Drift Boat Fishing - Launching the Boat

Join Bennett-Watt and learn about drift boat fishing with focus on launching the boat.

Male Speaker: Okay, we can do one or two things to launch the boat. One is, is we can turn loose the winch and slide the boat off and in that way the boat will still be attached to the winch and it'll won't get away from you or you can take it and un-attach it and stand at the back of the boat and unload so that you can bring the boat to you, instead of pushing it off here and let that slide out on the water and getting away from you. A lot of people will come down, especially new boaters will come down and put their boat and back the wheel bearings and lights in the whole system, the whole trailer into the water and try to be fancy and roll the boat off of there. Sooner or later they're going to pay a high price though, in wheel bearings and in replacement of lights even if they are water sealed eventually they start leaking or you'll burn them out, they'll get water in them. So if you're look at my boat trailer here I backed it up, and my wheels are just barely tough in the water and you can see my lights are out of the water. If I back it any more then my lights will be into the water. That's just something that preserves the whole life of everything. So if you don't back or hold thing in there and try to float your boat off, of the trailer, it's just not a great idea. So after the years of doing this you learn not to do those little things, it saves you a lot of maintenance because when you drive home then your wheel doesn't fall off. Okay, so that's just one great way of doing it. So we can take it and again we can pull this trailer off there now we're turn the winch loose, but what I'm going to is go ahead and show you the other way of doing that. And that's always good to pull your wheelers up, having done that, I stand it back in here I can ease the boat right off the trailer. And then one you gets the roller it'll flies. That's the thing that most people forget when it hits that roller it really flies and now, I've been able to hold onto the boat not let it get away. The other thing that you want to do is you want to make sure all your stuff is in your boat and ready to go, so you don't spend a lot of extra time unloading your vehicle and hauling it to your boat. So I've pretty well got everything I want for the day in my boat and I'm ready to go. I'm ready to clear the boat ramp now, and not tie the boat ramp up. You come down you should be able to unload your boat get it tied up in just a couple of minutes so it that you don't tie there you're up and overuse the area. So other people can get in, it's just courteous.