I built UHMW blocks and welded tabs on gunnel then bolted for oar locks. I use 10’ Cataract Oars and row. Mikes of drifting and rowing. It is silent. Gotten 15-20 yards of Brown Bears, Lynx, Moose. Silent drifting. It’s great way to hunt. 50 mile run up river from launch into wilderness. Set up camp. Wife never asks when will I be home. She knows I’ll be home when we have a Bull.
I was born and raised on that lake and river and that marina you unloaded by is owned by my wife's mom and dad Cool as hell you made it this far up. I have been watching your videos for awhile i now and i love them all.
I see you have skills! I’m a fellow Jet Boat Jockey. I started on the whitewater of Oregon. Set up Central Coast Guide Service and got my Coast Guard License in ‘83. Soon took the whole show to Alaska and set up a Fly-In Wilderness camp with 4 Jet Boats. What a blast. I’m thrilled to see you in Missouri. I grew up on those rivers and now I’m 67 and moving back there to retire. Wanting to buy a new Jet Boat for those Smallmouth Bass rivers. Thrilled to see you cutting the ice. Great Job!!
@@DennisBohannan Black River Boats, copy that and thanks for the heads up. I was looking at a SeaArk 18 x 72” tunnel hull with 115/80 Tiller jet. Diamond plate floor. Cut out styrofoam and put in hatch box lids all over. I did all this on a 20’ SeaArk in Alaska and it worked well. Used for fishing King Salmon and hunting Caribou and Yukon Moose. My last Bull was 62 1/2” spread. Wish I could send pics. Thanks again for the heads up. What boat were you running on your Missouri Videos? It is a 16’ ? With a 60/40 Merc?
@marksehl2713 yes on my rig. Custom made here in Texas. Been great for what I need out of a boat. I mostly catfish setting lines. Texas just made it illegal to hunt out of river bed basically.
So Dennis, those Missouri rivers, do you feel an 18’ x 72” is too big for those rivers? I grew up there in my early teens but didn’t have my first jet boat till I moved to Oregon. That was a 22’ Koffler with a 200 Hp Yamaha. Bigger water for sure. But if I need to scale back to 16’ or 17’ that’s no problem. Judging by your river read/run skills you’ve got it dialed in and you operate at a high skill level. I could feel myself sliding powered up thru the turns. Looked like great fun. Can’t wait to get there. Waiting on my house to sell so we can move.
@marksehl2713 Well, as you know, the river there are all sizes. But in my OPINION, that is too big to really explore. Also, many of the rivers have HP restrictions. That is something to look into before purchasing.
Yeah I saw the Legion. They are using a green anodized 1652 as their Showboat. I loved it. I like the fuel tank saddle box except I’d rather it just be a built in tank with a baffle. I can make a boat way expensive fast! Also the Legion had a tandem aluminum trailer. I like the tandem idea for those sketchy launches. Up in British Columbia we pulled up to a guardrail and lowered our 18’ drift boat down vertical rip rap for 95 feet. The shot of line I had was just 100’. I hosted 13 trips to Bella Coola River in B. C. Biggest wild Steelhead in the world and plenty of them and no people.
I’m from southeast MO, you picked a beautiful area to run the river. You have a great setup- I have a 19’ boat with a 150 jet, that water is too skinny for me! Depending on the time of year I don’t go up much further than where you started out. If you come back again, go to Lake Wappapello and put in at the Greenville Bridge and run the St. Francis north.
Something to try. Get you some graphite paint Tractor Supply sells some called EZ Slide. Coated my hull from mid rib to mid rib then sand lightly with 200+. Pretty durable made to slide things on, wares a little on the ribs but not to bad. Nice graphite color also, my 16x48 w/40 slides itself off the gravel and much easier to push/winch from trailer. Like having a permanent coat of wax on the hull, nice and slick.
@DennisBohannan up near Lacrosse wisconsin. Miles and miles of small sandy rivers feeding into the upper Mississippi. Not sure of the best way to contact you outside YT comments.
@DennisBohannan great job, next you gotta run the Gasconade or Meremac, some amazing scenery, but the black is always great. Definitely got a subscriber here.
@@DennisBohannan that’s sick I need a jet lol I’m just getting into it , I love fishing the current and all those pretty rivers but idk if my new jon would work it’s flat like yours but like I said it’s gotta outboard, do you think the trolling would work or if it’d be simply too shallow
@Dhejehehehhe I feel like there are sections on the current river you could get by with it. On the black it's to shallow. Always head up from where you launch and you will be fine.
@@DennisBohannan thank you you earned a sub lol would you recommend any sections below round springs there’s a limit on hp above that( 18 for outboard , I gotta 25) or would u just troll
I ran the Gasconade with my Wooldridge 17. Was a blast. Went to visit family and bought the boat from eastern Pa. Ran around Lake of the Ozarks as well but we were a little small for that. Cheers
