CANOE TRIP WITH MY DOG | St. John River, North Maine Woods
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ส.ค. 2024
- Solo canoe camping trip with my dog.
Lesser known than the Allagash Wilderness Waterway, although it lies directly to the west and runs parallel, the St. John River is the largest free flowing river system east of the Mississippi. Gracie and I canoed the upper St. John River, Northwestern Aroostook Maine. 143 miles from 5th St. John Pond Dam to Allagash Village. The trip took 7 days. The only person we saw during that time was a guy who went by "9 Mile Mike" who lives in a cabin at 9 mile bridge. He claimed there are still 2-2 1/2 pound brook trout that can be caught in the river as well as 40"+ muskies. The beginning stretch of 26 miles had low water we had to push/pull the canoe through and log jams we had to haul over or cut through. We saw moose, deer, eagles, a bear in a tree, fished for muskies and found a moose antler in the river. The footage ends about half way into the trip because all of my camera batteries died so I didn't get to show the sections of class III rapids and completion of the trip. It was a great trip and I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a canoeing adventure. #themainewoods #maine #allagash
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Man, the frickin bugs dude! Relentless!
That’s how it is that time of year in Maine
I just re-watched this, that's a special river. Nice job.
Let’s do it again and film it properly
Nice trip! Yea, after ice out travelling the upper St. John requires hand-lining. Big parts of the Allagash get pretty low as well. You might have good flow for paddling just about everywhere up until Early to mid June, depending on the weather. During the good bug weather, black flies are out, mosquitoes and deer flies are coming. You can get socked in for a cold wet week of solid drizzle up there that time of year as well :) Doing it a bit later in the season is better for weather and maybe fewer black flies (hah!) but yea, lots of walking. I did lots of poling, hand-lining, and wading back in the days. Enjoy your youth, you are doing it right by getting out there.
there are many different challenges,it's all part of the experience, I love it
Wow. Best non hunting video you’ve done. Awesome camera work. That’s a ton of work to film yourself that much. Nice work
Thanks, I appreciate the support.
Awesome bro, please keep posting
Thank you, I will try
That meal is awesome
Good video dog likes his fish. Hard work filming all that. It was nice seeing you with the dog and for sure fishing.
It's a great trip, thanks Rick
Looks like an epic trip!
Definitely, looking forward to doing it again.
Excellent Video first time watching your channel love solo canoe trips
Thanks Earl
How did you find the channel?
@@TheMaineWoods it came up under my recommend videos
@@earlhayes2969 Awesome, good to know, thank you
Excellent.
Thanks Tom
I’ll be damned… I was planning on this for this spring/early summer. Looks awesome I really want to do this
It is awesome i will be doing it again
Just recently found your videos. Beautiful video canoeing with Gracy. She’s a great travel partner. Is she pure bred Lab? I’ve got two Labs, which I love. Great dogs. Keep up the great videos.
She’s all lab as far as I know, thanks for the support Matt
Fan-dam-tastic.
lol glad you like it.
Allagash has the worst bugs besides 1 month in Alaska… I feel for ya
Nice, you get some excellent shots for a solo trip, and your dog is great to watch. Did you have someone drive your truck out.
Thanks Robin, I plan on doing this trip again and doing a better job filiming it. I had my friends at Tyler Kelly's Camp's drive the truck to Allagash for me.
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My man definitely doesn’t travel light, he’s not eating some BS freeze dried backpacker food
I’ve eaten enough mre’s that I intend to eat well whenever I can lol i hate freeze dried meals
Nice to see you spoil your dog . Not many would retrieve a antler out of the river for there dog
😂😂😂she does it for me lol
I just came across your channel by a TH-cam recommendation. I enjoy your short trip on the river. I live in Central Indiana and I just love to go canoeing with my 17 foot fiberglass dolphin canoe. By the way what was that longer fish that you caught that you said were invasive fish?
Hi Paul, those are muskellunge
Try mixing soft and silky from Avon( I think) and water in a spray bottle. 50/50 mix. Spray it on the dog. It will keep the bitting bug off. My mom used it on her horses and it worked great.
Thanks, she will smell nice too!
Construction men in Manhattan use soft n silky full strength and don’t get one bug bite
Great video. I plan on doing Baker to Allagash in the spring. You think most of the camp sites along the river can accommodate a 3-6 person tipi shelter?
Yes
@@TheMaineWoods Thanks for this great video! I also plan on doing Baker to Dickey this upcoming May. I am not an experienced paddler with river canoeing (I'm quite an experienced ocean kayaker). Do you think this is a bad first major river trip?
@@michaelsalama6631 the only major paddling experience i had prior to doing this trip was the Allagash waterway, the St. John is much more intense. Two major sections of class 2-3 whitewater. I wasn’t able to film those rapids with my camera setup at the time, I plan to do this trip again and provide better footage of those parts of the river
Many of the sites were over grown and not well maintained due to the low volume of paddlers on the river
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Gracie what??? Your yelling at you dog with no commands?? Iv’e had Labs and they are the best dogs alive. My 2 cents. Im sure you can teach her to heal and sit. And then look no yelling Nice video
Donna ya eber feed da doggy?