BUILDING your own CANOPY CAMPER
When you’re a mad keen fisherman you need to ensure you have a comfortable base for those days when the fish are on the bite at a remote beach or river, and if you can’t find what you want then you need to build your own. That was the motivation for Dylan Hodges when he set out to build his smart slide-on camper.
Dylan is certainly a keen fisherman. The 35 year-old patrols the NSW north coast beaches pursuing big jewfish, the sort that can run to 25 kilos and up. He likes to live large and enjoy his days away with his partner Tracey or his mates. It seemed a natural extension of his life-long love affair with camping. “I’ve always been a camper,” he told us. “I just love it.”
But in the early days it was a simple matter of a tent or a swag, and “throw in a case of beer and I was happy.”
GROWING ASPIRATIONS
But as he went along he began to
