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Looking great as usual......Well, one thing about years to come we'll all know which boats you've built...I like the style...

I usually put on a second hoop piecing between the braces but I'm trying to keep this as light as possible. I'm not really certain how many of my rigs are out there, enough that I lost count. I wonder how many of my Jon boat pedestals are still out there. I made a bunch of swivel pedestals back in the late 80s.

Looking good, that box will work fine for the switch, it looks like there's enough room to stand beside the motor to fish in the back

Yes I try to make room beside the motor so you can get to the back some just in case a fish takes you back there. I like to keep all the hot stuff covered but still get around. I also made the seat area a,little bigger just in case you want to stand on it to fish. For other, I talked to Tony about his switch panel after thinking about it. I ordered switches with waterproof covers and decided to put them in the lid of an ammo box to give him storage for a few tools or phone wallet etc.

I always take my wallet out of my pocket these days. I was using my push pole on the bow platform, lost my balance in went in the drink. The water was about 3-4 feet so I pulled the boat to a shallow area to get back in.

When I got back in I looked around to see if anyone had seen the whole thing. Wouldn't you know it, two fish commission guys. I saw one of the glassing me so I waved to let them know I was ok. They never came over to me, maybe because they were in a jet boat and I was in a very shallow area. I'm not sure if they witnessed it all or not.

I have more than a few of these adventures that I will share when I start doing fishing videos in the spring. After 45+ years on the river I've had a few incidents. One of them happened at the boat ramp not long ago when filming a how to video on unloading/loading your boat.