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I always had mine that way too. Besides,the front bar is around $30 and the E-Zsteer is at least $230

Thank you very much for reminding me why I bought an Islander and why it has 2 bilge pumps.

There is a product available at Home Depot that you can mix into the paint. The grain is smaller than sand and it makes for great anti slip surface.

Thanks for sticking with the rules. I hope you or your children will catch their offspring.

I really do not think that at this point we are discussing fish.Instead we have become the high school debate team. Except,there are no referees who hand out points to the better team.

Ok .I'll give you straight answer that has nothing to do with ideology left right or in the middle. Your attitude towards the taking of natural resources that belong to all of us was quite sustainable until about 50 years ago. Now the environment has drastically changed because of pollution of all sorts,and mostly increased population which both put intensive pressure on the resources that we have. In the specific case of perch,this has rendered a number of resources useless because we poisoned them and at the same because of increased pressure on the rest of the fish because of invasive species and sport fishing demand. At this point the species is having a hard time replenishing itself and because of this we should give up old habits in order to give the perch a chance to survive in the new environment that we have created.

Sorry Kingfisher,I was just trying to get on your wavelength and so I started with a very conservative concept, that has since been rebuked,but even today some people adhere to it ,because it seemed valid a few hundred years ago. So why change?

The earth is flat

Interesting subject. I used to take my son fishing in Honeoye lake ,but there the perch did take a serious nose dive. Anyway Sk8man,I will now nickname you Leon (T) and you may call me Karl (M). If perch goes the way of the buffalo ,we can only blame ourselves either for our greed,ignorance or lack of respect for nature around us.This world is not ours to rape in the name of enterprise and capitalism. I think that in the book of Genesis in the first chapter verse 28, it is written that man was given dominion over the fish in the sea to subdue it ,to have dominion over it and to replenish it.Nowhere does it say that we are allowed to rape it.

Lots of us do take our children and grand children out fishing. But a boat out on a lake is not a great place to start. I take my grand kids to a park with a pond full of small sunfish and other critters. And more important ,a stand of wood and some play equipment. Much of the time ,going fishing with daddy is a bit daunting,but when other things can be done and there are no expectations beyond having a nice time with the kids and dad,the day is a lot more rewarding.

I'm glad you enjoyed,but PLEASE unless you intend to eat the fish, do not hold them in the gills. It kills them

Yep,that sounds awfully familiar,just what I did.

Let's hope that the incoming snow and cold and high water will discourage scalawags from putting on their waders and keep them away from the creeks. As for you Ahab,I am neither more cultured nor more refined than most of the others on this board,but I did do my homework in my (second language) English class.I do appreciate you typing slow, but it might be more expedient to align your thought process with that of our board readers.

You mean a Scalawag Jack Ketch knot?

A scalawag is a rascal.

I'll take them. You have a PM

That is a good boat. The only difference between that and an Islander is the name. He just forgot to write the I of the I/O