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See this was more what i was thinking because it sounds pretty stressful and difficult to get the pack of numbers and letters then level and place them perfectly on the boat. I could be wrong but thats just my mentality, correct me if im over thinking it!

I was wondering what the best way to put these numbers on with them being straight and level, this is my first boat thats going to be brand new and I dont quite know if the DMV gives me those numbers or if I have to go and get the package of stickers from the sporting goods store and stick them all on individually? Thanks, Zach

Thanks for that input i kind figured the manual would be the best bet but this is my first brand new boat so its all new to me

A week from this Friday I get to go pick up my brand new 2017 Ranger Rt188 with a mercury 115 pro XS and bring it home with me. Now that my money situation for the boat and the date to pick it up is all done i have time to think about other things I must do to the boat to get it ready for its maiden voyage. Aside from registering the boat and trailer and getting a water stamp i thought about the engine and how i have to break it in which i never had to do on my old used boat i just sold. Ive YouTube a couple videos and they do an ok job at explaining them but i want some good quality help from the people on this website. So what recommendations do you have to get a proper break in on this new motor? I have a few questions ive already thought of asking when i actually get the boat but im a planner and wont rest easy till i get some feedback on good engine break in. Thanks, Zach

Believe it or not I actually just dropped my one month old iPhone 7 in a lake this past Saturday too. I dropped it in like 15ft deep water and it was 33 degrees air temp when i dropped it so swimming really wasnt appealing to me. I went in to my verison store and lucky had insurance on the phone so they said if i paid $200 they would send me a new phone in the mail. Much better of a deal than buying a brand new iPhone at msrp price. Maybe try this if you still have the chance but if you have a different carrier that doesnt allow this best of luck getting it back!

Well that's a bummer to hear but hopefully soon you'll be able to get it out and I would love to hear how everything goes it's just eye candy looking at this boat and it gets me all excited for the day I hopefully can bring one home. Also have been considering the charcoal color it looks sleek!

How are you liking the 188? Im currently saving up my money to get this boat too but i was gonna get the 90hp evinrude e-tec. What color is your boat and why did you go with the Yamaha? Also ive heard that the step hinge goes bad quickly and i dont know if i want to spend the money on the step. Thanks, Zach

Sorry for giving a vague description and taking so long to reply, ive been dealing with a brutal sinus infection,, anyways ill add some more stuff about the lake. To start from here in nebraska 2ft water visibility is considered really clean, at least eastern nebraska where i am. From what i can tell from dragging jigs and texas rigs theres not much to the bottom. What i mean by this is theres tons of grass, and the main bottom is just silty mud. There are a few downed trees but they are a foot from the bank and in 6" of water...:/ I do hopefully plan on going out later this week after a nice warm front comes in and ill measure water temp and report back. And onto the other forage or fish in the lake. Like i said before its a stocked trout lake but besides trout and smallies ive heard of some crappie in there and as far as i know there are not any lmb's. But after walking the banks this past weekend i did find 2 dead gizzard shad which were about 4" long. And another that was half eaten. Oh and ive seen some massive goldfish swimming around in there. Hope this helps! -Zach

Ive heard some rumors floating around that smallies love gobbling down bright chartruse swimbaits, would this be worth a try or would i be wasting my money?

Ive mostly tried green pumpkin and natural colors, i do have a 4" trout swimbait ive thought about using but im really not confident in throwing swimbaits

Here's the topomap i promised! And the water clairity is pretty well, id say 2 feet of visibility on a good day

To start things off ive been fishing this local lake that is the only one around that has stocked smallies in it. Its used as a stocked trout pond for a few months but people go and catch most of the trout leaving some survivors and then just the smallies, (that im aware of). I know there are smallies in there because ive caught 2 but after talking to a game warden at that lake he said they've shocked the lake and wouldnt be surprised if the next state record comes out of there. Not saying im gonna hunt and try for that state record but ive been fishing there a little over a year and only managed 2 fish caught. Im a lmb fisherman but i like a challenge every so often so i try to catch these smallies. I am just asking for some more pointers on where to catch these fish because they are just such beautiful animals and i really enjoyed the two ive caught. Ive tried tons of baits hitting all of the water colemns, shakes heads, texas rigs, wacky senkos, Ned rigs, deep divers, medium divers, jigs, squarebills, spinnerbaits , chatterbaits, topwater, basically everything you can think ive tried. Ill add the actual topo map later but thought i would ask for some pointers now. Thank , Zach

What reel is that??

I've been looking around for one of these reels for months now and I just don't know what websites to trust or where to get one that's not super expensive like the antares. Anyone out there that has had good experience with a company selling these reels?

I have been watching the fishing youtubers lately and saw that they were trying out a company of rods that I haven't heard of before called favorite rods so I looked them up and saw they had a rod for only $50 so I thought I should try one out for that price so I bought the cheapest casting rod they had and got it in the mail yesterday. First impressions are it's very very light and it's a good looking rod too. I'm planning on fishing tomorrow so It will really put it to the test but I was wondering if anyone else have gotten these rods and how they like them?

I have a 1990 Suzuki 2.7l 150hp direct injection on my boat and knock on wood it's been great to me so far. Has started up every time first crank even when the water temp was 48 degrees and air temp was even colder. I also haven't done any maintaining on it thus far having it since the beginning of the year

Ok so my situation is that there's a small state park near me with 5 different ponds to fish in. In one of the ponds it is stocked seasonally with some rainbow trout for people to fish for. Talking to fellow fisherman there they said there's huge smallies in the pond like 5-6+ pounders which is huge especially because that's the only lake near the metro that I know has small mouth in it. I also talked to the game warden there to make sure people weren't telling me fishing tales and he said there were some big ones in there, he also said that he wouldn't be surprised if the next state record comes out of there and that is verbatim. My question is if I were to buy a rainbow trout Huddleston and fish that around would I be able to catch that big one or would that not affect them because they are surrounded by rainbows all the time?

Top water spooks buzz baits

I mean if you truly think the forage is this large in the lake and if the lake is large enough to hold 5+ ponders in it then go for it the worst that can happen is you don't catch anything and that's not the end of the world but you very easily can surprise yourself and catch a big gin it will just take some dedication to catch a large fish! If I were you and you're really hunting for that giant then go for it

Umm not totally sure I'm guessing maybe 2,000 and some change if that sounds right? But I read one review that a guy used one on his nitro z7 and it worked fine

Ive been looking at getting one of these power poles for my boat but just haven't really heard much about them. Are the worth the money or should I just save up for actual powerpoles? And how hard is the installation? If anyone's heard anything about these and can help me out that would be great

Around the area of Omaha walnut creek has some big mamas in it a friend of mine caught a 6 pounder there last fall, prarie queen has produced a lot for me lately, went out last week caught about 10 dinks one black crappie and 4 2 pound largies

What exactly does that mean?

For some reason it didn't put the numbers in haha it said fourteen dash one but with numbers (for some reason it won't let me put the numbers on this site) on the prop hope that helps out and I do understand you guys are trying to help with the trim and it's partly my fault for not clarifying this earlier but when I trim the motor down I trim it down till it stops so it's trimmed down all the way

Ok so I looked at my prop today and the size it said on it was *** I'm not sure if that helps anyone diagnose my problem any better but here you go