Every year or two for the past 15 years Bob Feil Boats and Motors has provided me with a new Smoker Craft or Kingfisher boat for my use. This has enabled me to be out on the water and provide the reports on fishing here in Central Washington. Every one of these boats has come with a full cover. I would take the top off and put it in my garage as soon as I got the boat home. I didn’t want to keep them in the boat and bother with putting them up. This year’s Smoker Craft Phantom came with what they call a half hard top. When the weather got chilly, I put on the side curtains and back drop, and it has made such a difference I haven’t even used my heater. All these years my family and fishing buddies have either suffered under the sun in the summer or nearly froze in the winter. At my recent birthday party, when they had the opportunity to say a few words about me, a surprising number of them recounted days when I thought nothing of the weather, and they couldn’t wait to get back to the to the warm truck!