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Location: MN | I am looking for a bump board and wondering what brands are still out there for sale? Not finding many online. Any suggestions? |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Musky Bumper. Good board at a good price, and a nice guy. |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | i saw a bump board for like $75 bucks one day ... somebody convince me that's a "good-deal"
yes, that's $75 bucks with a "7" and a "5". how many hours even with a really good job do you have to work to have that desirable piece of plastic???? |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | I also highly suggest Muskie Bumper Boards. You can contact Tony at: 260-410-5474 if interested in ordering one. You can also get them at Rollie's and Thorne Bros as well. If you would rather wait until show season, I will be carrying the "Fat Boy" bump board in my booth as well. |
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Location: McGuire AFB, NJ | Whats the damage? ($$$) |
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Location: Illinois | MuskyLINK creator Brandyn "Reelwise" Shepard makes them. Not quite as nice as the Muskie Bumper, but close enough IMHO. The drawback I had with the Muskie Bumper was it's sticker price. Both are really good boards. Either PM "reelwise" or visit his MuskyLINK page at http://www.muskylink.com/profile/Reelwise and drop him a note.
And making one DIY style is another approach. Good luck! |
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| MuskyLink boards are very nice and well built. Worth the money to get an accurate measurement imo. |
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| I have a muskie bumper and really like it. |
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Location: Mallard Island Lake Vermilion MN | Buy land...there is no hope for some people.
$75 for a fancy hunk of plastic with numbers on it...come on.
Do you really find in that impotant to measure a fish?
If it is big, its big...enjoy a steak, a romp with yer women or boy friend, enjoy the moment.
Musky world has sure gottten weird.
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Location: Pickering, ON | KidDerringer - 12/10/2009 11:26 AM
Do you really find in that impotant to measure a fish?
For the ONE that's going to become a replica - YES.
For the average 40"er, nope - within a 1/4-1/2" with a soft tape is fine for those ones.
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Location: lansing, il | I thought the guy asked for an opinion about where to get a good one, not opinions on if he should get one. measuring fish is a personal preferance the last time i checked. to each their own.
the muskiebumper guys make a very nice board, with no metal parts and very durable and accurate. plus they come in right or lefthand models. |
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Location: Algonac, MI | Dunwright Tackle makes a nice board, as well. Plastic, folding and floats.
I own two of them and can not say enuff, about how nice they are to have. |
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Location: The desert | DIY for 75% off of $75 |
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Location: Madtown, WI | They really are VERY simple to make..and cheap too. Some treated 1/4" plywood, 2 L brackets, 1 hinge, and a sharpie and your set.
Now if your made of money, the Dunwrights are pretty nice.
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| look at how many baits one has that NEVER see the water in 1 season. what were the $$$ of those lures? hundreds if not thousands of dollars, and they never get wet. But buy a $60 bump board that a guy might use 10-300 x per yr and they are insane? sure it can be made, but time is money. I'd rather spend $60 and get a nice MuskyLink board to my specs, right handed and he custom made it to fit a spot in my boat...and it gets used 150 or so x a yr.... guess spending 60 on something I use makes more sense than the hundreds of lures we all have that never get wet....  |
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Location: Illinois | For those who recommend Dunwrights- two questions
a)are they being made currently?
b)where can one purchase one?
The original poster sought where ONLINE can a bumpboard be purchased. Perhaps I'm mistaken- but I thought the Dunwrights were discontinued and finding one for sale was rare. |
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| My Dad made me one out of a 1x6 before he died. On the back there's room for the Angler/Lake/Date/ Size/Lure. I have to make room for it, but I find that easy enough, but I've got a family heirloom not just a bumpboard.
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Location: Algonac, MI | Dunwright still makes them. I purchased 20 of them, for our club two/three weeks ago. Had them within 10 days of order, direct from Dunwright.
If you were in Michigan, I could sell you one. Not sure of dealers in MN, but they have a dealer in your area tab. Should be easy to locate one.
http://www.dunwrighttackle.com/
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Location: The Yahara Chain | Dunwright quit making their bumpboards quit awhile ago. My Muskylink board is built nice but it is off by 1/8 of an inch. |
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| Here's a link to a pretty nice bumpboard. They are a little costly but will last a lifetime. They cutomize them with your name, or logo or whatever. I fished with a guide that had one and they are very nice.
http://www.monsteroutdoors.com/servlet/the-113/fish-measuring-ruler...
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | I make & sell my own. You can do it yourself out of wood for a pretty good price. I've done 2 different kinds. One is plastic-sandwiched aluminum, or I also make them out of plastic composit 1/2" thick. The aluminum is bullet-proof, but doesn't float. The plastic ones do. The ones I make start at 24". Why you ask? 3 reasons:
- Make room for our logo
- Pike legal legnth is 24"
- Anything under 24" is just BAIT!!
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Location: Corning, Iowa | If you make your own, where do you get a ruler that big? Thank Doug |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Lots of guys just buy a metal ruler from a home improvement shop. A lot of times they are up to 8' long so they have to be cut. Or you can visit one of your local signs/graphics shops and ask them to make you one. I'm assuming a good graphic one will run you around $25. |
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| quick google search found this one for $8, 58" long.
http://www.rodrule.com/Rodrule1004/Ordering.html |
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Location: Algonac, MI | They have 60" aluminum drywall rulers at both Home Depot and Lowes. (prob Menards, too) They cost about $10-$13 depending on the store. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Pike legal legnth is 24" - Anything under 24" is just BAIT!! ;) Pike legal length is 24" Any pike 24" is bait! |
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| If you want a Dunwright bump board you can buy them direct - $49.99 + shipping |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | I'll have a Dunright Board for sale at the Chitown swap meet .
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| I finished mine in mid-October. Bought a pine 1x8, another 1x4, 60" sewing tape, two hinges and Bondo brand auto body sealer with hardener. I made the nose bump and the back bump out of the 1x4 and screwed that to the 1x8 with SS screws, and hinged it together. I laid the tape down, fastened it with a couple of carpet tacks, cut the sewing tape where I put the hinges on the 1x8, got my Stanley tape measure out, made sure the cut part of the sewing tape lined up with the marks on my Stanley, and tacked that part down.
If I had it to do over again, use cedar instead, and a metal drywall ruler. I'd buy one of the 60" metal rulers and router that cedar 1x8 so if was flush, cut the metal ruler, screw it down, slap a coat of clearcoat and be done with it. Only having to clearcoat one side of the bump board (to ensure the fish came in contact with only clearcoated surface) would have taken alot of time out of the equation.
The cloth tape bubbled up a little. A couple more carpet tacks would have helped this. But it was still kind of a pain.
Anyway, if you're even remotely handy, you can make one of these, no prob. Again, I'd run to Menards and get a six foot piece of 1x8 cedar, a 4-foot hunk of 1x4 cedar, SS hinges and hardware all the way around, a 60" metal tape, a can of Bondo liquid polyester (its in the automotive section at Fleet Farm), (and extra tube of hardener is a good idea.....and don't be bashful about using plenty of it in your mix or it will be tacky forever) and router in the metal ruler flush, slap a coat or two on the business side of the bump board surfaces and be done with it.
If I can figure out how to post photos on here, I'll post pix of mine. Its not pretty, but it works fine. A night or two out in your heated man cave while the wife's wrapping Xmas presents and you'll have it done. Gotta stay warm to cure the Bondo. DON'T even think about doing it in the house. The fumes will kill a horse. Made that mistake.
The plastic commercially made bumpers are sure nice, I just didn't feel like spending 75 bones.
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Location: Birchwood, WI. | contender is right on! t-square for plywood &drywall. 54" is whats in my boat. cheaper to also lays flat & can stay out!!!my 2 cents!! |
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| I have laid a musky or two on a bump board, but only in a tournament. Most of the time, if I want a measurement, I just place the round measuring stick in the water next to the fish and "within a half inch or so" is really plenty good enough. My feeling is: why stretch the poor creature out on a flat board, doing some possible degree of discomfort (if not injury) if it really doesn't matter. That's especially true if we are only going to lie about how big it was anyway. I say, leave it in the water and it's really totally easier to lie about how big it was with a fairly clear concience. If there is a cash award involved and you are lucky enough to catch a fish, wet the #*^@ thing down and use it. Otherwise, let it swim away and tell us she was a "50." The amount of guys who believe you will be just about the same--even worse if you have a picture. Marty Forman |
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Location: Antigo Wi. | I purchased everything I needed to make my own from Fleet Farm and have less than $25 invested. I can measure up to 60" |
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| for a extra 20$ get a frabill cradle |
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Location: Wishin I Was Fishin' | I really like my MuskieLink board a lot.
Don't use a metal one when it's cold out. The slime freezes to it very quick. Probably shouldn't lay a fish down on anything when its below freezing. |
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Location: Grand Rapids, MI | Jomusky - 12/13/2009 11:04 AM
Don't use a metal one when it's cold out. The slime freezes to it very quick. Probably shouldn't lay a fish down on anything when its below freezing.
I agree. Good point. That's why I started making mine floaters. For that reason and for smaller fish. It's really easy to actually leave the board halfway submerged, slide the fish out of the net and onto the board. Literally 2 seconds on the board in the water, and the fish is gone. |
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| For those like me that think it's insane to spend any more than about $20 on a measuring device...
Rapala makes a 3 section foldable 60" ruler that also has one end that folds up making it work like a bump board. It costs less than $15 which is cheaper than you can even make one for yourself. I think R&H's carries them.
I don't own one of these, as I am fine with an in the water measurement using a floating ruler. I could care less if it's 1/4 or 1/2" off and don't see how anyone would want to take a fish out of the water and set it on anything for a measurement unless in a tournament situation but to each his / her own.
http://www.rapala.com/products/accessoriesdetail.cfm?name=60 inch Magnum Folding Ruler&category=Tool Series
Edit: for some reason, this website isn't making the full link clickable. Copy and paste the whole paragraph above to see this ruler on the Rapala website.
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| I bought one of these Rapala ones at Fleet Farm. It was about $15.00 |
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Location: minocqua, wi. | the rapala folding ruler ... what a concept, a plastic thing that folds out and bumps a fish to measure it ... for 15-20 bucks. what will they think of next?! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Small issue with that ruler is if you lay the fish down on that model, you are, for all intents and purposes, laying the fish down on the carpet. Wet the carpet well before using it for the fish's benefit. Also, most real bump boards have a backstop vertical board to assist in easily restraining the fish by pushing the back gently against the board. No sliding around, and a very quick measure as the ruler portion of the board is always much wider than the tail of the muskie getting measured. |
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| you can make one for about $10 that is just as good as the $75 ones. Go to Menards and get a piece of siding trim (Vinyl), 2 hinges, and some fabric measuring tape. Done... takes about 20 min to assemble. i have made 3 of them. |
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| You get what you pay for..... I know some people who bought those and they didn't even last 1 season. Cracked, and pieces broke off. Now they have sharp edges to cut open the fishes belly!  |
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| Yea, I got that Rapala measuring stick free (Ranger logo and all) with a huge box of free Rapala stuff that came as a promotion for buying a Ranger last year, terriffic baits, tools, scale wonderful stuff......except for that measuring stick, which is just not worth trying not to break...you won't succeed. Marty Forman |
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