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Can you post a picture of your set up? I’m having difficulty visualizing

Im so glad you went with a true hydraulic autopilot. Also that you went with the Garmin electronics. Their user interfaces are so intuitive and badass. your setup is going to be wicked. The only thing I personally would have done different Is I would have went with Simrad GPS, Sonar, Radar, and a thru hull transducer. Its alot easier to choke on the price when you can roll it into the financing for the boat. Its exactly what Im looking at doing with a brand new Abelmarle 25 Express at the moment.

If you referring to your spoon assortment you have a few good ones in there. No salmon box would be complete without the following: 42nd Spoon Sea Sick Waddler Natural Born Killer Green Alwife Green Diehard Daves Salmon Slapper Tranny Green Gator Carbon 14 Silver carbon If you don't catch a king on these then stop fishing

I started out with one of those. Worked ok. Grabbing one in 4fters was scary. Look into the SpecialMate boxes. Once you buy one you will never use anything else. Around $80 but worth every dam penny.

Stud flys. blue hammer flys. green hammer flys. UV flys. Pro Am flys. How in the HELL do you guys keep them organized? They all look so dam similar to me in the package alone...let alone when they come out of the water or been hit a few times. Im having a hell of a time keeping track of which fly is what. Is there some simple way to keep they labeled or organized in some fashion so that when somebody on the radio says "put on a green stud fly" im actually putting out the correct fly? Spoons and stick baits are much easier to distinguish between different colors and patterns.

There’s some cracking on the upholstery. Not critical though

More pics

Here is one pic that has be concerned. Can you guys see the crack right where the motor is meeting the hull? Right under the rub rail

The ad on Craigslist doesn’t say it was sold. I talked to owner earlier today. Me and another buyer are interested.

Im going to post some updated pictures that the owner sent me in a little while.

I see about 15 that I would take if you split them up

Personally I would launch of out Barcelona and head east. Out into 90-130fow. Put down some cowbells + peanut flys and glow spoons a few feet off the bottom and you'll be into them in no time.

He sold it. Wasn’t using it. As it was rack kept.

The guy got back to me. It was rack stored. Fork lifted down when he wanted to use it. Then put back in the rack at the end of the day. Now I have to figure out if these two strokes can troll and not be a huge headache.

I have an email out to the owner about it being rack kept. Well see what he says. This boat with twi 200hp 4 strokes would EAT on erie and ontario

The owner told me the boat was rack kept. Ill call him back and ask him if they kept it racked and pulled it down only when he wanted to use it. But I got that impression from him. he said both motors had their lower ends rebuilt last year. Leaving the engines aside, as I plan on replacing them with 4 strokes within a year or two, what else would salt water do to the hull that would "ruin" it? Ive seen 40yr old fiberglass boats running around in Ontario. Im finding it very hard to believe that a 2002 with a kevlar reinforced hull is going to be scrap because it was used in salt water

Thanks for the heads up on the trailer. I never understood the bad mojo a lot of great lakes guys have against buying boats that saw some saltwater. Engines need a little more maintenance. But theres plenty of nice salt boats out there that are in great shape. If I can get 1-2yrs from those 2 strokes that would be fine. The plan would be to repower with twin 200hp 4 strokes in a year or two