Tic for Tac, give me your boat experience..

[GorillaBass]

52 minutes ago, TOXIC said:

I guide on Anna (when the urge hits me LOL!!) and I also fish year round.  I have access to the hotside of Anna in winter.  I have broken ice to get out of Sturgeon Creek on Anna in the winter but never on the Potomac.  We normally just Crappie fish on the Potomac in the winter and if the creeks freeze we will go to the hotside of Anna.  I pull my boat to Wisconsin every year (2 days up and 2 days back) so I have to be VERY attentive to maintenance especially to the trailer.  Another consideration you will have to address is towing.  I have a 2016 1/2 ton Silverado.  I traded a 2004 3/4 ton HD Silverado for it and it tows great.  You need a good tow vehicle with the larger boats.  As for storage, I cannot get my boat in my garage period and I have a 2 and a half car garage.  I keep my boat outside but it is never really put up for winter since we fish all year.  You can store outside but you just have to be super attentive to covering the boat and keeping moisture out.  You have to remember in the winter months to drain the motor after every use and I keep a fan under the cover year round.  Yes, my rig was a good deal but it didn't always look like it does in that picture.  Long story but short version, my boat sat outside for 2 years under a bad cover and was FULL of nasty black mold after a lot of elbow grease and cleaning, I brought it back from the edge.  This is how I store my boat EVERY time it comes off the water, summer or winter and I can guarantee you it looks brand new (2005 Model year).  So it can be done.  

 

 

Is it out of line to ask to go fishing with you ?  .. .I can take you to the occoquan resevoir in return haha.

 

that's legit man. you def are..doing it right. the new homes im looking at do come w/ garages, but im realizing its more practical to keep outside, and from the looks of you, store it much the same. to have to go 3 months with 0 fishing is out of the question, i go almost everyday after work, leave at 2pm, on the water at 330 til 7pm.

just want a bigger boat for the bigger bodies of water, i just started going to potomac/belmont bay area and its great.. despite the idiot boaters but the resevoir has the stupid @55 rowers, idiots everywhere i guess. just want to be able to go out there more, fishing grass is so awesome, fn love it.

[TOXIC]

Belmont is a little North of my preferred water but I venture up there occasionally.  Normally I launch out of Aquia and have enough to keep me in fish up to Quantico Creek with all of the other creeks and main river stuff.  Like I said, I am installing power poles this weekend and a new trim/tilt motor as well as new rams/seals but will get out a day.  Actually thinking about going to the Rappahannock.  It should be turning on with this colder weather.  Chance for some monster smallmouth.   

[GorillaBass]

I want to fish Aquia really bad, esp before it gets real cold. Might try to hit that up this weekend or next.

 

My buddy fishs shenendoah river for smallies in his kayak, i want a kayak strictly for that.. the crappy part? it  COSTS 50-60$ JUST FOR THE PLACE TO DROP YOU OFF 7MI UP THE FLIPPING RIVER!! dude, thats ridiculous, his dad works there so he does it for him for free obviously and said he'd do the same for me, but still dude, 60$ for a 5 minute freaking boat ride? thats nonsense. only stupid part about that- price you have to pay to fish i guess

[TOXIC]

I fished the Doaha (north fork) for many years before I got into big boats and motors.  I had a 2 man PVC boat and 40lb thrust TM that I could fish in about a mile worth of deep water.  I had a friend that owned waterfront between Luray and Front Royal and we camped and wade fished (fly and spinning) or used the small boat on about 3 miles of river.  Back then 100 fish days were not uncommon.  There's been a few big fish kills and as I understand it, the fishing has suffered.  

[GorillaBass]

thats awesome .. a buddy of mine still has some family that lives off the shenendoah and said i could fish it but i just havent asked yet.

my other one who fishes it all the time still catches 40-70 fish everytime he goes out, for like 4-6hrs. i thought he was lying but he was def serious, he doesnt exagerrate and hes the quiet type, if it wasnt for fishing we'd never been friends cause he's a mute til it comes to fishing lol but he sent me pics of all his fish, its really really impressive, and id LOVE to go there sometime, with new bodies of water, i like to go with someone who knows it- but finding people willing to take you is a whole other conversation for a diff day