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| How many of you are running white boats or have caught fish in a white boat? |
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Location: The desert | Waxed or unwaxed? |
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| Bright boat on bright days, dark boat on dark days. |
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Location: Going Fishing | I've caught hudred's of Skis out of a white boat. And thousand's of panfish, a couple of Walleyes.LOL |
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Location: Sycamore, IL | You can't catch muskies in a white boat... |
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| I tried a sucker pattern, but the stupid fish kept coming up trying to eat the #*^@ boat. The bear pattern scared the crap out of them, couldn't get a fish to follow within 30 feet of the boat. Then I tried camo, but they slam right into it because they can't see it. I am thinking either a sky pattern, or maybe even muskies. I figure they'll be comfortable around other muskies. The question is what size do I make them? My thinking is that if I make them too big it will scare the smaller ones away and my numbers will go way down. But if I make them too small, they'll just be bashing into the boat trying to chase the other muskies away. I figure 43" is a nice size. That way the ones under 40" won't dare approach the boat, and the ones over 45" won't be intimidated by the other muskies hanging around. I think the best bet is a few in the 40-42" range on one side of the boat and a few in the 46 - 48" range on the other side of the boat. So when we're just looking to catch fish we can run in one direction, and when we're after a big one we can run in the other direction.
I've also thought about painting "good place to hide" along the bottom of the boat for the muskies that just follow up and don't commit, because I know they like to hang out under the boat. But then I realized that their ancestry traces back to long before modern times. So for all I know they can't read English, and only understand Ojibwe. Then I realized that I'm not sven sure if they can read at all. If they can, what it it's hieroglyphics or something??? They have been around for 10,000 years or so. Maybe the innuit languages would work??
The whole thing left me kind of stumped. I used to thinki that your best bet was a boat with camo on one side and light blue sky w/clouds on the other, because that's what the background would be most days. But what if you want to work a spot from another angle or cast off the other side of the boat?? And what do you do when it's cloudy, or when you're not working close to a shoreline? I am thinking you need several boats. One for sunny days when you're working a shoreline with the port side towards the shore, one for sunny days when you're working a shoreline with the starboard side towards the shore, one each for cloudy days, maybe painted gray on one side, one for trolling, one for trolling the other way, and I guess you'd need a boat for sucker fishing when you're basically just sitting there and the fish are looking straight up. And then there's night fishing.... Holy crap, black on the bottom with some stars and maybe a moon? I guess you could get by with a full moon boat and a new moon boat for night fishing.
And let's not even start taking about water clarity, algae blooms, stainded water, muddly water, etc.
Crap man, no wonder those #*^@ things are so hard to catch! |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Serious shnit here<.............. I have "really" thought of painting a (School) of Ciscos on the bottom of my "White" bottom boat in order to trick a couple of 60" muskie's into bitting my Pounder......... Maybe next year.
White boats can't catch fish! Wink,wink....
E.A. do you now have a boat? Congrats, if you do ...... Being Boatless really sucks !
Jerome
Edited by Top H2O 1/26/2012 8:40 PM
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | I've owned several. No problems catching fish. |
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| does anyone seriously think the color of your boat has any correlation with the number of fish you catch boatside? Seriously? I'm not sayin but I'm just sayin.......have had multiple fish try and eat my trolling motor....these are NOT intelligent fish! |
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| I don't think the color of the boat makes one bit of difference. Don't start saying it does, or guys will be painting murals on the bottom of their boats. |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Let's just ask these questions?
Do you prefer white or black bottom boats?
Why? |
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Location: N.FIB | how about painting moon rise on one side of the boat and moon set on the other side,then a fish that follows will realize it`s a moon phase and get active,I know a guy who painted his boat camo on the bottom so his white boat wouldn`t scare off the fish. |
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Location: FIB land | You guys are great , thanks for the smile !! |
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Location: Money, PA | My Trophy is white, but I painted the underside fire-tiger pattern...Thats my secret....Shhhhhhhh |
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Location: Racine, Wi | I prefer a white bottom on my boat. That way when I take my shirt off, I don't blind the fish as badly from my farmer tan.
Don't bring Jesse Jackson or Sharpton into this debate though. May get the ACLU involved as well if this gets out.  |
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Location: The desert | I like black bottoms, they tend to be bigger.
Boats bottoms I don't care about |
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Location: New Hope MN | Pointerpride102 - 1/27/2012 9:20 AM
I like black bottoms, they tend to be bigger.
Boats bottoms I don't care about
ZING!! LOL! |
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Location: Rhinelander | Regarding catching fish.....don't think it really matters. Funny responses though. 
But I have stayed away from purchasing a white boat as they "stick out" on the water to other fisherman. A guy can see a white boat or even a white motor a long way off. |
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| An old friend of mine had a Bright blue ranger, and we had quite a few fish stop dead in their tracks halfway back to the boat on sunny days. They'd be right up on the bait and they'd just stop and shoot off. I was never 100% convinced that the boat didn't scare them away. It sounds kind of silly since they see boats all day long, but you never know! |
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| Thanks for the great responses. I guy I know is considering purchasing a White Ranger and it superstitous about White Boats. I could care less personally. |
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| No sure who you are taking to, jerk. But my excuse is my parents - they took me up to WI every weekend and turned me loose with a gun and a fishing rod. Which is scary, because 25 years later I'm still not sure if I ought to be trusted with either one! |
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Location: Ontario, Canada | This one catches Muskie, and Salmon, and Bass...
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Location: Cave Run Lake KY. | Go to Used Boats classified and scroll down to 11/30/11 the coors light Ranger , we fished out of this boat last fall for 8 days, and caught fish on the 8 all week long. Allso some of the best guide's fish out of White Rangers. Good Fishing to you. |
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Location: God's Country......USA..... Western Wisconsin | Have you ever seen a Saltwater Bay boat or Flats boat that wasn't white? Fish don't care!!! |
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| I think from a fish standpoint color is a non factor. If color was a factor I think white may be one of the best colors. Most bait fish have white undersides. I have witnessed nearly 1000 muskies come over the side of boats with white bottoms. Another advantage of a white boat is that is stays cooler on hot sunny days and reflects light better on the inside at night vs a dark colored boat for those of us who fish at night sometimes.
I'm not sure anything quite as impressive as a sparkling red fiberglass boat though for looks, but that is just my opinion. |
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| If it is a dark colored fiberglass boat, when you scratch it against the rocks, the bottom will be white afterwards anyways! |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Read an article years ago about an oldtimer that fished rivers in Kentucky that nailed brush to the sides of his wooden boat. Must not have done a lot of figure 8's
sory ifn I speld Kentucky wong da sight need a spll cheker |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Use Firefox, and your spelling will be automatically checked. |
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Location: The desert | One should be able to spell 'Kentucky' without a spell check. That is elementary level spelling. |
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Location: Eastern Ontario | Not in the Great White North it's not .......teacher never asked that one
Edited by horsehunter 2/1/2012 9:50 AM
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