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TTT guys I need some help here!! Thanks

Absolutely!! 👍 thanks for the return post. My daughters are chomping at the bit to go again!! Will let you know for the next trip!!

WOW that’s a project, I’m fearing that’s what I’m going to encounter come this winter when I’m either going to completely replace the wood work as I have soft spots where the old seats were fastened to the floor. The (back to back) factor type. Or I’m going to move up in years to a newer vessel. I have so much tied up in this boat it will be a lose-lose situation no matter what rout I take!! I have everything mechanically sound, which took the bulk of the $$$. The decision will be made when I pull the flooring up. The wood work and fiberglass to me will be the easier of all the projects I’ve encountered. I guess time will tell. The hull design is another factor, are there better designs for a more stable ride. My boat is a Sea Ray and it cuts through the roughest waters and you don’t get wet from the spray, the only real downfall to me is the chines or ribs don’t go all the way to the front on the higher ones making it impossible to keep strait in a no wake area, once over an idle it’s fine. Lots to think about. Your project is coming along very well and I hope you can make the fall season which I see no reason you shouldn’t. Thanks for sharing and nice job!! PAP.

Hey looks like your in the BRCG fish cleaning station!! Are you staying in the BRCG? If so that’s where we are located. I’m pretty sure I recognized your place, your down near the launch end. We should plan a time to be there at the same time and cover turf. Maybe you saw my rig! Creme colored cuddy with kicker on the swim platform with green graphics “One Worm” hooked to a red gmc pick up. Nice fish by the way. I heard that the Stoney point light house was to shallow so I made the run from the Henderson launch. I could cut a lot of time off but I never went out of Stoney. I’ll have to check that out!! Great to hear you had a good time. When we were up it was crazy fishing, I did away with the dipsy rods and just ran the riggers with cheaters which caught the browns and stellies and the spoons did the damage on the 3 different classes of kings and we backed the speed off and put out dodgers with gamblers double green spinner/flies in the trench area!! PAP.

What style did you go with??

Absolutely awesome, definitely gives you a sense of pride just to get out there let alone be successful at catching!!! Really cool guys thanks for the time and pics!!! PAP.

I’m seriously considering purchasing a TR1 Gold, was wondering where the best place to purchase is and is the auto pilot handheld device separate?? Kinda conflicting stories as I read different places to choose from. Those of you that have this what’s your thoughts and personal experiences with your choice. Thanks a lot for your time and advice. Pap.

Pretty cool vessel!! Wouldn’t mine see a few pics of her.

Whoa!! That sucks I bought a pile of them!!! But where there’s a will there’s a way🤷‍♂️

Yes that's what the man is saying!! They are for sale

I just wanted to add something else, I put a 2014 merc15hp on for a kicker cause my old Evinrude kicked the bucket.LOL using that kicker with electric start that was one of the best features I added this year other than a Fish Hawk 4xd definitely a game changer!! anyway back to my original thought, my kicker I had to run a 1/4 throttle and that motor kept up my three group 31 batteries at full capacity!! I have the voltage of my batteries on my sonar and with the alternator on my main keeping the 3 batteries at 14.2 and with kicker running we stayed at 14 volts all day!! I was happier than a clam as that voided one other thing I needed to keep an eye on. We were running a fish hawk 2 Lowrance inits a constant up and down with 2 cannon riggers, plus I ran 3 8hr days on 3 gallons of fuel I was amazed at the mercs performance!!! Now I need a TR1Gold yet and I’ll be golden!! “In my mind) LOL PAP.

Yes that is a great feeling watching the kids take turns reeling it in I was just watching and the exchanged turns perfectly. Glad to see and hear you did well also!! I give up trying to load other pics it must be something with the girls sending me their pics???anyway it was a blast!!

Awesome!! Awesome!! Guys this thread is turning out great!! The whole nut in the shell started Friday before we left I hooked up my trailer this time and I had no lights on the drivers side, needless to say I couldn’t follow my uncle up. So Saturday trying to figure out the problem I was getting more mad as the day went on, finally I have had it, jumped in my wife’s car flew out to tractor supply and got a new harness tied the two sides up and pulled the new harness through and a couple hrs. later we are good to go lights are working properly!! Now it’s 5:pm and I’m ready to leave!! Got the girls in the truck and took off for the BRCG. 10:pm we arrived and still not realizing I forgot the net!! Rigged boat with electronics, riggers ect. and that’s when I realized I had forgotten my big salmon net but had my walleye net figured that should be good enough never thinking we would encounter the size fish we did. I had my hands full getting Emily’s 18# king in that net!! When I saw the size of the laker I knew this was going to be shy of a miracle if we land this monster, and so it was as we watched it swim back to the depths it came from.😢🤮

We had temps one day in the mid 50’s the next day the 4xd read 49* every day was a new number. Bait moved out and so did the fish. We moved to deeper water to find warmer down temps crazy. Some days we were sog at 3.5 to 4mph to get 2.5 2.7 and other days we were at 1.5- 1.7 to get down to 3mph at the ball and couldn’t go any less or we had no control in the winds.

Kevin so sorry to hear about your pinched nerve, believe me I know your pain!! It flat sucks, I’ll need a vacation from my vacation. LOL All you charter captains l now know what you go through day in and day out!! It’s not easy by any means when the others can’t help you. Les thank you!! This trip was more than epic as the excitement on the girls faces and how hard the fish pull was more than one can explain. You know they are pooped out when one balls themselves up on the dog coop and the other climbs in the cuddy and sleeps about an hour back in. We ran out past Stoney point and strait towards the smoke stack!! My boat works so sweet at 3000rpm and that puts me at 21-23mph depending on the lake conditions. As I write to you guys here on LOU, other than my experiences on fly in trips to Canada this was as good as it gets!! I’m still on a mental High just thinking about it. I have waited patiently for years for this kind of fishing with my gals!! and they did one hell of a job for the first time out on the big pond and dealing with these types of fish. There’s no way to explain what happens until you experience it yourself!!! and that they did. PAP.

Fishing couldn't have been any better for us as we were up last week. Last week the 8th-15th we only had a slow day till we found them. I had my uncle and my 13 year old daughters along and we had more than epic fishing catching different species of the trout families, we caught browns, steelhead and I think we had 2 or more year classes of kings. I don't know for sure if the young of the year would be 18-22" but all the 3 sizes had black in the jaws and toungs?? They weighed from 6 to 10#'s the next size was 15 - 18 pounds which I have a pic of up to 24 - 26 pounds which I need to get off my daughters phones. I wanted to run 4 poles but soon realized that I needed to rid the Walker weighted dipseies as I'm not a mate by any means and 2 young girls operating the poles made it trying to say the least but I wouldn't have wanted it any other way!! The kick azz moment of the whole trip was we were coming back in when I noticed big arches on the bottom in the 120 to 130 depths of the trench, we were still in the trolling mode hoping for one last fish but we were still at 2.7-3.0 at the ball so we slowed down to 1.5-1.9 couldn't go any slower or we couldn't control the boat as the winds were starting to pick up. So I put out a walker dipsey out at 275 on a #3 setting and riggers parked at 135 and the fishhawk reading around 120ft we trolled for maybe 15 minutes when the dipsey out 275 starts screaming and ripping back like I was caught on the bottom!! After 1/2hr of give and take and the girls taking turns reeling I had the drag as tight as I felt safe. The girls got the fish to the swim platform when I saw it was a laker on gamblers rigg off a green and chrome flasher!! This was a fish of a lifetime, I can honestly say this was the largest fresh water fish I have ever saw, also noticed it only had 1 barb in the corner of it jaw in the fleshy part. I had forgotten my big net at home but had a ranger net it the boat that was a project to get Emily's 18# king in I knew this was going to be a very trying ordeal to land this monster!! Thinking that the fish was exhausted I had the girls pull the rod and walk it towards the front and we would drop the fish back into the net, the minute the fish felt the netting against its tail it went crazy streaking towards the front of the boat and turning straight down and pulling the hook!! We all just stood their in silence and disbelief. I felt sick for my girls and myself and my uncle just couldn't believe what just happened. Well there's always next time!! LOL and I know there will be a big azz net in the boat. Here's some pics of the girls fish. They have others on their phones. Had the best fishing I ever experienced. We also released a lot of fish that didn't get photos on account of just not thinking about it and also making for a fast release. Most of the fish came out of 70ish feet of water 40 to 60 ft down. sorry I have doubles where other pics should have been and I can't fix it without risking losing them all?? I'll see if I can get them on a different post. PAP.

I know this doesn’t pertain to this exact post but 20 years ago the people next to us at the time just had their lawn put it. So to celebrate there moving in, in a few days, they shot up fireworks very pretty, but I walked over and said not to start out on the wrong foot but I wouldn’t do that and explained why, young couple, aaah nothing will happen. Ok then marched my azz over on my patch all seemed well as they left. 9:pm or so an hour later I got up to the smell of smoke WTF checked my house out all is well so went down to the chicken coup figuring that maybe the fireworks caught the chicken coup on fire!!! Nope, walked over to the neighbors to see the straw on fire it had burned 3/4 around the house so I ran and got a rake and raked a 3ft path so the fire could jump but 2/3 of the yard burned off. Well I guess they had to reseed and put new straw down. You just can’t cure stupid. Your situation definitely sucks because your boat is destroyed and hopefully your insurance doesn’t fall into the hand of someone else’s sheer ignorance?? My heart goes out to you!! I know how it feels to get your pride and joy stripped from your hands in a matter of minutes!!!

👍👍👍 thanks will be doing that. I’m only going to run 2 dipsys per side and riggers, may get ballsy and add a cheater but that will be decided if the rest of the paraphernalia is going per plan!!

That looks like a composite type floor, if it were a 92 that would be in my boat, so ready to say bye, bye to inboards, very nice boat great condition. Good luck with sale.