Cost of Fishing?

[publican57]

A buddy tells me the kind of boat I need and of course if I get the boat, I would need a bigger truck to haul it. Problem with getting a new boat is I don't have more time to fish. In fact I will need to stay at work longer to pay for the new boat and truck.

I will stick to my Jon Boat, Kayak, Canoe and Ford Ranger. When I figure out a way to go to a three or four day work week, then maybe I will buy a little better boat. Right now, my tackle is worth more than my boat. And according to my wife, that is getting out of control.

If I buy something expensive to fish with this year, I am more tempted to get one of those side looking depthfinders than a new boat. I don't care what kind of boat I have, if I cannot find the fish what does it matter?

[kygorski]

Side scanning sonar? Heck I can't get em to bite sometimes when they are right under the boat. Several yrs ago when we traveled, I was forced to fish out of a 12 ft porte boatm it had a 5 hp motor and a rear trolling motor. guess what I caught one heck of a lot of fish, red fish weak fish[sec trout] LMB walleye and trout. Now if my sonar isn't working I give up and go home.Best fishing day I had in many years was on a small weed chocked lake, the only way through was OARS, guys in bass boats couldn't get into the spot with a trolling motor, and it was a HP limit lake.I watched an old timer catch crappies up the yazoo, how? Sculling paddle 14 ft cane pole.A big boat couldn't into trhe brush like he did.Any one here remember sculling paddles?