J Francho

I can't speak for creek smallies, but back in the day we used live bait for them in Lake Ontario. Some days, the crab bite was on, others it was crawlers. Sometimes leeches did better. These days, I do fine on spoons and DS plastics or Gulp!

I do mine when I get back from a trip. That way, I don't forget.

Only need it to be on the line long enough to dry, usually a few hours.

Talk to my man, W2N: https://www.facebook.com/wwade.nichols He paints his kayaks.

KVD L&L for me, every trip. Absolutely makes a difference. I even use it on braid. Seems like it helps slow down color fade.

This is your best option. There's quite a few kayakers from your area, shouldn't be too hard to find a good end of summer deal.

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Are you sure they're missing? I thought this too when fishing a local pond. Turns out, there were several distracted, small blue gill following my frog. Sometimes even nipping at the skirts. Then I saw it - a big bass blew up on a blue gill. They weren't missing at all. Consider adding a 4" gloating blue gill swimbait to your follow up arsenal, if the cover allows.

Good advice, always! That fish is a slob - nice work!

Myself and most of the kayaking community will have to agree to disagree with you here. A slack cam lock will not suddenly fail. Once pressure is put on, from the kayak sliding during cornering, it will only become tighter. That's how a cam lock works. You creating a problem where there is none. You're experience with them is not the norm, and I suspect they were NOT straps designed for securing a kayak to a vehicle. The NRS straps I linked to are. They simply do not fail as you claim. There are literally millions of them in use. If failure was a problem, it would be more than just you claiming they are inferior. Sorry, man. I'm done debating a moot point. You want to secure a kayak to your vehicle? Get a kayak strap made for that, not something for securing heavier, more rigid cargo.

The laws of uncommon sense are at play here, man. You also have to realize that we have a responsibility to give advice beyond just what will work. For every post there are ten other members that are looking. For every member logged in, there ten more that are lurkers. Advice, like securing a kayak to a pickup truck has to be bulletproof. If I say something flippant, like use a bungee (believe it or not, I have used them in a pinch for a kayak) it could be irresponsible advice, and damage our reputation.

Slow way down for Conesus. If it's sunny, skip docks in the mid day sun.

A cam lock cannot come loose. The harder you pull on it, the tighter the connection becomes, on a properly designed buckle. There's nothing to disagree about. Literally thousands of trips, 20 kayaks at a time, up the creek, for a float downstream for customers, for 20 years, every day when the weather is good. You'd think, if there was an issue, someone would have have seen it, never mind all the rest of us that use them. Funny thing is, I've had ratcheting straps fail. They suffer from over complication, and get sticky. You think it's locked into a tooth, until it isn't. No such issue with cam locks. We trailer 20 at a time behind an old school bus for customers that want a downstream float. All are tied down with NRS cam locks. No one that worked in the kayak industry would ever recommend ratcheting straps. No one. Just the one by the cab. If there's something to wrap around, like the seat rail in my Commander, I'll use that for the gate side, otherwise, I go around the hull.

Buy the right ones (I linked to them) and they do not come loose. Been transporting kayaks on vehicles for a dozen years using them. This is a non issue if you use the right ones.

I haven't seen any wear from mine. It's not cinched down real tight, just insurance against backward movement from the boat. I'm loading stern first, so there's a lot of weight in the bed itself.

I like NRS straps. They don't slip like the slick nylon ones you find in sporting goods stores. https://www.nrs.com/category/4342/straps/

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Me too.

Let me guess, The City Dump?

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Or you can just flip the drive around. That's free. I'll have to make a video of me doing it. It's not the ideal solution, but it works.

I slide it through lines on the T-handle on the Compass. For my other two boats, they are riveted handles, so, just around the handle.

Yeah, but from my perspective, it can be tough. Some of the code is 20 years old, so we're constantly refactoring, and updating to modern standards. It keeps us busy. Education system is not a terrible place to be. I feel like my work matters more than when I worked at Xerox.

Ratchet straps a no-no with kayaks. People have a tendency to over tighten them, and warp/crack the hull. Since working at a kayak shop, I've seen a lot of it.

No, that was what I was thinking. I haven't heard of Wengage. Our product does all that, as well as grading, GPA calculations, RCs, transcripts, scheduling, master schedule, attendance, parent portal, etc, but NY only. I know many districts , including my home city, use a variety of apps, loosely connected. Probably still not enough to get you to move to NY, lol.