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1988 V20 2005 Yamaha 150 I am selling my home near Long Island Sound and will have less time for my V20. I am the second owner and she is a great boat for fishing, family, ski, whatever. Included would be everything you need FF, Chartplotter, anchor etc. ( big list ) The engine has about 110...

Had the whole day to fish today. High tide was at 9:30 AM, plenty of time to get my son off to school and leave the little one with momma. Got some bait and a tip for a honey hole for fluke on the Long Island Side of the pond! I was excited ! I packed a lunch and grabbed the poles. I drove the...

Fellow Fisherman, My brother, Kevin, and I did some Striper trolling last night and got the following surprise on a tube and worm rig. Never caught one my whole life. Here is Kevin with the fish. - Tom

Fellas and gals, I haven't been hitting the fluke in any numbers but I have tagged some nice healthy fish. Here is my latest supper victim. he measured a bit over 20 inches. I forgot to weigh him but yielded 2 lbs of fillets !!

Hit the water today just as the pageant of holiday warriors was heading out. Our time was limited so we dragged a tube and worm around a favorite rockpile. In an hour we missed one and landed this healthy 27" almost keeper. Check out my little one looking into the fish's mouth !!

Got the boy out of his mom's hair for a while this afternoon. Wouldn't you know it, the little stinker outfished me one to nothing !?!!?! He caught him on a "marios squid rig " that I got from Cabelas, the color was chartreuse. we fished for a little over 2 hours, Thomas got this one ( 4 lbs...

Thanks to MacoJoe, Phester and one hell of a good book entitled "Fluke an Angler's Guide" by Bob Sampson ( highly reccommended ) I finally tied into a decent fluke by design. My son Thomas ( 4 1/2 years old ) and I hit the water tonight around 4 PM and did some drifting off of Tod's Point in...

Joe, I have been fishing my whole life but just last year started trying my hand at Fluke. I bought a great book by Bob Sampson and think I have a handle on it. But around this site you are the flukemeister, so here is my request. If you came to CT to fish for fluke what would you look...

Hit the Long Island Sound this morning at 0530 with some bunker chunks. I was sitting off of Playland which is an amusement park in Rye, NY. I could see the Manhatten skyline as I baited my rigs. Here are the two stripers that took my bait this morning. I even tied into this nice...

Her public debut... I left the pictures large intentionally, bigger is better !! Enjoy The new baby,, 05 Carbed Yamaha 150 A wider shot of the new baby attached to my 88 Steplift, can you say room for fishing? Different angle of the V-20's enormous deck space, some say it's like a 25...

Fellow propnuts, Today I took out the 88 Steplift with her new power plant hooked to the rear. The first hour at half throttle on the 05 Yamaha 150 seemed to last forever. Then as the hour meter hit " 1 " I was allowed to take her up to 4000 RPM. WOW !! 4000 RPM = 35 MPH!! I can only...

I just bought a new 150 and my old engine is in need of mechanical work. I think it needs a head gasket possibly. I am willing to part with it, to someone who is mechanically inclined for $400. This is not an attempt to make money on someone but rather an attempt to hook someone up with an...

Looks like I am pulling the trigger on a new outboard. I found a leftover 03 Yamaha 150, carbed for $7500 plus installation. It was inevitable and I am basically happy this happened. I just hate to drop 8500 when I paid 8000 for the boat motor and trailer,,,,,, well ok, ,, ten years ago...

I apologize for this but please bear with me. I got my boat ready for the water this year, I have a 1988 Yamaha 130 outboard hanging off of it. I changed the gear oil, plugs and stats. During the thermostat change I snapped a bolt and had to drill it out and ended up tapping it short and using a...

OK,, in my efforts to be a better boat owner ( brought about by the fine folks here at V20.com ) I decided to change out my thermostats on my 1988 Yamaha 130 for the first time in 8 years. Well,,,, as you can guess 7 of the 8 bolts came loose but good old number 8 snapped right off.  I am...