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Great picture. I hope the BaitMonkey doesn't mind having his picture taken.

I like to use curly tailed and twin tailed grubs on spinnerbaits. I will also use a #11 or a #1 pork frog. I tend to use the pork frog when I want the bait to fall very slowly. I fishing bubby of mine uses a 6" and sometimes a 8" plastic worm.

;DROFLOL ;D I know the BaitMonkey and several of his manifestations all to well. The BoatMonkey has been working on both my wife and I for the past several months now. Is there any hope for us?

Making your own lures and building your rods can be very fun and rewarding. Another place to look for books and videos is cablea's

Out of 6 buddy Tournements, we've been in the top 1/3 in all of them, took 1st + big bass in one and 2nd in another. Only one other angler in the circut has done better. We have our year end tournament coming up on 10/2. It looks like it will be a real showdown.....

I went to one earlier this year at the Springfield MO, Bass Pro Shop. I was pretty dissapointed. There were some good information. A couple of the instructors were good, but the rest would just talk, tell stories, and get way off the subject. It seemed like most of them had no notes or outline to teach by. Also about 1/4 of the subjects that were supose to be taught never got anything but a few passing comments.

How long a boat can run on a trolling motor depends on a couple of factors. 1. How many amp hours of storage does the battery have? The more the amp hours the longer or more work the trolling motor can do. I've seen deep cycle rated from 80 amp hours to 225 amp hours. 2. How much work the trolling motor is having to do? Are you running the motor on full power all the time, or are you running it closer to 1/2 power. (Generally speaking electric motors are most effient at about 80% of full amp load, as far as power input vs work done.) 3. Are you using your deep cycle battery to start you outboard? This can lead to a very short battery life. Also you don't want to run your electronics from your trolling motor battery, this can shorten the life of your electronics. 4. For an onboard charger you diffently want one that will charge at least 10amps.

I would agree with gambler, but I would go one step farther, the boat is fine, but the motor would rule the boat out for me. I'm a die hard Mercury fan, though I also like Yamaha. Good Luck & Good Fishing

The cranking battery needs to be hooked up to your motor and electronics, just like your car or truck. The other two batteries most likely need to be set up for a 24 volt trolling motor. 1 + lead to the trolling motor, 1 - lead to the trolling motor then a connection between the remaining + and -.

I've been thinking about building my own spinnerbaits. There is thing I haven't got figured out. How to paint them. Does anyone out have any tips on how to paint a spinnerbait? Thanks Doug

I would say Rick Clunn. I can't belive Bill Dance, made the list. If you've ever met him or dealt with off stage you might think differently. If there is not money in it for him, he wants nothing to do with it. But he is a VERY sharp business man.

My set up is like Ben's, but w/ a twist. The TM unit and rear unit are networked. This let you see both transduceres' images.

On the trolling motor, generally speaking bigger wire is better. As I recall most of the boat manufactures use 6 gauge wire for the trolling motor. For the trolling motor prop, can you identify the brand of the motor?

This may sound a bit odd, but everyone is right. If gary y want to sale his lures at $7, that's his right, but we don't have to buy. Now there are sometimes and conditions here if you don't have the exact lure profile, your not going to catch fish.

My experince has been that the lights really don't seem to bother the fish. As a SCUBA diver, we dive a lot at night and the lights don't seem to scare the fish.

That works

Check out the return store.

Thanks for the help

I've had my best mid day summer success with: 1. a small bass jig 2. a small jig head and 4"- 6" plastic worm 3. a spoon 4 C-rig

The boat is a fiberglass boat and I plan on mounting the transducer on the back of the boat. The antenna is one of the upside down saucer looking things.

OK guys I need some help. I just purchased a new Lowarnce depth finder/GPS unit. Lowarnce's installation instructions and the parts provided, are just about worthless. There are no screws or bolts for mounting the unit or the GPS transmitter/reciver. It looks like most of the mounting holes are 6mm There are no clips to hold the cables, the ones at the auto store are either to big or to small. There no intructions for mounting the GPS antena, other than it needs a clear view of the sky. Anyone have any advice or experience? Thanks

Like the others have said it depends on where you live, but I'll add another caveot. What type of water do you fish, highland lake, lowland lake, natural lake, or river? If you fish a highland lake, deep and clear, Bull Shoals, or Table Rock for example. Then you'll need to focus on structure in deeper water, and or night fishing. In a lowland lake, not as deep, and not as clear, Millwood, and Grand Lake for examples, focus on heavy cover. In a natural lake....it will depends on the lake, and the conditions that the lake presents. In the a river...the channel and structure will be the main factors.

It's hard to say which one might be better. If you want information about several types of fish, then In Fishermen. If you want to concentrate on bass, then Bassmaster or Bassin'. But.... It seem like most of the magazines these days are just one big adverstisement. Even the most of the articles are adverstisements. The most of the pro's will only tell you what they want you to know....

There is a Kelly Blue book on boats

I've seen some real shows at the ramp. Fights at the ramp. Tow vehicle go down the ramp, way down the ramp, People the ruin a pair tire pulling a boat out, the person behind the wheel floors the gas to pull the boat out. (Don't get to close, those hot melted pieces of tire, burn!) For a real show you should come to the upper end of Grand Lake during spoonbill season. On busy weekends the state police/Fish & Game will have a couple of officers directing traffic at the boatramps, then a couple of other directing traffic in the park, then sometimes it get really wild and they call the helicopter and officers in boats to help. I agree, with the other guys, if your going to operate a motor boat, you should have to have a permit, just like a car. (By coast guard defintion a motor boat is any boat that is powered by a motor.) This would include the jet skiers too!!!