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Thanks Bill. She cleaned up real nice as well. Just to get her dirty again.LOL Thanks guys. Her first 4 trips.

Because of starting the Charter business last fall, as much as I love my Wellcraft I needed a bigger boat with more room and comfort for a full crew of customers. Got a call from Hank about a solid Penn Yan Competitor that his friend Bill was selling, checked it out and to make a long story short I bought this boat 2 weeks before I had two full weeks of straight bookings for the fall salmon season. My friend Hank installed hydraulic steering, Simrad AP, Furuno 585 w through hull trans., Garmin gps , new water fittings, rewired the entire boat, replaced the bolster cushions, gave me more travel of the rudder and numerous other problems. Hank not only got this boat done on time to get it in the water for my two week fishing blitz, everything was done right and everything functioned perfectly. No rework involved in any of the work he did which in itself is pretty dam amazing. Hank I really appreciate the amount and quality of the work you did in such a short time. My customers were very impressed with the room and comfort of this boat and she fishes like a dream. I just can't say enough about the work that Hank did for me. Hank your off the hook for screwing up the new touch screen gps. (private joke) Reason you were having problems with it was it was a bad head unit. Spent over an hour on the phone with Garmin tech support, who by the way was excellent, before they discovered the unit was bad. They overnighted me a new one and it does what it is supposed to do with no issues and it's pretty sweet. Problem with the head unit was when you made a selection on the screen it would select something else. There is a touch alignment program that wasn't working correctly. I had to run 4 trips zoomed into 20 ft. Well thanks again Hank and we will see you soon. The Spoonfed-2 Good fishing Glen

No, you are not wasting your time. Still a couple weeks of good Salmon fishing left. How good is dependent on the weather. It was shaping up to be a banner season until the three day blow this past week. Fishing got tough and you had to work for them but plenty of fish around. Good luck. Glen

I want to upgrade to LED's for my side nav lights on a 262 competitor. Anybody got any recommendations for lights that will work good and cover the foot print from the old lights? Thanks Glen

I can vouch for the condition of this unit. Like brand new and low hrs. Glen

Was good seeing you again. Thanks for the quality AP install, works like a charm and excellent canvas work by your buddy.

Salmon season is starting. Fish are spread out but nice quality with the biggest at 27 lbs. Hit some big Steelhead out in 200-225 with Lakers down deeper and although we didn't fish for them heard there were some Browns moving back in 30-40 fow. Wife and I were just out searching and relaxing for the mornings. Freakin hot out there Good fishing Glen

Off the back of a dipsy I like 8 ft.

I would recommend starting out with a snubber. They help to dissipate some of the energy caused by a big ole mean King slamming a lure. These fish will break stuff. If it's not working for you it would take all of a minute to remove it and draw your own conclusion. Good luck Glen

I always run snubbers on wire dipsys and no problem with hook ups. The drags on my Tekota 600's are so smooth that I can run them set tighter than most. Only disk diver I don't run snubbers on are Slide divers because of the stretch of the 50 - 70 ft of mono leader.

Hit a lot of Bass last time out 2 weeks ago. Trolling stickbaits off the boards. 8 ft of water or less. Good luck

Glad everything worked out and everyone is safe Tim. Congrats on the big fish.

Nice job.

Shark weights are great for reduced blowback. Atomic 13 lb Torpedos will do the trick for a lot less money. Good luck Glen

Sub Troll does everything I need it to do. Good luck on your decision.

Nice!!!

Cold water Brown trout fishing in the bay has been great this past month. We started the 1st weekend in April and been catching many Browns a few Steelhead and a few Lakers. Happy customers have been hitting more quality fish than normal this month. Regular Brown stuff, sticks and spoons have been working with lure color, size and desired action changing with water, wind and sunlight conditions. Down side has been the wind. Rockin and rollin every weekend so far but so have the rods. Have this weekend off to hook a few of my own than at it hard for May. Good fishing Capt. Glen

Everything you did on the boat is just perfect as always. Running like a top. Glen

AP is alright Pete. Not as good as fast reacting as my old Simrad but it does the job I guess. Also can only turn 5 deg at a time or it will alarm out. If I had to do it again I would have spent the extra $700.00 clams and got another Simrad. Hank did a great job on the boat as always.