VolFan

You just have to swallow your pride and do it several times. It may go poorly, it may go well. But each time you do it, you will get better at it and learn your boat and trailer.

That split ring also keeps them from bending up Roostertails as much.

That was awesome - thank you for putting this together.

Thanks! Knocking on 50’s door and the hardest part is getting everything moving every morning…

This is from a couple posts up, but what’s your warm up look like?

If you’re gonna fish one box- that’s be a great line-up - you could fish forever with just those.

That’s a lot of rod for a balsa square bill unless it’s a giant square bill.

Jordan - the lake is big, it has big fish, and you can probably find fish to bite whatever presentation you want to use that’s reasonable for the time frame.

It’s the best town in the world.

You can’t stop them, you only hope to contain them.

He’s right you know… Virtually all of my flatheads have been on white perch filets not live bait. Except for one I caught on chicken. If you put filets down with a float they float around and give off scent and look enough like a fish that they’ll eat it. Live bait can be troublesome near cover.

I use Okuma BattleCat rods and similar round reels to the above. 50 lb Academy braid to a swivel, with a sliding clip above that. 24-30 inch 20 lb CXX leader to an 8/0 circle with a float about 8 inches from the bait. Cover or rockpikes on points with some current has always been my magic combo for flatties.

3 Muskie and 100 or so crappie??? I may move to Ohio…

Tragedies do happen, as do accidents. But so many of these things are single points of failure by a reckless captain and/or not taking basic safety steps. If you, at high speed, hit a boat that is sitting still, that is your fault.

well that sucks. crap.

You can actually catch them and donate them to the raptor rehab center at Latta Plantation. They feed them to the rehabilitating raptors. They are also phenomenal catfish bait.

Is that enough?

Yeah yeah yeah… Cake?

Curado D and E series, probably 50e if I had to pick one reel. They just work…forever.

Lipless cranks. People love them. I have tried. I have failed in perpetuity.

Rods are very nice as are the Okuma swimbait rods. As others have said - that is a big weight range for one rod, so it’ll be better at one end of that range.

Did you bring rods? There should be striper up the Congaree in downtown right now.

If they’re really fruit flies, there’s a Terro trap for them that works great, but you have to figure out where they’re coming from (old fruit, compost bin, etc). If they’re gnats, there’s the great yellow butterfly-shaped sticky traps that you can stick in your houseplants that are almost magical. YMMV

I’m an idiot. It’s the battery. I put it on the charger and it was at 60% after sitting for a day. Took the charger off and watched the voltage drop by .1 v every couple seconds… At least I know what it is.

Thank you - I left out that the battery is 6 months old and on a full charge. It stopped working even with the main motor running. I also detached and reattached the power cord from the back of the cradle and the unit to the cradle. The power runs through a fuse box and there is an inline fuse that comes standard on the Garmin power cord. I was going to remove that one and just use the dedicated one at the fuse box. Right now it has two fuses, one standard inline and one at the fuse box. I’m starting to think that the inline one is a little loose inside the housing.