Diversion

Great name and origin Storm Name: Adam Gierach Boat: Diversion II Origin: My boat is my escape from the everyday grind of reality Make: 245 PennYan Contender Port: Fort Niagara - Olcott Years on LO: since 1993

That's good news

Not sure on how much, but consider paying for what it takes to do it correctly, as it would be real bad to have to redo or do additional work down the road. If the stringers are bad, there is likely to be additional parts that need replacing. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. I spent nearly 7K to redo my stringers, transom, bulkhead, motor bunks, coupler etc., the whole works. That money spent was painful, but it is a real piece of mind and now my boat is totally solid and basically brand new.

Church boards, run them just as the come out of the package, no mods required, they run great

The Upper Niagara River was packed with ice this morning, probably from being blown over the boom.

Great, how am I supposed to work all day today, and then tomorrow when information like this is out??? I hate busy season

Love my hardtop, I can open my front windows at the bottom when it is hot to get that "wind in my hair". After owning a hardtop, I can't imagine going back to a soft top.

Sweet Best of luck to you this season

Agreed with what Tim said, the T-top was not the issue in that incident. Crazy seas and anchor issues are what resulted in that unfortunate accident. To the original question, you can build a fiberglass hardtop by using many common materials such as aluminum piping for supports and plywood with fiberglass cloth and resin for the actual top. If you search on the GLA board, this topic has been covered with lots of input. Fiberglass work is pretty easy, just messy and time consuming.

Check this out, in the for sale forum by Team Bling Sportfishing viewtopic.php?f=10&t=9536

Those Savant Jakes ROCK as free sliders Took lots of fish off them last season.

Looks like a Goby: http://www.gloutdoorstore.com/golbythin ... nfish.aspx

Happy Birthday Gambler

Great pics

Does Dave make the ThinFin anymore, or is it even still being made by Storm?

Nice

Hey Richard, all is well, hit it again today, not nearly as good as Saturday, wind and waves were much more of an influence today. It was hard to maintain a steady troll. Managed 7 fish, 5 were Browns and 2 Cohos. Saw this guy out there

Nice morning, 37 degree water, nice color to it, steady action..... IT'S STARTING!!!!!!!

Sweeeeeeeet, gonna try and run the river boat to see if anything is around

Does anyone know if Olcott harbor is opened up yet, or is there still too much ice to launch a boat? Thanks

As above, get a survey, no matter what boat you are looking at, they all have their issues. That being said, I'm really happy with my rig, an 89 245 Penn Yan. I have the 350 Merc in mine, plenty of power and trolls down great.

Make sure you mount it high enough so you can reach it from inside your boat. I have the same Penn Yan, and my platform is basically 2" - 3" above the waterline, and if I put my cooler on it, it is a pretty far reach down to it.

Can you just hook the release dogleash to the same hook that you connect to the rigger cable?

I agree with Yankee on the Bayliner 2452, I looked at a few of those before I bought my Penn Yan. They seem to be a really good blend of cruiser and fishing boat. One thing, if you go with that model, make sure it has the 350 in it, the 305 powered boats are considered somewhat underpowered.

I launch my 24' out of the south Fort Niagara boat launch all season. The only time there is an issue is later in the season when the water levels get low, you have to keep your outdrive trimmed up a bit until you get to deeper water. The parking is great as mentioned above.