Just finished reading Bass Times and it hit me... When I first started Bass Fishing I felt like I had everything if I had a few spare hooks and a few extra plastic worms fishing from the bank. When we would toss floating Rapala's in the evenings as the Sun set it felt like we had the best life. Fishing was simple, inexpensive and satisfying...Of course things escalated rather quickly as I figured out ways to do without somethings to put more money toward tackle.

The big purchased was the used boat and even back then 9K was a steal for the Skeeter I purchased with a Yamaha Pro V 150 anyway I saw that the new Skeeter Model with the new 4 stroke is priced around 70K!!! Are they serious?