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You should have a mechanic look over the motor before you buy. It looks like its in nice shape. Hopefully the motor checks out and you'll have yourself a lot of fun with it. Good luck!

Interesting stuff. I had no idea it was so easy to bump up the horses on the 200.

I think I'd like Charlie a little more if he dumped the $400 designer jeans and the Miami nightlife look. Big O, send the man some camo shorts and send me the bill!

No doubt I would fish with my Grandpa. He always dropped what he was doing to take me fishing. I'd love to have a 100 fish day with him in my boat. I can still hear him yelling "oh ho ho I got one!!". He sounded like Santa Claus setting the hook! Others would be Hank Parker and Shaw Grigsby. Oh, and of course Steve "Big O" Parks on Lake Falcon, Choke Canyon, or Amistad.

He'd probably tell you to fish on the other side of the boat!

When looking at the disk, you should be looking through something glass placed into the water to eliminate any surface light interference. A scuba mask perhaps?

How did I know you would chime in Chris? Many of my Guntersville pics are posted in the gallery in my profile. Check them out.

At this point no. I'm about ready to start burning picture disks and sending them via good ol USPS. I just posted a bunch in my profile gallery. Check them out.

You know Tom, I noticed that too but had forgotten about it until you mentioned it. Thanks. I'm pretty sure that my new "buying policy" will be to try them on first and not get them online. For me the fit is crucial. If they're just a little off, it feels terrible (which is exactly the case with my Maui Jim's).

I have a pair of Maui Jim Offshores and I love the lenses but don't like the frames. I think I might try Costas 580G lenses next. I tried a pair on at the Roadtrip and loved the fit of the frames.

Thanks for that post. Awesome.

If ya don't like the good ol' USA, there's always China. If ya don't like BassResource, go elsewhere. Glenn and the mods work very hard and do a darn good job at being fair. GO FISHING!

Hey y'all, I see that some of my links to my Roadtrip pics and vids didn't make it to some of you. If you wanna see them and haven't received a "yousendit" invite, shoot me a pm including your email address and I'll get you one. Still working out how this yousendit thing works, so if you get there and there aren't any pics and videos, I THINK it's because someone chose to "move" the files instead of "copy and paste" them. If you want copies please just copy and paste. There are 83 of them and I've had to re-upload them twice now. The is a good chance it's my own stupidity, I just haven't figured out how yet.

I just busted a crankbait when I went "Ike". I think I'd be pretty upset with myself if I busted one of my Dobyn's.

Have you ever been bitten by one?

I'm amazed that your wife even let's you into the house. My wife would lock the doors if she knew I was gonna attempt to put one of those into my house. My advice is to wait. But take my opinion with a grain of salt. I'm the husband of an arachnophobe.

Well, I would say that most of the people that read this thread and say "I would NEVER behave like that" may have never been in that situation. I have never been a pro fisherman so I can only relate to this from my experiences as a golf pro. When you put every fiber of your being into a profession like that, it takes on a different form. It is pure passion and love for what you're doing that drives you to greatness. NO ONE has ever achieved greatness without it. That passion takes on different forms in different personalities. When I was young and less in control of my emotions, I would throw a few tantrums during practice rounds while I was alone. And a couple times I embarrassed myself during a round of golf with people watching. That embarrassment is what helped me control myself in the future. Everyone needs to know what that passion feels like. In me, it feels like a monster inside me pushing me to absolute perfection, and when you fall short of what you percieve is perfect, that monster wants to roar. Because you have put everything you have into what you love to do and you are millimeters away from validating all those hours, days, weeks and years of preparation, and you get beat. Yeah, it is nearly impossible to control that passion in that situation. I'm not condoning the behavior, but I understand it. And I won't judge him looking down my nose at him.

Mike is just passionate. It's what drives him to achieve what he has achieved. We all could stand to walk a mile.

Did he just say "doofusness"?

Mike, did you check to see if the batteries were filled and charged before taking that bus? (only Roadtrip attendees will get this one).

I had a little "Ike Moment" at the 2012 Roadtrip recently. We were deep cranking on a shcool of fish stacked up on a bridge. We were BOTH hooked up and fighting a couple good fish when mine came off. I was very amped up because I wanted a "double" for both of us. I jumped up in fun frustration when it happened and out of impulse I slapped the water with the crankbait. I never thought that it would break the crankbait, but it did (it was a Rapala DT20). I never cussed, I just yelled and Gary just laughed at me while landing his 3.5 pounder. He just said, "Yup, Rapalas do that." I think he might have been speaking from experience...I don't know for sure. We went on to land a bunch more fish off that bridge and broke three more cranks in the process. Not out of frustration, they broke from casting them into the low hanging bridge. The school was under the bridge. We are the two charter members of the newly formed Guntersville Busted Lip Club!