Sorry if it was posted .. don't watch much of his stuff but this is a good one.. around 11 min mark it's showing some of the damage... Note.. never buy Ikes boat.. he also tells a story about his 5 worst situations on the water.. pretty cool
Sorry if it was posted .. don't watch much of his stuff but this is a good one.. around 11 min mark it's showing some of the damage... Note.. never buy Ikes boat.. he also tells a story about his 5 worst situations on the water.. pretty cool
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I hadn't seen this before and as a fellow Delaware River rat I enjoyed it. Ike is a character for sure and interesting to see the behind the scenes stuff. I strongly considered being a marshal or whatever BASS calls it now for the Pasquatank River and am so glad that I did not.
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Yeah I feel like a lot of people from professional sports to pro bass fishermen get a bad name bad rap but when you get to see Ike in his "actual life" footage he's a lot more likableOriginally Posted by tcesni
I thought about being a Marshall, thanks to the boys on the NC page, they talked me out of it.
Ike also said out of his entire career the Albemarle Sound was top 3 worst water conditions he's ever witnessed and was legit scared.
Not to worry, I've heard from multiple northerners on BBC that those conditions are just a Tuesday evening for the great lakes and there's no such thing as big water outside of the great lakes!
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Can't believe a pro fishing veteran of 30 years in the sport was worried about all those 1 foot waves. Just boggles my mind.
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Mathew 6:34
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Hi Mike.
Probably a lot rougher than you think. I’ll take someone’s opinion that was there bs someone that watched a couple minutes on tv
That was posted for another member that was saying the waves in those live videos were only 1 foot high. I know all too well they were a lot higher than one foot.
I guess I should have put theat the end.
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Hi Mike.
You and juice are on the same page, post 12That was posted for another member that was saying the waves in those live videos were only 1 foot high. I know all too well they were a lot higher than one foot.
I guess I should have put the
https://www.bbcboards.net/showthread.php?t=1294871
The waves were big enough to separate the top cap from the hull on his boat and break the bracket on his trolling motor.
I think the top cap separation, given that Bass Cat does not have a top cap that is removeable per some comments on a guys rebuild from a few years ago
would be a warranty issue?
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"Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own,"
Mathew 6:34
There's lots of decaffeinated brands that are just as tasty as the real thing.
Hi Mike.
Ike is famous for beating up his rigs.
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I have fished with my share of tour pros in pro-ams and I would never buy any of their used boats. I was fishing with John Murray during his heyday on Mead and we were approaching the weigh-in marina from the south when he pointed out Aaron Martens in his 20 foot Champion hauling butt jumping waves coming in from the north. He said that guy is tough on boats. It was crazy to see Aaron break the bolts on his motor in the one Elite event. Lake Mead gets really ugly. Being a marshall or am on any big and windy lake is a crap shoot.
yep i remember that at the sabine.. he talks about it in the video says he had been fishing back there practicing coming in and out and there was a log that must of somehow gotten pushed across and submerged and he hit it and it launched him onto the bank. The videos one of the better ones ive seen in a while
Because buying a used boat off a total stranger is so much better? You have no idea how they drove their boat.
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That's why I'll never buy another used boat. Too many unknowns that you can't check on a visual inspection. My first boat was a perfect example of that and it bit me hard. Probably had water freeze in the bilge and cause stringer damage.
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Very true. My first Champion was used because that's all that I could afford when I was young. It had lots and lots of problems the older it got related to the first pro that owned it, but then so has my 2008 Champion that I bought new that has been meticulously taken care of and driven pretty easy. You can avoid some hull and engine abuse if you don't buy a boat that has been driven too hard, but boats aren't cheap in the long run, no matter how you look at it. I have seen way too many engine and hull issues on pro tournament fishermen's boats to want to go that route, unless they give you a price that makes up for all of the possible issues. When i fished pro-ams, everyone knew who's boats on the pro side were taken care of. Boats are an expensive crap shoot in general. B.O.A.T.=bring out another thousand. Get used to this if you own a big expensive rig.
From what I understand, Basscat goes back through his boat and fixes all of the issues before he sells it, so I will be in better shaped then the average used boat.
That's cool that they do that. I still don't want his boat.
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