Hey Check out my new bass catching machine. It's a 2003 G3 1544 mod V all welded, pre wired with nav lights and trolling motor hook up. I can't decide on either a 15 or 25 hp motor. Any one have a similar set up or opion?

Nice boat man. How much did you pick er up for?

nice boat.  i have a simiar sized boat and i have an old mercury 20hp.  and it runs good.  i guess it would also depend on what motor you are looking at.  i might also consider putting some carpet down.

In 1981 I was burnt out of fishing tournaments and always trying for 10 and 15 fish limits (yes, 15 bass was the limit in some states back then and tournaments in those days followed the state limit).  I decided to leave my tournament rig at home and use a 14' john boat on which I had mounted a platform and seat on the front.  My little "rig" has a 26 lb. thrust pfluger 12 volt in front (state of the art ten years earlier) and a 15 horse Johnson with SS prop (very high tech in 1981) on the back sporting 10 horse decals so I could fish restricted hp lakes.

Anyway, the goal for 1981 was to catch big fish and not worry about numbers.

On my first trip in January on a day when the high was 35 degrees, i found the creek bend with the stumps I was looking for on my Hummingbird 30 (also very high tech at the time).  I also saw some flashes just above the boootom of the channel. On my first three casts with a black jig and pig I caught a 8.25 female, a 7.75 female and a 6.25 male (still the largest male I have ever seen).  About that time a guy in my club came riding by and not recognizing me in the jon boat, but recognizing my club jacket asked me how I was doing.  I told him I had only been there a few minutes but I had caught a few and when he said "Any size?" I knew I had him and I popped open the ice chest and pulled out the male which was nearly three feet long and asked him if he had ever seen a male bass that big, all he could say was "Jesus!", but then he said "What about the others?" and I said "Well I guess I can show you a couple of average fish and then I pulled out the two females and he looked like someone about to cry.  at the next club meeting at least 20 guys wanted to know how I was fishing the cold water.

Anyway to make a long story short, I toold the 14' rig out 22 times in 1981 and one 21 of those trips I caught at least one bass over 5 lbs.  And yes, I got the three in a row all mounted, the mounts of the big male and larger female survive today.

The following year I went back to the same lake on the last weekend of January and was fortunate to find the water level was almost exactly the same, but there were no big spawners staged in that creek bend that day.  Something told me to go shallow and I followed the creek all the way up until it was in its banks and saw a good fish spook next to a old piece of stump near the bank.  I found that by tossing a white spinnerbait up on the mud bank and then slowly pulling the spinnerbait into the water next to any wood in the water there was a good fish on just about every other piece of wood on a stretch of creek about a 1/4 mile.  As all I had was a big ice chest I kept every fish I caught until I had a 15 fish limit, then released the rest until I tired of catching fish.  At the certified scales at the store by the lake the limit weighed a little over 52 lbs.  Not bad for about 3 hours of fishing.

WOW Ace High, That's a great story. I was able to put the new G3 in the water on saturday and it was really hot here in Florida  so not many bites, but we caught a few. The boat was very stable walking a round and with may Brother in Law standing up front and me standing in the rear no problems. Very Happy fisherman..

TDG,

I was wondering, if you don't mind, how much did that rig run you?  I plan on buying a boat as soon as I get back from Iraq and that setup would be great.  

Well, good luck to you, I am sure you will catch tons of fish in that rig.