Jayplay

Great point! I'll ask And I guess the hard thing about this is like the owner is like a 78 year old man who just had shoulder surgery and is in a sling lol, and we live about 30 minutes from the closest lake, I just feel bad asking to take his boat out....

So I've never bought a bass boat before, and I've had my eye on this 1987 Astroglass someone is selling, I believe it's a 2 stroke with an 87 Yamaha 120hp motor? I stopped and checked it out and it seemed to be a pretty solid boat. (It definitely needs cleaned up though.) The guy that's selling it is an older gentleman that hasn't had it in the water for 3 years but claims it starts (if I make him an offer I'm going to obviously have him turn the boat on to make sure.) He's asking $1500 for it, comes with a trailer, new fish finder, 2 new batteries, life jackets, ores, and also a trolling motor with a foot pedal. Does this seem like a decent deal? Anything I need to keep an eye out for? I'm inexperienced when it comes to boats.

So I just got into fishing, loving it so far, all of my previous fishing rods have already had the line spooled onto the bell. I bought a ugly stick gx2 today and some 10 lb test flourocarbon line to spool onto the spinning reel, and I thought I was doing it correctly (watched a few youtube videos explaining the technique) but when I went to do a practice cast out in the yard I flipped the bell up and pinched the line to begin my cast and about 9-10 inchs of line automatically spun off the reel? Thankfully it didn't get tangled but I would like to know what causes this? Something I'm doing wrong? Is the line not spun tight enough around the bell? Any help or tips would be greatly appreciated! Thank you.