Quote Originally Posted by cumberlandguy1 View Post
Elnut..hate to hear your trip was spoiled by an idiot. I don't bass fish anymore (as you know), LOL...(stripers now). Don't go replacing your boat. It's paid for, you catch plenty of fish out of it as well. I sold my bullet several years ago and guess what I bought last August? 17ft alumium Triton (cash) and I catch more fish now than I ever did. I do catch a lot of accidental brown fish. I don't worry about scratching it either! I know a guy with a red Ranger here in Somerset that has paid on it for about 3 or 4 years. He thought he could fish for a living...his wife was paying all of the bills. They got divorced and now the bank is trying to find the boat to repo it. LOL. I'll continue to putt around in my 40mph boat and catch plenty of fish and hope you do as well. Did I mention the $$$$ we save in fuel??? Hope you catch plenty every trip.

Fuel savings is great. I went down with a full tank and put exactly 6.5 gallons back in her before I put her back in the garage. Grant it the trolling motor did not burn much gas around Carmach Bay and the running between Carmach and Denumbers is not far plus putting in at Poplar Creek helped. As far as scratching her, I had it 3 months and took my first night trip to Cumberland night fishing for those "Trashfish" Stripers and scratched the heck out of it paralleling Pig Pen wall but landed my first Striper and a few more that night as well. Pretty weird scraping the wall on occasion and looking at the depth finder to see I was in 60-100 feet of water. Hearing all those bust on the surface made the scraping noise non-existent, even if it was a new boat. She is broke in pretty good and I don't even care anymore for it is a FISHING boat and it is paid for.