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I was wondering if there is anything besides striper in the Petaluma river (slough). Also, am I going to regret putting my new fiberglass bass boat in the water or is there enough fresh water that it won't kill my trailer? Any help would be much appreciated. Thanks

So myself and friend who doesn't fish took my new boat out onto a lake I had never been on before. I was really just trying to get some break-in time out of the way, but we found a small cove and decided to fish. Since my friend hadn't ever really fished beside a worm and bobber I rigged up a senko and pointed and said just cast over there, I then casted for him and handed him the rod and started putting something together for me to fish. Sure enough he said he thought he had one, I turned and thought he was just hung up on some submerged tree. Nope... he was hooked up, turned out to be a decent spotted bass, maybe 1.5-2lb. So, do I get some credit for the first fish on my boat? Even cooler was, it was literally the first cast. Anyone else have something like this happen. Btw my fish that day was caught while picking out a nice backlash.. just an odd day.

My first new boat. Skeeter zx250

I just picked up a new Skeeter zx250 yesterday, I drove 4 hours each way to do so. The dealer that is 10min from my house is Ranger. Really, like some other have pointed out, for me it was just personal preference. Most minor maintenance things I can do myself or find a shop closer to me and anything major I will just make the (stupid)assumption that hopefully something like that doesn't happen often or at all. I am new at owning a boat so to me the difference in performance wasn't very noticeable. Also, once I built each one with everything I wanted (decent amount of extras) the Skeeter seemed like a better deal, but again the choice was really just made out of preference.