sherman brown

our ML season came in sat the 3rd here in IN. but I'm not going to get much hunting in as I'm just not able to hunt alone. my son canceled last weekend and he has to work the last weekend. but we are planning to hunt this coming weekend. the ML season is all I hunt any more. but we have a late antlerless season that we can hunt on some public land we have hunted before. so, if I can just get motivated to motivate him, we may hunt during that season a little. I will be taking my 15 year old granddaughter for her 1st ever deer hunt. if things go good, I might just take her and go hunting with just the 2 of us the last weekend and maybe just do a little more hunting during our late antlerless hunt that starts the sat after our ML season ends. who knows?

KUDOS for taking them out fishing. and a beautiful stringer of fish you put everyone on.

those do look awesome but i gave up ice fishing years ago after I lost all my ice fishing buddies. I keep thinking about getting back into it. but I am almost 72 and would have to get an electric auger just for starters. then all the other things I would need. and things like what you have would be a must for 2 of them at the least.

that boat is awesome, and it would be any Lake Erie fishermen's dream come true. I would love to own your boat but at 38,000.00 when my budget is more like 3,800.00 it's not in my price range. I have been fishing lake Michigan and Erie since back in 77 and for me this is the perfect boat. i had a 28' sea ray twin 4.3 v-6 motors that was just really a little too big. i fished boats as small as 16' deep v to the 28' sea ray and the best all-around boat i ever had was a 21' cobia glass open bow boat. iff it got so rough i didn't fish then it was just to rough to be out. and if i wanted to play in the water it worked great for that. i put a high 5 prop on to get out of the hole when loaded for erie. and it was awesome for tubing. it got right up on plane then worked great for staying on plane at slower speed when pulling smaller kids on tubes.

I plan on getting a 12v 60 amp starting battery for my boat and was thinking of getting a charger like this which is 199.00 on their web site. anyone that uses lithium batteries for trolling motor or electronics can save 139.00 plus tax by buying this charger. I don't think I will need a charger for my lithium battery as it will only be used in my boat and charged with the alternator. but you better hurry as I'm thinking about buying it to charge my battery during the winter months. woops i just noticed this is for 24v batteries and not for 12v. but if you have 2 batteries you can hook them together for 24v then charge both of them.

i think your right it sounds like it would be too much for our little dog. so I'll pass.

I'm not sure about using one of these to try and stop my dog from keeping barking after I tell her to stop but i am thinking about trying it. i have a small Maltese dog and need to know if the collar will work on a 10# dog? if it will work on my small dog I will give it a try if you'll take 90.00 and then pay to ship it to me?

you did a great job on your boat it really looks good for an old boat. with a 14' boat I would make sure the weather was good with a good forecast before even thinking about going out on big water. it doesn't take a lot to swamp a small boat. at the first sign the water was getting rough I would head for the harbor. and I wouldn't venture to far from the harbor or close to shore where i could beach it I needed to. on calm days on Erie's western basin many days small aluminum fishing boats would go out to the intake at coolie canal which was 4 miles from shore. a few of them would go past the intake and drift back in. so it is very possible to do it, but you need to make sure it's safe.

yes they were charged with felony charges for theft by cheating in a tournament. and other charges were pending the last article i read on it. with the value of the boats and cash involved it should be grand theft by deception. plus, the dnr had charges of there own'

this is a great offer, 250.00 for a good used rigger is a good price. and the second one should be worth getting a new board if you can find one, if that's the only thing wrong with it. then you would have 2 riggers.

fyi i purchased the prop anmd have it on my motor but haven't tried it yet, but plan on doing it sat. it was the same pitch as mine but was 13 7/8x17p where my aluminum was 13 1/4x17p.

is the 6'3" from the floor to the bottom of the top? how wide is the mounting points on the top?

good deal, i always loved fishing myself to ever run a charter. so, I totally understand your choice. really hope you enjoy your boat and being able to choose when you fish and who fishes with you.

you couldn't ask for a better day on your first trip. as for going alone i use to fish alone a bunch. i just loved fishing more than most of my friends. I fished the intracoastal by a bridge in ft pierce Fl by myself a few times. then I got older and made a trip by myself. I had dropped anchor and letting the strong currents drift me back along the bridge piling the boat started to bang the piling when I pushed off from it I got to far over and ended up falling in the water. it took everything I had to fight the current and get back to my boat. after reaching the boat a just hung on to the transom and motor for maybe 15 minutes resting until I could pull myself in the boat. when I got home and told the wife she told me that was the end of fishing alone. that was a few yrs. ago and I haven't fished alone again.