NJBass12

You may want to consider upgrading your locks to something better. New locks are around $35 each and pretty easy to install. Another option is to take some of the more expensive stuff out of your boat. My boat came with an alarm for the compartments....I guess that is another option too.

Bass Cat Puma FTD

Looks really good. Can't go wrong with dark gray

You can use regular car wash soap to wash it down. Do not use dish soap. Dish soap will strip off all the old wax and leave an un-protected finish. Put a good coat of wax on their and use a good spray quick detailer type product everytime you get off the water to wipe it down.

Reading all these stories I thought I would offer a tip just incase some one falls in and has trouble getting back in the boat. Work you way back to the outboard, using the trim switch on the motor trim the motor down. Stand on the cavitation plate, hug the motor and trim the motor back up all the way. The motor will lift you out of the water and you can slide down along the top of the motor right in to the boat.

Just a few additional things that I thought of.....Throw cushion, air horn, flares, wistle, first aid kit, some tools, jumper cables or a power pack that you can use to jump a battery.

Good luck cwen! I'm dying to get out, hopefully next week.

I depends on the club and the format they fish. In my club all our tournaments are a buddy draw format. It's a team effort, it's based on the weight the boat brings in. The non-boaters are just as important as the boaters. I've fished in other clubs with different formats and this is my favorite. We could not function without non-boaters.

Congrats!!!!! Very nice, lots of luck!

The strike...especailly a small mouth crushing a moving bait or a large mouth busting through the weeds after a top water frog.

Looks awesome!!! Then again I'm biased.

125 is definitely better, although still a bit underpowered. I was looking at boats for a while before I purchased one. It always seemed like underpowered boats were a tough sell. Offer him 5K and take it from there. Check the NADA value on line. There are some good deals out there. Viper's are pretty sharp looking boats. Do not know how well they ride. Good luck!

B basspro215....I feel your pain. I got a boat over the winter. I'm dying to get out and I feel like winter is never going to end! We are in the middle of another storm in NJ.....12 - 20 inches

Check for stress cracks, make sure the transom is solid, check lower unit oil and of course have a compression test done on the motor....this is just a few things from a very big list. Honestly I would take it out for a ride and see how it runs with the 90. Sounds very under powered to me with a 90. You may have a problem getting on plane with two people in the boat, fuel and live wells full of water. A friend had a 17 foor Nitor with a 75 horse motor and I would have to get out of my seat and sit on the front deck so that he could get on plane.

Get a good trans cooler, change your trans fluid on a regular basis (I do mine every year just to be safe), and do not tow in overdrive. You should be fine.