Aight guys since I have tried and tried to get floridanative (my little brother) to do a build thread on his boat that he built and I say built b/c if you look at the 1st page of this thread you will realize that there wasn't much to start with. Anyways, he has been dragging his feet so I guess I will do a thread for him... HA! I told you I was gonna do it if you didn't! You got a fair warning! ;D
I will let floridanative fill in the blanks but here is the boat from the beginning of this thread as it sits today.
This was D day. First time in the water after the build.
The motor fired up and we were off for her first shakedown run.
Another pic from right down the canal from the ramp.
Had to get some chow handed off. Nothin better than a healthy Micky Ds snack! We worked all day with no food for this moment and it was way past time to dig in.
She planed off but topped out at about 16mph with 2 guys and a full livewell so some adjustments were needed.
Made em and sent Chase out solo.
Now she was hitting 19-20.
Couple of casts and we had more pilchards than the 20 gal livewell could hold and we were getting stoked for our maiden voyage snook hunt. Catch and release of course...
Thanks to all the rain we had back when these pics were taken my canal was mostly fresh water so all the bait died. No worries. We weren't gonna let a little dead bait ruin our night so out came the artificials.
The stars aligned and we had a great night with a ton of fish caught. We left em biting at 3am and it was about 1000% humidity and hotter than a nuns c*nt in a cucumber patch!!! Hope I didn't offend anyone with the phrase above but we are talkin fishin and boats here.
Heres the Capt! Nice snook on a red/white yozuri
I got a nice little tarpon on a yozuri slider
Another little snook... One of many
This lure barely hit the water before he was on!
I think this is a sick pic of the tarpon
Ok well there are a few pics. That camera is permanently coated in slime thanks to that trip and we barely even took any pics! I don't know how many fish we caught that night... I lost count but we were catching fish from the time we left the dock to the time we decided we were both smoked and had to get some rest. We fished from 9pm-3am which isn't all that long of a night but we started working on the boat at 8 am that morning to finally get her all finished. What a great night on a great little boat! Since then we have had many more great trips and hopefully she will be able to put us on some bahamas bonefish this summer!!!
Standby for a thread in the bragging section which will go through the build.
Oh yeah one more thing.... She's tippy! Real tippy!!! haha! Love it!!!
