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Light My Fire - Outdoor Meal Kit
Designed especially for Light My Fire by Scandinavian designer Joachim Nordwall, this kit is perfect for your backpack, boat, picnic basket, even your lunch box. The MealKit contains everything you...
Personal Flotation Devices 101
What Does ‘Pounds of Buoyancy’ Mean?A buoyant apparatus is anything that can float and hold up weight. For instance, if you had a Type III PFD that is required to...
Boot Fitting Tips
Usually, we look for about a finger width between your longest toe and the front of the boot. This allows you to walk down hill without banging your toe into...
Decide Which Canoe is Best for You
Important canoe concepts to understand: Any canoe is a displacement watercraft. They displace a volume of water that is equal in weight to the sum of the canoe/kayak and its...
Necky's Extremely Successful Manitou Line
The Necky Manitou series is our best selling line of kayaks –and for good reason. Quite simply, these are the most versatile kayaks on the market today. By versatile, we...
Why Buy an Expensive Fly Rod?
What you pay for when you spend more than $300.00 for a fly rod (and potentially up to more than $3,000!) is not readily apparent to everyone. Is it just...
Fly Rods for Small Streams
Conventional wisdom on “small stream flyrods” dictates a very short rod, usually 7’ or under, fast action concentrated in the tip, and light line so that the small trout in...
Paddling With “A Stick”…Greenland Paddles Re-discovered
When I first saw people paddling with Greenland style paddles I laughed at them and called them names. I wondered why these folks were not progressive, why they did not...