@Nutterbuster, She ran like a scalded dog so I went for it. Got her for $1400 total, split halfway with a buddy, so $700 each. It's nice and open in the middle so it will be great when hauling gear and deer. Got to take her out once and it was a blast. She goes too. Registered 25 mph on my phone app. Way faster than my kayak. My son loves the boat and I imagine many a good time together. We are taking her out to try to get in on the white bass run next Tuesday.
your son will thank you for that purchase later in life..
Hey hun.....u know the fish we had for dinner,...the 1 u made the video with.....why was there hair on my fish?
YUP. Gotta watch it or you'll conclude that life is short, what comes after uncertain, and the only sensible thing to do is sit out on this bank of sand...and watch the river flow!
I trot lined in Louisiana and used hoop nets as a teen when the bayous would get up out of their banks, we ran the lines from tree to tree to tree through the woods along the banks. You tie off to the first tree, then go from tree to tree, going around a tree every so often, keeping tension on the line as you go. We would girth hitch a brick with one of the hook loops between the trees to hold the line down, tensioning the line to keep the bricks just off the bottom. By just going around the middle trees, instead of tying off to them, you will be able to raise or lower the line as the water rises or falls. We would keep the lines around the trees about 6-8 inches below the water. If the water is rising fast, you have to be careful or when you run the line you won’t be a able to reach the line to adjust it. So set it according to the conditions. You could do the same thing piling to piling to piling.
The problem is you won't be able to get a big enough weight in your kayak to keep the line taunt. I tried several times last year because a trotline running perpendicular to a creek or river catches the most fish close to the edges usually. But even a 35lb weight, which doesn't sound like much until you're raising and lowering it over the side of a boat, won't keep a line good and tight.
