Thread: Went to Bass Pro tonight shopping for #8 gold hooks and a LED live well light.

Originally Posted by dfar

I will give you your first pointer.....have her drive while you are glued to the screen.....

You want me to ride in her boat with her driving? I always feel like the kid in the cartoons that was hanging on for dear life on the back of a bicycle when I ride with her on the highway! What the game plan is right now is to get it installed on Saturday morning. Then I am going to pick up a buddy of mine who has never Crappie fished before. I purchased him a new rod and reel and gave him a little tackle box full of jigs. We will hit Pomme de Terre Saturday afternoon. And then Sunday I will have my regular fishing partner with me at Bucksaw. And I trust him to drive the boat.

Originally Posted by CrappieHead

I will trade you my house, boat and one of my dogs for your wife. The boat only because I want a new one but will keep one of my dogs because that basset hound has the best nose I have ever seen and she can smell crappie in the water. Bark when she smells brush piles with crappie on them. Hate going to Truman she never stops barking. She is a true female and stops barking long enough to roll on her back and puts all 4 in the air and wants her belly rubbed, AND moans.
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LOL! I used to have basset hounds and if you have one they are your owner they are a mess in a fun way! Nope sorry keeping the wife since its her boat. Back in 2008 I had been looking at buying a boat. Well I looked at Tracker Crappie Boat they had at the time, I looked at G3, I looked at every other brand of boat. Then one night I was online and I started looking at a Lowes Stinger. Man I couldn't believe it the boat was wider than a Tracker and it had 2 on board minnow buckets. I was so excited that I went in and woke the wife in bed about 1 am in the morning. I told her we were getting up and going to go look at a Lowes boat in the morning.

Well ended up at the dealership that morning. I went in there and man I was drooling like a hungry dog all over the 175 model they had in stock. Well at the time my wife hadn't fished since she was a kid and fishing wasn't one of her things. So I am looking at this boat trying to figure how I can borrow the money for it. I normally don't like to borrow money unless its for cattle. Well the wife saw me just going on and on over this boat after the salesman left us alone. Then the wife came up to me and said I have a question for you. I said go ahead and shoot. "If you were to own a boat how many weekends would you be gone per year and out of my hair? I came back to her and said, "I would be gone for at least 30 weekends per year!" Next thing I know is my wife is yelling I need to talk with a salesman now! So she purchased the boat.

Well since then she has tasted the wonderful fried crappie. Oh she would go out on the boat with me but not fish most of the time I went alone or with a buddy. I finally said to her if you will get a fishing license we can catch double the amount of fish! Now I have created a monster! If I go to Everharts or Bass Pro and buy something to fish with, jigs, poles, reels, etc. I better come home with double the amount because she is going to want one or half of what ever I have purchased. We went to Everharts about a couple of months ago to get a folding net. Next thing I know is she has about $250.00 worth of crappie jig skirts in the basket.

And yeah she cleans my plow about every time we go out together. She either catches them all or she will land the largest fish.

So I guess I am going to have to keep her around!!!