Mike Iaconelli's Boat For Sale Cheap?

[fishinwrench]

I can tell you for certain that one of those well maintained rigs are a better investment than a similar one that has only been run 20 times in 5 years and left to sit covered for months at a time.

[gotmuddy]

I can tell you for certain that one of those well maintained rigs are a better investment than a similar one that has only been run 20 times in 5 years and left to sit covered for months at a time.

true dat. nothing is worse than anything sitting around.

[dtrs5kprs]

Seen that and wilder looking back when I fished several events a year on the Mississippi between Prairie Du Chien and MO. Rivers ain't lakes. We are fortunate to have (for the most part) deep clean water to run in. See a bunch of folks drive every year at Table Rock in ways that would have parts and pieces coming off on the River. Or even Truman.

[Guest]

Seen that and wilder looking back when I fished several events a year on the Mississippi between Prairie Du Chien and MO. Rivers ain't lakes. We are fortunate to have (for the most part) deep clean water to run in. See a bunch of folks drive every year at Table Rock in ways that would have parts and pieces coming off on the River. Or even Truman.

I learned to drive a bass boat at a very young age on the Lower White River. My first attempt at loading the boat onto the trailer was in main river current.

The only thing that I tore up was a trailer light.

Ive seen much worse boating skills in adults at Beaver trying to load their boat.

Running the white river at Beaver gets pretty hairy at times, but pails in comparison to the Lower White, Lower Arkansas & Lower Miss Rivers.

If you cut the red buoy line, prepare for trouble.

That's exactly what happened in Memphis at the FLW tour, they wrecked enough boats to fill a Dealership lot.

Making long runs and cutting the buoys will get you hurt.

[dtrs5kprs]

Worst things about big rivers, for me at least:

1) Barge wakes, could make that x 2

2) Silted in entrances

3) Wing dams

4) Closing dams

5) Deadheads

People do a lot of very, let's agree to call it imprudent things, on the rivers. Like Ike, just takes going left when you should have gone right while running a slough or creek. Lot of places where you can't get off pad and still float. Lot of places people try to "jump" to reach backwaters. I also survived the river unscathed, but no doubt I should not have.

[Guest]

Worst things about big rivers, for me at least:

1) Barge wakes, could make that x 2

2) Silted in entrances

3) Wing dams

4) Closing dams

5) Deadheads

People do a lot of very, let's agree to call it imprudent things, on the rivers. Like Ike, just takes going left when you should have gone right while running a slough or creek. Lot of places where you can't get off pad and still float. Lot of places people try to "jump" to reach backwaters. I also survived the river unscathed, but no doubt I should not have.

1-4 !!!!

Ive been in all of those situations at one point or another, and could have easily been killed.

5) whats a dead head?? rootball maybe?

Add boaters passing other boaters in narrow entry canals to the slough. You never know whats coming around that corner.

[gotmuddy]

I have not ran big rivers but I have ran bays and the intercoastal waterway, which is alot of the same. huge barges and sand bars that come out of nowhere.

[Guest]

huge barges and sand bars that come out of nowhere.

add darkness and freezing temps to that equation= recipe for disaster

[LarrySTL]

I forget where I saw it, and I dont think it was on Bassmasters, but I did see online last week a video of some local guy with Iaconelli in the local's boat, yanking Ike's boat off the shore and back into the water in the Sabine tournament.

As folks said, those boats get used often and hard. They also get the same level of maintenance that race cars get with what amount to factory pit crews at the ramp each day with two semi's full of parts and mechanics. The parts are based on how fast they can fix things, so if you bang up a gear in a lower unit, they just put a new lower unit on. When the pro sells it at the end of what is usually 13 months, the buyer gets the hull and engine with full factory warranties as if things were brand new.

And yes above 50 mph or so, its a whole different world not always in a good way.

[gotmuddy]

add darkness and freezing temps to that equation= recipe for disaster

no freezing temps on the texas coast