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Now that the wife is my tournament partner, she wants me to upgrade this Fall/Winter :shock: I'm very thankful for my boat but a bigger one would be sweet. My budget will probably be no more than $5k, and I'm not looking to have to do a lot of mods, at least at first. As long as it is ready...

I'm not affiliated but I will be attending for the first time. I think it will be worth while if anyone is interested. It costs $10 to get in and there are free seminars, Gary Loomis is among the instructors. Here's a link to the site- https://home.earthlink.net/~icrbe/

Does anyone else have this problem, or is it just me? Or maybe it is by design that they are only sent every so often...

I don't have the serial number yet, and sorry in advance for the poor pics, they were sent to me via cell phone. This is a 15hp Mercury that the owner claims is a 4 stroke. I may be interested in buying it, but it looks like an older generation motor than I remember Merc making a 4 stroke. If...

A friend of mine with a Skeeter ZX225 invited me to fish with his bass club yesterday, they fish for crappie at Lake Jordan, NC as their January event. I brought a good friend of mine, new member here Engineer_Jim. We had fun crappie fishing, and since it was a nice day and Jim had never...

I need a 9.9 or 15 (even better) horsepower motor for my jon boat. I need it to be pull start (electric plus pull is ok of course), and I need it to be short shaft. I like the Tohatsu/Nissan, Yamaha, Suzuki, etc but I am also fine with Merc, Johnson, Evinrude. I'd prefer not to get a Gamefisher...

I bought a 12V plug from BPS that according to the packaging is rated for 50 amps. My trolling motor pulls 39 amps and recommends recommends 6 gauge wire from the receptacle back to the battery, and a 50 amp manual reset circuit breaker. Here's what doesn't make sense to me- the wire that goes...

Since it's still the week of Veterans Day, I thought some of you might enjoy reading this article about my Dad and 4 of his brothers that served in the military in Vietnam. https://www.vva.org/veteran/1206/kern.html My son who just joined this year makes it at least 4 generations in a row...

I know about Bass Busters that fishes in this region, but does anyone know of a jon boat club in this area that isn't electric only?

Some of you may have seen my thread in the boat mods forum for my 1436 flat bottom jon that I picked up recently and am converting to a bass boat. In addition to setting up the boat, I'd also like to convert the trailer to the more traditional front to rear bunks versus how it is set up now...

Some of you know I'm doing a 1436 build. Here is a close-up of a trailer wheel- I'm not familiar with this type of hub, are they decent or do I need to look into replacing them? Or am I ok to just clean them up, paint them and make sure the bearings are ok?

For you FB-ers out there, I created a group called John Boats Group on Facebook, here is the link- https://www.facebook.com/home.php?#/group.php?gid=138002303307&ref=ts If the link doesn't work, just search for the name and you should find it. I put a link back to the site here, so hopefully...

At risk of jinxing myself by posting about it before I've picked it up, I'm going to write about the boat I am scheduled to pick up Friday. I'm so excited that I've gotta tell somebody :D I do plan on using it as a little bass rig, so I'll put a deck on the front and a bow mounted TM, at...

Howdy from Elon, NC. I'm going to be building this super nice Xpress 1440 into a little bass boat. This old outboard runs great and starts right up on the first or second pull. I have a nice 24v OMC trolling motor (the old kind that's real quiet) that's been sitting in my closet for a couple...