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| what are some of the little custom touches you've done to your boat to make it just the way you want it?
things to make it fish better, more comfortable, or just plain cool? |
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| I have a lund 1700 Pro sport. We added a platform in the back for a better casting deck, the platform is hinged so it can be up, or down. The legs are two boxes that hold our plano tackle boxes with the musky lures. I'll try to attach a picture.
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| Down here we utilize the "Low Rider" concept; we'll take a a pontoon boat, add gas shocks all the way around and install blinking Christmas lights on the railings. Overhead, Japanese lanterns are hung, and an 8 track stereo system w/ surround sound allows one to experience the pleasures of Carnagie Hall. Bolt on a crushed velvet sofa and love seat, add a snow cone machine, and experience the comforts of home. To make the vessel look EVEN cooler, add a strobe light and some pink flamingos. If the fishing is poor, we'll slow troll the beach, stopping on occasion and bounce the craft up and down on the water, attracting babettes from all walks of life. Mount potato gun tubes on the sides, hoist the Jolly Roger and play pirate...paint trash can lids, mount them on the rails, and portray for the day the Viking ships of old...these are a few of our favorite things... |
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Location: Presque Isle Wisconsin | SPOnnnnggggeeee!! You are the ABSOLUTE BEST. you funny funny little man you |
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Location: Athens, Ohio | Sponge, I've got a Velvet Elvis you can hang on the canopy!
One of the best modifications i've seen was on Lazer's BassTracker, he added an AC adapter and a string of those LED white Christmas lights around his back casting deck. That seemed to work great for lighting for night fishing, hardly any glare.
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | I added a Removeable Bimini Top, Really nice for providing protection on those Non Musky days while fishing for bait in the blazing sun or pouring rain.
This year I am adding an IPOD compatable Stereo and Color GPS
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| Fiber Optic Rope Lighting around the gunnel for night fishing. Keeps the deck lit nicely. |
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Location: Contrarian Island | Might bling up the new ride with XM radio/cd player and some nice speakers...95% of the time I like the peace and quiet but as Lee T showed me on Mille Lacs last year... a little big hair music can get you pumped up and the fish didn't care one bit!
Edited by MSKY HNR 3/8/2006 9:04 AM
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| What it be like Howster! That actually was a serious post.  Speaking of getting pumped up, take along a helium tank for the kids and a ball of twine; inflate the youngsters and tie 'em off by the ankle to a rail or boat cleat. They love seeing things from a different perspective, and keeps 'em busy for hours. Just remember to deflate and unhook them before you take off...buddy of mine forgot and it took us nigh 3 hrs and 5 miles down the lake before we could get 'em back in the boat...on a even more serious note, I use to run a Carolina Skiff; if you have a similar style boat, try mounting a piece of PVC horizontally on the insides; I used marine glue and drilled holes so I could hang baits, kept them nice and they were w/in easy reach, dried quickly... |
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Location: The desert | Thinkin about patching up the cracks I put into my "ride" to hopefully keep it afloat all season....then thinking about painting Tuffy on the side, so I can say I have a Tuffy!! HAHA!
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| Sponge, classic ride man, we see many of those in IN  |
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| You just created a "new sport" Muskydude; MONSTER BOAT SHOWS! You could jack up some pontoon deckers, slap a piper cub engine on the back of them, paint 'em in flourescent colors and tour the country. Have a freestyle division...island hopping...yacht jumping...the possibilities are endless. I'll be in touch... |
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| MSKY HNR - 3/8/2006 9:03 AM
Might bling up the new ride with XM radio/cd player and some nice speakers...95% of the time I like the peace and quiet but as Lee T showed me on Mille Lacs last year... a little big hair music can get you pumped up and the fish didn't care one bit!
Big fish love the 80's big hair music! The 55x25 fish we had last season was caught with Cinderella playing at full volume! Although nothing beats Metallica to start your day on the water. Perhaps music covers up boat noise? I have got the XM/cd goin' when things get dull.
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Location: Central Iowa | I love it!! I'm not the only moron that loves to crank the hair up. I just put a CD player in my boat and the Crew greatest hits hasn't left the player yet.
If you're thinking of getting XM for the boat and enjoy sweaty hair bands...I'd suggest Sirius radio instead, they have the greatest hair station ever...Hair Nation. |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Follow Sponge's idea and you'll look great, but a built-in grill and beer tap could take the "shore" out of "shore lunch". All that flash is nice, but a little functional utility goes a long way.
Kevin
No boat at this point of the plan.
Edited by MuskyHopeful 3/8/2006 4:14 PM
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Location: Verona, WI | I am in the process of converting one of the two livewells in my Lund 1700 Explorer into a built in tackle box for trolling lures that generally don't ever leave the boat. Gutting out old Planos but should save the constant "in the boat out of the boat process." Also adding a CoPilot so my fishing partner can fish out of the front of the boat.
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| crackpot - 3/8/2006 4:04 PM
I love it!! I'm not the only moron that loves to crank the hair up. I just put a CD player in my boat and the Crew greatest hits hasn't left the player yet.
If you're thinking of getting XM for the boat and enjoy sweaty hair bands...I'd suggest Sirius radio instead, they have the greatest hair station ever...Hair Nation.
I guess I screwed up Crackpot, I have Sirius and Hair Nation Rulz!!! Motley Crue, Poison, Ratt, Dokken, Cinderella, and the rest of the Big Hair bands forever. |
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Location: The Sportsman, home, or out on the water | Dokken? did someone say Dokken? "sniff", I thought I was their only fan! |
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Location: Minneapolis, MN | Ditto for me on adding the sattelite radio with some badass speakers. |
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| Dokken rules! |
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| Dokken rules! |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | Not too often you can't hear tunes comming from my ride. The hardest part of trolling with tunes cranked is to hear the drag zippin out. I have a system where you can watch the rods and line counters to keep up with the rods.
Some people think rock and roll will scare the fish...........It just makes the experiance more enjoyable.
Casting on calm days, I will limit the noise. Casting in big wind, I will have the boat rockin loud.
Good tunes is a great attitude adjuster when needed.
I think a sattelite radio might be the next purchase. The radio I have now rocks but sometimes it's hard to get good tunes when fishing different waters in other states. |
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| Hey, what about GTR? |
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| Nothing better than 80's rock when musky fishing...Rock on |
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| You Jr dudes crack me up...give me a set of Quad Bose, an 8 track, a tape or 4 of Boots Randolph, Perry Como, Lawrence Welk and such, and I'll blast yer young arses clean outta da drink and into the tree line! The days of screeching ear splitting rock are coming to the end of an era; as in the days of old, when dinosaurs ruled the earth, so shall all of us in the 50+ age once again reign supreme on land and sea...canes and walkers shall be the rule, and the rebellious youngins shall finally be subdued through diligent teaching and hard work...bamboo will once again serve a 2 fold purpose; as a fishing aid, and as a physical educational tool for wayward grasshoppers!  Boats once filled w/ beer cans, liquor bottles, broken pipes and dime bags will now be filled w/ the remnants of healthy snackage and love, and the hills will be alive w/ the sound of music; music that will serenade the elderly and bring peace back to the total outdoors experience...as the "grasshoppers" respond in a positive way to the teachings of the "Grandfathers"(Worrall,Beaver,Esox Maniac etc), the balance of youthful exuberance and elderly wiseness will blend, creating a symphony of harmony that will draw a parallel unseen in this generation..."The teachers teach, the pupils learn"...MORE OVALTINE PLEASE!!! |
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Location: Lake City,Pa. | AH Sponger, its great to have you back! LOL |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | The rope light thing sounds like a good idea( purple), already have curtesey lights. New stereo w/ plenty of power is also in the plan. Also some downeaster's & a planner board mast.
Sponge- while you're blown' e'm away with Burl Ives & Lawrence Welk, I'll transition them youngster's through the history of Rock & Roll, i.e. where the big hair stuff really started - Hendrix (all), Black Sabbath (War Pigs & Bloody Sabbath), Grand Funk (Paranoid), Frank Zappa ( Penis Dimension & The Torture Never Stops), Ted Nugent (Cat Scratch Fever, Wang Dang Sweet Poontang, Dog Eat Dog) - "Hey youngster's, Frank & "Uncle Ted" are muskie fishing music for sure! " EM), maybe finish them whelp's off with some Nina Hagen, Genya Raven (I won't sleep in the wet spot no more) Wilfred (Telephone Terror), Big Fat Snake, Yellow, and then Disturbed. But then again I have been known to listen to some "Zamfir" , Barbara Streisand, and John Klemmer. I also have Boney M in my collection - > http://www.groovecave.com/boneym/discogr/album/lfs.htm.
Ma Baker is great!
But then again I loved The Fugs "Golden Filth" - truly a classic from the past. ->http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/card/0,,433280,00.html
Sponger- Don't get me started on the "Holy Model Rounders" ->http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/music/artist/bio/0,,445223,00.html#bio
Did you know- both "Uncle Frank & UncleTed" were the anti-drug leaders of the rock & roll world?
Have fun!
Al
Edited by ESOX Maniac 3/9/2006 2:10 PM
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | I just bought the new Spinner Prop ......I cannot wait to add some Bling to my ride.........
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | GMG- Believe it or not , not over an hour ago in the bustling downtown metropollis of Mauston WI, I saw a ~ 85 Olds with those things on it- looked like a refugee from the junk yard, but the wheels looked cool when he pulled up to the stop light- I looked & said WTF? bling, bling! I was waitin' for him to activated the hydraulic suspension. Was that you?????? LOL.
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Location: Central Iowa | ya I've been contemplating putting some "Twenties" on my boat trailer...maybe some spinners would look pimp |
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