Kalop

I haven't actually been there yet but my wife has a conference in Springfield in early June. I already have the boat slip reserved so that's where I'll be spending the 4 days of her conference.

I bought a 2016 Pro Team 175 TF in early March. I've taken it out pretty much every weekend since and I absolutely love it. Of course, this probably has a lot more to do with fishing from the bank for the past 30 years until the wife finally came around to the idea of buying a boat more so than it does with the boat itself. But before I bought it, I asked myself three important questions. Where would I be fishing, what are the lake restrictions and who will I be fishing with? I live in west central Illinois; nearly every lake within a hundred miles of me has either an electric only or 10 hp restriction (Lake Bloomington and Springfield Lake being the exceptions but they are 70 miles away). I didn't need a big boat with a monster engine. It would just be a waste of money and since I fish alone most of the time, I wanted something I could handle trailering by myself.