DO IT NOW before your wife changes her mind!!!
I just got my first DB couple months ago also, its a Clack WF 2001. Took it out to the Cow for the first time and had my buddy instruct me, it was awesome but a little scared at first I got to admit, especially around those fast corner river bends, but its all about preparing ahead of time. Put it this way, if you bank fish 99% of the time, at least you have that last option to take out your boat when you are ready, and take along friends. Plus you also don't have to feel guity for not using it cause its not like you spend $20,000 and are miserable. Good luck!

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Matthew 4:19