J Francho

That's true. I agree with that. In most cases you'd endeavor to pass each other on the port side (go right). If I was paddling and a boat was approaching me on either side, I'd hold my course. Turning my bow toward that boat would confuse the other boater. As a boater, I'd be pretty concerned that they weren't really paying attention to me and stay a reasonable distance from the kayaker. Many others would not.

You may want to consult the coast guard rules of navigation. In no circumstances is pointing your bow toward a faster moving, oncoming vessel when you are underway correct. That is how I interpreted the response from Koz.

I'm not sure I follow the logic of turning parallel to a boat approaching on your flank. There's a rules regarding that situation, and it doesn't make sense to make yourself appear smaller. I'd stay on my heading and not make any drastic changes to avoid confusion. It seems like if everything is going right (I know and even felt the opposite myself as a situation develops), why introduce new variables? The tendency - and rule - would be for the approaching boat to turn right regardless of your position. What do you gain by getting parallel, or head on, with and approaching boat. You're not in a position to get out of the way should it actually go wrong.

People, @WRB caught a 37 Pound Musky on a 2500c!!! That's awesome.

I think the boater saw him all along and buzzed the tower. I see that and get it all the time. I'm not sure what attracts them to a kayak, but it's fairly common in my experience. I don't think those same boaters would do the same to another boat. It comes off as a bush league, look at me I can go faster than you move. What ever the motivation, I don't think anyone was in jeopardy, but it is VERY unsettling to be sitting in a kayak and have a boat approaching directly at you. There's really no good answer to the question of what you should do other than wave the paddle, your arms, anything to see if you have their attention.

No correction necessary. ALL Lund deep-v hulls have a pad. That doesn't make them a pad hull and the 17* deadrise at the transom should be the clue to that. From chine to chine, the pro v bass is the same hull as the pro v and tyee.

The V-18 was a deep v aluminum. The Targa were multi species/walleye/multi purpose aluminum boats. The Lund Pro-V bass are aluminum deep v boats. This looks more like a competitor to the Vexus aluminum bass boats. They are both pad hull designs. And I'd rather a Pro-V bad than this. Good luck with that price tag.

If skipping a Carolina is wrong, I don't want to be right.

The spf clothing actually feels cooler to me than direct sun.

Been using Blue Lizard for a decade or more. Great stuff, when you don't want to cover up, which is way more effective than any sun screen.

Any kind of unstable environment can make fishing really tough to read any pattern that will hold up.

Do you ever wish there were adjustable circular polarizers for your eyes?

Forgot about Jacques and who is the woman that worked on set for Julia? She's good too. Speaking of, gotta love JULIA. "You got to let that chicken know who's boss!" Lmao.

TD-X HSDL TD-Z 200e in any color or speed this will make some chuckle… KK OG Assasin. Can't break it and it just always works.

At the very least wear UV coated protection. I know a few old timers that have had their eyelids removed due to cancer from sun exposure.

I run both. Heck at one point I had three kayaks and two boats. I'll always have a kayak. At some point I'll be adding a monster boat to the mix, plus I'd like to get a light pack canoe.

Some of my older rods are way worse than that and work fine.

There's plenty of bad YouTube videos out there. If you can get PBS, check America's Test Kitchen, Cook's Country, Milk Street, Patti Finnish, and Lidia. Those shows all have cooking books that more than just recipes. The book mentioned above is pretty solid as well.

I have to look into those readers. I'm there, lol.

In short, no, but the hype over other stuff can be real. The only difference in price points is the coating and lens material - the linear polarization is the same. I wear Maui Jim exclusively, but carry a couple of cheap $20 pairs around and they work as well at cutting glare.

Looks pretty weathered to me. Treated with U-40.

I would say it's more about surface area and weight, along with submerged hull design. My 18' Xpress Hyperlift blew around a lot less than my 21'10" Bullet, bucking conventional wisdom. These boats are outliers though. The former a heavy, pad hull aluminum, the latter a very light carbon Kevlar hull. Your typical light, 16-20' deep V with high gun whales will likely blow around more than a typical 18-20' glass bass hull. Some of these top end bass boat can sit pretty high, with quite a bit of stuff to catch the wind though, but I'd argue being twice as heavy plays a big factor in the wind. Keep in mind, some of those deep V hulls draft in quite a bit of water, further resisting wind, though not current. It's really beneficial to ride in a ton of boats with different layouts and hull styles in all sorts of conditions. When buying, I can't imagine not test driving a boat, but I've only ever bought used. fun fact, my Xpress could go shallower than most glass boats, including my buddy's 20' comp hull Bullet that weighed less than 1000 lbs.

this is the type of homework you need to do yourself. You've got three locations and some seasonal advice. No one can spoon feed you everything.

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