I really want to keep the design simple and keep the boat open and yet structurally sound, balanced, safe, and riding well on the water. This is what i’m looking for cuz i don’t really have the skill or the time to do it, lol. I am very excited to get this boat going. The boat is unique and has alot of character and i plan to keep it for a while. It will be awesome for my baby girl, she will be nearly two this summer and its time for some boat rides and maybe a snoopy pole . It is much deeper and wider and more stable, and with a carpet flooring it will be great for her and her mom.

This is an older boat that has been totally gutted, a bench has been removed which might cause balance issues or structural issues. There is no existing wiring and i would like to upgrade the electrical system a bit which is not a skill i learned. I need someone with expertise to have it done right so it will last. Its gonna take more then a drill and circular saw for sure.

Guess I’ll have to figure it out myself

This is my first documented 25 lb carp(25.6). I may have hit this mark in the past but this is the first one I’ve actually been able to weigh. One hell of a battle! It’s not the best picture but it’s enough to silence my trash talking buddies, lol.

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Every time I go to Menards they usually have green treated but not marine grade. I’ll have to double check that cuz there is a Menards a couple blocks from my house.

Or maybe someone who could do the transom for me? I am learning on the fly but i want this to be done right.

Most of those fish are in private waters managed by clubs etc. Most of the big fish have names and people mourn them when they die.

I was in DL also and hammered the gills. They were in the shallow side of a very large lake in 4-7 fow. All in the 9-10″ range with some jumbo perch and bass mixed in. Almost 3 ft of ice where i was.

Carp were going crazy today. Got 20 in the 5-10lb range and a couple at 15lbs just north of SAF area.

that’s awesome. wish there was a better pic.

C G, are you finding them in deep basins like crappies. Suspended or off bottom?

I’ve always done well with a glow ratso for jigging and demon jigs on a dead stick with a crappie minnow. charge them up good before you drop them down.

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I had to go to the cities the take the wife shopping…

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you should have hit me up, i got spots near all the major shopping centers. lol

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It’s been so cold out that I saw a democrat with his hands in his own pockets…

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lame

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Very nice. Here is one I caught out of the river just south of St Paul yesterday. Photos dont really do it justice but Im sure it would of folded up my walleye net if hoisted in the boat wrong. The carp, buffalo and other rough fish are schooled up tight on the rivers up here now and all winter.

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where???? I want to catch them. lol

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ice forming fast around leech. saw a couple small lakes fully iced up with about 1/2″-1″.

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Hopefully it lasts through the warmer weather later this week and builds quickly TC!

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Lets be honest with ourselves here, it won’t. lol!

ice forming fast around leech. saw a couple small lakes fully iced up with about 1/2″-1″.

Got a few nice eaters fishing a Chisago area lake. I was out over a 30 fow basin area fishing crappies. The crappies were up high and the eyes were sitting on bottom. small white jigs with fatheads. Having flashers out with us was the key. 6 eyes and 10 nice crappies for two guys.

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Nice! How’d it taste?

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Threw it back, hopefully i can catch it next year with a couple extra pounds.

you get a tape on that pike? that is a tank!!!

Bayport most likely

outstanding!!

How long does it take to grow a 16″ crappie?

ouch! gotta support those big fish under the belly when handling them.

sweet

pretty sure the aeration failed two years ago resulting in a full winter kill. anybody been there since and found fish?

nobody, there wasnt much sign of people either.

no idea whats going on here. lol

Here’s your solution, buy an underwater camera. There is no perfect rod.

tried a lake today with no success. I believe i was in the right area but i cant say for sure if it was carp i was marking.