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The wife was pushing me to sell our Searay runabout and consider a center console. I finally agreed and may be the best decision I have made in our 33 years of marriage. Sold the Searay and replaced it with a 2300 Center Console Ranger that is fully loaded except for two downriggers which will soon have. It has a Helix 10 Hummingbird which I will be required to learn how to operate. But I think I can deck it out for striper fishing on Lake Martin with just a little bit of effort. This is really my first bass fishing boat other then my Carolina Skiff which is limited to pond fishing only. I guess I will find if I can really fish or not. I know it is going to be much harder than my pond fishing. ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/ywN7JCy.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](https://i.imgur.com/KweZwr1.jpg)
"Don't cling to Mistake, just because you spent a lot of time making it."
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Booner
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Booner
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Way more versatile and you will enjoy it. She is purdy.
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10 point
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Nice rig. I use to love downrigger fishing on Smith Lake. Go to Walmart and buy a couple of cheap spinning rigs like they use for catfish. Use 12 to 15 pound line, 1/2 ounce white bucktail jigs and 6 inch white mister twister trailers. Rig two jigs per rod about 18 inches apart like one is chasing the other. Run them about 75 to 100 feet behind the ball. Always keep the ball about 5 feet above the fish and keep your boat speed around 2.5 mph. You’ll killum. In the spring March thru June pull umbrella rigs on bait casting rods no downriggers. Check out these videos https://youtu.be/vW34yGWzZ84https://youtu.be/2BhBh_gLgTg
Striper Steve;
"Aim Small, Hit Small"
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Gary's Fluffer
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Gary's Fluffer
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Heck yeah! I recently upgraded from an 18ft aluminum boat to a 23’ SeaPro sv2300. Man am I glad to be a center console owner again.
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Bright Eyes
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Bright Eyes
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Matt Brock wears knock-off Crocs.
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Booner
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Booner
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Nice rig 
"Don't let a dead deer kill ya"
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10 point
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A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do.
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10 point
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Not all Indians were hunters some toted firewood
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Old Mossy Horns
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That’s a nice looking Ranger Muzzie! I’ll keep an eye out for you when we’re out on the lake.
We’re not dead. We just smell that way. Dayum. - AC870
Yessir! I’m always gonna shoot what makes me happy and I want everyone else to do the same! If you shoot one be proud of it and don’t worry what anyone else thinks. - SJ22
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Freak of Nature
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LUCK:::; When presistence, dedication, perspiration and preparation meet up with opportunity!!!
- - - - - - - -A government big enough to give you everything you want, is big enough to take everything you have. Thomas Jeferson - - - - - - - -
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10 point
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Good choice brother. Can’t wit to do some fishing while we are at the lake
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14 point
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Best decision you could’ve made
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spike
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You can do anything in that Ranger that you did in the other boat. Nice rig
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14 point
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Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani?
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