Category: Boats
What Do You Want On a Boat?
Saw this post the other day on Lund’s customize your new boat app. (Doesn’t Ranger do this too?) Cool idea, but a couple issues with it for me. One is it of course is limited to certain hull and floorplan/deck options, for obvious reasons. Another is that a custom boat of any kind is a [...]
Catch and Livewell Release
The one thing you shouldmake sure you have in your livewell – along with water, Rejuvenade and lead weights (lol) – is, of course, fish. Was checking out some FishingGold info last night, came across an incident where a fisherman had a limit but on a sharp turn his livewell lid popped open and two [...]
Extreme Bassin’ Boat Drivin’: Vids
Have I talked here about the “back in the day” stories of bass boatin’ on the pro trail – meaning the Bassmaster Top 100s, etc. because that’s all there was back then. This was before cameras in boats all day, the interwebz, cell phones and nanny states/armchair tourney directors, so these guys would jump banks, [...]
Mystery Boat Answer
Welllllll, that’s your final clue there above, which pretty much gives it away. Since Rich Arnold correctly guessed the answer after clue #2 (Rich, you is the super sleuth!), I’ll quote him here:
Mystery Boat: Clue #2
No guesses on what boat this is from clue #1, eh? Okay, here are dos mas – the pic at left and the one below, which is a BIG hint. Another big hint:
Salty Guys Swapping for Aluminum?
Stopped in at the local minnow shack/boat dealership the other day and asked the manager how boat sales were going. Surprisingly, he said really well. He sells tin boats (G3s) with 9.9s for fishing in western NJ’s horsepower-limited lakes. New, these boats go for around $11-12K. Was surprised any boats were selling at all let [...]
Science: Indestructible Boats
Where were you in Feb. 1977? Did you have one of those there fancy Skeeter Wrangler bass boats? Did you subscribe to Popular Science magazine? If so, perhaps you remember this quote: “Fiberglass, the core of modern hull construction, is now obsolescent.”
Boat Sterilization Not So Far-Fetched?
A while back we had a post titled Immunizing Your Boat: It’s Coming? Sounded a bit far-fetched at the time, but maybe not in light of a couple recent items in Washington and Minnesota. Washington Anglers in the state of Washington are subject to random boat checks
These Kayak Guys Are Frickin’ Nuts!
Gotta say I kinda do want to try the saltwater big game fishing from a kayak thing. Going on a sleigh ride sounds fun…until I think of sharks. I’m all in for risk, but gambling is another story. Hopefully after reading this you fellow bassers won’t be tempted to do something crazy this weekend…. Check [...]
You’re Heavier and Your Boat Is Smaller
Don’t know if you heard but the Coasties (U.S. Coast Guard) recently upped the “average weight” of a human in a boat
Boat Camo: Where Is It?
I’m not talking about the Real Mossy stuff for duck boats, I’m talking about camo that actually makes you harder to find on the water. (I am a safety nut with two little kids, so don’t jump all over me for that.) Two things got me here: 1. I was driving to the office today [...]
Skeet Doesn’t Do Snow
Snowstorms suck. As a native Texan I’ve never experienced a snowstorm firsthand, but I don’t have to to know that they suck. You wanna’ know when a snowstorm REALLY sucks? When you have to drive through it. And that’s what a lot of the Classic competitors have been doing this week. A few excerpts from [...]
Be Jealous of KVD
There are lots of reasons to be jealous of Kevin VanDam. He can fish better than you [and everybody else, for that matter]. He’s got lures named after him. And he gets paid wads of cash to do something he loves. Depressed yet? As if all that wasn’t enough, the VanDaminator goes off and publishes this [...]
Immunizing Your Boat: It’s Coming?
If you didn’t catch the buzz from a post by Lindner’s Angling Edge recently, Ron Lindner was fishing with fish biologist Dick Sternberg and…well, I’ll let Ron pick it up from here: In between hooking fish, Dick was on and off the cell phone all afternoon. I heard one side of the ongoing discussions…and they [...]
Drive Your Boat With a Joystick
Yamaha just announced a “technical agreement” with marine inboard folks Volvo Penta “for the joint development of control systems for boats with outboard motors.” What does that mean? “The engine control systems that will be developed under the agreement include single remote control for outboard-powered boats. The new product will combine power and steering control [...]
When Is the Nina Wood Tourney?
Or Maybe It Should Be An Annual Award? You may have seen that Forrest Wood was recently inducted into International Game Fish Association (IGFA) Hall of Fame. A lot of cool, influential and important folks in our little corner of the world are in that hall (Ray Scott and Ernest Hemingway are two of my [...]
Woman’s Lung Punctured By a Fish
By that headline you’ll assume this happened in saltwater, and you’re right. A 46-year-old woman was kayaking in the Florida Keys on Sunday when suddenly something leaped form the water, punctured her lung and then disappeared.
Ranger’s Hopper Wins
Read with interest today Ranger Boats’ announcement that it will expand – to the tune of $13 mil – it’s Flippin, AR plant and add 115 jobs. Big deal? Heck yeah it’s a big deal. In the last 11 months or so, Ranger has gotten out of Genmar (Irwin Jacobs’ former company), and has not [...]
Don’t Try This at Home
Have you ever owned a piece of equipment that you just flat-out put through the wringer and wondered to yourself, “Dang! How much abuse will this thing take?” I’ve got a piece of equipment like that—my Power-Pole.
You Were Just Passed By a Party Barge
Recently Ken Gouty of Antioch, IL set the world record speed in a pontoon boat: 100 mph, at a recent Lake of the Ozarks (party barge) Shootout last week. Highlights from this article:
