Re: The Shade Tree Special
I needed a boat...the first owner saw me comen and said " Here's a sucker!"<br /><br />You know me...if its free its for me.<br /><br />no need for a composit anchor...the first owner gave me one with it (no doubt a pice of cheese for the trap). i'll get to the hostile waters in a minute.<br /><br />you are welcome basshopper. the way of a shoafin monk is sometimes a hard and lonely road (lonely because nobody will go in it with me.) case in point: Peterfishbuster wont even go in it when his boat is busted...ouch.
<br /><br />the sugar trout were pre-S.T.special. but since you ask, when (and this is no joke) i want to keep a fish alive i'm going to keep i just throw it on the floor. the water leaking in keeps em alive and kicking. the space in the middle is for keepers and the space between the transom and the rear seat is for the bait. i just don't bail it all out.
<br /><br /> i think i have enough paint left to do the motor. my wife says that i should paint that part glow pink so that when it sinks (and she says "And it will sink sooner or later".) that they will be able to locate my body from the C-130 herc. the coast gaurd flys.<br /><br />the diveing board would get used for a poleing platform...but the belt loop idea could be a handy dandy thing to have around. i'm always pushing the limits of common sence with this boat. belive it or not i have been out over 3 miles in the gulf in this little sucker.
<br /><br />now for this sundays adventure:<br /><br /> first thing Suday morning (4:30am) i head out from Bayport. i used my minni mag as a headlight to see the channel markers....that'll get your blood pumping.<br /><br />after a few minutes at top speed (17mph) i pull over at my trouting spot. i put on my brand spanking new orang/gold/black catch 2000 mirrorlure. on the thrid cast the #@$%^^$$%$$ cheap @#$$#$$## line ties itself in a knot around one of the rod guides on the way out and....SNAP. another trophey for posidens wall.<br /><br />stayed for bout 20 min. without catchen a thing and headed south.<br /><br />got to the islands at hernando beach and tied on that little spinner i mentioned in the other post. on the third cast...WHAM! moby d!ck. it was a 21", 4lb redfish. up side: one h$ll of a fight and a nice fish for the dinner table. down side: it flat out killed that poor little spinner. it would not spin right the rest of the day. proubly the reason i did'nt catch anything elese there.<br /><br />i headed another 6 mil. south from there to phillmans bay (death bay) and made the turn to head in to the bay itself....now comes the hostile water part.<br /><br />the farther i get into the mouth of the bay i noticed that the water was getting skinnyer and skinnyer.<br /><br />my tide sheet said that the tide was comming in...at bayport ten miles to the north.<br /><br />in death bay it had not started in yet (suprise,suprise). bout the time i said to myself " self...you had better slow it down a knoch."....wham,kablam,pow,boom,slam and finaly smaaack. i now know that the mouth of death bay has flat oyster rocks just under the mud all nice and camoflaged.<br /><br />i'm a harda$$ that will stop at nothin to get to a good fishing hole, so i got out and checked for damage to the prop.(soooo lucky....no damage) and pulled the boat behind me till i got to deeper water.<br /><br />after bout a hundred feet i used the motor to find some more of those camoflaged rocks (as my wife says" i see a pattern emerging here".)<br /><br />after another hundred feet i get to 400ft of 4" deep grass flats...rrrrrrrr. oh well its not like i aint wet anyway, right.<br /><br />i get to the cannal and putt my way down about 300ft and just as i'm fixen to toss out a spinner my cell phone rings. its my wife . she has called up the radar on the i-net and is looking at a big set of t-storms developing right on the coast.<br /><br />of coarse they are between me and the truck!<br /><br />so i head out. since the tide is comming in fast the hole bay is now 2ft deep. FIGURES!<br /><br />when i hit the gulf mother nature is realy liven it up. the seas are 2-3' and its looken bad for a smooth ride home.<br /><br />just as i am getting realy tired of hitting my a$$ on that alum. seat mother nature cuts me some slack and kills the motor for me...right in the middle of a typhoon.<br /><br />so now i am sitting there, soaken wet, drifting out ot sea like that captin in "mutiny on the bounty", waves crashen, wind blowen, trying to get the motor lid off with one hand and bailen out the boat with the other, and i look down and see that i have busted 4 rivits clean out of the bottom of the boat. the floor came loose from the seat and pinched the gas line shut.<br /><br />i got the anchor (handy redneck tool) and pryed the floor from the seat and freed the gas line up, started the motor up and got on with the a$$ whoppen. <br /><br />after an hour i finaly got to the boat ramp. what a bueatiful sight to see....all that dry land just there for the kissen.<br /><br />of coarse my wife called to ask why i had'nt left yet....#$$$^$#@$$##.<br /><br />everybody loved the redfish...if they only knew.<br /><br />anybody want to go fishen? next sunday is open!<br /><br />typical derwood fishen trip. i guess you could say i like to live life on the razors edge. at least i'm not a dull guy.<br /><br />derwood<br /><br />P.S. me and the boat have a date under the big oak tree after that trip....sooooo shady.
<br /><br />Laugh it up....go ahead...ha,ha,he,he,ho,ho!<br /><br />She is a redneck-o-flaged, one man (two if you and your fishing buddy don't eat breakfast and empty your pockets) sleek, fully electronic, semi floating, totaly home enginered (except the hull), super charged fish killing machine.<br /><br />If you look closely you can see the home made console (complete with full fish targeting radar) that is totaly comprised of the best components money can't buy.<br /><br />Inside the console is a state of the art (clothes line pully) gear system hooked to the motor by a revolutionary new pully system (I bought the rope and pullys brand new....mostly.).<br /><br />It seats two comfertably (the add on seats blew off from the wind of going down the road....these were installed buy the first owner) and has a built in bathroom (the sunny delight bottle is new for each trip).<br /><br />It has a fully atomatic bildge pump (when the water makes it to your ankles you start bailing) and can be ready for fish combat in a moments notice.<br /><br />It comes in three fantastic colors (green, brown and tan...non reflective of coarse) and each unit is totaly unique.<br /><br />All this for only 36.95 (remember i bought the pullys and rope new....mostly...boat & trailer were free). What a deal.<br /><br />Ok,Ok... no nead for jelosy. I'm sure you all have boats that serve you just fine.<br /><br />derwood. 
