7 ways to Trick Out a Small Boat for Better Fishing and Performace

hi folks rollin Martin here and I want to tell you a little bit about this new heritage boat now I I got this boat almost a year ago and I used it in freshwater on a couple different films this year but I've since tricked it all out this is the 40th anniversary heritage boat the one that cost nine thousand nine hundred ninety nine dollars they only made five thousand of them and they sold them out in the meantime they've come out with this new thing called the classic model and it's kind of like this with a bigger a little bit bigger motor and a couple other upgrades but this boat I have really really tricked out first thing I did come back and look at the back of the boat here the first trick deal is I change the aluminum prop to a nice stainless steel prop and after testing this stainless steel prop I have another four bladed prop ordered that might even be better than this one but anyway this one's doing a real good job okay this second trick trick I'm talking about trick for speed I'm talking about trick for go-around in shallow water I'm talking about all-around performance trick ok the second trick this is a cavitation plate and this cavitation plate is this water compresses and pushes up it keeps the propeller from spinning or over revving and it holds it all for shallow water operations even more now speaking of shallow water operation let's figure out how where to get the motor up and down ok the second or third big trick is look at this jack plate look at this thing that is a jack pipe that's the Bob's Jack plate it has almost a 7-inch lift I can start off with a down low like that start off with your like this okay take off I take off it all down in the water now if I want to take off in real shallow order I can Jack this thing way up high look at this that can come up real high and I still have water pressure because of this cavitation plate I still have water pressure and look the motor is just almost level with the bottom of the boat now once I take off it's probably a little high to run so to run I probably run down a little bit farther then I still have the the regular trim so now now for real high speed operate I'm trimmed up I'm jacked up I got the right prop I got a supercavitation plate but that's not all we're talking about shallow water operation this is a shallow water trick Neil what's this this is the new micro purple now a micro puffle this is what this is look at this I hit down I come like this hit down look there poke come down it goes right into the ground stops the boat slick click okay now the eye can stop there's a bunch of bass up here a bunch of redfish a bunch of some kind of fish and I want to move a little farther I just hit the UP button yeah it comes up stop take my trolling motor and run run up to the spot a little bit farther okay so now with the jib with the power pole that's such a good way to anchor your boat in shallow water it's a shallow water anchoring system that's a must and I tried all sorts of anchors and dropping them I'm Tanya it's a it's a pain it's a really a pain in the neck with a woman a boat with the wind blowing it blows around way way too much it if you want to have a good stable deal where you stop and can fish you got to have a power pole and that's what this is so let's put it up now speaking of moving a forward now there's another kind of trick deal let's look at the troll motor let's come forward to look at normal okay how many times have you got to pull pull your cable I'll pull your rope in the thing brakes well Bob says a new cable system that won't break it's almost indestructible you can pull it as hard as you want you won't break the rope and it's so so cool the other thing it does they got a bob has a new deal for the for the nut that new nut system really holds it on and by the way this is my old roll in Martin weedless wedge you know years ago I patented this prop for MinnKota it's called the Roland Martin weedless wedge it's still in use today 2530 years ago I did this but now they still make it it's they just call it the weedless edge they don't call it the roll Martin with a switch because my patent ran out anyway that's beside the point another thing that Bob's did look at this stuff that Bob did they got this thing here for the depth finder you can move it all around and tighten it up at the last minute boom just tighten up like that and it's all tight solid really really good so that's just a few of the things now why I'm doing this the whole reason why I do this whole thing is particularly in shallow water let's talk about shallow water fishing for a second fish particularly bass particularly red fish particularly trout when the waters of this deep and it clear they can see a long ways they can see you way over to where my motorhome is two things to it I'm past the motorhome the reason why as I learned the hard way I fished this last week tampa bay with captain jeffrey page last year he had me show up he's I said what should I win what kind of tackle he said bring some light braid light braid mom eyes 20 pound line I show up last year Jeffrey had 10 pound braid that's even wider let me tell you 10 prom braid cast another 20 or 30% farther than 20 pound braid so here we'd pull up to a school of fish or a hedge of fish or a grass bed and Jeffrey said cast over there and hit throw right there to catch a fish and I'd miss I couldn't get there so this year haha what I did I brought my special favorite rod it's a six and a half foot medium heavy action rod it just cast like a bullet it's got a big long handle and I got my new reel my new jackhammer hammer reel with ten pound braid now ten pound braid up here like this I take my hand and go and and then I can go a mile I've just on the back cast I hit that thing but anyway I'm all the way across the yard that's a hundred and fifty foot over there I landed just about that far so now I have the distance now I had the boat that go shallow now I have the sunglasses to actually spot the fish he's a you know you have to polarized sunglasses in shallow order let's face it it's so important to see fish and to be sight fishing you're sight fishing not only the fish you're sight fishing that grass bed you're sight fishing that darker water where it drops off your sight fishing a cloud of mud that's official clicked up you know there's all kind of things that you're looking for with good polarized sunglasses and I'm using the flying fisherman series this one I like whole lot and they work just fine okay so I got the right ride the right line my trolling motors tricked out I got plenty of speed I've got a depth honor if I need it but the depth honor is not so important one thing about this depth finder add-on it has the GPS signal so now I have the charts of say Tampa Bay I can see where all the little holes and sloughs are on the depth finder on the chart the dial so that's one big upgrade okay the trailer is perfect now here's another thing about about shallow water fishing here's a really good battery for running just whenever you want to run it's a iconic tell about a bass boat on a budget this isn't a very expensive battery centered LED real good battery now if you want to spend the extra money and get an extra value and get an extra deal get yourself a glass mat technology that's a advance glass match six I said AGM series advanced glass night technology battery it doesn't have acid it has a gel in it and it lasts longer gives you more power you can recharge it more it costs more it does a better job but for this budget boat hey this is a plenty good battery people have always said that you want to use a fiberglass boat in salt water and and I don't know what they're talking about that doesn't make any sense aluminum is plenty good for saltwater this little boats are plenty good saltwater boat really really a super good for just a little over ten thousand dollars now I've upgraded it for another about two thousand dollars more so it's not a $10,000 burdel more it's a $12,000 motor but I've upgraded it and there's still about half the price of a flat's boat if you were to go down and buy a good Hughes bone Fisher or some other kind of big boat you know you spend a lot more than twelve thousand dollars you spend a lot more than 24 thousand you'd probably spend thirty five thousand so the point is for twelve thousand dollars I have a wonderful shallow water flats boat maintenance is the key with aluminum you have to have a way to clean it and honest booyah product is boat wash if here's here's the deal with this you can go right to the to the boat launch and it meets the EPA for safer choice direct release now with direct release what direct release does it means that you can legally clean the boat right at the boat ramp wash it down wash this stuff into the water it's a boat cleaner that's legal to use anywhere and release right into the lake that's the only one little market like that so when I come off the water I usually have a brush in the car is they have a bucket in the car some fresh water that's the key the salt water is caught a caustic okay we know that so we have to we have to rinse it in fresh water use a good boat wash like this booyah and then after all that's done when I come home I might rinse it again with fresh water but then I need to take some wd-40 or some kind of spray and on some of the metal parts I'll kind of I'll kind of spray it a little bit with some oil if you do that proper maintenance aluminum boat will last you forever that's just a few tips of how I look do the flats boat and the bass fishing on a budget so fishing on a budgets on four thousand dollar flats boat hey you can't beat

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Keywords: bass tracker, heritage, bass pro shops, trick out, boat, jon boat, aluminum, roland martin, scott martin, fishing, bobs jackplate, power pole mini, shallow water, custom boat, accesories

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Length: 10min 8sec (608 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 22 2018