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    Does your Tracker attract scratches?

    Every time I look at it, there's a new scratch somewhere. I try to be extra careful at docks (because I know how easy this thing scratches) but it always seems to pick them up. Guess when it starts looking real bad I'll wrap it.

    Thought this paint process was supposed to be "hard as diamonds?"

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    My boat has the same problem and so does my truck...lol. I’m real anal about taking care of my stuff but it seems scratches just appear out of thin air.

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    Will they wax off? Its so hard to keep things from getting scratched up. I will say the paint on my old 2008 seemed tough but it wasnt painted on the bottom or lower sides at all.
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    Despite fishing in brush quite a bit, I'm not collecting much in the way of scratches on the sides. Now I have some scratches on the bottom of the hull from stumps and stobs but even that isn't as bad as I expected.
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    Quote Originally Posted by basstrackeroptimax View Post
    Will they wax off? Its so hard to keep things from getting scratched up. I will say the paint on my old 2008 seemed tough but it wasnt painted on the bottom or lower sides at all.
    No. Actual deep scratches through the top (black) and into the prime underneath. I touched them up with some paint.

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    Got a nasty one today. Not sure how it happened. It's towards the front just about under where the trolling motor head rests. Probably the dock, water is down about two feet and must be some sort of metal exposed above the water now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by BOBSTEP View Post
    Got a nasty one today. Not sure how it happened. It's towards the front just about under where the trolling motor head rests. Probably the dock, water is down about two feet and must be some sort of metal exposed above the water now.
    The two lakes I primarily fish have some docks with exposed metal I try to avoid.

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    The lakes I mostly fish are heavy with brush. That and I mostly fish for crappie. Scratches happen. I don't worry about them
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    If you ain't scratching it, you ain't using it!!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Topwater 2 View Post
    If you ain't scratching it, you ain't using it!!!!!!
    Use it, don't abuse it!

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    I refer to mine as "stories"

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    Quote Originally Posted by fish365 View Post
    I refer to mine as "stories"
    You tell stories about your scratches??

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    Quote Originally Posted by Flex View Post
    You tell stories about your scratches??
    Yep. The time on a TVA highland reservoir in early November the horizontal rain and sleet on a rocky wind blown point. Broke off two monsters before I stuck my PB smallmouth. The time early one spring on another highland reservoir trying to get the boat over a flooded fence just for the chance to be able to make a cast to a fish chasing shad behind trees. That fish won that day. Scratches you say? Passion of the pursuit I say.