GREAT fish and report. Congrats! Would you mind sharing where and how you launched that thing BY YOURSELF (if that's what you did)? I've got a pond boat myself and scoped out the 360 launch, but thought better of dragging a battered and beaten 8 year old pond boat down that terrain, much less all of my gear. Is City Park a better option? I've already penetrated the hull 3 times and repaired it. Good thing is, it STILL floats even when the hull is full of water. Bad thing is, when you try to load it back up, it weighs at least 3X the weight! I don't really want to go through that a 4th time...
I've yet to fish LA and I think NOW is the perfect time. I wanted to fish it many times last year but was a little uncomfortable with the idea of ski boats coming towards me on their way back from Hula Hut! Town Lake seemed to be a much better option. Rowers are much easier to avoid/survive an impact!
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Doesn't look like a kayak. One of those two-seater with a troll motor boats (Pond-Prowler or Bass Hunter?)? Good to have for the drawdown...
From experience, it's definitely not a pond prowler
. I've been fishing mine hard for 8 years now. Best $400 a 16 year old could invest, especially with a Toyota 4-Runner to haul it in. If I remember correctly from 6 months of researching back then, that is a late model Pelican boat (also the MFR of the bass raider). Since then, things have definitely changed with the pond boat market. Kayaks are the new craze and big retailers have asserted leverage on the pond boat manufacturers. Case & point: Charloma boats (Uncle Bucks, MFR of the Pond Prowler) now only sells the Pond Prowler through BPS. The 8' used to cost $400, now costs $580. That's a little more than what inflation would dictate don't you think?.... It's still helping me satisfy the itch even as a UT graduate student hoping to get a 'real' boat once things get off the ground...one day...hopefully...
