And another new guy here...

Long time lurker here and enjoy the site. Living in North Idaho after retiring from western WA 20 years ago. Born and grew up in Silverdale and Poulsbo, WA and lived on the water and in it.

Starting building personal use boats at age 15 and still do a few for myself.

Bought a new OK Big game 11 when the came out last year and did the usual rigging to it. Enjoy it a lot for my flat water local bass, pike fishing. Last fall I built a nice 13 1/2 ft. 30" wide  sit inside  Kayak and like it better that the Big Game, more like paddleing a Corvette instead of a truck. But use both of them a lot.

Grew up fishing Point No Point and Hoods Canal for salmon, that's when there was real salmon fishing in the sound. The stories I could tell about what it was like in the 50s and 60s, sure has changed

Guess I'm the old guy on the site at 74 but still can  get the plastic in my truck fine, damb that thing is heavy rigged and full of gear!..lol......Warf     

Long time lurker here and enjoy the site. Living in North Idaho after retiring from western WA 20 years ago. Born and grew up in Silverdale and Poulsbo, WA and lived on the water and in it.

Starting building personal use boats at age 15 and still do a few for myself.

Bought a new OK Big game 11 when the came out last year and did the usual rigging to it. Enjoy it a lot for my flat water local bass, pike fishing. Last fall I built a nice 13 1/2 ft. 30" wide  sit inside  Kayak and like it better that the Big Game, more like paddleing a Corvette instead of a truck. But use both of them a lot.

Grew up fishing Point No Point and Hoods Canal for salmon, that's when there was real salmon fishing in the sound. The stories I could tell about what it was like in the 50s and 60s, sure has changed

Guess I'm the old guy on the site at 74 but still can  get the plastic in my truck fine, damb that thing is heavy rigged and full of gear!..lol......Warf     

Welcome...with age comes wisdom (usually) so please feel free to share. I love Idaho and have some property with a cabin in the sawtooth range that I try to visit as regularly as possible but mostly use it as a base camp for elk hunting. I was stationed at Mtn Home AFB Idaho when I was a young dumb kid and fished the whole southern state quite a bit but have never been too far up north.

  Glad to have you aboard Warf.
  I didn't move to Washington until 79' but absolutely love this state.
  I used to make 14" fiberglass kayaks and little 12' driftboats. Care to share any pictures of your boats ?
  We all like seeing cool stuff members are into.
  Here are some pics of what I used to make...

Welcome Warf, I thought I was one of the older guys at 62 but I guess I 'm still a kid. I just started kayaking last year and love it. I am moving to Idaho CDL area in about 18 months for at least for part of the year anyway. My in-laws have a place on the Spokane River about a 1/4 mile from the lake and my wife wife wants to return to her home land. I have fished all of my life in salt and fresh water in Alaska and it will be hard to leave for good if it comes to that but living on the river will help. I mostly drive a Slayer Propel 13.

I like the way you laminated the camo cloth into the glass, looks great.  Would sure disappear in the grass at a lake in a hurry, would make a good duck boat.

When I was about 12 I built a 9 ft rowing pram from plywood. Lived on Poulsbo, WA bay and was real tough on the local sea run cut's, lot's of them around then. Would pick up a coho once and awhile. My mother would give me a sack lunch and a mason jar of Coolaid and I was gone for the day. Those sure were fun times.

One of the best baits for cabazone was 3" crabs picked off the beach at low tide under the rocks, cab's love crabs, problem is so do a couple other things. A couple times I reeled up something really heavy and by the time you saw the octopus he glomped on the side and bottom of your boat, sorta like something out of a B horror movie!..lol....Would be interesting in a kayak....warf