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Injured my shoulder at work on March 15th and went out 3-4 times a week until May 21st when I had surgery. Now I'm tweeking to get out. I have a tourney this sunday which I have to miss. I'm hoping to get out in the next week or two depending on how things go. I just need to get someone to help me with the boat. I'll have all summer to fish once I've recovered enough. The doc says I probably won't get back to work until the end of August.

I can't catch a bass for the life of me on a Jitterbug, but the muskies won't leave them alone. Problem is they destroy the lure.

It's called the leak is in 5000fow. Because of government regulations the rigs aren't in 500fow where it would be much easier to repair. This latest repair they are now talking about seems to make the most sense to me. Going to cut away a section and install a cap with piping off the top, to move the oil to some tanks on boats. The problem is once they cut the pipe there will be more oil flowing from the leak. If this solution does not work they would have made the leak worse :'(

As far as minn kota goes, there pricing is pretty much fixed at all the retailers. Check their website for promotions. I just purchased a new powerdrive v2 thru boatersworld.com. No tax and no shipping.

A walleye or musky "big water" boat may be more what you're looking for. There is more seating and more room. Probably need a minimum of a 20 footer.

How about reviving a tounge hooked fish? I tounge hooked a fish in a tourney last week and lots of blood was coming out of it immediatly. It survived in the livewell for about 3hrs. Is there any way of stopping the tounge from bleeding?

For you guys that fish the Fox south of Elgin, chemicals were dumped into the river and caused a fish kill. '>http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/news/metro/charges-pending-dumping-chemicals-20100517

Here is the latest link http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=12476372

First video reminded me of Mrs.Tiger Woods.

I wonder how the crayfish feel about this. Poor crawdads have nobody to defend them. All these bait companies stole their "likeness". There should be some retribution. The crayfish should at least get some royalty checks.

If I could only have 1 ratltrap it would be chrome. I have a trap with about 50% of the chrome worn off and it still outperforms all my other traps. Also great when casting for salmon and trout.

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Be prepared to catch hundreds of fish.

I use 55lb Samuari Braid w/ 17lb flouro leader when necessary. Albright knot w/ a dab of krazyglue. No problems.

I've been fishing tourneys with my son on the Fox Chain of Lakes in Northern Illinois for 5 years, 4 years with this particular club. Never got better than 10th place, in a 35 boat average outing. Until today! I had prefished 3 days in the last week and new where the fish were. Weather conditions had changed dramaticly from bluebird skies and calm wind to 20mph winds and rain on tournament day. I had told my son I know where we can catch a limit ( because of prefishing). Since I don't own one of those 80mph bass boats and my boats top speed is 40mph in perfect conditions, by the time we got to the "magic" spot there was already 3 boats fishing there. We went to anoter spot close by and picked up a small keeper. Went to another area and were unsuccessful at coaxing a bedding fish. Finally went back into the spot I originaly wanted to fish. All but 1 boat had left. My son picked up a 3.22lb which would be our biggest for the day and nothing else. I gave him the option. We can go north where the water is gin clear and the fish are spooky or go south where the water is stained and the fish are on the small side. He chose north. Not a good choice. Had 1 bite and lost it, a small keeper. After 2.5 hours, I got fed up and took us south. We got are last three keepers along with a bunch of shorts in about 1.5 hours, and nothing after that. My son the pessimist had nothing good to say back to the weigh-in. I kept telling him "If it's tuff for us it's tuff for everyone. We weighed in a limit at 9.90lbs, and got bumped from 2nd place@ 9.92lbs. First place was a 14lb+bag and only 4 boats brought in a limit. That .02lbs we lost by was worth an extra $250. What a bit**. Anyway we came in 3rd out of 39 boats. I have won small tourneys on small lakes, but getting 3rd place in this trail is a great feeling. Next tourney in 2 weeks.

Sounds too simple but make sure your connectors are clean and corrosion free.

DUDE YOU SAID IT!!! Spent 10 minutes looking for my scale today, actually had to throw the fish in the livewell before weighing him as to not keep him dry too long. It was SUPPOSED to be in my kit bag main pouch, but after searching the glove box, the hard box, the port and starboard bow storage, it was in my map pouch. Who shoves a scale into a map pouch?! You do ;D If you have extra lures that don't fit you can always send them to me. I seperate everything by type of lure. Each plastic box is "specialized". Lipless cranks in one, reg cranks in another, topwater in another etc. I have many other boxes for soft plastics and keep those separated by type. Senkos in one, flukes, in another, tubes in another etc. And one separate box for jigs. I know where everything is at. Funny, I saw an episode of City Limits Fishing and Mike Iconelli spent a looonnng time loking for a certain lure. He had a storage compartment in the front of his boat with a bunch of packaged lures dumped in there, instead of plastic storage boxes. For me every second in a tourney counts. I can't be wasting time looking for a lure. The more time that is wasted the less chance I have of cashing a check. ;D

All of them.

Real porkers!

Probably a little late for this post. I have my first tourney of the year tomorrow. It's on 7 lakes or so on an 8000 acre river system. I got out 4x this week to prefish and found a handful of spots that are holding fish. Fish are in pre spawn did see a couple beds with males getting ready. Water levels are low and temps very from 56-66 degrees, clarity varies from stained to gin clear. Biting fish were all in stained water. Caught fish on jignpigs and senkos, nothing on cranks or spinners. I saw fish in the clear water but they were very spooky. Pre fishing conditions were blue bird skies winds varied from no wind to 15mph depending on the day air temps mid to upper 50's. I found fish every day out. Tomorrows conditions are: supposed to get thunderstorms and an inch of rain tonite. Steady rain tomorrow with another 1/2" accumulation. 15mph constant with 30mph gusts. Temp high is 50 degrees. (Oh boy, I can't wait ) My ? is Should I concentrate on areas and patterns that were successful during prefishing? I'm wondering if the fish will pull out of the creeks and harbor areas and go to where the current is. This is also the first rain of the season. Also, the fish in the clear water should be less spooky with overcast and chop. Do you think these fish will be negatively affected by the new conditions. I'm fully prepared for a tough bite and just want to maximize my time on the water. Thanks

The terrova has higher thrust options. The foot control will not work in conjunction with ipilot and powerdrive v2(hand control only), but does work with terrova. Terrova is about $300 more.

DRILL PRESS: A tall upright machine useful for suddenly snatching flat metal bar stock out of your hands so that it smacks you in the chest and Flings your beer across the room, denting the freshly-painted project which you had carefully set in the corner where nothing could get to it. WIRE WHEEL: Cleans paint off bolts and then throws them somewhere under the workbench with the speed of light. Also removes fingerprints and hard-earned calluses from fingers in about the time it takes you to say, 'Oh sh -- ' ELECTRIC or PNEUMATIC HAND DRILL: Normally used for spinning pop rivets in their holes until you die of old age. SKILL SAW: A portable cutting tool used to make studs too short.. PLIERS: Used to round off bolt heads. Sometimes used in the creation of blood-blisters. BELT SANDER: An electric sanding tool commonly used to convert minor touch-up jobs into major refinishing jobs. HACKSAW: One of a family of cutting tools built on the Ouija board principle. It transforms human energy into a crooked, unpredictable motion, and the more you attempt to influence its course, the more dismal your future becomes. VISE-GRIPS: Generally used after pliers to completely round off bolt heads. If nothing else is available, they can also be used to transfer Intense welding heat to the palm of your hand. OXYACETYLENE TORCH: Used almost entirely for lighting various flammable objects in your shop on fire. Also handy for igniting the grease inside the wheel hub out of which you want to remove a bearing race. TABLE SAW: A large stationary power tool commonly used to launch wood projectiles for testing wall integrity. HYDRAULIC FLOOR JACK: Used for lowering an automobile to the ground after you have installed your new brake shoes, trapping the jack handle firmly under the bumper. BAND SAW: A large stationary power saw primarily used by most shops to cut good aluminum sheet into smaller pieces that more easily fit into the trash can after you cut on the inside of the line instead of the Outside edge. TWO-TON ENGINE HOIST: A tool for testing the maximum tensile strength of everything you forgot to disconnect. PHILLIPS SCREWDRIVER: Normally used to stab the vacuum seals under lids or for opening old-style paper-and-tin oil cans and splashing oil on your shirt; but can also be used, as the name implies, to strip out Phillips screw heads. STRAIGHT SCREWDRIVER: A tool for opening paint cans. Sometimes used to convert common slotted screws into non-removable screws and butchering your palms. PRY BAR: A tool used to crumple the metal surrounding that clip or bracket you needed to remove in order to replace a 50 cent part. HOSE CUTTER: A tool used to make hoses too short. HAMMER: Originally employed as a weapon of war, the hammer nowadays is used as a kind of divining rod to locate the most expensive parts adjacent the object we are trying to hit. UTILITY KNIFE: Used to open and slice through the contents of cardboard cartons delivered to your front door; works particularly well on contents such as seats, vinyl records, liquids in plastic bottles, collector magazines, refund checks, and rubber or plastic parts. Especially useful for slicing work clothes, but only while in use. DAMM-IT TOOL: Any handy tool that you grab and throw across the garage while yelling 'DAMM-IT' at the top of your lungs. It is also, most often, the next tool that you will need

Somehow they will hold the boat manufacturer responsible as they did in another post from earlier this month.

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Probably had a nick in your line. The tug was enough to break it at the damaged area.