will you take your boat where the fish live?

one of our group caught a 13lb fish back in the thick stuff on a trip to guerrero several years ago and that inspired all of us to go back in the thick stuff........didn't catch one that big but my son and I caught several 5-7 lb fish back there..this is what my boat looked like after a day back in the brush...
got another picture someplace that I tried to find....it's a picture of that red ranger boat that turned gray after a trip down that road to tigers creek launch ramp on Falcon....that alkaline dust won't come off at the car wash...I had to take my boat home and scrub it off with a sponge and soapy water...

YEP every time

Of course.

Thats why I have a solid white boat. Scratches and dust don't show as bad

Can’t think of anywhere I wouldn’t take my boat...

agree with your choice of colors....had a sponsorship/demo boat deal with OMC/Javelin for several years and when OMC/Javelin folded,my dealer had this new 2 year old boat sitting on his lot and offered it to me at his cost...I didn't want a red boat but the price was too good to pass up...

That's what my boat looked like a few years ago when Falcon filled up past full after decades of low levels. Going back into the new flooded brush on the Mexican side had us coming out each time looking like you were stealing a cord of firewood. Can't buy a boat and then not go fish where the fish are.

Always, it's a bass boat not a pleasure cruiser!

its been a decade since I washed my boat...

Used to fill the boat up with that kinda stuff in the early years on RayBob.

this is pic I mentioned in my original post.....my boat was nice and shiny until the wind on falcon forced us to launch in tiger creek for 2-3 days that week....note the wet spots under trolling motor head where water dripped down..I stopped at a car wash on the way home and all that did was lighten it up a little....had to use soapy water and sponge to scrub that alkali dust off....
p.s. we caught hell out of the fish that week in 2009..bass were on the bed and magic depth was 6 ft....drop a mag lizard down in a bush at that depth and hang on...

Why wouldn’t you?

That's what they're for , mine is like that almost every time I go out , it is made to catch fish and bring you back to the ramp .

I'll admit it. It bothers me, anytime I put a scratch on my boat. I'm that guy that cleans his boat after every trip and sprays it down with Lucas Quick Wax.
I'll go where the fish are and cringe the whole time I hear rubbing and scratching.

And why do we put our rigs thru this? CAUSE IT'S WORTH IT!

Everytime it starts.

Is there any other way to fish? Took my knife out when I pulled it out of the dealership and put the first scratch in it myself. I take care of it so it runs right but I fish where I find them no matter how many scratches it gets.

Wool sure......

A couple of my old Guerrero pics. Ain't skeerd at bit.

Freaking send it!

When Choke Canyon opened, we used to pull enough mesquite out of our boats to BBQ with.

looks exactly like brush I've fished on that lake...did you ever see Mexicans back there wading around and hand casting with beer can and mono line wrapped it casting lizards at bedding fish?...or trees full of snakes...or rattlesnakes swimming around?

If your going to knit in it park it it in living room.

Of course I will .....................as long as there a proper amount of H2O in the lake, No stumps, weeds, reeds, mill foil, hydrilla, rocks, a boat ramp with proper bumpers where I tie up, sirus radio reception is available , and HD 4K Tv is accessible....................other than that, I'm game.

I go where the fish are but I suspect most that do are in older boats. I too clean mine everytime but still go,where others won’t. Might be gun shy in future as I have a new Phoenix 920 on order

yeah, that why it looks like it is and hard to keep the boat registration stickers on the sides

Exactly!!

Absolutely... I bought a fishing boat, if I just wanted to ride around and look good I'd have bought a cruiser.

I have been this guy, tell myself everytime never again.

I would rather take cinder blocks and cut limbs on the water next time

Nothing to it, the blocks are already tied down, just roll it over the side. That boat is just for that purpose, I have to admit we don't do it out of our big boats lol.

In all honesty, probably not. It isnt the fear of scratching my boat, because I do that all the time, its is more the fear of damaging something that has to be repaired and then paying for that repair. I guess I am just not there yet. Luckily there are fish in other parts of the lake though.

Anywhere it can get to. Including I-10 in Houston when it was flooded a couple months back. But lately I've only been taking it where the fish aren't.

a boat is made to be scratched i'll go wherever the fish are as long as I don't get stuck.

My first trip to the Hwy 83 Bridge in Tiger Creek on Falcon with my less than 6mo. Old BC Cougar had me puckered up.

I drive down a 7 mile dirt road to fish stumps, I think I mean yes

one time i went down to falcon and robert amaya told me the fish are in a foot of water and i needed to get to the very back of the creeks. i had to pull trolling motor up and use push pole to move about. but you would be surprised at the amount of people that would rather go home rather than get their boat scratched.

It's not even the repair cost that worries me the most, it is the time off the water because shops take so long to fix boats. I'm fishing tournaments every month, including the winter. I don't have a month for a shop to order parts and eventually get around to fixing something.

I fish out deep.... where they live.

Completely agree with this as well.

Fishing is the same as life, some people are passive and cautious and then others are very aggressive, edgy and take risks.