is there anyone in the dfw area that carries the square stern canoes in stock? dont care to much for $300.00 shipping fee,or if somebody has a nice used one for sale?

Dicks has the best price on a new one I've seen and they all had one in stock in the last two months.

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Old Town Rogue River 154 Square Back Canoe - Dick's Sporting Goods
Old Town Rogue River 154 Square Back Canoe
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Have some fun in the Rogue River canoe from Old Town®, which features a square stern for ...

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Try the Dallas area Craig's List - it usually has several canoes on the market at any point in time.

Just wondering if your set on a squareback?

I considered one also but the weight (usually over 100 lbs plus) and the fact that there weren't too many used ones out there brought me to a choose a regular canoe with the option of being able to put a motor mount on one when and if I choose.
You may already have thought of all this but I just went through a similar search and thought it might help.

I thought about a regular canoe,and try a side mount.i have never talked to anyone that has tried it? if anyone has let me know.the canoe at dick looks real comfortable!

The thought of one more Brazos trip with an electric trolling motor yapping and splashing off one side of my canoe made me let the battery go off charge and fail. I next lost that reciept on purpose. And let the motor stay out side till the aluminum caked up under the black enamel paint.

Screw putting along at a skewed angle too.


Get a square stern or get some preminum long shafted paddles and man up.

Well put Steven

OK to really answer your question, my canoe is an old school battleship of a Grumann All Aluminum 17' with the low or medium height keel.
It tracks medium straight. You can get those old boats with an ever taller keel that will really hold a straight line. Especially with a side mount motor.

On the new school all smooth /slighty rounded bottom canoes that are popular these days.. that really don't offer much to hold a line, as they have NO KEEL, the fun is less fun. Its like trying to push the ceral bowl with out pushing against the center.

And to turn the motor, lefty and righty, you need to run it deep for clearance under the boat - OK on deep water - on the below Whitney's Brazos - you can't.

OR push it out far away from the boat and run shallow, even half out. Splash slpash gurgle gurgle style, with the increase in leverage degrading the tracking.

Hence the square stern.

But really - it worked OKs - and who does not like added weight, wires -

Motors pissed me off most as I'm a flyrodder and a motor is clutter. You ever cast a fly rod ?

Tell us how you really feel!!lol,,,

I have a square stern Colman scanoe 1982 Mod. And I love it. I use it on the Brazos below Whitney with no problem. It is true that it is heavier than a canoe but being so much wider and more stable it doesn't draw much water at all. and for fishing I stand up turn around and use the trolling motor in reverse and fish as if I'm standing on the bow of a bass boat. My friend who fishes out of an old town with no keel gets rather frustrated in the wind cause the boat blows around too much.