Lil Bitz, a 15ft john boat modifcation

[Gators5220]

A few more for your viewing pleasure, tomorrow morning I've got a bunch of Rhino liner, and I'm going to coat all of the uppers and stringers and feet of the framing with it. This is for two purposes, first it gives a cushion bewteen the framing and the wood or aluminum diamond plate. The second reason and more important is it deadens the sound of the boat. This is huge if you ever flats fish as the water depth I usually fish is under a foot, so sound travels even further at this depth because it can't go down only out. This means long casts with long fishing rods and light line to make up for that. Please let me know any thoughts, ideas, or comments.

 

[fool4fish1226]

Nice project you got going there :beer:

 

[Gators5220]

Thanks bud, I got a little bit of work done on her today. Sadly it's going to be a while till I get to work on her again, as a few nurses quit on my floor that means extra shifts for the rest of us. Bummer...

 

[Gators5220]

How's lil snookered treating you? Catching any down south?

 

[Gators5220]

Here are some of the photos of some of the work I got done on the framing today. All of the framing I rhinolined, as well as the back of the piece of diamond plate. I also bolted the diamond plate piece on for good and 5200 caulked the edges for a little more strength. Once again I've said it before this is to bring down the overall noise of the aluminium which is considerable when you are flats fishing.

Tomorrow I'm supposed to be going fishing with some friends, but you never know, people always beg to go fishing but when you set a date and time it ends up me myself and I going fishing most often.

 

[Gators5220]

Some more photos...

 

[Gators5220]

Some more photos, also I've been debating between putting speakers in eventually or having a removable blue tooth speaker system. I ended up going with the removable route, the two photos that are called Oontz are one of the speakers you can have one in the front and one in the back, and I've been pleasantly surprised with the sound quality and volume level. Personally I can't stand it over 3/4 volume in my boat, it fills the air nice, they are a good deal.

 

[fool4fish1226]

How's lil snookered treating you? Catching any down south?

Been busy prepping for retirement (so little too no fishing time) this should be my last year at work and then its time to fish

 

[Gators5220]

Nice, congrats. My dad retired a few years ago, fished for 2 years straight and then went back to work ha. I'm not sure I could go back to work whenever I retire, but never say never.

 

[Gators5220]

I got a little more work done on my boat this weekend, I'll post some pics when I get a chance.

 

[Gators5220]

Hey guys, haven't been on in a while been fishing the little bit of free time I get, here are a few photos...

 

[Gators5220]

Some Photos of a recent camping trip first, I love to get away from it all at times...

 

[Gators5220]

Some more photos of the camp site, and of Pat Pat the Water Rat & Stew the Jew

 

[Gators5220]

A couple of more photos of my camping trip, it was a little windy but hard to complain it was 80 to 85 all day sunny skies in the middle of March. We also caught a few fish, nothing to write home about, but still hard to complain.

 

[Gators5220]

A few more I found...Man I love campin, but at the end of the weekend it surely takes it out of you.

 

[Gators5220]

So I also decided to invest in a new cooler for my boat. Being a huge Gator fan, and seriously tired of buying new coolers every year or so I splurged a bit.

 

[Gators5220]

Um hmmm...

 

[Gators5220]

A few other photos of camping or more accurately drinking I found, then fishing photos I'll post soon.

 

[trackerpuzzle]

I think the mickey's are getting in the way of the boat work Looks like a great time man!! keep practicing and I think you might make it all the way in your tent by the of summer :LOL2:

 

[fool4fish1226]

Nice pics thanks for sharing :beer: