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I will answer a different way. Yes, it should be safe because you are bass fishing and I can not think of weather that is not safe for a boat that you can bass fish in. Go wide beam with at least 18ft and you should be fine. I was on a super safe boat perch fishing once and the boat performed beyond expectations yet we quit because we couldn't feel our lines in the high wind. High wind days - stay in the bays. Or just attack the honey do list and wait for a better day to be on the water. I say yes but that means you make a decision not to fish when the wind is wrong for it. If you are going out on the big lake make sure you have the added safety equipment. I had spidey sense that told me to get back in the bay while the sun was shining and low winds because the waves were getting bigger. 10 minutes later came a nasty T-storm. I was in a 14ft shallow V. I felt like a bobber until I got back in the bay. My point is that the weather can turn quickly so be prepared. Good luck - boat shopping can be rewardful and stressfull.

http://www.fieldandstream.com/hunter-impaled-by-elk-rack-in-atv-accident An Oregon hunter is in the hospital after being impaled by an elk he killed. Gary Heeter of Bend rolled his ATV in the Maury Mountains of central Oregon. Heeter had tied the recently killed bull to the back of his rig so that he could drag it. But when he hit a steep incline, the ATV flipped backward, causing him to fall on the elk’s rack. Heeter’s hunting party called for help while they tried to control his bleeding. Rescuers reached the scene as Heeter was going into shock, but the helicopter overhead had trouble landing in the remote area. The injured hunter was hauled out a half mile on a backboard to a clearing, then flown by chopper to the hospital.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/11/16/whitetail-deer-record-tennessee-antlers/93950882/ http://www.tennessean.com/story/sports/2016/11/08/state-world-record-deer-killed-sumner-county-tennessee/93492744/ holy c r a p !!! Blessed is an understatement... When I first saw it I thought it had to be a high fence deer and maybe it has some lineage from an engineered deer farm but apparently this county has deer like this roaming wild.

http://www.basspro.com/Remington-Premier-AFrame-Centerfire-Rifle-Ammo/product/12100605263935/ Call first - I would also check Gander Mtn. Wow - $4 a shot! Make it count...

Laws exist to compensate for the lack of common sense in some of the population but those same laws will always fail to achieve the same level of those with good common sense. But even with this glass half empty statement it would be terrible wiithout them because common sense does not prevail in all of us and those that lack it can do a lot more damage without restraints. We probably all know of at least one story where somebody got pinched and they were otherwise considered to be a law abiding sportsmen but they made a moral/ethical judgement instead of a legal one.

Out of state for PA is about $54. The reZ use to be $20 but I heard they upped it...

I wonder if they have ties to Putin... Arrested were Sergey Yatchuk, 41, of Applewood Lane, Getzville; Petro Parfenyuk, 29, of Erie, Pa.; and Mikhail F. Sakalosh, 39, of Spartanburg, S.C. Full story here... http://buffalonews.com/2016/11/02/dec-officers-nab-3-alleged-salmon-poachers-in-niagara-county/

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