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Ruby Red Lip
 
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im ready to go stick some fish. ive been working on this boat 2172 (98"beam)for months now and im close to testing it out. we are planning on shooting tomorrow night but we will se what the weather does. hope you guys like the new boat compared to last years. fixen to put the fan together and mount it all on . this thing should be the cats a$$ when comes to flattie fishing. it drafts right now 4.5 in and will only drop like 1 more fully rigged.
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White Marlin
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| ahaha man... One what type of boat is that.. and second thats a damn parking lot light on the side.. ahha your gonna be able to light someones property up..
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Ruby Red Lip
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| well the boat is one i built. ive been working on it for a couple of months. yea i wish we had more of the metal halides. would be very nice having 5 or so of them on there.
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Trigger
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SWEET! I haven't seen it since you were buildind the hull. It turned out good! Wild ride! Oh yeah.. Thanks for turning me on to the high pressure sodiums...they're freaking sweet! 
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Ruby Red Lip
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Is that the beast thats been under construction off of lillian Hwy? That thing is huge!
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I ran into you last year at the Shoreline ramp. You were still fishing with the camo boat. Yall had a barrel full of rays and we were looking for them flatties. Your new boat looks great. Are all of the lights hps or mh or some of both. I'm still running halogens right now but I have been looking into hps. I have heard a lot of great things about them in murky water. Just don't want to over do it as I only have a 2000 watt genny. Any advice would be readily accepted!!!
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| Great job. Can't wait to see it light up the bay. I keep looking at the pics which is a pain so I thought I would try to make it easier for all to see. 
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Only question I would have is how does the noise from that generator not resonate into the H2O from a metal boat? I also have a metal boat and also have a 5500 watt generator, but I wasn't going to put it on there without a different muffler on it. I have been hoping to get one of the quiet Honda 2000's. BTW, boat looks nice!
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Ruby Red Lip
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| thanks guys for the comments. were hoping on getting the inside sprayed this coming wensday, and then wrapping the sides of the boat. well to stop the noise we are useing a 1'' rubber matt to sit the genny on. but with the fan drive we can get over fish without spooking them . five prongs- when you use hps you can run a bigger bulb and not use the amount of power as halos. best combo for a 2000 watt is 4- 150 hps from econolight and and 4-300 halos from econolight they have the best deals on the net. i ordered all 10 of my 500 halos and and 20 bulbs for 75 dollars shipped.
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Now that is a flounder killin machine.
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Man thats a fine machine right there. I like the way you got your gen up and dry out of the way. Those Hondas are great.
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Trigger
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mike nice looking boat are you still puting the fan on it
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Ruby Red Lip
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| yea got the fan together just dont have the sterring cable yet. wont be able to use it in the tourny though kinda ticked off bout it. but will still be able to fish the new boat.
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Ruby Red Lip
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should look somthing like this allthough may change the shroud again. kinda scary that open for hands,trees and things
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Ruby Red Lip
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well the motor is a vanguard 35 by briggs with a 1 7/16'' shaft. the prop is made by arrowprop and is a 52'' three blade composite. we are using a airboat style push pull setup only going to use the chain sprocket on the motor end. we will be using a teleflex throttle cable though. the setup will look something like this when finished (we hope).
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Mingo
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| I've seen those set-ups in pictures, chain and sprockets. I am going with a bellcrank and linkages mounted directly to the motor plate. My friend runs his like this and is solid and reliable. I don't have any detailed pictures of the set up though. Are you a regular of the Bow Fishing Forum web site. I hang there for tech info in the fan set-ups sub forum buit they are all mostly carp killers and this site is better for me as it deals with gigging but not to many fans rigs.
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Ruby Red Lip
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| I AM A REGULAR THERE UNDER THE NAME NEW WAVE ARCHERY. HAVENT WENT GIGING IN A WHILE MOST EVERYTHING THAT I DO IS WITH MY BOWS. MUCH FASTER. WE ARE HOSTING A TOURNY THIS WEEKEND ON THE MOBILE DELTA. ITS GONNA FOCUS ON CARP BUT THERE WILL BE PLENTY OF FLOUNDER TAKEN ALSO. CANT WAIT TO GET MORE FILLETS.
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On the subject of "Throttle Cables".
Spring for the Teleflex X-Treme cable. It's money well spent. It beats the heck out of standard Morse 33 cables.
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Ruby Red Lip
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| well thanks guys. i hope this new boat works out for me. ive been test driving it during daylight but friday night were finally going fishing. will be chasin flatties thruout the bay so hope to see some othere out there also. if you see me fill free to stop and say hey. goodluck and hope we find some havent been out in awhile. mike
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mike , your boat looks good , make sure and let us know what you do friday . I bought a cheap bow and you were right that is a blast . It is a little harder than I expected. good luck !
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