wait a minute!!!!.... what about me? I have you in my 4 guys I would let borrow my ranger, course you may never go back to a basscat!....

Yeah, certain people. And for a reason like they have tourney and their boat is in the shop. Not just somebody to go have a day at the lake.

I can think of only 3 people I would loan my boat to

I would have to say no. For me to loan my boat to someone I would have to owe them big time. I use to have a pair of jet ski's. Wouldn't let anyone borrow them but would let others ride them when we were at the lake and they got torn up. Of course nobody knew how or who did it. Just ended up costing me more money and trouble so I had to even stop allowing others to ride. Things happen understandably but in this age people won't own up in my experience.

I've let my buddy use my boat to fish a BASS central open, his boat was in the shop. Only 3 people I trust enough to take my boat out, my dad and two of my buddies, outside of that your SOL.

No, no..aaaand, no.

Yes, I have 2 friends that I would have no problem letting them borrow my boat, both of them long time fishing buddies, and both very experienced boaters.

I would to a fishing buddy or someone I knew would take care of the boat and bring it back the way they took it. Then again my boat is only worth about 6000, so not the end of the world if something happened... I would be more concerned about taking a young child on the boat.

CamoLee you know I would let you borrow my Cat. The only problem is you would never go back to your Ranger or a Merc. The whole problem is you don't fish any more. LOL

No to the hell No.

Many years ago a club �friend� asked to borrow my aluminum Tracker to fish a tournament on Palestine. He wanted to use my boat instead of his heavy glass boat thinking my boat would draft less water (true). He wanted to take my boat from the Villages where the tournament went out of up to Kickapoo. Thought my boat would be better as it would not hit as much as his heavy boat. BTW he had never been up there before!

So it is OK to take my boat up there, not knowing where you are going because it might not hit as much stuff??? No thank you!

That being said there are a few good friends I would loan my boat to but not very many.

Like some have said, only to an individual that I know is VERY experienced on Fork. An even then I would be worried the whole time that they would hit a stump and tear up the lower unit or knock the trolling motor off.

The problem with Fork at its current (full) level is that people like me that used to have landmark trees & stumps now cannot see them. That makes guys like me even more dangerous because I "think" I know where I'm going.

Ask Skeeter Fowler how nervous he was when I ran from the back of Dale Creek to the main lake in his Ranger.

No ! and I would not ask someone to borrow their boat either, that really puts friends on the spot.

This sounds odd, but it depends on if they could afford it. If it was someone I knew had the money to fix it or replace it, then probably. I say that because, insurance does not cover someone else in my boat and Im not going to risk loosing it all because they cant pay to fix it. Even then I would probably have them sign a contract of responsibility. If they wont sign that then they don't want to go bad enough. Lastly, they would have to be someone I trusted and knew their capabilities.

I have done it a couple times when I had cheaper boats, but with the price of boats today, Its too big a risk without financial liability.