Checked out the boat for sale

I finally got a good look at the Alumaweld today. It appears to be a nice boat. It's got a 40 Evenrude, fish finder, live well, bilge pump, 24v troling motor, 3 batteries, and best of all its already setup for crappie fishing. Has a 6 pole bar that can mount front or rear and 4 additional side pole holders. Carpet from front to rear with raised decks on both ends. Runs good too. Didn't take it to the lake, but hooked to hose for water cool and ran the motor, sounds good. The guy is asking $3500 for the boat, motor and trailer and all the goodies that are already installed. I couldn't get to the bank fast enough, now I have to wait for the loan to process...............They tell me they will have an answer tomorrow.

Hey flyflinger, where in North Central Arkansas are you from?

Looks like your well on your way to being a crapaholic. Cant wait to start getting regular reports now from North Central Arkansas from you.

I live in a small community called Snow. If you look at the AR roadmap, it is on US 62 between Yellville and Harrison. I like to say, there's always snow between Yellville and Harrison. Or, I'm stuck in snow year round.

Nothing like the adrenaline push of a new boat....grats!

Good job fly! I assume this is the same boat you showed me pictures of last weekend during our nightstalk? Look good to me just from the pictures and now you have actually laid your hands on it. Way to go man. I hope I had a positive influence on your crappieholism. :D

Hey Fly, sounds like a crappie mans dream. That should be a great fishin boat. We gonna see you at next trip?

I sure hope to make the next nightstalk/condo drop. I want to see up close how you make and drop those babies. Say, do you have to ask permission from COE before you put them in the lake?

Hey Fly,

Does that new boat have tilt and trim?

Don't know about gettin permission, but put them at night.

Well you don't need an engineering degree to make em thats for sure.

I don't know the excat language of the corp rules on it but I know you can do it. You might even get ole Darryl Morris to give you some tips on the subject. He used to work one of the lakes up your way, and might be able to shed some light on where to drop em.

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I sure hope to make the next nightstalk/condo drop. I want to see up close how you make and drop those babies. Say, do you have to ask permission from COE before you put them in the lake?

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No the boat doesn't have tilt and trim, but I don't plan on going too fast anyhow. I kind of wish it was a 25 instead of a 40, that would be fast enough for me. The 40 also puts me off some lakes, like Conway.

Hey flyflinger, there aren't many lakes in AR that have hp restrictions. You would be fine out on Conway, just take it easy.

The only lakes that I know of hp restrictions are the Village Creek lakes and maybe Bear Creek. I'm not positive, but I think that you can still power-load (with the big motor) your boat onto the trailer in these lakes.

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No the boat doesn't have tilt and trim, but I don't plan on going too fast anyhow. I kind of wish it was a 25 instead of a 40, that would be fast enough for me. The 40 also puts me off some lakes, like Conway.

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You might want to watch out for some of those guys going 80 or so on Conway. There are no restrictions that I know of; I see a couple of regulars occasionaly with roostertails 20' high. I haven't been on the main part yet this year, but the trails were well marked last year. Watch for floaters. My last boat didn't have tilt on it. There is a lever of some sorts you can put on it to make pulling the lower unit out of the water easier. It will come in handy when fishing a stumpy bank and the lower gets hung up.
Don

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Originally Posted by DRPEPPER

You might want to watch out for some of those guys going 80 or so on Conway. There are no restrictions that I know of; I see a couple of regulars occasionaly with roostertails 20' high. I haven't been on the main part yet this year, but the trails were well marked last year. Watch for floaters. My last boat didn't have tilt on it. There is a lever of some sorts you can put on it to make pulling the lower unit out of the water easier. It will come in handy when fishing a stumpy bank and the lower gets hung up.
Don

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Ahh...It just makes me cringe everytime I think about one of those folks running full throttle down Conway. That should come with one of those "Do not try this at Lake Conway" warnings.

Picked up the boat and it is now in my front yard. Weather going in the toilet over the weekend, but, being a retired guy, Monday thru Friday is wide open and the lake practically empty (of boats not fish). Even got it early enough to get the registration, insurance and tag for the trailer. Now all I need is good weather and some gas. Anybody got th Eagle Cuda 128 fish finder? I need to locate an owneers manual for it. The motor does have trim tabs installed on the skeg (wing type), that should push it up faster. So, now I have to locate my old tent and stuf for the May Crappie Camp at Beaver, may even talk the wife into coming. Thanks for all your support guys.

Hey flyflinger, here is the Eagle Cuda 128 manual in Adobe pdf format.... http://www.eaglesonar.com/Downloads/...631_111902.pdf

Or here is the zip file download.... http://www.eaglesonar.com/Downloads/...631_111902.zip

I was wading the White one morning about 0700, and the fog was still on the river, and it was nice an cool. Some jerk came at me out of the fog at full throttle, and swerved to miss me only about foot away. Scared the crap out of me. I tried to take his hat off with a fly cast, but he was going too fast. Needless to say, I never waded in the fog after that. I did manage to catch and release 84 rainbows that day. Never eat trout they taste too fishy very strong taste. But it is fun to watch the bank fishermen shake their heads as I catch and release one after another and they are not even getting a bite. Fly fishers will outfish bait fisher for trout every time.

Thanks CEB, checked it out and it is 64 pages long and I am on dial up. So I'll download it tomorrow and go buy some more printer paper. Thanks a lot.