Boat @ 85%

Its looking real good Reaper.When you get it done and your sitting on the water pulling in some of those slabs it will give you allot of satisfaction that you did it yourself and you done it right. keep posting the pics!

Great job, you really are the man! I'd love to fish with you out of it someday! Mine is coming along well.

Looking good Reaper. About time to start hitting Talala Creek with it.

hey cope,,, thats where he's at rite now,, & if I know him we'll prolly hear from him bout midnight when he comes dragg'n in....


JAKE

The only thing missing is the kitchen sink. Awesome job. Had project boat one time and had it half done when a youngster talked me out of it. With a wad of cash of course. So I bought the one I have now and enhanced it. May be able to break free tonight if your still going.

Dentist, then hopefully he'll be able to tell us the crappie are biting like crazy and to get out there.

ya know Reaper,, he'll tell us where, how,what color,depth.. he pretty much give a full & accurate report....

JAKE

wow man it looks really nice and you can tell that you put a lot of hard work in to it i just wish that i was that talented :) :p

I dunno, the more the more I look at the pictures, the more I wonder who really built this boat? Was it reaper or the guy sitting in the front of the boat holding the fishing pole.

Something fishy about this boat is all I got to say.

Thanks all! I was out on Oologah in it yesterday. I started out fishing stumps in the shallows of lightning creek and plumb creek. Way too windy and never got up into the creeks themselves. I loaded back up and went over to Talala. Odie was there and said they were catching an occasional fish. I had pretty much been skunked for the day other than getting into a few dinks close to dark. I sat under the black light till around 9:30 and couldn't get a hit.

As far as the boat goes, inside Talala creek I had rode up onto a stump while easing through the creek. I was on there GOOD! I could not back off in reverse (full throttle), and almost didn't get off of it in forward. I had it in full throttle forward and was just spinning around on top of it. Shifting my weight and rocking the boat caused it to break free. I'm am surprised I didn't put a major hole in the boat.

This boat also has some trailering issues when it comes to loading. I am going to have to figure out how to make it more friendly.

I want to thank everyone for the compliments. There were two guys that loaded their boat right before I got to the ramp. A really nice deep, wide, center console aluminum Lowes. Very nice rig! We chatted awhile, and showed him my boat. He liked the LED courtesy lights I installed on my rig so much, he said he was going to get some. They really worked great in lighting up the area of the boat. Great for not tripping over everything while on the water, great for stowing everything when going home.