Reading all these threads and.....

[ProfessorM]

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I am afraid I will spend more time cleaning than fishing this year!

The novelty will wear off after you crash it into the dock a few times and scratch the prop and blood and guts harden to the finish. Then you can just use it as a boat. Nothing worse than going fishing with someone with a new boat takes 3 hours to clean up after fishing.

[schoolie monster]

The guide we went out with in the 10K islands in Florida this year was psycho about his boat. He had a towel down to clean our shoes with as we were getting in...

This was our first face to face contact with him and I'm thinking, "what are we getting into"... but he was cool after that.

It was a beautiful, immaculate hell's bay flats boat, but it is fishing and its not always squeaky clean.

A few years ago, I fishing the indian river on the east coast of florida with the guide I used to fish with. He had just gotten a new pathfinder and I was his first client in the new boat.

I caught a 20# tarpon and he was taking a picture and saying "you got to christen my new boat"

Then the fish started crapping all over the deck of his boat... I mean all over the place. I said I think the fish is christening your boat.