Canoe choice for the NSR?

[Bigwoodsman]

Originally Posted by chubbdarter

build one from empty beer cans

And if you were to use Kokanee Beer Can, you'd either have hottt girls or Samsquatch with you! If you're lucky.

BW

[big river]

Lots of advise here, so heres what you can do an expect on the NSR. We used to run the river from a variety of launch spots west of Buck lake and spend a few days drifting the river down to edmonton, camping over night on many of the islands in the River( watch for sudden rises in the river when the dam releases water at night an camp well above the water line. Late season when the run off was down an the river clear. The upper river had dollies, Pickeral , Gold eye and even the odd Brown..yes..Brown and we saw some biggies believe me. Later in the season, we packed our shotguns an ate pan fried Pickeral and roast Grouse over the fire, bagging a few deer as well well late in the season..cold work. Your canoe needs to be tuff..many places there are swift shallow rapids that eats the bottom of your canoe out, sometimes you need to line it thru the shallows to by pass sweepers and rapids and you will bump off enough rocks to sorely test your hull. Its
not going to be pretty when your done, but you are going to be saying "why didn't I do this before".