Totally jealous and impress. Always been on my bucket list to build a boat. When I was 15, my father bought a 25 ft fishing boat that he had trailered to one of his business parking lot. Everyday, I got up, gobbled down breakfast, and rode my bio to work on it. I worked on it everyday single day that summer. My father would bring me lunch as I showed him my progress. Finally it was done and launched. I was so excited. Until a week later, he told me he sold it ! Lol. Best of luck with build,

Aaaah smallies. Just mean little fighters. Nice 😁

Boat… buy boat. Lol. Yeah, FFS is really fun, but absolutely ridiculously priced. I think in a couple years you’ll be able to buy one for a 1/3 of current pricing. As in everything, the market will set the price

Besides the 2 100ah for my trolling motor, I have my live forward sonar running off a little 18ah Impulse lithium (also blue tooth). Running it approx 7 hrs each trip, I still have approx 65% battery life left… oh, and it weighs like 5 lbs. (if for some reason the 18ah runs low, I wired it to a separate battery 1/2 switch, so I can switch over to the AGM). Lol. Still use my big AGM 31 series for the big engine and misc stuff.
P.S. I have a Noco Gen10 Pro 30amp 3 bank charger on board… the cool thing about this charger you can program it to charge 12 volt, AGM’s or lithium all at once.

Aaaah thank you sir. I got lazy and just didn’t stop fishing to take any photos. Bric reached out and “rang my bell” Lol. It was an amazing season, having fished over 18 bodies of water chasing bass, all within an hour drive from home. Feel so bless to be part of this beautiful country. Weather is coming, but I’ll fish in a couple days and get ready for the white stuff. As always, I appreciate yours and others very kind words. Tight lines

Little Bitterroot Lake (many lakes here have healthy populations of kokanee’s)

New batteries weigh 24 lbs ea… old ones weigh 65 ea… quite a bit. These have a 11 yr warranty too which is nice

I use 10 lb braid tied to 8 lb fluorocarbon

Photo 1 - Don’t call it the Big Sky for nothing. Heading to lake

Photo 2 - only boat on lake all day. Air temp 30, water 40 and 30 ft plus visibility

Photo 3 - those that know me, I target bass… large and smallmouth. Bass fishing was pretty tough, so I began scanning deeper water 40-50 in search of bass using live forward sonar. Came across large schools of Kokanee salmon down deep. It got stupid quick. Really didn’t matter what I dropped on them, they bit. Following the schools with live forward sonar was fun, and just to easy. Caught and released about 35 before getting back in search of bass.

Photo 4: Males (shown in pics) were decent size. Smaller females loaded with eggs.

Photo 5: almost home. Tourist all gone, and already some white stuff. More coming next week, so I’ll gonna squeeze another trip soon. Tight lines to all

Note: Lithium Batteries. Installed 2 Ionic 100ah for trolling motor last week. Ran approx 6 hrs today on TM. Had 90 % battery life left. Crazy. Ridiculously over priced compared to some other brands, but I wanted the blue tooth which just about doubles the price. I often connect from lake to lake in shallow connecting streams. I need the reassurance of battery life to make it back (too shallow for big motor). Plus the Ionic have better BMS for charging in colder weather. Oh, and got rid of 2 very heavy 31 series wet cell batteries in the swap 👍

Nice Wally my friend… gonna be tasty 😁

Congrats

Singing my song friend. Very nice

Awesome fish. Big time on the release too

Evenings really cooling off, and daytime temps are perfect. Probably my favorite time to fish as these bass will begin to fatten up before winter hits. Fun fishing for smallies and largemouth under beautiful skies… oh, and only boat on the playing field. All fish released to fight again. Fish hit swimbaits, dropshot, and my weedless Huddleston. Tight lines to all

Like hearing the “catching”… Lol. Water temps are gonna begin dropping as our nighttime temperatures are cooling. Which means these fish are gonna begin fattening up before the winter 😉