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Not a good pic. This is from a couple of years back. Since then, I've put an electric motor up front, painted the cowl. Worked on the finish considerably and straightened a bent axle. I also put some 15" wheels under it and new tires. It's in the garage out here right now, but stuff tends to get thrown in on the decks. Maybe I'll get a pic tomorrow when it's light out.

'95 Cajun Travis Edition fishnski, about 19' with 175 hp Johnson and Minn Kota trollin' motor.

I don't have an online photo account, so I borrowed this pic from the interwebz. This is not my boat, but mine is similar. It's a 2004 model 16 ft. Lund "Alaskan". Mine has a Suzuki 40 HP tiller, and a bow-mounted Minn-Kota.

Sold this one...

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I'm still not sure why.

Yer doin' it wrong.

Nah, that ain't a grimace. This is a grimace. Coming back from seaducking in December with sleet slashing your mug in 6 footers will sometimes give one the inspiration for a *real* grimace.

Open water, warm weather, blue skies, I'M TIRED OF THIS WINTER.........

I dunno. The Ranger is sweet and the Alumacraft is non-descript (no offense), but in some of that big water y'all fish up north, I believe I'd rather have your current boat. They are both nice though.

Glacier_:



Sounds more like a steelhead.

Ron, a classic in my book... really nice. If I were going solo around the world tomorrow it'd be in something like yours...

I'll take the deep v Ranger 10 out of 10 times for big or small water.

Nice John. I spent a fair bit of my life on the Maine Coast and our place is just a bit north of where the beauty in your photo hails from... remember seeing many wood planked boats on the Maine Coast in the 70's of my youth... to my eyes there's nothing like a Schooner. It is to sailboats what the Spitfire is to airplanes...

Speakin' of Johnsons...

That's 'Bago ain't it? Favorite lake I've fished yet.

619? 620? 621? Inquiring minds want to know? Next year is the year for a new(er) one. I miss mine bad.

Well, why did you get rid of it then?

What are you, my wife?

Ranger was the firt boat I ever owned. I was fishing walleye tournaments and needed a big deep boat. When I was done, I wanted something lighter to tow around and not use 60 gallons of gas in a couple days. At the time gas was $4+/gal.

I had my fun in the tin boat for 3-4 years now. Next one will probably be glass.

Lake Michigan. Racine area. Thats the Wind Point lighthouse in the background.

620 and as much fun as I can stand..Family or fishing with the buds, it dont matter....I love being on the water

I'm down to an old 14 foot aluminum rowboat and a canoe. I sold my 17' open bow about 2 weeks after my newborn twins came home from the hospital.

What pond could you actually get a boat into? Only boat I have ever seen out on the ponds was a little mud boat with about a 5hp mudbuddy motor.

Hey now! Just remembered sumptin'! What ever happened to that dude here who posted about the wreck, er, I mean nifty old rig (60s or 70s cabin cruiser) he got cheap (giggles) and said he was going to rehab? You know, the one that many folks, yours truly included, said that he'd be better off converting into kindling and heating his house with?

Things that make you go hmm...

I HOPE it went well. I'd not bet the farm on it though!