Low_Budget_Hooker

ok, please add a few to the end of THIS thread

As the board turns.......these,...are the threads of our lives.... ;D (Days of our lives)

It's a big diamond. Matches the collar on his fluffy white cat on his lap.

Next time you have a concern regarding where your posts are, PM me or another mod before ranting that you've been deleted. I replied to your thread (He left the forum) and locked it. After sufficient time for you to view it, it was removed. TPayne- sorry for the harshness of my previous reply, I'm missing Muddy's meatball dinner at Gville tonight. lol,...I'm Grumpy

Welcome Aboard!!

;D ;D ;D Yes,...they're here, anonymously.

Wide bite lag screws

This'll do it.

Rephrase please, tough to understand

The issue I've seen is that some of the leaking rivets can be found under a bench seat or in a place where you just can't get to so that you can get the metal as clean as it needs to be. Hence the mega blow outs,lol. For a rivet, you can drill it out and replace it (from the bottom) with a tapered head bolt and be done with it. For building tutorials, see the link below, I just started putting it together but if you look through past pages in this section, you'll see lots of other rebuilds also. http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?num=1206322448

Micky comes with bennies

The guides Disney hires all are long time proven guides. I doubt they would hire a guide with zero guiding experience.

I've noticed a HUGE difference personally. The Florida strain seem to have a much better tan while the northern strain know how to make a better snowball. We all have our differences. Yea,...I'm clueless....... ;D

G Welcome has really helped to open some eyes in regards to guiding. He has a thread somewhere, just tried to find it with no luck, that goes into detail explaining "a day in the life of.....". It REALLY puts things into perspective in regards to COST Gas, insurance, licenses, food, bait, gear, etc etc TIME- sunrise to well after sunset. Lots of bookwork, accounting, scheduling, communicating, etc SUCCESS- You can't just know a lake, you have to have it mastered. ABILITY- You need to be a better teacher than you are a fisherman and you need to be one heck of a fisherman. Anyone can go be a guide for a year, but to have a 20 yr successful biz, like GWelcome or TRedington etc, you need to be a special breed. I love fishing, obviously. I already have a captains license. I put people (strangers often ) on fish all the time. I get up at 430-500 everyday, naturally. I fish 6-9 shifts/week in season. (about 35-40 hrs wk) All that said, I still do not have what it takes to be a guide I could probably get to that level eventually, with proper guidance, but like Fish said,.....I like to fish too much. When fishing becomes work, the client comes first.

Ah, you know,...a little fishin',....some more fishin'.....maybe some fishin'.....we don't change

Nothing stupid about examining the "what if's" before doing something. But You're worries are not needed. It just slows the boat down. They don't even come close to "stopping" it let alone hold it in place against a force that could capsize you. Never happen. Even if it gets hung up, it goes from a drift anchor,.....to a regular anchor,lol. To give you a better visual, I often tie my big one (for a 30-36' boat) off on the oar lock hole. That's right, it holds the boat broadside to the wind and still doesn't have any action that leads towards capsizing you or even close. Your fears are warranted, I watched a guy get his anchor line wrapped around his prop in a strong tide once. It spun the boat and held the stern to the waves. Wasn't long before the boat was upside down. Thinking ahead and being prepared is never wrong. But go try that anchor, you'te going to love it, I promise. To alleviate more concern, you'll notice on the line they provide, there is a foam float. That is so you can dump the anchor at any time by simply untying it from the boat. Because of the float, you can circle back and get it after. I've done this before with a big fish, dump the anchor so the fish can't wrap on the anchor line, catch the fish and go grab anchor. So, if your nervous, just know that a quick untie and you are totally separated from the anchor.

Caution- Shadowing a guide is never a good thing, shadowing him and then becoming his competition is worse. Many guides in the south don't mess around, you're inching in on their bread and butter. This is how they feed their families. The fact that you want to shadow a guide to learn has me concerned with whether or not you can make the cut to begin with. Nothing against you, but guides become guides by mastering a lake, usually not by copying other guides. Just be careful, they don't alwyas take kindly to new comers. If you do shadow a guide,.....don't get caught. I suggest you hire one for the day and pick his brain regarding ALL the aspects of guiding. I ain't just fishin',lol. Learn a place on your own, well enough to guide it. Earn a name with the locals then get your captains license.

gimp

Doug Hannon-Bass Professor http://www.bassresource.com/bass_fishing_forums/YaBB.pl?board=doug_hannon

Too late, it's out,....saw it yesterday ;D Loverboy,...we should change your screenname lol Nice Fish man

Yes please

I'm making a new "sticky" that has a bunch of the rebuild links broken down by hull type. If you have a rebuild thread you remember that helped you out when it came time to do your boat and you still have it bookmarked, please post the link on this thread so we can evaluate it as an addition to the list. Please nominate your own rebuilds also, we want to review as many as possible. Please check the list first (it's a sticky) and make sure your nomination is not on there already. This is not a contest of any sort, we're just building another Resource. Thanks in advance.

I am making a sticky of a bunch of rebuilds. Please add a few of these finished pics to the "build" thread so I can add it to the group please. Thanks. and she looks awesome!! Also, 14'?

Jons LBH 1964 Comanche Z12 restore (12' jon) Grumman (14' jon) Modified V's Birth of an electric bass boat (16' mod V) Alum V's 14' Lund "V" (14' Alum V) BowTechs '59 (14'Alum V)

I use 2 different ones, sometimes together. One for a 16 and one for a 30. The key to these is scoping out a good deal of line so it has more drag. many people run them only with the line provided which is too short to do as much good as it is capable of. That's the down low right there,lol. Some folks like G Welcome can set these up so efficiently after years of learning them, they can make the boat do what he wants with simple adjustments. Just hanging it off the side works too though, just saying, they are only more and more beneficial as you learn to use them more, beginning from day 1 Muddy, once you get one, you'll kick yourself for waiting too long. Shop around, I found mine at boaters world for like $10 cheaper than anywhere else and it came in blue and black which was even better than the yellow ones that cost more so,...do your homework at the local stores as well as online and buy an additional line to clip to the one it comes with. You don't need an expensive one like the Lindner series ones with the "dump" option,etc, a $25-30 line/anchor combo one will do you fine to start.