Don Harris

Kietech Swing Impact Fat and Rage Tail Swimmer

Bitter's Baits 10" Red Bug

Great explanation. Thanks!

I'm I correct that these would be ditches?

I want to learn about the topic of ditches. Are ditches the same as shallow creek channels? What defines a ditch?

3878+47=3925

This is the number of boat ramps and marinas within 2 hours of me.

Pickwick is about 45 minutes from me. I have around 10 other lakes within an hour in different directions.

Sounds good. Thank you for your help and advice.

Thanks! Should the area under the hatch box be open? In other words I won't drill a hole in the bottom of the boat will I?

Ok. Thanks. I will seal the corners. The trough doesn't drain anywhere. It just fills up. There is no drain in it. The hatch box is open under the trough so a drain can't be drilled.

It's coming in around the lid. No water in bilge. This is with the boat out of the water, trailered. The photo here is what I used on the hatch edges as shown above. Anything bigger and the hatch won't close. Would the kind of weatherstripping with the bulb on top work (do you think)? Like this?

As the subject says, I have a 1990 Lowe Commander 170 and all of the hatches take on a lot of water in the rain. I have put weatherstripping on the edges (adding photo of edges). Is there anything that can be done to this to stop this? Every time it rains, I have to take everything out of the boat and dry it off and vacuum out the hatches with a wet/dry vac. Thanks in advance for any help! I just realized I had already asked this last year. Sorry for the copy. Maybe someone will different answers.

Congrats!

I've definitely complicated it and I am catching fewer fish for it. I used to fish out of a 14 foot jon boat decked out and a cheap little fish finder that basically was good for depth. I was fishing a small lake (200 acres) and catching all the fish I wanted to every time I went. I moved to a bass boat and medium level electronics and started fishing Pickwick (33,000 acres) because I lost access to the small lake. Now I am lucky to catch three or four fish on a good outing and the electronics do very little for me. I am now have a 1990 Lowe Commander 170. It is a small bass boat with a flat bottom. It hasn't seen the water yet due to some bad circumstances. However, come Spring, I hope to get back to catching fish again by learning about using my electronics to fish offshore. If I still had the small lake to fish, I'd buy a jon boat and get back to doing that some again. But as it is, I will learn and grow being more complicated.