Fishing Rhino

One more bit of info. I was using 6 pound fluorocarbon line. For drop shotting, in most cases I use either mono or fluoro. Because it stretches, it absorbs some of the rod twitch input, rather than transmitting it directly to the bait, making the action of the bait more subtle.

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And another, just to put you youngsters to sleep. http://www.youtube.com/user/TimJanisEnsemble

This is music.

Hey Carrollton, our younger daughter lives in Temple, just to the north of you. She has a small pond behind her home. It's maybe four acres, and has a good population of bass. It's shallow, and seems to have very little vegetation, until you start dragging stuff around the bottom. I fished it pretty regularly when we were there for November last fall. I'd catch 8 to fifteen bass in two or three hours. I was concerned they'd get used to the bait, but in four weeks, they never stopped biting. Try swimming a drop shot rig, with a weedless hook (I prefer the Gamakatsu weedless finesse hooks with the plastic weed guard, and a quarter ounce cylindrical sinker at the end. The hook was a foot to a foot and a half above the sinker, and I used plastic worms from three to six inches rigged wacky style. I'd make a cast, count to ten, and then very slowly retrieve the bait with a variety of twitches, from subtle to a sharp jerk from time to time. When the sinker would hit a patch of vegetation you could feel it snag, then release. The bait was off the bottom, twitching around above the plants. Most of the fish were caught when I could feel the sinker working through the plants. On Thanksgiving morning I caught this one using the technique described above. This old gal bit on a four inch *** yellow and black Bumblebee which they stopped selling.

A rubbermaid, watertight container keeps my hundred dollar coolpix camera just fine. A soft cloth prevents the camera from scuffing. I cannot resist tweaking Francho a bit for calling the Pelican overkill, and in the next breath talks about his 3000 dollar camera. Oh the irony.

Actually, unless I'm visualizing the wrong boat, your Targa deep V would be preferable to a bass boat in rough water. The deep V will give a softer ride, and it has more freeboard than a bass boat. It's also lighter and more buoyant. That combination of things makes it less likely that you'd take water over the sides or the bow. Bass boats are not designed for open water and rough conditions, though some may dispute that assertion. A bass boat is basically a fast raft (fishing platform) with a lot of storage.

The WWII soldiers had a saying. Candy is dandy, but liquor is quicker.

Hmmmmm, sounds like LongMike's been talking to you. He's another one of those aluminum snobs. ;D

They dropped the max hp rating to 150 for this year's model.

The five stage thingy is what I normally do. When I open my computer, I right click on the C drive and open properties, then tools, then the chkdsk program. I also check the two boxes that automatically fix file system errors and the second, scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors. It will run the program on the next restart.

Several months ago, I was having problems with this computer freezing up. Could run programs in safe mode forever w/o a hiccup. Start in normal operating mode, get online and it would freeze. Sometimes in a few minutes, other times in a few hours. Talked to the Geeks at Best Buy about it and was told my hard drive was on its way out. OK, maybe they were correct, but then again, maybe not. After pondering about it for a while, I was on the verge of doing a destructive restore, when a light bulb went off in my head. Perhaps the problem was related to the hookup to the web. Since this computer was upstairs and the modem is downstairs, I decided to go the wireless route. Got a Linksys N router and the appropriate Linksys adapter card for the computer. Maybe if I take out that adapter, reinstall the card that came with the computer, then get a wireless adapter that plugs into a USB port it might just cure the problem. It did. No more problems of the computer freezing. Worked better than new. In January, I was helping our daughter by doing a lot of work with this computer. I was on it several hours a day, and it was humming along. Periodically I clean out the computer, and run diskcheck. Tried to run dskchk and got an error message, "Cannot open the volume for direct access. The type of the file system is NTFS. Window has finsihed checking the disk." Since what I was doing was critical, I again checked with the Geeks. I wanted to see about reinstalling Service Pack 3, since it had a fix for this problem. It was on the computer, and my thought was that it somehow had become corrupted. Once again they thought the hard drive was on the way out. The computer was still working OK, but the registry has always needed to be "fixed" with dskchk. It deletes some files, fixes others, and recovers "orphaned files" whatever they are. I don't understand what all it does. All I know is that after doing it the machine starts up faster and runs faster. Without getting the registry tended to the computer would only get slower. I googled the error message and found a tech site that suggested a fix. It involved getting the machine to the point of running dskchk on the next restart. I'd been that far, and on the restart, the error message would appear. But, rather than restart at that point, the instruction told me to go to start, then run msconfig which opened the system configuration utility. On that I clicked on the BOOT.INI tab and checked the SAFEBOOT option, then apply, then close. At this point it asked if I wanted to restart now. I clicked on yes, and the disk check ran, then the computer started in safe mode. I had to go back to the configuration utility and uncheck the box I had checked. The computer the opened normally. I tried the check disk by opening my computer, right clicking on the C drive, selected properties then tools then chose check disk. Restarted the computer and it ran the program. I printed and saved the instructions for future reference. I wonder if the Geeks are qualified to adjust an abacus.

You can fish just about any pond with that boat except for the few that are electric only. 5 hp is good on any pond that allows gasoline engines. The list of ponds on the Mass Wildlife is hardly complete. For example, Sawdy pond near me is not listed. It's a fairly good sized pond, about a mile long and a half mile wide has a public access which is on route 177 at the Rhode Island state line. While not totally reliable, or up to date, the ponds listed have directions to the public access places and fishing tips for the ponds.

The aluminum seat material appears to be too light to take the strain of supporting the seat on its own. After time, the nut rivets or nut certs would tear out. I'd suggest a piece of 3/4 inch plywood that is the dimensions of the seat top. At each end, use 3/4 inch oak beveled along one edge so that when secured to the plywood will fit accurately to the side of the boat. The length of the oak should be the same measurement as the width of the seat. The width of the oak should fill the space between the plywood, and the lip of the rail cap. It appears the rail cap has a "flange" to which the aluminum side is either riveted or welded. Screw the oak to the plywood, slide into place, then bolt the assembly through the flange on the rail cap. The rail cap should be substantial enough to take the strain. Before you finally bolt the assembly in place, ease all the edges with sandpaper or a router if you have access to one, paint thoroughly and you're good to go.

Zero for me, regardless of the product, or sport involved.

I have one. I like it. While it is not a Ranger, or Bass Cat or whatever, it doesn't carry the price of them either. I've seen 58.2 mph on the GPS with a full tank of fuel and two of us on board. Most of the time I cruise at 40 - 45. Plenty of storage, stable, and comfortable. The important thing is to know your limits, and the limits of your vessel. Do not exceed either.

Unless it's an ice boat, you won't be using it for a while. Good luck with your boat boat. What are you getting?

Did you finance the boat? If so, that's why you couldn't leave without insurance. No different from a lender requiring you to carry collision insurance on a vehicle. States (most of them) require you to carry liability insurance to protect others from the mayhem you may cause in order to register a vehicle and/or trailer.

Try this. Some of Myles Standish ponds are in Carver, some in Plymouth. Looks like there are a few of us in southeastern MA. Maybe we can have a get together or two this year, nothing formal, just to try each other's favorite ponds.

Unless I misread something, the interlink allows the 728 and the 898 to share a common antenna.

I'll have to study up on that. For most of the places I fish, my main concern with the bow unit is to maintain a certain depth range. The bank is steep in some ponds, and when the fish are holding in the ten to fifteen foot depths (as an example), you don't have to drift far to end up in five or twenty feet of water. Funny thing about the update. It's to improve shallow water performance. I never had any problem in shallow water, so I'll be anxious to see what the improvement is.

I get a kick out of the is this sporting type of threads. Should you use a landing net, or this or that piece of equipment. I suspect these type of questions have been around since man started fishing with a pointed stick. When we graduated to hooks and bamboo poles, I suspect there were those who wondered if they were taking the fun out of fishing. Heck, they probably asked the same question when someone discovered a pointed stick was better than catching them hand, though probably not as much fun. For me, the more gizmos the better, and the more fun I have, and not necessarily because they help me catch more fish. I'm curious about what lies beneath the surface of the water, and out of sight. Fishfinders, sounders, sonar, whatever you call them, help to satisfy my natural curiosity. They educate me, and therefore they actually increase the pleasure I get from fishing. Are they fair and sporting? As fair and sporting as the pointed stick, the first fishing pole, the first revolving spool reel, spinning reel, composite rod, lifelike plastic bait, etc.

If anyone is interested in zoomed views of particular areas of KY Lake, let me know. I can post them on here or send them to you via a pm or email. Here's a sample. Can also side by side with Google Earth. The image below is where we'll be staying, Moors Resort.

Nope, the 728 unit does not have a nine pin port. The plugs are identical to those on my 898, except for the transducer. It is compatible, and can share the GPS antenna, and certain info with the 898. While the 728 does not have a mapping capability, though it will display a grid with waypoints etc. The same harness would work if I had another 898 at the bow. The problem is that the 728 cannot use chips. That necessitates connecting it to a computer. It one of those live and learn things.

A marvelous bird is the Pelican. His beak can hold more than his belly can.