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Are you talking about getting a floor model? If your going to wait months, you might as well get one fresh off the truck.

The place my wife works at recently had a roof collapse. That has kind of squashed any ideas of me going. If you do go, do a short write-up of the event. I would be interested on how it goes.

Which Tracker are you looking at? I have a Tracker Heritage (now called the Classic) and love it. Its the bottom of the line bass boat Tracker made, but that's fine with me. I looked the boat over thoroughly before I bought it, and knew what I was getting. Its not as refined as a lot of boats out there, but it doesn't leak and gets the job done for me. Look for some videos of the Tracker plant. You can get an idea of how they are put together. Let us know what you decide, Tracker or Lowe.

Since you have a lot of weeds on your primary pond, no matter what anchor you use, can with cement in it or mushroom anchor, your going to be pulling up a lot of weeds. Your best bet would be a shallow water anchor, or stick. Stab the bottom, pull up with no weeds and move on. Mini Power Pole would work also, if it's something you want to invest in.

So Bass Pro is having the US Open Amateur Team Championship this summer. A million bucks to the winner! I’ve been day dreaming a little about this. If I fished it, I think I would have to win just to cover my expenses. Anyhow, if I were to participate it would be at Lake St. Clair, the closest qualifier to me. I’ve noticed they expect 250 team entries, the launch they are starting from only has 160 parking spaces. Where are the rest going to park? Grassy areas seem like a no-no for such an event. With 250 boats/500 people registering and inspections it looks like it’s going be take a long time to get the whole thing going. From what I can tell there might be 8 slots to launch from. This is amateur fishing, so I’m sure there will be some performance anxiety backing trailers in, for both launch and recover. I’ve never fished a tournament, so my first thought about the whole thing is chaos . They have targeted amateur fisherpeople and not provided any information on how they are going to run the show. Anyone fish a large tournament? Is it as crazy as it sounds?

I took a course while I waited for my boat to be built. There is a lot of good to know information there. I felt it was especially heavy on PWC . My insurance offers a discount. Although not too expensive, I'll take what I can get. Interestingly my state doesn't require insurance. If you do have to get it, it's probably because the bank requires it.

I used stainless bolts to hold it down. Pics are a few pages back.

https://amazon.com/gp/product/B000E8BJGW/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 This is what I got, Weedless Wedge.

While you wait for your boat, take a boating course. https://www.boatus.org/free/ When you finish you'll be a better captain, and know what's required to have in your boat.

Annual engine oil and gear oil, filters, grease for the trailer bearings. Occasional plugs, impeller for the water pump...according to your owners manual. If you do it yourself maintenance shouldn't be that expensive. If you take it somewhere, your paying for those items and their time. $300-400 seems like a lot to me, but I do my own oil. Also, your engine size is going to make a difference in what you pay. If you have a place in mind for service, check their fees.

Something like a 5 gallon paint mixer?

Nice work. Now I have to go out and check mine again. When the time comes I have been considering the Ultimate Bunk Bards or maybe Gatorbaks.

The lights, towards the rear of the boat work fine. Upfront, they came unstuck and are not working. These light strips are kind of delicate, and don't like to be man-handled once stuck. On the front deck there is no room to try and get them on the underside of the gunnel, so they get bumped and walked on. I was kind of doubtful how they would work when I stuck them on. They have no real protection. I actually like these lights. They are small, they aren't too bright, and they light up the whole boat nicely. Right now, I'm not sure what I'm going to do about them .

This is what I'm figuring on. I was surprised some of the gauze and bandages wrapped in their original plastic packaging still got wet. I'm going with a hard case for everything, no bags.

So at the end of the season I empty everything in the boat. Clean and inspect through the winter so I'm ready to go in the spring. I just opened my first aid kit and at some point this summer it got wet. Some of the gauze was still damp. Anyhow, everything was kind of gross, and I tossed the whole thing in the garbage. The old kit was in a zippered pouch. I'm looking for a new water tight kit, that has band-aids that actually stick. Amazon has a ton of kits with reviews all over the map. Anyone have a nice water tight first aid kit? ?

Is that view from the outside? It's hard to see the seam. Regardless, that doesn't look like a good weld. I hope it goes well for you.

Sorry to hear about that. What has BPS tried to do? What do they have to remove?

I got to go out yesterday, beautiful weather. You can most definitely tell it's fall. This is what the ramp looked like when I got there.

Lake George, at Fred Rose Park there is a spot by the parking area a small trail at the west most point of the property. It's kind of steep there but there is a tree under the water straight out there. I have done pretty well at that spot. To the very left (west), there are some maple trees overhanging the water which the bluegill like, and some bass. Once you have finished that area take a walk all the way east and go down by the water, you should be looking at the back of the middle school. That area has a lot of lilly pads. Work that area. Across the lake at Jerry Pavese Park is hit a miss. Try the very east of the water then make your way down to the west side of the boat launch, there are a lot of lilly pads there. Then try down by the scout cabin. Festival Park, downtown try the rocky area leading up to the dam. There is also the docks by the community center which get you out in the water a bit and by some lilly pads. Under the pavilion that sticks out in the water can produce. Don't spend a whole lot of time in one spot. If it's not working, it's not working and move on. Lake George has been a little inconsistent this year. Bass have been hit and miss, the biggest I caught this year has been 18". I have caught bigger bass this year, but fewer in numbers. For me the bluegill and crappie are way off, and I've not caught anything of size this season.

12 lb river anchor probably every time I've been out. The wind is always trying to push me into something I don't want to get into.

Wow, it's been quite here. I hope everyone has been busy fishing. My work schedule was messed up for the summer because of the COVID thing, but I'm back to normal now, and get to fish more often. Anyhow my latest problem, my charger went dead. I was walking by the boat and I always give the back-end a look and noticed no lights. Unplugged and plugged back in, still nothing. I unhooked all of the wires tried it again. All it would do is the red light would faintly come on then fade to nothing, and the whole unit (Minnkota 210D) would buzz. Called Minnkota and they had me e-mail them a copy of my receipt and they then e-mailed me a UPS label to have the whole thing sent back to them. I started the process on a Tuesday and had a new unit Friday. Two thumbs-up to Minnkota for such a hassle free warranty experience. It's one of those things that when over you stand back and think, "wow that was too easy". I did replace the trolling motor battery this spring. Was the old battery going bad anyway or did the old charger contribute to it's demise? The charger was charging, and charged the new battery when I put that in. Also, I've never had a problem with the motor battery. So all is back to normal...for now.

It looks like that is just two pin. Check in there and see if you have metal contacts for 2 or 3 pins. That light should be just a two wire, positive and negative to the bulb. My stern light only has two metal pins in there, the third hole has no contact.

So anyone fish at night? I went out super early the other day, to try and beat the heat . Anyhow, it was dark when I started, plugged in all the lights no problems there. After I got to my first spot, WOW the stern light sure is bright when I'm standing on the front deck . It's right there, eye level with me. I'm considering a way to try and lengthen the 3/4" pole for the light .

What kind of boat is it? You said the live well was recently repaired. Get a garden hose and fill the live well to make sure no leaks. If that's OK, take your jack and raise the front of the boat to it's max. Get a garden hose and put some water in the back of the boat. Look for where the water comes out.