Jan

Here's the shiny boat shortly after it was polished.

Thanks, everyone. We took the boat out this morning and I caught my first ever small mouth bass. And it was legal! . thanks again. We had fun.

I'm very new to fishing and fishing boats. Now that I have admitted that, I hope this doesn't sound too stupid a situation. Hubby bought a 30 year old 16' bass tracker. It looked terrible so upon recommendation of the boat trader he washed it off with an acid spray. It looked much better but was left looking chalky. That was fine by us but our non-fishing neighbor came over and brought his polish to show us how shiny it would make the boat. Well, he didn't do just a couple of inches but shined up at least a square foot of the boat. Can you see where I'm going? It looked really bad and not knowing much about aluminum fishing boats we started polishing up the rest of the boat. A long lost buddy, who knows fishing, saw the boat today and commented that the shiny hull will scare away the fish. I suspect he is right and am thinking of painting or somehow dulling the hull. So the question is: Does a shiny boat scare off the fish and if so, what's the best and easiest way to "de shine" the boat again? Your opinions are appreciated and will be needed if I need to convince Hubby that the extra work of dulling the hull will be worth it.