http://fishingjones.com/2008/06/30/boats-glade-runner/ Tue, 14 Feb 2012 16:22:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://fishingjones.com/2008/06/30/boats-glade-runner/#comment-4715 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 00:52:35 +0000 http://fishingjones.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-4715 The old Florida Cracker poling the Glades Skiff is my buddy Glenn Simmons. His Grandfather Ducan Brady was the founder of Flamingo. Glenn made the glades skiffer and worked all his life to try and preserve the Gladesmen Culture. I guess he passed the torch to me. I miss him dearly and his sweet voice.
Alvin Lederer
South Florida Historian

]]> http://fishingjones.com/2008/06/30/boats-glade-runner/#comment-3125 Thu, 07 May 2009 05:16:26 +0000 http://fishingjones.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-3125 [...] We made the commitment to try for 100 pound fish. So Ron Hyde and I spent two days hunting big tarpon in the Everglades from his Seminole Flats Skiff. [...]

]]> http://fishingjones.com/2008/06/30/boats-glade-runner/#comment-1362 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 19:45:27 +0000 http://fishingjones.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-1362 that very sweet-looking canoe apparently meets the dual criteria of being cool and ideally suited to its task. having said all that, with all that time put into making it so, definitely would have made the pole chocks the kind that flip down and sit flush for less tangle potential (if that’s what i’m looking at in the bottom pic). yeah, whatever, this is a flyline-centric thought. nice.

]]> http://fishingjones.com/2008/06/30/boats-glade-runner/#comment-1360 Wed, 02 Jul 2008 01:59:07 +0000 http://fishingjones.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-1360 Whoah, what a boat! The flats guys are going to love this one.

]]> http://fishingjones.com/2008/06/30/boats-glade-runner/#comment-1359 Tue, 01 Jul 2008 02:18:59 +0000 http://fishingjones.wordpress.com/?p=329#comment-1359 Kind of a cross between a flats skiff , an Arkansas river boat, and a South Ccarolina swamp boat…. I want to read that article when it comes out.

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