jbmaine

Get your Lund. Have fun with it. If your life situation changes Lunds have good resale value. You'll get a good part of your $$ back. If your worried about $$ right now save a few bucks and get the Fury instead of the adventure, or wait until Lund has programs going and save a few bucks.

It would take me forever to leaf blow all my leaves far enough into the woods that they wouldn't blow back. With my tractor I can haul them 100 ft. back easy. When you were in the USCG did you ever know a Glenn Fogg? He's the one that told me about the ghosts at the isles of shoals. I often wonder if the spirits of ship wreck victims haunt it, and Boon island.

We're done. Can't wait for next year.

Hi All, I've seen a couple of members reporting snow before all their fall leaf cleaning was done. No snow here yet ( knock on wood) but a weird fall pattern of 3-4 days of rain, followed by only 1-2 days of cold but nice weather has my fall cleaning going " catch as catch can". Of course living out in the woods means tons of leaves anyway. I'd thought I'd share a few pics of my leaves and my leaf removal tool. Here's a few of my yard as of today. I've already cleaned it twice this year, but the oaks will keep dropping until we get snow. Here's my main leaf removal tool. Between that and my leaf blower, my raking is kept to a minimum. Luckily I own enough land I can dump them way out back in the woods Thanks for looking Jim

Not only that, but we spend so much money to do either one.

You think they'll be OK in the cold, but you know they'll be OK in the house. If you have room, bring them inside.

Never watched Judge Judy. Does she say it a lot?

Open or closed?? I also like Kit and Caboodle and Kerfuffle

Back and foot issues mandate I sit to fish 95% of the time. My wife has hand issues and can only fish for short periods of time. We ended up buying a multi species boat so we can both be more comfortable on the water.

My number one favorite is the KVD strike king swim'n caffeine shad in 4". Last two years I've caught more bass on that then anything else. I like KVD magic color.

hi all, My wife and I were watching TV last night. Around 9:30 the house goes dark, power went out. Called the outage hot line and was told estimated time for the power to come back on was midnight. So we turn a lantern on, play a game of cribbage, then go to bed. Our cat woke me up at 3:45 AM trying to crawl under the covers. House was cold, power still out. Called the outage line again, was told estimated time for repairs and power back on was now around 7 AM. By now I'm awake, so I get dressed and head out to hook up the portable generator. It's pitch black outside, 39 degrees and raining. I pull the generator out. head out to the shed to get the gas can, slip on the wet grass, wrench my back ( again), but finally get some power going. First thing I do is turn the coffee on, gotta have my coffee! I usually don't move in the morning without my cup of coffee. Later this morning we get the power back on and things settled back to normal. However, my routine was thrown off and I've spent the day kinda scatter brained , not being able to get into anything I had planned to do. I know in the big scheme of things this was a miniscule blip on the radar, but I'm finding as I get older, any change in my normal routine throws me for a loop. kinda like one day last year. I had bought a new bait, but forgot to put it in the boat. We were out fishing when I remembered it was still on a shelf at home. Threw me off all day. As I write this I realize two things I am really, really, started in the old fart club. And I like the word Discombobulated, It's a cool word. OK mini rant over thanks for listening Jim

Good luck on your purchase. The track system makes mounting accessories very easy. You may want to see if you can get your dealer to throw in a few as part of the package. One thing to remember, whatever you end up getting, A 16 ft boat on big water can get iffy real fast. keep an eye on the wind, weather forecast. Also the TM, sonars add $$$ to the cost.

turtle get's my vote.

We have the Lund Fury XL and love it. If you want, send me a message with a phone # and I'll answer all your questions and give you my thoughts between the two. Jim

Thank you, I've thought about it. I left work rather suddenly and felt bad I left them in the lurch. Not to toot my own horn, but I was the " go to" guy on several jobs we did. I got a couple of phone calls from guys at work basically calling to say " I got assigned to do this job you always did, I've been playing around with it for a couple of days and I'm stumped. HOW THE HECK DID YOU DO THIS!". I spent several hours on the phone walking them thru it, but I offered to come in for a few hours to help them get going. However, as I was on disability, I was told my presence would be a liability for the company. I've sold some of my tools to a gentleman who runs a community hobby machine shop. He has asked me to come teach a couple of classes. Travel time is an issue for me but I'm thinking about it.

A-Jay, Thank you for your service. It's nice to see you putting your search and rescue experience to good use, searching for and rescuing all these giant bass you keep showing us.?

For those that are retired, do you miss what you did? In my case I was a mold maker, tool and die maker, machinist, for around forty years. During that time I had worked for several companies, the last for seven years. My exit out of the work force was not as I would have liked. Some years ago I had back issues and ended up having surgery. Then I had foot issues and had surgery for that . My back ( for the most part) is manageable, but my foot was not. About a year and a half ago the pain started to come back, until finally I went to see the doctor. I was deemed unable to work ( I was on my feet all day) and work sent me home on temporary disability. Over the next few months I saw several doctors and tried several treatments, but nothing worked. It was finally determined I was permanently disabled, and my work days are over. So, here I am, retired at 64 ( two years ahead of schedule ). For the most part my wife and I love it ( she is also has disabilities and can't work). If I stay off my feet and don't drive too far the pain is doable. And of course we love fishing during the week. Money wise we are just OK, but we'll make it. However, I find I miss some things about my job. I certainly don't miss getting up to the alarm every morning, or the stupid business decisions I saw being done. But I miss using my skill and talent, all my years of experience. A normal day for me was machining precision parts and holding a tolerance of plus or minus .0001 of an inch. It was fun and I enjoyed doing it. So, do you miss what you did, or did you retire and never look back. Thanks Jim

Some will say welds will crack, some will say rivets will leak. Both can be true if their not built right. You can get both riveted, welded boats that have no problems. I think the key to getting a trouble free boat is getting one from a " higher end" manufacturer. You may pay more, but a lot of the extra you are paying for is for the quality of build. My local boat dealer ( whom I trust) is a Lund dealer ( riveted boat ). I'm on my second Lund and couldn't be happier. However if my local dealer sold high quality welded boats instead of Lunds , I'd probably own a welded boat.

I used to ice fish, but mostly for trout and salmon. Never went after smallies.

Back to the original post, it sounds like he is a BIG fisherman in a little pond. You are a decent fisherman it in a lot of waters. Personally I would just enjoy my success for myself and not let other people get to you.

So, there is a guy that lives next to a pond. One day there is a knock on the door. There are two less than " bright" looking young men at the door, and they say " we came to ice fish on the pond, but forget to bring anything to cut a hole in the ice with. Do you have anything we could borrow?" The guy says " I have an old axe you could borrow, but I'll need it back."" Of course" the young men said " we'll get it back to you". So off they go with the axe. The day goes on and it's starting to get dark. The guy is beginning to think his axe is gone for good, when there is a knock on the door. The two young men are there and say" here is your axe back, thank you very much". The guy says " no problem, did you catch anything?" " Well to tell you the truth, it took us so long to chop a hole in the ice big enough to put the boat in, we never did get to fish"?

The winter blues are coming this way for sure. When I was younger I enjoyed ice fishing, but now I'm more like this,LOL

Thanks for all the kind replies everyone, we appreciate it. Jim

same here

I use the same unit you have and have seen similar things on the screen. My thought is the arches with the most red in them are probably fish, the rest debris. Whenever I have seen screens with images like that the water column was full of bits of weeds.