The Flying Rib

The more I see these flying boats, the more I want one. You could fly around looking for schools of baitfish, then land and start casting!

Categories: Boating, Culture, Incredible, Videos, Watercraft

Saturday September 27th, 2008 @ 4:29 PM | Clive Mathias | 1 Comment

I Want An Aquatic Vehicle For Fishing..

I found this cool aquatic Jeep on Reddit today. It’s probably one of the nicest aquatic cars I’ve seen that seems to be easily adaptable to fishing. If anyone ever sees one of these in their local trader magazine please let me know!

Built by the folks at the Amphibious Vehicle Design Studio, the Platypus Jeep is a paragon of on-road and in-water capabilities. The floating four-wheeler runs with a turbo diesel engine and is capable of 110 KPH on the road and 10.5 KPH in the water. The hull is designed to work in wave heights up to 1.5 meters and bottoms with a slight 0.75 meter draft depth.

Check out this post on Loqu with more information and photos.

We’ve covered plenty of other aquatic vehicles before on Fishing Fury.. We’ve talked about the Corvette Powerboat, an ATV that turns into a jetski, the classic car known as the ‘Fisher Fury’, the Gibbs HSA, and probably a few others I can’t find right now.

In this modern world we even have cars that will take you underwater, which is great news for all you lazy spear fishermen. It’s called the Rinspeed sQuba and was recently featured on the show Fifth Gear.

Don’t think that aquatic cars are a modern invention, in fact they’ve been around for over half a century! While I like the appeal of a modern aquatic car the look and mechanics of the simple military styling, like the Jeep above, are what I really like. My personal and all time favorite aquatic car is the Volkswagen Schwimmwagen circa 1942!

Dear Schwimmwagen video makers put some music in these videos and mix your capture audio down a bit.. I’ll be more than happy to show you how for an afternoon fishing out of your Schwimmwagen. Until then turn down your sound before playing this video.

There’s even one for sale in the US right now that’s apparently an award winning fully restored show car (no water test). No word if the two Mauser or the MG are included, but those spaces would make nice rod holders don’t you think, heh.. The owner also mentions that he would consider a Ferrari as a “partial trade”, so I doubt you’ll see me in this one anytime soon.

Categories: Boating, Cars, Fishing, Gear, Interesting, Videos, Watercraft

Friday September 12th, 2008 @ 2:49 PM | Jonathon Marshall | 3 Comments

Nice Ride

The raft is worth six times cost of car.

Via Field and Stream

Categories: Culture, Enthusiast, Fishing, Funny, Gear, Incredible, Photography, United States, Watercraft

Wednesday August 20th, 2008 @ 7:22 PM | Clive Mathias | 1 Comment

Transparent Canoe

We posted about this one ages ago, and its near the top of my Wish List, but here are some more photos of the beautiful transparent canoe.

I wonder what the fish would think of this…

via Toxel.com

Categories: Boating, Canoeing, Fishing, Incredible, Watercraft

Monday July 7th, 2008 @ 6:33 PM | Clive Mathias | 3 Comments

Another Day At The Beach

Don’t drink and boat kids.

via Telegraph

Categories: Accidents, Boating, Funny, News, Oddities, Watercraft

Thursday June 26th, 2008 @ 6:26 PM | Clive Mathias | Comments

Freedom Hawk Kayaks Are The Transformers Of Kayaks

I’ve been on a mission to find a cheap canoe or kayak for the last month or so. There are so many small lakes and rivers here that a small maneuverable boat is key. Shore fishing spots are hard to find once the summer rolls in and the bushes and trees are full of leaves again. Luckily I just got a lead on a cheap canoe from a coworker which I’ll be checking out tomorrow. I wish I had a lot of money to spend, but realistically, any decent canoe or kayak is gonna be well over $500 and I simply don’t have that kind of money to spend.

My friend Yuri sent me a link today that features a pretty awesome kayak that’s more than meets the eye. The Freedom 14 is a transforming kayak that is made especially for fishermen. This would be a perfect fishing rig for me, except for one problem - a $1900 price tag.

The first Angling Kayak designed from the waterline up to allow the user to stand, safely,
and comfortably, thanks to our PATENTED, integrated Outrigger design.

Anyone in Halifax got a free canoe for me?

Categories: Boating, Fishing, Kayaking, Watercraft

Friday April 25th, 2008 @ 6:33 PM | Clive Mathias | 1 Comment

I Hate Winter

I’m not certain when I started to dislike Canadian winters. To be fair, it isn’t winter itself I hate, its the cold. I mean, I love Christmas and the holiday season, I love snow, and I love winter sports like hockey (which I just started playing again). I remember the first time I saw snow, I was about seven years old and we were temporarily living in British Columbia with my uncle and fisherman extraordinaire, Stephen. It was one of those heavy snowfalls that rarely occur on the west coast and we played for hours in the snow, making snowmen and snow angels. It was incredible. Until that day, I had no idea what snow was. My sister and I grew up only knowing of white sand beaches and turquoise colour oceans. From that day forward, I looked forward to every winter and the first snow fall, that is until I grew up.

On really cold days I ask myself, why would anybody want to live in a place like this? Why not live somewhere that has warm weather all year long? In 2005, in the middle of the winter I decided that I had had enough of winter, and packed my bags and headed south to La Paz, Mexico to meet up with Jon and fish the Sea of Cortez.

I’m glad I did, it changed my life. After a month in the desert I met my wife to be, Gillian, but after almost six months we both agreed that La Paz was not the place for us. We headed back to Canada, specifically Mississauga, Ontario - the town I grew up. I had friends and family there, and got my old job at the bank back right away. By the time the chill of fall was in the air we both decided that staying for a freezing winter was not an option.

September 2005 marked one of the happiest time in my life, my return to the British Virgin Islands. Since my sister, mother and I left the BVI when I was five, I had only visited a handful of times. We arrived with nothing more then the shirts on our back, a tent, a camera, a laptop and of course, my fishing rods. We spent our first several weeks camping near the beach at Brewers Bay during hurricane season while we looked for an apartment to rent. After a few months settling in, things were going great. We lived in a small apartment on a mountain top with a brilliant panoramic view of several islands. Best of all, the ocean was a five minute drive from our apartment, and the sea was full of tarpon!

British Virgin Islands tarpon

Our time in the Virgins Islands had a lot of ups and downs. In the end, financial difficulties and health problems ultimately caused us to leave. We returned to Canada, and spent a year in Ontario, and have since relocated to beautiful Nova Scotia. I currently have two jobs, (three if you count Fishing Fury, but this is a labour of love, and as you can see by the lack of advertising, this doesn’t exactly bring in any income). Things are going great since we moved to the east coast, but it’s winter, and it’s cold and I don’t like the cold.

There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t think about life in the BVI. Since I can’t experience it in person, the next best thing is to read about others enjoying the sunshine and fishing. There is one blog that I check regularly to get my BVI fix, The Captains Log Blog. If you plan to visit the BVI or the Carbibean, these site will give you a taste of what you will get to see. And if you are looking for a sailing charter (with fishing), look no further!