Yes I agree a kayak would be much better than a canoe. I dont like them at all. I have a 16' johnboat and use it like a canoe, use a paddle, not oars. But it would be too hard to get and out of the river I was doing the turtle stuff with. Also there is a creek about a quarter mile from me that flows into probably a two hundred acre slew of a large lake that I once walked back to that is full of beaver dams, hog wallows, deer tracks, etc. I also think it would be good to fish in closer to the lake than where the highway crosses and I would put in at in late winter when the crappie spawn. May in the shallow area of the slew when LMB spawn later in the spring. I could never get my john boat in and if I did couldnt drag it out because of the steepness going down to the creek. But I think even a rigid kayak would be easier to move around than even a john boat.
You get you, your wife and two girls into the kayak, it must be a big one? Or just two at a time?
