Prezi-Video DIY Canoe Fishing Trip

Good afternoon, my name is Henry, even house and on behalf of Saint Croix rods,

I'd like to give you a warm welcome

to this online fishing seminar.

I'm going to be sharing with you?

A broad overview of how you can plan your own fishing,

canoe fishing trip to get out in the outdoors and adventure

with some of your family or maybe some of your friends.

So to start with, I'm going to give you a basic overview of planning,

prepping,

driving

and then wrapping up the whole trip into all

first for planning.

I think it's important that you write down a basic

outline of what you expect this trip to look like.

We want you to get the gears turning and jotting

some ideas of what you think would be fun,

Maybe what you're nervous about, what you're anxious about.

Maybe what,

what expectations you may have,

any of those things.

Just start writing down your basic thoughts on doing the trip and whole

some questions to look at

that I think are important.

Our first, where, where are you going to be doing this trip?

Are you going to be doing it on a river?

Maybe a late.

These are going to show different strategies and

how you're going to plan for the trip?

So it's important to look at that

Next, we're going to go with, when are you planning it? In the spring?

Midsummer fall? Is this uh going to be happening in the winter somewhere down south.

Uh, you want to look at this and start planning ahead of time, months in advance.

For sure to start looking at

what the weather maybe. Um,

what type of fish are going to be biting all those sorts of questions

then, who

is this going to be some close friends of yours? Maybe some family.

Are you taking young kids?

You want to know your basic

people that are going to be joining you with you on this trip.

So they can be a part of the planning process to

then

we're going to look at the cost.

You can either have an expensive trip

or a cheap trip.

For example,

you could use trash bags as your dry bags or you can go

and buy $5100 dry bags to store all your gear together with.

Lastly look at transportation,

how are you going to be getting there.

How are you going to be getting the canoes there?

Do you need a trailer to haul multiple canoes?

Looking at these things ahead of time is going to save you

a lot of trouble once you start planning a short term trip,

you want to plan this months in advance, be prepared.

Moving on to the next section,

we're going to be going to prepping.

So

what do you need?

Well look at this guy in the picture, you want to look like him.

He looks like he's meant to be on the top of the mountain. He has the right gear.

He looks like he's no, he knows what he's doing Also,

he made it to the top of the mountain.

So he must be experienced.

And guess what with canoe fishing trips,

you don't necessarily have to be fully experienced.

Uh, you,

if you have some problem solving skills then you're

definitely able to take on this trip for yourself.

Maybe just choose and that. So,

and that's a rushing river that you're going to be taking on.

Some necessities that I think are important for you

to get ready as you're prepping for the trip are

to begin with

clothing and shelter.

If it's an overnight trip, are you going to be sleeping in a hammock

or attacked?

Those are some things you want to look at

also

is the weather going to be nice? It's on the outside or is it going to be raining?

Do you need to prepare with some rain gear?

Also, your canoes and your paddles?

Are you going to be renting your canoes or maybe you're going to be uh using

a friend's and borrowing them and then you're gonna have to ask ahead of time.

Next food to eat.

Are you going to be bringing lots of food?

Just maybe little snacks to get you through?

Are you going to be doing fish fries on the trip? Maybe?

Uh, there's just some questions to think about in planning.

Lastly fishing equipment.

Um, you're gonna want to bring a small tackle box probably.

So it's easier to transport

and you're also gonna want to bring affordable rod, maybe a breakdown round

and this leads me to my shameless plug,

which is for the Saint Rod ST Croix Premier series breakaway rods.

I would suggest getting a six ft action, a six ft,

medium heavy action so that you can handle a variety of

fish species and really enjoy your time on the water.

We want what this may look like. It's going to be different to each individual.

But

as you see with this view,

beautiful view of this canoe with some mountainous background.

Mhm

A river can be a fun time to be on

when you're going on a canoe fishing trip.

I use the metaphor of life on the river because that's what

I've experienced and my friends like to say life on the river,

go with the flow, You're on river time because

it means that you eat when you want, you sleep when you want you fish when you want.

You don't have to be on a strict schedule, do this, do that, do that.

You just can go with the flow, enjoy what you're experiencing in the present.

We want you to catch lots of fish,

But that's not always the number one goal.

As you can see what the smile this little kid, this little boy has on his face,

he looks extremely happy to be holding those fish up

and I'm guessing that's his dad in the background,

which makes it even more special,

which leads me to this quote,

which I checked with all the ST Croix team and

we all say that we for sure stand by the statement

but always remember that the memories with the people around

you are more important than the fish that you catch,

which is a quote by myself but checked by all of ST Croix rods,

for me

last summer I was on a canoe fishing trip and through these pictures,

I'm going to walk with you through a simple story.

No,

this bottom right picture is just me paddling a canoe. That's nothing special.

But then in the top right, you can see a canoe

pinned up against a bridge pylon.

Uh, we couldn't move it at first, but eventually we were, we were able to pry it out

now. Where does the fish come in?

Well, the fish is what caused that canoe to get pinned between the pylons.

We came around a corner in a bend

and Gavin who was, who was fishing at the time,

ended up catching this nice,

this nice 24 inch catfish which ended up pulling his boat

around and swerving it in front of the other canoe,

making the other canoe go sideways as he went under the bridge.

And when the other canoe went sideways and hit that pylon boom,

everybody shifted their weight and fell right out of the canoe

and the canoe just got pushed with the current right against the pylon,

locking it in place,

luckily no one was hurt and the adrenaline wears off

eventually and everybody was able to laugh about it.

But in the moment people were a little scared

now in wrapping up you've made it.

I hope you enjoyed your time on the river and I hope you have

many stories to tell for yourself and to tell all your friends and your family

some tips I have

is to keep your gear clean on the trip

and then it makes the cleaning process after the trip,

much more manageable.

Also keep your gear organized.

If you keep it organized on the trip,

then putting it away once you get home is going to be easy.

And lastly start planning your next trip now until all

your friends to go out and by ST Croix rods.

The third one maybe a little biased,

but I'm not ashamed of it and thank you for joining me in this

presentation as I shared with you how to plan your own canoe fishing trip.

I hope you learned something new

and as always, if you have any questions, feel free to reach out and contact me,

I'd be willing to give you some helpful tips and maybe

share with you some of my other stories that I have,

thank you for joining me

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