For sale: Mosaic wrapped Ranger Z520 w/Evinrude 250 Etech HO. This boat is clean and totally loaded. It has less than 50 hrs.
Features are as follows: Hot Foot, 8" Atlas jack plate, Recessed trolling motor pedal, hambys keel protector, dual console, sony marine radio and speakers with i/pod jack, dual toggles on stering wheel, Lowrance HDS-8 at console and HDS-5 at front dash, both of which are on the structure scan system, and a $4,500 wrap. You can choose to keep the wrap on to protect the boat or remove it at any time. If you have any questions regarding this rig please call or email me. Feel free to spread the word around to guys that might be interested. I will make it worth your while if you can sell this boat.
Price: $46,995
Here is a picture of what the boat looks like under the wrap. Super sharp.
Just finished up with a week on the Mississippi River on pool 4 and 5 for the St. Jude/Dick Hiley benefit tourney. The format for this event is a team format so good friend Chris Luedtke and I teamed up to try and take down the big bass on the river. We practiced for 3 days and found some really good fish and good areas. We felt like we were on enough to get a solid top 10 finish, if not win. These two smallies were one of many doubles that we had through out the week. We found most the fish either trying to spawn or staged on there way to spawn with a few post spawn fish biting as well. In layman terms, the fish were in all stages of the spawn. :)
SMB's were not the only fish we were after or catching. We also spent many hours locating the LMB's and found some giants. Chris flipped up this toad on the 2nd day of practice. Most of our fish, either species, came on a smoke colored tub jig either flipped to shallow cover or thrown out in a current break.
This was the mouth to one of our top back water sloughs from last year. I was very disappointed to see the lay downs that had floated in during this spring high water. If you have ever met me you know that I am very determined and this small log jam was not going to keep me out of the winning area. I proceeded to tow the logs one at a time with a rope. Chris thought I had lost my mind.... There was a reason we brought a chain saw and I was going to put it to use. After many hours of working to clear this area to get back in there I had to finally give up. There were a few trees that were too big and heavy and would not move. I need a barge with some big equipment, not a ranger bass boat with a chain saw and rope! ;) It was fun trying.
As for the tourney. We finished the first day in 12th place and felt pretty good about our chances. We weighed 6 fish for 16.77 and caught about 40 keeper smallmouth. Day 2 brought much different conditions and we ended up only weighing 5 fish for 11.87 and falling out of check contention. As for the fundraising. The 70 teams of anglers raised $131,000 for the St. Jude Childrens Hospital. I would call that a success. :)
Update on Thursday, May 6, 2010 at 11:44PM by
Matt Peters
A short clip showing how nasty the mouth of one of our best spots (in past years) was. The log jams were big and lots of them. But that wasn't the worst thing....the worst thing was the mosquitoes! They were trying to carry me off.
This is a short video from yesterdays practice day on the Mississippi River in Wabasha MN. Chris and I were able to locate some good areas, needless to say this wasn't one of them.
Well I didn't have as good of day as I had hoped but I did manage to squeak out 3 keepers for 4.8 lbs and am in 38th place out of 140 anglers. at the Loudon-Tellico FLW Tour event. As you know I fished with good friend Michael Bennett. Michael fished bed fish all day(2 1/2 hrs on one fish that never did bite) which in turn limited me to what I could fish. He asked that I not throw on his bed fish, and I don't blame him.....they were big fish. He managed to catch 4 smallmouth for almost 13 pounds., but came up one short of his limit. Tomorrow I will need to bag about 7-8 lbs and I should be sitting pretty good. Let's hope it is a crush. Fish On!
Saturday, May 8, 2010 at 4:41PM 
Lake Waconia