Bass Boat Buying Blues!

Unless fishing is your way of making a living, it'sof dollars on a bass boat!
supposed to be fun. It's always enjoyable for meSome marriages though, are actually made in
because I don't fish for bass, at least not onheaven! When both partners in this perfect union
purpose! Bass fishing is a lot like work and bylike to fish more than staying at home and cutting
nature I'm a lazy man, who has never had thethe grass on the weekend, then buying a boat is
slightest interest in past times that require morea no-brainer. The only question is how big a boat
than a minimum amount of effort. Besides, it canand how many amenities can they stuff into craft
be an expensive hobby if you're going to be awithout it sinking!
serious bass fisherman.No, purchasing a boat and motor is not an easy
Assuming that you do want to invest a smalljob, even when both spouses are in one accord
fortune in bass fishing, whether it's for smallabout fishing. The cost of a new bass boat today
mouth or large mouth bass, your first priority isis astonishing! Usually the wife is the conservative
to buy a real genuine bass boat. Just any old boatone in the boat purchasing negotiations,
won't do. You can't troll around the lake in an oldsometimes leaving the husband, feeling that he
boat with a minnow and hook, if you're going tomade a huge mistake in allowing her to share in
be considered a real bass fisherman. You have tohis big adventure!
have a great looking boat that looks like it's goingFor instance, wives rarely see the necessity for
60 miles an hour when it's still tied up to the dock!having a different propeller than the one that
Buying a new boat is always a very traumaticcame standard with the boat. They don't know
experience, especially if you take your wife alongthat you have to buy a new one that fits your
on your boat shopping expeditions. No matterown individual specifications. I don't believe anyone
what brand of bass boat catches your eye, it's anreally knows why you do this, but I've never
easy guess that she won't recognize thebought a boat that worked well with the prop
importance of such an investment, once shethat came with the boat.
recovers from the sticker shock of new waterFor three or four hundred dollars more, you can
crafts.get a different one. The prop dealer won't take
Marriages have been known to disintegrate almostyour old one in on trade most of the time, so
over night when the spouse accompanies heryou're stuck with one hanging from a nail in the
husband on a boat purchasing venture. Mostgarage.
wives are simply unable to wrap their mindsThere are other small expenditures. We're talking
around the idea that their husbands could joyfullyfish finders, state of the art sonar systems, global
spend the equivalent of a year's salary on a basspositioning units, short wave radios, anchors, rod
boat! She immediately thinks of things sheholders and extra cushioned seats on the fishing
considers more important things on which tocraft of your choice. All in all, most new bass
spend that money, like a new car, room additionsboats today cost more than my first house.
and college for the kids!All these trials and tribulations are just a small part
In addition, wives have this notion that if you'reof being a bass fisherman. This is just the
on the lake all weekend fishing, you're not thinkingbeginning. The boat is not even in the water yet!
of her all alone at home. For the most part she'sBob Alexander is well experienced in outdoor
right! It's very difficult to think of anything exceptcooking, fishing and leisure living. Bob is also the
that huge fish you're going to mount on the wallauthor and owner of this article.
of your den. That's why you've spent thousands