Got the fever!

[Texas Transplant]

Boy, getting the fever pretty good to trade in/up my boat for a new one. Was at BPS yesterday, and saw the deals on the remaining 2002's. Saw several of the Fish N Ski's (various sizes) that were very interesting. Now if they would have had one of those $2000 Tracker Dollar signs on the one that I was interested in . . . .



Maybe next year.



Did get my first close up look at a Tundra. Nice looking rig. My first impression was - 'that thing has carpet everywhere!'. This one was a single console unit. Man, does that thing have a lot or room. And I'm used to fishing in a Targa 18.



That big Red and White 929 is still sitting in the sales area. Man, does it look great.



Still pushing Tin, and probably will be until at least next year. I'll make a mental note to watch for the Oct/Nov. specials again next year.



Tex

 

[Rob LaMoy]

A haunting whisper in his ear........"Tex, come over to the glass side. The fish are bigger, boats purtier, faster, and better, and success awaits you on the glass side. Don't let the measly price tag stop you. Buy the 929 NOW. You can only achieve true happiness and harmony with glass! Tin is evil, it will consume your soul, buy glass and experience nirvanaaaaaaaaaa, come to glass Tex, come to glasssssssssssss"

 

[Rich D]

See how glass perverts your thinking! True happiness only comes from within. What you own or buy can never truly give you innerpeace. My advice, spend a day on the water, listening to the soothing zen like sound of water lapping against tin...Only then will you achieve inner peace.

 

[Rob LaMoy]

OK Tex don't they say everything's bigger in TX???? Well then, any TRUE blooded Texan wouldn't be caught dead in a pint size tin rig! What YOU want is a big, fancy, sparkly 929. Think about it, 20+ feet and over 6 foot wide of pure adrenallin pumping, bass stomping, bucket mouth catchin machine. Match that with 225 unleashed ponies on the back, no measly 90 or 115 HP....THAT'S right TWO HUNDRED AND TWENTY FIVE horse power! The real question is how can you NOT afford to get one? You only live once. Do you want to meet the big man having settled for tin or having gone all the way and done it right in glass????? Come on, I think we both know what the right thing to do is!!!!! Welcome to the greener grass side. The sun shines brighter over here, your truck will be bigger towing a bigger boat, the bassus is bigger, the women are sexier, the air fresher, the food even tastes better! It's a no-brainer.....shut up Rich! LOL

 

[Rich D]

Must be the fumes...



As for the last part, well that is too easy!

 

[Texas Transplant]

Unfortunately, if my wife see's that last comment - Rob - about the women being sexier, then there's no way I'm getting a boat with sparkles!



Right now, Tin is In. Probably going to stay that way for a while longer. Who knows, I may wind up piloting it into the sunset. As we all know, they last longer anyway!

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Just when I was starting to think there was hope for you! LOL OK Toxic, warm up the secret weapon, it's time to face the facts and rid the world of this tin vermin! We tried it the nice way, now lets do things our way!

Tex, they don't last longer, I'd like to know where you guys are getting your facts. In FACT they just become beer cans and sheet metal for Yugo bodies!

 

[TrepMan]

Way to go Tex!! Been quiet as i've just installed my DSL modem/software/firewall on my office PC, this thing FLIES!!!



Oh, and Rob let me tell you that Targa 18 of his is a SWEET tin cup!!



Tex - I don't know why they don't make a fish/ski version of the Tin boats. I could see the Targa 18 with a rear bench seat (including more storage) instead of the 2 pedestal seats. Remove the front livewell (the one on your and mine could go too!) and add cushins and VIOLA!! Fish and Ski tin!!!

 

[Rob LaMoy]

The extra "weight" of a skier would rip the transom off! LOL

 

[TrepMan]

ah, take your lips off the tailpipe!! I've even taken a 250# friend tubing behind my 175 with NO PROBLEM!!



So, to quote Hammer - Can't tough this!!!!

 

[TrepMan]

Sorry Hammer - That's "Can't Touch This!!!"

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Can't fish, can't spell, probably can't dance either! Stick with tin Trep, it suits you! Haaaaaaaaaaaaaa! I could go on like this all winter, and probably will!

 

[Chad Mitchell]

You northern guys have way too much freetime. You guys should try fishing in January quiet, calm, and relaxing. Oh Yeah yall do fish in Jan. just with a hut instead of a boat.



Remeber winterizing is for the weak!

 

[Rob LaMoy]

OK that's IT, I've had it! I cannot tolerate the likes of these parasites any longer! THIS IS WAR! Toxic call in the calvary! I tried being nice, but now it's time to speak the universal language of arse kickin! Insult my glass, insult my lake, BUT DON'T and I mean DONTCHA dare call me WEAK or CHICKEN! 1fish, Rich, Trep, Mo, prepare to meet your maker! Oh this is not going to be pretty! You guys asked for it. I'm taking off the scivies RIGHT NOW and the nekked, ancient, snow dance ritual has begun! You guys will NEVER see the light of day again!

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

And on this end of the wire, YOU HAVE ANGERED THE FIRE GOD!!

And oh yes, there is another song on that CD that is much more applicable...."Don't Hurt em' Hammer". Rob, we need to prime the dogs as well...Hi-Pro and bacon grease for a week!!

TOXIC

 

[Rob LaMoy]

And lots of raw hide chews. To stop it up and hold it, let it fester a while. And when that rawhide lets loose buddy......mister man, leave the county! Let loose the hounds of helllll!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Texas Transplant]

Boy, these northern boys sure get worked up when the days get short and cold.



Rob - to help get over your problems (cabin fever, northern exposure, etc), I suggest the following.



1. Have your wife fix you a good breakfast. Grits, country ham, eggs, homemade baking powder biscuts, country gravy, OJ, and black coffee. On second thought, maybe decaf coffee for you. Read the paper (you know, the funny pages). Eat your breakfast. Then take it easy on the front porch in a rocker until breakfast settles.



2. Go out and fish for bream, bluegills, shellcrackers and such using crickets, worms (red wigglers - not night crawlers), and a cane pole. You must either fish from the bank, or from a jon boat (no more than 12feet long).



3. For lunch, have either a peanut butter n' jelly samwich (must be on white bread), or bologna. Wash it down with at least two Dr. Peppers.



4. Take a nap after lunch. Judging from your recent posts - make it a long one.



5. After your nap, have a snack. Moon pie and another Dr. Pepper.



6. Sit out on the back porch in either the rocker, porch swing, or the old recliner (best choice). Make sure you have some country music on the radio. Relax. Take it easy. Burp and scratch as needed.



7. For dinner, have a big chicken fried steak, mashed taters, gravy, corn, biscuits, iced tea (for the real deep south experience - must be sweet tea), and greens (turnip or collard). For dessert, a large portion of cobbler (generally peach or apple).



8. After dinner, relax. Have a few brews. Michael will send you some home-brew.



Please note. After careful analysis, you are not allowed to go hunting. Carrying a firearm in your fragile condition, might cause the environment substantial harm. You are of course, allowed to go hunting - if you choose to use the Ken Neely form - take a fishing rod with you.



Perform these duties religiously for the next several months. When it starts to get warm again next spring (you know - around May), you may then fall back into your obvsioulsy flawed normal behavior of fishing from fiberglass boats for smallmouth bass, on a lake where the fish jump into the boat!



Tex

 

[TrepMan]

TOXIC - It's NICE to know that i'm not the ONLY one who still listen's to Hammer!!!



Let's see Rob's priming the dogs and then in a few weeks will be hunkered down in front of that TV watching football while the rest of us (including TOXIC) will be out FISHING this winter. SOOOO, who will be getting the brunt of the dog's rump?? ROB!!! BBWWHHHHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Ha,ha,ha--



That's PRime Rob it is so funny when I let my dog out at 0 dark thirty when I'm leavin for work and I hear this pitiful groaning coming from the woods....I know my wife has been feedin him rawhides again.....



TOXIC

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Tex, you just described my life 'cept fore da jonboat and cane pole. And it ain't Dr Pepper, that's Scott, it's RC cola and moon pies. And the fish don't jump IN the boat, just all around it. It ain't that easy, you still got to net 'em when they're jumpin in front of the TM!

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Oh, Yeah Trep, I always make sure I'm a little late for my paid trips and when I pull up I've got MC blastin outta the truck. Then I jump out in my sultan pants and silk shirt and moonwalk across the ramp. And if that doesn't work, I'll do that dead chicken on a stick lookin thing by floppin my arms and bouncin all over the ramp. The MC HAmmer CD is right next to my Anne Murray "snowbird" CD. I won't tell you what I do to that one LOL!!



TOXIC

 

[TrepMan]

ROTFLMOA Toxic!!! My littlest one LOVES Rap and Hip-Hop! Lately he's been begging me to put on the Men In Black video, the last part of the tape has the Will Smith MIB video song and he LOVES trying to match Will's moves!!

 

[Rob LaMoy]

When Jamey and I used to go fishing and I was teaching him the jig n pig, we always blared "gettin jiggy wid it" over the radio at the ramp. It really turns some heads of them old boys out there, nearly as much as when you start haulin toads in!

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Actually, I have a recording of that guy from boxing....I never can remember his name Leeeeeeeets.......get ready to ruuuuuuuummmmmmble!!! Clients get a big kick out of that. You see, you go out with me (paying or not) and you get the full Monty!! May not catch fish but at least I can put on a show.



TOXIC

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Yeah, well I've been known to do the "jiggy wid it" shuffle on the front deck after landing a hog! Gets some real good looks from nearby boats or shore fishermen! LOL One time I had the radio in the boat blasting "low rider" as I slid way down in my seat and idled past the launch on my way out of the river, I had my cap on sideways with my shades on. I was doing the whole head bob thing to as I went by. There was a bunch of college kids on the bank fishing as I said "whaaaaasup?" They roared! My rider was crackin up too! Still can't bring myself to drop my drawers around the bottom of my butt while fishing though! Guess I need new music for that! "All....my.....friends....drive a glass bass boat" dut dut dut dut........ "A.....glass....bass.....boat rides a little faster!" Dut dut dut dut........... "All bass....us.....luv dem sparkles! (TR)

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Ya know Tox, we ought to get together someday and make a VIDEO. Fishing with Rob and Toxic. We could be ROTOX, like botox only better! LOL It would be sold under HUMOR in the video store! LOL I can see it now.......

 

[Scott Hammer TOXIC]

Yeah but somebody would have to be the straight man....Martin & Lewis, Abbott & Costello, Burns & Allen, Rowan & Martin................Dumb & Dumber LOL!!!!



TOXIC

 

[Rob LaMoy]

Straight??? Hope I'm not following ya? Um,,, we'd both be STRAIGHT!!!! You been hittin the slim jims again? Or do you mean one of us would have to be the smart one? Oh that's easy....ME! I never lit my arse on fire and launched myself through a wall! LOL