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2022 Fishing Thread
- Thread starter Nutterbuster
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I've tried that. Don't work. I dunked her butt running limb lines back in spring when I goosed reverse to keep us out of a wasp nest while she was leaning over to grab a line.
All that made her do was insist on being the one to run the motor. :/ I expect papers as soon as she learns to read the fishfinder
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hokiehunter373
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Took my kids out for some 'gills on Saturday. Fried them up on Sunday while I was smoking ribs and pastrami. My kids don't eat anything like they eat fish they know we caught.
Crappie off the dock lights.
Spent the weekend at a house on the lake my buddy rented. The rest of the women have been reading on the balcony or chatting in the kitchen. Mine is glued to the dock like a teenager to a Playstation. Fishing is slow, but she's pulling in bass, crappie, bluegills, and shellcrackers
Spent the weekend at a house on the lake my buddy rented. The rest of the women have been reading on the balcony or chatting in the kitchen. Mine is glued to the dock like a teenager to a Playstation. Fishing is slow, but she's pulling in bass, crappie, bluegills, and shellcrackers
So I gots a question...
Anybody own a Bass Tracker Classic XL or one of the older Classic or Heritage boats? Basic little 16'8" hulls with a little 50hp on the back? Looks like they're way more expensive than they were when I first started noticing them (17k vs 9k several years ago), but they're still pretty cheap and look ok to me. Small enough I could probably tow one with the Forester, and Bass Pro is the closest dealer/service center to me.
Anybody own a Bass Tracker Classic XL or one of the older Classic or Heritage boats? Basic little 16'8" hulls with a little 50hp on the back? Looks like they're way more expensive than they were when I first started noticing them (17k vs 9k several years ago), but they're still pretty cheap and look ok to me. Small enough I could probably tow one with the Forester, and Bass Pro is the closest dealer/service center to me.
The guy I used to crab with all the time had a teacher classic I believe. Great boat but I wouldn't spend 17k on one personally. Why not buy used?
My brother in law had an older 17’ bass tracker with a motor about that size (his might have been 65hp) for years. They catch fish and get you from point a to point b just fine. They also have some of the amenities like padded seats and built in live wells that you don’t get in a typical jon boat.
17k seems like a lot of money, until you compare it to the cost of a fiberglass boat today.
Plus, they have solid paint so you could still make fun of us glitter boat guys
Like @boyne bowhunter, mentioned, 17k is pretty cheap today in the boat world. I wouldn't be against a newer used one, but one new enough to suit me wouldn't change the price once and new is usually better to finance, which I'd be doing.
I've bought beaters and have strong feelings on fixing them. I don't like projects, I like to catch fish. Buying my jon boat and all its stuff new worked for me. Just bought a 1 man boat instead of 2 before I knew she was a fishing fiend
I live on the river and the wife and I both fish. Pretty simple lives. $300 a month or so, $75 a week to have a nice new boat with no issues that we could use at least once a week year round ain't bad. Can't hardly buy dinner for two for that.
I agree with everything you said except you added about 15 years to my age when you called me @boyne bowhunter
Whoops! All mods look alike I guess...I agree with everything you said except you added about 15 years to my age when you called me @boyne bowhunter
Since you've called my attention to it the old guy will weigh in . . . I have a 17' Bluefin Aluminum Bass Boat with a 50HP on it (basically the same thing as the Bass Tracker). I've had it since the early 90's and have caught a lot of fish off it. Nice little boat, easily towable, stable with two or three folks and fishes great. Little Minnkota bow mount trolling motor eases you around the fishing holes. They're light so they'll get up and move pretty respectably with only the 50 on them. I think mine tops out around 30mph but it also trolls nice if that's the game of the day.
For me, the only downside is that it's a pretty much a calm water boat. Much more than a foot rollers and its not all that comfortable to be in. There's not of draft or free board on it. I live on the east coast of some pretty big water (Lake Charlevoix/Lake Michigan) and it doesn't take a lot of west wind to create that kind of conditions. Probably not an issue for the types of water you'd be looking at running in though @Nutterbuster.
Edit: I won't depress you by telling you how little I paid for it in the 90's.
For me, the only downside is that it's a pretty much a calm water boat. Much more than a foot rollers and its not all that comfortable to be in. There's not of draft or free board on it. I live on the east coast of some pretty big water (Lake Charlevoix/Lake Michigan) and it doesn't take a lot of west wind to create that kind of conditions. Probably not an issue for the types of water you'd be looking at running in though @Nutterbuster.
Edit: I won't depress you by telling you how little I paid for it in the 90's.
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We've put about a dozen in the boat this morning. She's a machine.
hokiehunter373
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Dang good name for a boat