Fishing (2020)

[olds307 and 403]

Beautiful sunset shots!

They sure are. This is 5 minutes from our house, have seen this hundreds of times. Best fishing trip there this year, frustrating for my Wife. Tons of fish jumping and many big ones for a small reservoir, last year in an hour she caught 5 Walleye that were 5 to 7 pounds. This year her best catch was two and one good fish all year. I have seriously caught more than her with less than half the effort, very odd.

 

[olds307 and 403]

Fishing Lake once again did not disappoint, 30+ fish. I lost my best Walleye of the day. My Wife kicked my *ss, maybe one under 1.5 pounds for her, biggest around 3 pounds. Biggest Pike around 5 pounds. Mostly caught Walleye.

 

[olds307 and 403]

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[Bonnewagon]

I now pronounce you: Walleye King and Queen! We bow before you.

 

[Bonnewagon]

Got a couple of throwback Stripers, a nice fat Fluke and a small Bluefish yesterday. Today we got skunked except for a throwback Striper.

 

[olds307 and 403]

I now pronounce you: Walleye King and Queen! We bow before you.

I think it is more like the current British monarchy, all hail the Queen and that guy she is married to🤣

 

[ssn696]

Documented evidence that boat spends more time in the water than on the trailer. You're making the most of your summer!

 

[axisg]

yeah, my trailer is more like Bonnewagons. Rollers up the middle to support the keel, then the carpeted sections are about 4' long at the back of the trailer that the hull rests on. Then I got the bumpers from Bass Pro. It's just steel tubing with some PVC tubing slipped over it that I fished ( see what I did there ! ) some cheapie LED markers up to help with lane changes. And a couple end caps from Home Depot.

It tends to be windy and the drop off is very steep where we launch leaving the back of the trailer at least a 12" to 18" off the trailer when it is already cranked up to the keel snubber. Any closer to shore for us and you are literally dragging the boat on to the trailer. So many times I have watched people back the trailer in to the water and their boat just dangles and drifts right off the back of the trailer unless you have someone on each side to guide it. Same issue in the take out lane. You get it all set up to drag out and end up with the boat crooked on the trailer.
One fella showed me (as we were waiting ever so long for someone to take their boat out) to get the guides from Bass Pro. Those PVC "guides" took us from 10+ mins and multiple attempts to pull out to getting it out square and level the first time every time. I just hook in the boats eyelet and crank it up to where I made my mark on the boat strap ( basically just short of the snubber ). As I pull the trailer out of the water the boat settles in the exact same spot 99% of the time no matter how windy. And it drops right on to the green carpeted sections in between the ribs in the hull.

 

[Bonnewagon]

Rollers up the middle to support the keel, then the carpeted sections are about 4' long at the back of the trailer that the hull rests on.

I like the way your bunks are located between the strakes. That is key to a straight recovery and holding the hull in place. My old Lund had strakes too and my bunks were between them. You knew right way if they were not lined up right. Good job!

 

[Bonnewagon]