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Jetskiis, cabin cruisers, and weddings during deer season >. If I were king I would outlaw weddings during deer season. People should have enough sense to get married in January or July when it's too cold or hot to do anything else!!! I just thought of one other thing - inviting men to bridal showers >. ...just ain't proper.

My average shot is less than 50 yards. My longest kill is a little over 100 yds. I hunt in Georgia. By the way, we can take a total of 12 deer in georgia during the season. I couldn't afford to pay to have that many deer processed and I certainly wouldn't want to butcher that many myself. Two or three a year gives us all the venison we need.

If you do get permission, tie three of them in a triangle with nylon rope, weight with plenty of concrete blocks, and drill a hole in the top of each tire to let out the air so it will sink. You will find it's an awful lot of work, bass don't hang around them much, but folks seem to catch catfish and crappie around them. PS If the water goes down they are a terrible eyesore!

Nice fish and beautiful background scenery as well. That must be a very scenic river to fish.

You were correct to switch to the "HP" setting on the tstat subbase. The fan on a heat pump should come on as soon as the outdoor unit starts which is different from gas or straight electric resistant heat. Unless you live in south Florida or a similar climate you will need auxilliary electric resistance (strip) heat to supplement the heat pump in cold weather. If you bought a tstat for a heat pump it should have the capability to bring on that resistance heat when the room temp drops 1.5 - 2.0 degrees below setpoint. You can usually tell this because the temperature of the discharge air will be considerably warmer than what your heat pump puts out. Some of these units also have an outdoor thermostat to keep you from running the resistance heat unless it is cold weather and really needed. The purpose of this is to keep your electric bill from being too high as a result of heating with the resistance heat. If your tstat had a terminal marked W or W1 it is probably for the resistance heat. The instructions that came with the stat should explain this. Switching wire to wire from one brand of tstat to another might not work unless you are lucky. You need to read the instructions carefully to make sure you got everything in the right place. Send me a PM if you need more help.

That is a practical and easy way to solve your problem. Just make sure the silicone holds and doesn't leak! Did you degrease the area around the holes first? I bought a junk boat just to get the motor. The reason it was a junk was the motor mounting holes were not sealed good and the transom got wet and rotted. I liked the solution above that used the plywood discs laminated in the holes. More work, but you won't have to wonder about your transom. Also, make sure you use a good product to seal the holes for the new motor as well.

I used to fish at night a lot with my dad and we fished by "feel". That was before flourocarbon too. You can learn to do it even on a dark night. You may miss some fish but it beats getting bounced around by cabin cruiser wakes and getting buzzed by jet skis. But we didn't have to put up with jet skis back then, only cruisers, pleasure boaters, and water skiers. We also had Lake Lanier to ourselves on Monday thru Thursday nights.

I was hoping the price would stay up until I could replace my tow vehicle. I may have to pay more for a big truck now that I have waited too long.

Unless you strickly troll or only fish anchored, you will have a hard time controlling the boat with the trolling motor on the back. If you plan to bass fish, get a boat that will take a front mount trolling motor or mount a plate across the front of this one to accept a trolling motor. You can rig a transom mount motor on the front of the boat with the right bracket. You will also need a motor on the transom to act as a rudder as well or rig something to do the same thing.

You can get a decent bass boat for $5000, especially now. As you were advised above, find a good mechanic and have him check the boat out for you before you buy. There are a lot of things an inexperienced buyer will miss that a good mechanic won't. Pay close attention to the soundness of the boat and the condition of the motor. You can always clean/replace carpet and polish oxidized gelcoat. Vinyl seats will usually clean up OK if not torn or cracked. Keep your boat clean and covered once you get it. Make sure your wheel bearings are in good shape and clean and repack them once a year. I think your dad should be delighted that you want a boat that you can fish from together. Go with him as often as you can.

I think the eggs from a bass that grew that large would be a valuable resource in growing more lunker bass, so I would do my best to get it to my Game and Fish people (Georgia) for hatchery use. I would also do my best to get it documented and submitted properly to the IGFA for the world record title. I would also not turn down any financial offers that met my standards either.

It's been a while since I checked the boards due to a major case of life overload. What a welcome sight to see your post at the top of the board and then to learn that Muddy was back too! Welcome Home Guys .

It has developed some chalk from sitting out in the sun and I hope to get the time soon to clean it up. When I do, I will post some pics. It was my dad's boat and he bought in back in the sixties and picked it up at the factory in Orlando. It has special meaning to me because we fished out of it together.

I was running Lake Allatoona Saturday morning moving to another fishing area and encountered a sizeable wake from another boat. I had my '91 Evindurde 150 HP motor trimmed up to get the hull out of the water and reduce drag when I crossed the wake. I crossed it at and angle so as to reduce the pounding on the boat and when the boat rocked to the side my prop cavitated and the rpms went way up. I throttled back immediately and the engine died. It wouldn't turn over the first two tries and did on the third. It sounded like it was dragging so I immediately cut it off and used my trolling motor to get to the ramp. My mechanic looked at the motor, found metal on a spark plug, and turned it over once to listen. My power head is now on the way to a machine shop to be torn down and evaluated. After telling my wife about the incident, I decided fishing was still cheaper than golf or gambling (not that I would ever do either). I love the water and will continue to fish. I am not totally boatless as I have my Orlando Clipper with an electric motor on each end and can fish a couple of smaller lakes around here 'til my Stratos is running again. Has anyone else ever lost an engine due to cavitation caused high rpms?

Three Rivers Marine is a well established reputable business. If you are uncomfortable sending your card number accross the internet order by phone. I'm just old fashioned I guess, but I still like to talk to a real person on the other end of the line so that's what I usually do.

I take it from your reply that Bassboatsaver has done a good job over the past 3 years of protecting your gelcoat and vinyl from sun and pollutant induced oxidation? That is really what I am looking for as my boat has oxidized enough between my yearly waxings to concern me. Do you use it each time you take your boat out of the water or just every other time, and do you use it at the ramp or after you get home. How long does it take to go over your boat? Thanks for the info.

I like to launch while it's still dark and run to my first spot using a light so that I am actually fishing at first light. That's in the late spring and summer. When the water is cold in the winter I would rather fish when the sun is high.

I have been looking at a product for protecting Gelcoat that Glenn recommended in a previous post call Bow to Stern. They make a combination polish/protectant and a straight protectant. Glenn said it really made his boat shine, but I wonder if anyone here has used it for a year or more. I would like to know how it held up. I also see from searching the posts that a lot of guys swear by Bassboatsaver. I understand that it should be used every time you pull your boat out of the water to clean it and add protectant. Has anyone tried using Bassboatsaver after treating the boat with Bow to Stern? I wonder if it is even needed if you use Bow to Stern? I am tired of having to compound my boat every year to keep the finish bright in spite of using wax. It is an older boat and the gelcoat oxides somewhat over the course of a year. Any advice you can give will be appreciated.

In your first post you said you caught bass last fall on a lightweight outfit with a blue fox spinner. I'll bet that lightweight outfit had 4,6, or at the most 8lb test line on it? If the water is very clear and you put heavier line on your new rigs that may be your problem. When I first started fishing Lake Allatoona in Georgia I was using 12 and 14 lb line which is what I used to use on other lakes. I didn't catch a thing until some local guys told me to use light line that the fish couldn't see so well. I also used smaller lures. I started catching fish. If your water is clear, try some 6 lb line and a smaller lure, preferably a soft plastic without exposed treble hooks. Also try to fish where there is at least a ripple on the water as it cuts down on the light penetrating the water and the fish can't see as well, so I'm told. One more thing, most bass winter in deep water. They may not have moved shallow yet.

I had the same problem with my dads old fishing boat, but I just lost the manuf id tag after taking it off to work on the transom. I had to write the GA DNR a letter and ask for a new hull ID number. I was then able to register the boat. It took forever. Go to the boat registration website and something there will tell you how to get started. I hope you know the year the boat was made, because they will want that info. I only knew a range of years on mine and finally had to make a guess to get them satisfied.

Your life is about to change, very drastically - for the better. Hold on and enjoy the ride ;D! Congrats on the son!

If I had to guess, that is a Ft. Stewart pond in the background of your picture. Those ponds have the reputation for holding some big bass and I hope you catch the biggest. WELCOME HOME and thanks a bunch. PS: Make sure you put the plug in that John Boat before you launch (lol).

Looks like you were holding her pretty close to your face. You weren't about to kiss her were you? She could have been a nice girl who didn't want to be kissed.

Did you check the connections on the male and female plugs at the front of the boat. You could have corrosion there. Make sure the screws that hold the wires are tight as well.

I'm not a tournament fisherman and no expert by a long shot but maybe this example will help illustrate the principle. I fished with my son and daugter-in-law yesterday morning. We started before sun-up on a windblown bank with rocks and brush 6' deep or so. Our first fish came on topwater. The next on a blue pearl Senko. We rounded the point and started down a bluff wall where my son usually catches fish. We were then out of the wind and caught no fish. We continued around another point and into a cove where he has had good luck. Still no fish even though we saw shad flipping. After 30-40 minutes of this I convinced him to move to an area the wind could hit and we started catching fish again. Our fish came on the senko, a drop-shot with a Tiny Fluke, and a texas rig finesse worm. We did not catch fish on a spinner bait, hard jerk bait, soft jerk bait(fished fast), or any more on topwater(sun came up). This told me the fish wanted a slow presentation which made sense since the wind was out of the NW and I guessed the barameter was rising. I gave the non-productive baits a good try off and on all morning even though I could catch fish on the drop shot. We also noticed most of our fish were coming from water 6'-10' deep near large rocks. We were catching spots. Hope this illustration helps. Experience on a particular lake helps a great deal because you already have a good idea of what will work. It also helps to have more than one person in the boat so you can try different kinds of baits (hard/soft, fast/slow, shallow/deep, dark/light). Some days you never catch a fish so you are not able to develop a pattern(see my signature below .