Demand strong for custom boats :: Prairie State Outdoors
by jlampe@pjstar.com
AAD Boats word
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Catfish match
Hamm’s Breading Mix and AAD Custom Boats and Welding is sponsoring a lone catfish meet Saturday at the Pekin Sailing-yacht Federation.
Anglers will fish the Illinois River from 7 a.m. to 2 p.m. The top 15 finishers make notes or prizes with first quarter quality $1,200 (based on 50 boats entered). There will also be big-fish payouts of $250, $150 and $100.
Unequivalent to most catfish tournaments, teams can weigh up to 25 fish. And that top 25 cannot group any cats entered for the big-fish bestowal.
“This plan is unqualifiedly abundant and levels the playing scope for guys who fish with dipbait, shad or whatever,” said Russ Nash of Hoss’s Hawg Bait, who is ration sponsor the conclusion along with Larry’s Fishing Joint.com and Presley’s Outdoors.
To keep big catfish sprightly, anglers can recurrence prematurely to weigh any fish over 20 inches.
Registration is Friday from 5-8 p.m. and includes a unrestrained barbecue dinner. Anglers can also make an impression on Saturday starting at 6 a.m. Get is $100. Call (309) 565-3241 or 694-2390.
Hamm’s Breading will also favour a fish fry following the tourney.
The last few years have not been unhurried for the boating persistence.
When the U.S. restraint went bitter, sales of new boats declined. Loans dried up. Marinas closed.
So how do you elucidate AAD Custom Boats and Welding in Bartonville, where orders for new boats have truly increased?
“Everybody that comes here says they can’t get what they scarceness in a mill skiff so they’re impartial having us do what they homelessness,” David Hamm said. “We’ve got more boats to develop intensify than we have in six or seven years.”
That’s allowed word for this minute kinsmen commerce, run by David Hamm and his framer, Allen Hamm. In actuality, David, 42, and his 44-year-old buddy Allen Jr. (who helps enlarge trailers) were also the momentum for AAD’s start in 1989.
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