Mike Iaconelli's Boat For Sale Cheap?

[Gregg]

I have to get me a pair of those power poles! That boat is truly locked down!! I guess they do work!1

[gotmuddy]

im surprised more accidents dont happen.

[Ham]

I don't really see anything funny about it at all. They very easily could have been seriously hurt or killed outright. His silly behavior and temper tantrums annoy me as well, but he's proven himself to be very capable fisherman and he's apparently a decent guy off the water as well in terms of talking to kids and fans.

I guess you guys haven't ever been involved in an accident.

[Jerry Rapp]

no Ham, I have never been involved an accident. Back in the day, I always went wide right coming out of PB 2. Bad stuff happens there every year it seems like. I was covering a T at Mark Twain one year when there was a fog accident. Closest scare I ever had was at Bull Shoals about 5 years ago when we got socked in about Jimmy Creek. Some D.A. running with GPS missed us by 10 feet.

[Ham]

If you want to laughat Someone sticking their boat on a sand bar or a mud flat have at it, but I don't see potentially fatal boat accidents as a laughing matter at all.

[Brian Jones]

for what it is worth, he got the boat pulled off and went on fishing. Did he do a stupid thing? Yep, but most of them do stupid things trying to win $100K.

There's not a nicer guy in professional fishing than Timmy Horton and back in 2006 he had an accident at LOZ where his hit a wake wrong and injured his co-angler.

http://www.flwoutdoors.com/fishing-articles/press-release/145113/williams-recovering-from-day-one-accident/#.UUh6aBc3vZg

I personally was ejected from a Charger while fishing a tournament at LOZ in March 2001. The guy I was with hit a wake and the boat bow hooked ejecting us both into the 40 ish degree water. Haven't been able to ride in a lake boat since.

[fishinwrench]

When things go wrong at speeds over 50 it's no fun at all.

I got ejected at 72mph into 40some° water, scared me bad but thanks to a kill switch and a good PFD I didn't get hurt.

Then on another occasion I got thrown from the helm and faceplanted a Motorguide gator mount, broke a rib and lost some teeth.

I didn't have the option of not ever getting in a fast boat again, but now I operate with alot more caution.

I've never caught a fish at 60+mph, and I've never won or placed well in a tourney because I had 10-20 extra minutes of fishing time that day, so for me there's no good reason to haul-@$$ when fishing.

[Quillback]

I don't really see anything funny about it at all. They very easily could have been seriously hurt or killed outright. His silly behavior and temper tantrums annoy me as well, but he's proven himself to be very capable fisherman and he's apparently a decent guy off the water as well in terms of talking to kids and fans.

I guess you guys haven't ever been involved in an accident.

Nope, no accidents here, Ike wasn't in an accident either, he was driving too fast to react in a safe manner to a hazard. He's lucky he and the poor guy that was stuck in the boat with him walked away from it.

[hoglaw]

Maybe the guys like Ike get them totally free, but for just a little over a year I was related by marriage to pro who had a win or two and a slew of top 10's in BASS and FLW, including a top 10 in the classic a few years back. He said his deal was that he got to buy a new boat every year at straight cost as well as two motors. He got to finance it interest free from the respective manufacturers. At the end of the year, he was obligated to pay straight cost on the boat and motors. Whether he kept them or sold them was his choice. He sold them each year and made a little extra money. Maybe that deal varies among pros.

I know this thread was a joke like my burnt up carolina skiff thread was, but I bet these guys are really hard on boats and motors. If they have the slightest amount of name recognition, that probably outweights the stress they put on these rigs and puts a little more cash in their pockets. But I'd have a hard time paying good money for a rig that someone drove for a living half of the year or more, and drove it like they rented it.

[gotmuddy]

11 months out of the year those boats get ran harder than you would ever think to run yours. thats a great way to show the quality of a boat.