Ready to head out for some fishing today - truck (posted earlier) with canoe now hitched up

Just a lowly Pelican Bass Raider with some upgrades

3 minutes ago, Leftymuk said:

Just a lowly Pelican Bass Raider with some upgrades

As someone who upgraded his canoe, I totally support upgrading 'lesser' vessels. Nice job, man.

Thx......it works great and it's paid for LOL

34 minutes ago, Leftymuk said:

Thx......it works great and it's paid for LOL

How are you planning to move it without a trailer? Its currently sitting on a couple of folding chairs. Throw it on your shoulders and head to the access?

The chair you have in it looks comfy.

I have a nice 4x8 that holds it great and is very low so launching is quite easy

I’ve been tinkering around with my lil water wip the fish finder is my latest addition to her I’ll have to send a pic of her when she is all geared up to hit the water 

 

Mine is the yellow in the rear.

Nice fleet of Hobie kayaks!

17 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Nice fleet of Hobie kayaks!

Thanks, Francho!  Sadly, most of the kayakers around here are strictly inshore fishermen.

86 Grumman and Mariner.  Updated-Redid the boat in a minimal fasion gets the job done for very little money invested. 

My new Feelfree Dorado! Peddle, Paddle and Motor drive! 

I finally have my first "real" bass boat.  Up til now I've been fishing off just about that anything that floats besides a bass boat.  Kayaks, coleman crawdad, a 25foot cobalt, but never had a bass boat.  That all changed last month with a brand new Tracker Classic.  

 

very nice! If it floats and you catch fish thats all that matters

This is my new ride, 2007 Bass Tracker Pro Team 170 TX with a Mercury 9.9 4 stroke on the back!

Tracker 2014 175 TXW

 

I've had it for a couple years now, love it.

 

2019 Nitro Z21 

 

I was paying cash, so I wanted something value driven. I love this thing. Great for tournaments on big water. 

 

 

 

 

Well, I live here so I don't need speed or to launch it but once a year. It's made from a repurposed SolCat sailing catamaran. 18 foot pontoons. I refinished them, put a deck on, two 35 lb thrust minn kota's two 100 amp solar storage batteries with built in charger. The steering is a linear actuator, basically electric steering. Garmin striker V, and a quick retract canopy for open bow fishing and other bells and whistles. Goes about 6 hrs at 2.5 mph or much longer at slower speed. Trolling is good at about 1.5-2 mph.

And yes that is a cord in the water charging the batteries.

 

And a link to the build on instructables...

 

1 minute ago, DanielG said:

Well, I live here so I don't need speed or to launch it but once a year. It's made from a repurposed SolCat sailing catamaran. 18 foot pontoons. I refinished them, put a deck on, two 35 lb thrust minn kota's two 100 amp solar storage batteries with built in charger. The steering is a linear actuator, basically electric steering. Garmin striker V, and a quick retract canopy for open bow fishing and other bells and whistles. Goes about 6 hrs at 2.5 mph or much longer at slower speed. Trolling is good at about 1.5-2 mph.

And yes that is a cord in the water charging the batteries.

 

And a link to the build on instructables...

 

@DanielG that is pretty dang amazing...and now I know what to look for when I get back up your way.

3 minutes ago, LadiMopar said:

@DanielG that is pretty dang amazing...and now I know what to look for when I get back up your way.

Well, by October it will probably be in the driveway. Look for a white boathouse with a pink cottage way up on a hill with lots of trees by the water, just before that island. (Pink  yes.... long story).

Someone mentioned a “show your ride” thread figured I would post this here instead 

My 2016 ZX225 that this forum helped me pick out. 

Here's our little 1996 Stratos 258. 70HP Johnson, pretty much as it all came in '96. Less than 100 hrs when I got it, lived in a garage, until now ?

Here's a little 1986 Landau 1048 Jon boat. Very lightweight (62 lbs before the battery, motor, and gear), love the 48" width. We haul it on a repurposed aluminum Triton motorcycle trailer, use an old Minkota Classic from about '85, and love this thing. We run it every week somewhere, millponds, farm ponds, and electric only reservoirs and places like in one of the photos below. Cheap as dirt and loads of fun.

The new ride.