If You Sold Your BassBoat ?

[geodebasser]

1. Go on more fly in trips in Canada
2. Go on guide trips on lakes around you
3. Fish small streams and Lakes
4. Go as non boater with friends
5. Learn good places to fish off bank
6. Fish farm ponds
7. Fish more pay to play lakes like Dream Lake
8. Go to California Delta and Texas Lakes and hire guides
9. Do more saltwater fishing with charter captain
10.Buy a cool sports car as you no longer need a truck that gets 16 miles a gallon

What else am I missing?

[Rider99XX]

You got one heck of a bass boat if you can do all of that just by selling it

[Jbass123]

I don’t care to do any of those things, although if I had a killer private lake to fish from the bank that would be tempting. I’ll almost certainly keep a bass boat until I literally can’t launch it by myself any more, and even after that if I can find someone reliable to launch it for me. Non-boater sucks, long term. The places I fish with my boat, I catch plenty to keep me happy, so guide trips don’t enthuse me. And being a long-time tournament angler at heart, I’m too proud to pay someone else to show me fish. Rather find my own. I also have a very nice truck which I enjoy driving; if it gets old and doesn’t look great to me any more, I’ll just get another. Ride or die!

[Unionskeeter]

I would just buy another one

[mean_dean]

Buy a semi-V aluminum with a 9.9hp, 45lb TM, one fish finder, and keep fishing.

[Boat4Life]

If I sold my bass boat, I would still want a boat. Might would consider a small jon boat for rivers or a bay boat for saltwater bays.

If I sold my boat and didn't replace it, probably not fish any more. Things I'm actually considering this year.

[188Musky]

Geodebasser, I’m starting to think this website might not be for you.

[Bassmeister]

Mine will never leave unless there is another in it's place first......then I'll sell it......

[geodebasser]

Geodebasser, I’m starting to think this website might not be for you.

Actually I have had some type of Bassboat continuous since 1975. Just contemplating what the alternative would be.

[Michael333]

That’s a sad day !

[ProVle]

Sold the Bass boat years ago, Bought Lund's and began catching much larger fish on more and larger waters. Stripers, Salmon, Lake trout, Catfish etc.

[Jbass123]

Actually I have had some type of Bassboat continuous since 1975. Just contemplating what the alternative would be.

There’s a guy on here [maybe more than one] who buys a new bass boat every year or so, sells it for something else like a runabout or a sports car, and the next year sells that other thing and buys another bass boat. Rinse and repeat cycle. I get that not everyone maintains continuous desire to bass fish, but if I’d had a bass boat for 50 years [I’ve had one for 47 years] I’d be asking them to drive me to the funeral home in it.

[txbass1]

If I sold my bass boat, I would still want a boat. Might would consider a small jon boat for rivers or a bay boat for saltwater bays.

If I sold my boat and didn't replace it, probably not fish any more. Things I'm actually considering this year.

Have to point out the irony in your screen name here.

[pabasshawk]

I'm 73 and just bought a new boat and new Silverado to pull it. When I can no longer crawl into it then it will be time to meet my maker.

[fishin couillon]

Buy another one.....

[MYRX]

Probably just go on three charter trips a year till funds run out. One inshore near my daughter, (coast of GA) in September for Reds. One off shore in the gulf, (taking the wife) and one catching hybrids/stripers on Hartwell every year with my son maybe May or August. Continue to deer hunt Oct - December. I almost made this decision before I had the Yamaha OX66 repowered this Spring. At 71, no new boat for me.

[CastingCall]

1. Redo the hardscape and landscaping around our house.
2. Rebuild the engine in my lawn tractor.
3. Log all the dead timber off our woods.
4. Rebuild the front of the cabin.
5. Replace all the cabin windows.
6. Repour the concrete steps and patio in front of the house.

Oh wait, those are all the things I've been done/needing to be done that have kept me from using my current bass boat the last 3 years.

[Junk Fisherman]

Buy a pedal-drive kayak and fish as a nonboater in a club. And I’d get a pop up camper and downsize my Tundra to a Tacoma or a 4 Runner.

[ECobb91]

I posted In another thread about how little I use my boat (8 times total in 2 seasons since my daughter was born) in the meantime i:

1) use the Jon boat and fish smaller, less pressured lakes that offer much better fishing
2) back mountain blue lining for brook trout
3) fish the streams for trout (spinning and fly; fly fishing has always been my first love)
4) take daughter to zoo or other day trips more
5) plan to take family on more camping trips
6) bullhead fish at night
7) take my wife and daughter golfing more

[troutspinner]

I still bank fish just as much as I boat fish so it wouldn’t be the end of the world…..but I can’t see me selling my boat until my end of the world.