race I participated in as a scout during its beginning, and later as an adult scout leader. The race is now in its 47th year.
http://www.scoutrace.com/
Some of our scouts from our regular Boy Scout Troop, had never even been in a canoe, but we all had heart. I will never forget waking up the morning after the first fifty miles where we over-nighted in Batesville before the second leg. When I stretched a hearty morning stretch, every muscle in my body cramped. After the second leg, I slept for a couple of days virtually comatose except for delirious dreams of paddles flashing in the sun. We did not win--not by a long-shot. but we did finish, which is more than quite a few more experienced participants could say.
Years later, my wife and I later served as the adult scouters supporting our participating Varsity Scout Group, bringing our little children along for the experience. We were the ground support and transportation for our participating scouts. By then, the race had become a three-day event for a total of one-hundred twenty miles. Our scouts were no better prepared than was my initial charter group, but great memories were made during both adventures. I have since trout fished up and down the White River from the Norfork Dam to Sylamore Springs and various secret spots in between.
Further down the river, where my oldest brother lived in Truman, the Whiter River flattens out and becomes much broader and deeper. here I have run trot-lines and yo-yos and caught catfish and bass aplenty. The White River eventually merges with the Arkansas River which in turn merges with the mighty Mississippi River. Different kinds of fish peculiar to the South such as Alligator Gar and the prehistoric Paddle-fish inhabit these parts of these waters. All of these present their own peculiar fishing challenges. However, I can honestly ay that no challenge have I met fishing any of these varied waters that those great old vintage spin-cast fishing reels could not handle in good stead. No other singular type of fishing reel--especially from that era--can do the same.
This vintage cast aluminum rod handle and rod seat came with this vintage Johnson 710 spin-cast reel. I had a vintage, but newer fiberglass casting rod made of composite that broke while casting. From the looks of the rod mount tube on the old metal handle, it was originally used with a six-sided bamboo pole. By cutting the fiberglass rod off cleanly and using epoxy to solidly splice an extension inside the old rod and to conform it to the rod handle, the resulting hybrid vintage combination provides excellent casting qualities and feel transmitted through the lure, line, and rod to the handle for an uncommon spin-cast experience. It is ideal for use with the old Johnson reel.
Although not nearly so glamorous as using fly-tackle, these old spin-cast reels can be used with flies both dry and wet, aided by a little additional weight in the form of either tiny split-shot and/or a cork or plastic fishing float, to place any fly in front of any kind of trout in the the upper stretches of the White River. In the big lakes that lie above or between these rivers, the same spin-cast reels will easily cast a full-sized plug or bait live or artificial and easily retrieve a big walleye, bass, carp, or catfish. Or within the middle sections where fish are want to be taken on spinners small or large--the very same spin-cast gear will do the job as well as any. I have owned and do own way more fishing gear than is needful or even useful--just because. I have spinning reels and bait-cast reels and fly-rods and reels. But I do understand and most often choose those vintage go-to standards choices of an era past. They don't get any better.
During this same period of my childhood, Kayaks were seen only as depicted in use by Alaskan Eskimos and other arctic peoples until about thirty years ago or less. I did not even see one in actual use while living in the Arctic where they were once used comm0nly. These were originally specialized craft made of frames of bone or willow limbs that were covered with seal or other animal skins. A hole was open in the top where the user got in and covered up with a like seal-skin skirt and effectively sealed-in for the duration of the hunting trip against frigid arctic waters. Using their unique two-ended paddles such light craft could be maneuvered with agility and used in conjunction with other hunters similarly outfitted, kayaks were used to hunt everything from seals to whales.
About thirty years ago, small plastic kayaks exploded in to use recreational. An entire sport of white-water enthusiasts embraced these new craft. They quickly began seeing use by anglers who liked their portability and affordability. Around this time, I was an avid and accomplish canoeist. I like aluminum canoes and took to them like nothing else. The first time I got into a canoe at scout camp with two other scouts, we swamped it immediately. Canoes require a different kind of balance, but once this is learned, they are very stable. They are very maneuverable. There are canoe strokes and techniques used with properly fitted paddles that make soloing very easy without having to switch sides to paddle. I became a die-hard fan of canoes for most of my adult life. I still enjoy canoes.I don't recall the last time I capsized a canoe. I used to stand on opposing gunwales barefoot and engage in an activity called gunwale-jumping without the slightest fear of capsizing. But no more. Age takes its toll.
Jon-boats have been in use in the South for fishing and duck hunting small bodies of water ever since Europeans first settled here. Until recently, they were made of wood. These boats are relatively inexpensive and provide a stable platform from which to fish or shoot. They can be manuevered though swampy waters and shallow streams. Pictured is an old boat that is likely the remnants of a duck-blind.
I first used a plastic kayak on the Buffalo National River. This is a tame but scenic float on the only River to ever be designated a National River. This designation a has ensured that at least one river in our nation will be preserve in its uninterrupted and free-flowing state for fishermen, nature-lovers, and canoe and kayak boaters can enjoy it from its tiniest original flow to its mouth. kayaks are one of the crafts of choice for floating this river. The Buffalo sustains small bass and goggle-eye rock-bass and perch and varied species of sun-fish. It is not a deep river along most of its flow, but some of the holes are too broad and deep to be easily traversed or waded while fishing. A canoe is not ideal lone fishermen. The earl plastic kayaks were okay for fishing except for their tendency to turn this way or that or rotate stern to bow endlessly.
Sit-on-top kayaks are fairly new. They generally have wider but flatter frames which make them more stable than most conventional-style kayaks. They are very light and float high in the water. They are virtually impossible to swamp. A canoe can be un-swamped and re-boarded by a fit canoeist, but it requires training in special technique for doing this, and it requires superb strength agility and fitness to be successful at this. However, just for informational purposes, a swamped canoe will still keep multiple passengers who have capsized afloat as long as they merely hang onto the sides and not crawl on top of it. Sit-on-top kayaks can turn over, but they are virtually impossible to swamp. Their slight topside-indention will not hold enough water to submerge them if the interior portal is kept closed. They can be easily turned upright and emptied of water. This is all advantageous for many types of users. This design is also easier to get in an d out of.
One of the drawbacks of the sit-on-top kayak design is that there is no place to put your legs which can be quite uncomfortable as you become less limber and out of shape (or fat and old and crippled). However, with all the advantages this style of boat provides for a fisherman, I have felt that with the proper kind of seat, I could use one to good avail. They are so maneuverable and draw so little water that they can be used about anywhere. They are light enough to be potable and they are stable to sit on for fishing. They can carry a lot of gear or extra passengers. I like to be able to carry an ice-chest a lot of fishing tackle and an electronic fish-finder and sometimes my wife and a dog. I like the versatility to navigate different kinds of waters. But at my age and physical condition, a comfortable seat cushion and adequate back-support could be a deal-killer.
There is an impressive kayak accessory market that includes a wide variety of seats for virtually every use. People like me want enough height to be able to make standing from a seated position within the kayak more manageable without capsizing or busting a gut or blowing out a knee. The seats that I have found that have enough height for me to manage standing comfortably from and still have good stability when used on my sit-on-top kayak are either very heavy or too flimsy or both. I sometimes like tying to find solutions to such problems. As they say necessity is the mother of invention. Usually when I find a solution to a problem that I have encountered--it is also applicable as a solution for others. I think I have found just such a solution for sitting comfortably atop a kayak with sufficient height and stability for my needs.
My new seat design is essentially a water-proof bean-bag filled with light waterproof and highly buoyant particles instead of beans. The entire seat weighs less than five pounds but will accommodate a large adult male. It provides instant stability and conforms to my body with unmatched comfort and support. It does not have to be strapped down or to the kayak for stability, but it can be. It can be distributed in different ways at different times or the filler can be added or removed to a secondary pillow-bag. The seat is extraordinarily comfortable and it also doubles as a great full-body flotation device in case of capsizing. Another similar seat is equally suitable for a second passenger or dog.
This seat, I have named the top-on Kayak Ass-Set makes long fishing trips that were previously out of the question for me--now at least doable. A user of this seat may get some funny looks initially--but these looks are always followed by nods of approval, thumbs-up, and questions about where they can be had. I am working on this. Inquiries regarding prices and availability are being established as has been a patent-pending status and production methods. If I do not produce these for resale, I will provide detailed instructions about how to make them. One way or the other, I will make this new design available for those who want one.
I can tell you from my own experience that it will be less expensive and way less trouble for you to buy one if I produce them for resale. This is what I am looking into now. If I do not perceive enough demand to mass produce these seats for less than you can personally make one for--I simply will not produce them. But I will share my design and the dos and don'ts that I have learned by perfecting my own ideal kayak seat.
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Here is another.
http://www.paddlerscove.com/hobie-uv-protectant.aspx
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