simplejoe

I don't have the patience for dead sticking, but works. Caught some of my pb from it. 6 years ago I won the lunker pot with a 6.3 smallie, caught her from picking out my birds nest, felt like 10 mins. Gone by. Start reeling in all that slack and felt that pig on the other end... woo hoo..

I bought my kids the journey 10' sit on kayaks for when I take the canoe on the backwaters. Anyways, I took one of them out one day to see how it was with my big ass on it, wasn't to bad for a beginner. I should add, we use these on shallow creeks and the backwaters of a few lakes around me, these aren't used for main lakes or fast moving water. So I can't comment on how they are in those situations.

You'll be ok. A couple years ago I was pulling a 18' astro with my 2010 Mitsubishi Outlander with the 3.0 v6. I didn't have any problems. If you're hard on your brakes, then you'll be replacing them more often hauling the boat.

Its the gasket for number 27 on your diagram. You can either order a gasket through Mercury or go to the auto parts store and get a roll of make a gasket material.

For both of my kids, I used a bobber and tied a fly (for fly fishing) on. The bobber would be the weight to make a nice cast and the fly does the rest. My kids still use that trick when they're bored. They out fish me every time. As for a lure to cast and retrieve, I've let them pick out what they wanted to use, they always went back to the old heddon torpedo.

Hey all, it's been a few years since I've posted, divorce and life happens. I had to sell my big bass boat. So now that I'm finally getting back on track in life, it's time to get back out on the water. Not a bad boat for $300 to use on the limited lakes around here. I still have to change the layout on the boat to make it a bass boat, then a trolling motor. But I'll be floating soon enough. The top picture is after about 6 hours of scrubbing.

Wow. Nice smallies Dwight! I can't wait to get back up Erie this year. What lure were you using that day?

Jt, just talk to a local gas station. I'm sure they will give you some kind of sponsorship. I have a tiny 2"x4" sticker on my boat with their name. That's it.

Welcome to bass resource.

They started catching them pretty good after the skies were clear. Idk if anybody else noticed that.

For me it's a local gas station. The nights before a tournament they fill my van and boat up for free. As I said in other posts, my kids race quads and the same deal goes with them. It adds up through out the year. That's about it though. You made me chuckle with the snow shovel idea.

Use spray paint to get the body color then go back and do the details with a detail brush. I've done a few lures that way.

I did.

Oh yeah they will. When I fish up in erie that's one of their main food sources. I like to dropshot a poor boys 4" goby

From the bank, it's hard to get at the good structure. But your on it already, I fish all the lay downs I can from the bank, also try and look for rocks, creek channel's or natural springs that come into the Lake or pond. I use Google Earth my Lake or pond and you can see things you might not see standing there looking around.