Tim Bromund

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As Les and John have stated, for the most part they have a lower effective speed range than some of the more modern spoones but on a slow troll they are killer, browns love them, and of the two types of evil eyes you mentioned, the ones that a metal like a regular trolling spoon are the Evil Eye Monarchs. Those are a bit more speed tolerant and can be effectively run at normal king speeds, but even the bigger Size evil eyes will slay the kings on a slow troll that stays in their effective speed range. Don't know if Andy Reekers are still made, but Eppinger is still making all of the evil eyes in a wide variety of colors. Expensive, unless you buy them in bulk from the website. http://www.eppinger.net/cgi-bin/index.pl?fs=1&mp=1&init=1

Those old Joe's Pirates are pure gold, you scored yourself some great booty there . And I mean pure gold from a fish catching perspective, not spoon blank material

Seaguar and Gamma here.

Geez Guys, I'm not getting out of the game, just retiring the current ride. A lot of the smaller stuff will be transferring to the next one .

couple pictures of the boat before it died

No worries, everything is fine, nothing to see here, fishing was the best ever.

He was such a douchebag, I'm glad he took his opt-out option.

You can take my evil eyes when you pry them from my cold dead hands

Mark, I have a Sheffield float rod now, it's a little heavy, but does a good enough job. I've had and still use a Browning Syntec 10.5 Noodle rod with a Quantum Energy Spinning Reel that I've had for a long time and it is awesome, it's a shame Browning doesn't make them any more, I'd grab a couple spares. I've just found that those Cabelas Fish Eagle II rods were great to fish with, but very fragile. I've had everything from ultralight perch sticks to M/H Steelhead/Salmon spinning rods in the FEII and every one of them has broken.

Hey Brian, Every year I tell myself I'm gonna make the road trip and head down to your event, but something always comes up. That date is open right now for me, so I've already added it to my calendar before something else gets in the way again.

My previous boat was a "bayliner" as well.

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!SOLD----------------------SOLD---------------------------SOLD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! SORRY GUYS, THE BOAT IS GONE. I SOLD IT IN AUGUST. Hi Guys, Just heads up at this point, My 1986 Thompson 24' Hardtop has kind of officially bought the farm, so once winter is over and I unwrap it, I'm going to be parting out what I can before I junk the hull. Item's I'll be looking to try and sell off of it: It has a good 5.0L Mercruiser (230HP) Engine, MR/Alpha 1 outdrive and transom assembly. The trim motor on the transom assembly was replaced 2 years ago. I'll either sell as a complete powertrain or as components. It is in the boat and you can hear it runAnyone with a soft top Thompson looking to upgrade to a hardtop, It looks like the HT is just screwed down to the gunwales, so it should come off the boat fairly easily. Complete with Drop Curtains and a Full Camper Canvas Enclosure. 1998 Shorelander tandem axle bunk trailer. The bunks need to be replaced which I will do in the spring before I sell the trailer, once the boat is off it. 60 Gallon Aluminum Gas Tank. Full Teak Cabin Door Assembly. full width Teak Swim Platform (Maybe. depends on whether I can use it on whatever this boat's replacement will be) Any other odds and ends, Thompson trim pieces that might be salvageable. I haven't thought much about pricing yet since we're still a couple months away from doing anything with it, but if anyone sees anything on the list you're interested in, PM me here on LOU and we can talk. Thanks, Tim

Yes, from everything I've seen, since he bought the company, Trevor has been very responsive to his customer's input and needs.

This topic comes up occasionally and you'll get a variety of opinions on it. some think it's snake oil and some think it helps. My opinion is that it depends on what your boat is doing. Based on my own personal experience, I'll say that if you have a boat with no electrical/grounding issues it won't do anything for you. If your boat DOES have any electrical issues, it can help tremendously. When I first got my Thompson in 2002, I really struggled to get a rigger bite, we caught a ton of fish off the riggers on my previous boat, but I couldn't buy a rigger bite on the new one, tons of diver and core bites , but the riggers were dead. I did the test with the multimeter and found that the voltage at my rigger cables was in the .1-.2v range. So I bought a Cabela's black box (same as the Pro Troll, just re-badged for Cabelas, and after I installed it, I immediately started getting rigger bites again. Over the years I almost completely rewired the boat and somewhere along the way I corrected whatever the problem was and it hasn't been necessary for a number of years now and it's no longer even on the boat, but I am 100% convinced it helped initially. I went from being able to count the number of rigger bites over the course of a full season on both hands with a couple fingers to spare, to my riggers being the hottest setup on the boat on many days. Tim

The Owner of Fish Hawk, Trevor Sumption was at the show this weekend, so it's likely that Nick was talking to the big guy himself. Hopefully he takes Nick's concerns/suggestions into consideration.