Jigfishn10

They are beautiful fish and you gave a report on your experience with new equipment. I’m just thanking you for your review/first impression. Look forward to more thoughts on your reel.

I got queasy just looking at that pic. Don't post that again, son.

After giving some thought and in the spirit of answering your question my “idonthaveaspareproponboard” friend ( @gimruis ) I forgot that I have a telescoping ladder on my transom. I can stand on that. If I didn’t have a ladder I always have rope on board. A surgeon’s loop to put my foot in and tied off to a cleat. 1 or 2 ropes whichever you’re comfortable with. Throw over the back of the transom and stand in the surgeon’s loop. Won’t be comfortable but you get the job done. Hope that helps

No worries, man. I honestly thought you were joking around. It is winter you know. Lol I fish the 3 mile federal line in the Gulf of Maine and see boats around all the time . Someone will usually tow you in if you need one or I can row in if I’m on an incoming tide or the current is in that direction. Can I do it in open water? Probably. It would be a stretch and h e l l no if it’s bumpy out there. All good here, bud.

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Then don't carry a spare prop. No one is telling you to do so. The part that you're failing to understand is what you're failing to do...that's reading the posts in it's entirety. Members are telling you what they do.

TN, he gets it, man. He's just trying to be funny.

Beautiful fish and thanks for the review on the equipment.

Right over the transom for @Log Catcher to cast to? J/K of course. I keep the same "amenities".

Hallo, Junger. Genau. Augustiner bier ist gut! Bis spater!

We are I’m saying troll to shore with your bow mount and change the outboard prop from shore

You don’t think you can get to shore with your TM to change out a prop? I have an oar on board to row. I also see plenty of boaters who would tow you in.

You got that right, tastes way better than the Charles River in a white can you drink.

bout time i returned the favor..huh?

I was talking to a friend one day and we got into a discussion of what we carry on the water in case of emergencies. Besides the typical flares, flashlight, fire extinguisher etc. that you should have on the boat. I carry a NOCO boost (thanks A-Jay) in case I need to jump the battery, a pull cord in case the NOCO is dead and spare spark plugs, hand tools and such. I know I have more on there, but that's what comes to mind. Interestingly, he asked if I carried a spare prop. I don't...well didn't...now I do. I was in a harbor on an outgoing tide away from the channel one day and was cruising slowly - no wake zone - over hard bottom. I bottomed out causing some minor damage to my prop. I never gave it a thought until we had this discussion that I got lucky. It made me think. Well, I got an extra one for the coming season. It was expensive, but a small insurance policy for the piece of mind. How about you?

Never even thought about it. Now you got me thinking.

Probably doesn't belong here but my US 300 (now 600, added bearings) is still bringing some saltwater fish up from a 100' deep. @bulldog1935, those pics never get old. @Big Hands, sweet reels! @Eric 26, who said Ryobi makes bad tools.

Just realized the second picture with an engine on the "vessel". To support J Francho's post. imagine what a hole shot would make that "vessel" look like?

Scooby snacks have a totally different meaning around here.

I can’t confirm this statement because I have no shad in my waters but during the late fall when waters get really cold and you get a shad kill and a dying or dead shad would drop like a rock? Hoping a confirmation with that statement from a member here. If true then break those LV’s out.

A smart business man would call it a $2,799 profit over the old design.

Just spit balling here, but to meet certain rod design and characteristics, they first have to make a steel mandrel for the composite rod material to be wrapped around. IDK for sure but to meet those specifications the mandrel sizes are dictated by those design specs. Again, just spit balling

Looks like Ima Suspending Vibration Lipless Ghost Ayu