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Permalink Reply by Mike Baker on May 12, 2017 at 12:54pm

One vote for leave it. Good looking boat.

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Permalink Reply by chris towles on May 12, 2017 at 6:29pm

Anything on a boat that can catch fly lines and clothing usually will. Dont ask how i know...

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan Clarke on May 12, 2017 at 7:02pm

Chris is right, but there may a solution that provides for the best of both worlds:  One of the men who helped build my boat was a talented woodcarver.  He carved a "leaping trout" figure and mounted it to an aluminum arrow shaft.  There's a corresponding hole in the stem.  When the boat is just hanging out, I can have the cool trout figure and when the boat is working, the stem is flat.

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Permalink Reply by Rick Newman on May 13, 2017 at 7:19am

With that attachment method in mind keep it!

Rick N

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Permalink Reply by Pete Weisbeck on May 14, 2017 at 1:29pm

Thanks for the replies friends....I was a little concerned about anything interfering with casting off the bow...also my friend that is going to make the cover wouldn't like my little osprey head...but the old hippy in me needs to see this float down the bighorn a few times with the adornment attached...if it gets in the way it will be simple enough to fair off the bow...this boat will mostly be a floating easy chair for Gert and I and a few mutts to enjoy the red hills scenery of Thermopolis..

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Permalink Reply by Bennett Yarbrough on May 14, 2017 at 6:04pm

Your boat, your rules.  I'd say keep it until you feel like getting rid of it.

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Permalink Reply by craig curtis on May 18, 2017 at 8:09am

I like the idea of it being removable, them you could change it out for other things, like a camera mount it other carvings.

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