Ajohnson0587
Senior Member
I grew up most of my life fishing on my dads boat in the summers in Long Island NY, this is were I developed my love for fishing. Over the last 8yrs I have spent a lot more time in the woods hunting and shooting competitively the last 4. In 2019 I got the itch to fish again, but buying a boat was not in the cards since we had just had our son, so I bought a SOT fishing kayak instead. This was like throwing gasoline on the fire! All I wanted to do was fish, and my 5 yr old is always asking me to take her. We fish from the bank, but with very little success. So I decided to get out of my hunting club and sell my Polaris Ranger to fund the boat, my 9 yr old wasn't happy about that as she likes to go hunting with me, but the rest of the family doesn't. I explained that this was something everyone would enjoy and that once her siblings got older we could look at getting back in. I listed the Ranger in FB and within 2hrs I had a guy commit to purchasing it the next day, Monday came and I sold my Ranger, I was a bit sad, but was excited to find a boat. This weekend after 2 weeks of searching I was able to find the right boat for my family and I, it's a 2013 Bass Tracker PT165. The boat check all the boxes and had some upgrades that I planned on adding, but now I don't need to. Saturday night i registered the boat and got my Temporary Registration and Sunday morning around 10am we hit Lake Jackson. We were able to enjoy ourselves and put some fish in the Boat at the same time, the kids were having a blast and the wife said the magic words "I could do this every weekend", I quickly turned around and said "I'm going to hold you to that!", we both laughed and proceeded to enjoy the day. What was only supposed to be a a 3-4 hr trip, turned into an all day affair. Ok, enough rambling here's some pictures.
