$5 is not as bad at $8 to launch.
Thanks for the information.

I put an umbrella on my boat. Take a couple of electrical conduit braces or brakets and a short section of schedule 40 3/4" ID pipe and attach it to the back of your bass seat on your boat. Stick a gulf umbrella inside the pvc pipe. Drill out a hole into the side of the pipe that passes though only one of the pipe's walls. Tape the hole with a drill tap and then you can screw a metal threaded stud into the hole. I got mine at the Ace Hardware store. Use a fine thread type bolt with a flattened head that can be used to tighten the bolt with your fingers. You can then control how high or low the umbrella fixs down into the PVC pipe.

This way you can fish during the hot summer months and have your own shade on your boat. It will work if you position the boat just right so that the shade falls on your head.

Or you can buy one of these:

www.pro-techt.com



Quote Originally Posted by daniel240 View Post
I launched at angel mounds about a month ago about 5a.m. and the drop box had no slips or envelopes for money so we just put in. The grass was not cut and the docks were not up yet. When we got back there was a guy that asked us if we paid so we paid him then. He said its under new ownership and they are improving everything. I think its $5 for under 27ft or something like that.

By the way we only caught 2 flatheads at the river on Wednesday. One was 8lbs the other about 10. Caught one on shrimp and the other on live shade fishing off the bottom. The only place we found shade was right on the edge of the dam. Talked to other boaters out there and everyone said they were having trouble catching shade as well.