My family camped in Yellowstone maybe 20 years ago or so. I thought it very surreal on a cold day driving along the Firehole river watching fly fishermen and bison together while the steam was coming off the river.
Good for you Brian, paint away. If you wanted, I could have suggested a contractor, would have gotten that house done in a week. Sounds like you're half way done.
Evan, if you hand load that 6.5 creedmoore, you can get a little more velocity out of it. I'm running about 2750 with 140 grain Nosler Ballistic Tips. Working up a load for the 140 grain Accubond now.
I bought it 20 some years ago at the Seattle boat show. It was marketed by Alaska Series by Gary King. He had them made in New Zealand. The floor is a high pressure inflatable floor, inserts in the bottom of the boat.
I won’t say I had the perfect boat for you, but it’s what I used with the kids on lakes. Unfortunately I don’t have it anymore, replaced it with a framed raft.
My advise is buy as much quality as you can afford.
I’m going down a deep dark hole here, I have a bass rod with a bait caster on it, it’s tough to cast a unweighted plastic worm. I think I can get it out 15 feet. Enough to work the lillipads.
I really admire your creativity with bamboo rods Steve.