2008
Sport Show Schedule
The RRCC
X-Stream canoe package has been chosen
to be the Grand Prize Give-Away
at 8 of the 11 shows we do in 2008 -
Chicago, St. Louis, Nashville,
Minneapolis, Louisville and Madison!
Click Here
for Sportshow Season Schedule
New RRCC Guided
Trip Gallery
View the latest pictures of River Ridge
Guided Trips. June - mid August, 2007 -
Click Here
for the Gallery
Appearing in the
September
issue of Midwest Outdoors
Custom
Canoes, Rivers,
and Smallmouth
By Jerry
Carlson
It is not every day that an invitation
to go smallmouth fishing flies out of
the blue and lands in your lap. But that
is exactly what happened to me.
The
smallmouth invitation came from a
gentleman named Bill Plantan, the owner
of River Ridge Custom Canoes. Plantan
resides near Rochester, Minnesota and
works the smallmouth on the nearby
Zumbro River.
Click
Here to Read Full Article.....
Kevin Kelly's Cool Tools
John Robinson, RRCC owner from
Massachusetts had his favorite tool ...
his canoe .
Click Here to Read What He had to Say
Ron Schara Float Trip
Platte River - Video Clips
Part One -
Click to Download Part
One
Part Two -
Click to Download Part
Two
(Windows
Media Files - 1.7meg)
More Excellent Photos
View great pictures of our canoe in
action at:
Windigo Images
New Products from RRCC
River Ridge Custom Canoes is now
carrying the
Minnkota Maxxum 55 and the
Vector 3X trolling motors (these are
the motors we recommend for our canoes).
Order a canoe package and take advantage
of our special pricing. We are also
carrying LED lights for your bow and
stern a must in low light conditions.
Click here to see
what new owner Richard Lee Merritt of Chico, CA had to say about the maiden
voyage in his new canoe
Field and Stream Issue
featured a summer boat guide in the
"Gearing Up" Section. Our custom canoe
takes top billing! Pick up an issue to
read all about it or read it online:
To read the Field & Stream
gearing up article
click here!
Click Here to
View The Latest RRCC Customer Pictures
Click Here to
View The Latest RRCC Customer Pictures
and Stories!
Customer
Testimonials
Hear
what others are saying about the River Ridge
Custom Canoe. Please send us your
comments! View
testimonials
Look for River Ridge Custom Canoes
featured on these shows:
Outdoor
Channel....Call of the Wild
(all times are Eastern - check local
listings) Tuesdays at 6 p.m.
Thursdays at 10:30 a.m.
Sundays at 3:30 p.m.
Outdoor Life
Network
Backroads with Ron & Raven will air
again beginning in October!
Minnesota Bound
KARE 11...Minneapolis, MN
Sundays at 10:30 PM
Saturdays at 6:30 PM
KTTC 12.....Rochester, MN
Saturdays at 6:00 AM
KVLY / NBC.... Fargo, ND
Sundays at 5:00 PM
KSFY / ABC....Sioux Falls, SD
Saturdays at 6:00 AM
KBJR
TV-6.....Duluth, MN
Sunday nights at 10:35
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Minnesota Bound
and Call of the Wild as seen on the
Outdoor Channel for more great canoeing
adventures.
Ron and Raven
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Pictured below is
Hajime Oguri.
Hajime's
company, Vagabond, sells RRCC
Canoes in Japan. (192 to date).
Our customers get
creative with
their color choices.
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Interstate
80/90
Delivery Promotion
All canoes delivered within 100 miles of the
interstate 80/90 corridor
stretching from Chicago through Pennsylvania and
into Virginia and Washington, DC, will only be
charged $100.00 for shipping, packing and
handling.
Click
Here for More Information
HOT NEW Accessories
For Your River Ridge Canoe
▪
Brunton ATLAS MNS GPS
▪ AM/FM/CD
Marine Sound System
▪ Interior
L.E.D. Light System
▪ Brunton 10NL Compass/Thermometer
Click Here for All
The Details....
Posted
11/14/06
Why
continue to drive by 75% of the water you
can't get to with your big boat? Why fight
the crowds at the landing ramps? Why
deal with high blood pressure any longer as
you watch the Jet Ski churn up your precious
Lunker hole.
And why continue to
fight off all the boats that gather near as
you try to conceal all the fish you are
landing? Please take a tour around our site
and discover the new way to get to places
that really hold the trophies ….away form
the busy boat ramps…. away from the crowds
….closer to nature.
Our shop in
Rochester, Minnesota.
From left: Gary, Mark, Jeff and
Bill
Canoeing the north fork of the
unpredictable Flambeau river in NW
Wisconsin
Canoes. Comeraderie. Friends. Shared
interests and time. Expert guidance.
Good food - great memories.
Photographer Patrick Dean -
Check out these beautiful photos taken
on our trip!!!
Looking
for an easy way to
store your canoe?
Canoe Storage Hoist Systems
Due
to the overwhelming response on our canoe hoist systems
we are now adding the Heavy-Duty hoist system.
Click here to read more about it.
Read
what Ira Follen has to say about our
canoes. He took possession of his
RRCC Canoe on April 13th of this year
and sent in his testimony on December
13th.
Click Here To Read Ira's Letter
Mall of America
The Minnesota Bound Store is now
open in the Mall of America. Come
and see our canoe at Ron Schara's new
store. Not only is the canoe being used
as the sign..so the location should be
easy to find. ...but we now have
the NEW Ron Schara Edition of our canoe
available there. This is a fresh new
package of goodies with our always
reliable hull. It has Ron's signature on
it..and you can check it out there.
Hottest New
Innovation from River Ridge Custom
Canoes:
Click here to
see pictures of our new single rod
holders
Read about our
exciting
bow anchor
system, a standard feature on all RRCC canoes.
Click for more
information.
Destination Links/Information
• The best of
what’s left, and where to find it!
We the people own nearly 150,000 miles
of streams and 2.5 million acres of
lakes and reservoirs! That’s right.
Now find out where to fish on them.
• The U.S.
Forest Service has developed a
comprehensive on-line resource to
fishing in the National Forests.
Click here to visit!
•
Click
here for information on the canoe routes
and river conditions in
Minnesota
as provided by the DNR...be safe, not sorry!
New
- Virtual Plant Tour
CAMPING
TRIP TIPS
If
you REALLY want to have
fun in our canoe...try a 2 day
camping trip.
We have been doing them for the last
13 years, and would like to share a few of
our tips with you ... (click
to read full story)
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Recent Articles Featuring River Ridge Custom Canoes |
Can you canoe and catch fish, too?
By Dan Small -
Contributing Editor
Wisconsin Outdoor News
Most anglers have a canoe somewhere in their boating history,
usually as a first boat. When they move on to a bigger boat with
an outboard motor, their canoe often leans against the garage
wall, all but forgotten.
The Water Wolf
in Sheep’s Clothing
By Noel
Vick:
River fishing expert Bill Plantan
never leaves home without ‘em; that is a
full complement of prerigged rods and
reels.
The world’s a harmonious place when
Bill Plantan inconspicuously slides his
canoe into the flow. A morning fog masks
his craft, its intentions, and most of
the river panorama. Unseen riffles
trickle. Something crunches in the dried
leaf litter, likely a squirrel, maybe a
deer. In the distance an aroused turkey
gobbles; it’s that time of the year.
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Running a
River, Lane by Lane
Within walking distance of my
childhood home was a modest and
antiquated bowling alley. Its décor
was reminiscent of the television
show Happy Days and bowling’s
heyday.
Economizing Scope and Improving
Results
By Noel
Vick:
Bill Plantan, an impassioned river
buff, often speaks about this guy
who owned a big boat – the fast and
glass sort – and nearly exclusively
launched it on big water.
Smallmouths by
Canoe from A to Z
Featured in
Game & Fish Magazines (15 states).
This article by Tim Holschlag is
considered your textbook for fishing
smallmouths from a canoe.
Minnesota Outdoor News
featured an article by writer Tori McCormick.
In an interview with
Bill Plantan of River Ridge Custom
Canoes, the Do's and
Don'ts of fishing from a canoe
become very clear.
Click here to
read!
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Mission
Statement
- To create the ultimate sports
utility
vehicle for small waters!
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