cadman

Not to be an ### but why didn't you look into your local zoning laws before you made the purchase???? Anyway, I also cannot keep my boat on my driveway. It has to be on the side of the house on a paved driveway no grass. I keep mine in a storage garage. I pay a lot, but it keeps the boat from getting ruined in the sun in the summer and the cold/snow in the winter. I have a 2007 Ranger and it looks like the day I bought it.

I change in the fall as well, for the winter season here. Don't want any water sitting in the lower unit if there is any.

Went out to Lake Beulah on Sunday. Fished for 6 hours and we got 7 fish. I got (2) 15"ers and my wife got a 14",15", (2) 16" and a 17-3/4" largemouth. She had a good day. Fishing was very tough. Pic of her 17-3/4" bass.

Went out to Lake Geneva today. My buddy fished there the last 6 days and the smallies are on fire. However there is a small window that has been working there and that is from 3:30 am to 5:00 am that's it. Anyway we were on the water on our spot at 3:30 am. We got 20 smallies from that time till 5:00 am and then they shut down like clockwork. I assume they just moved out. Anyway 15 feet of water with a 1/4 oz dropshot , 1/0 hook and a dropshot worm. Smallest was 16" largest was 19". Once they shut down we moved around, and picked up some largies, biggest was 17" on drop shot and jigs. Everything shut down at 9:30 am. We fished till noon with no fish after 9:30 a.m. Excellent day on the water.

Well Lake Elizabeth in Twin Lakes was disappointing today. We got only one 14.50" bass and 12 more all around 10 to 12". Also got one rock bass and 2 northern pike around 20". Very windy and hard to hold boat on the lake. Maybe tourney day will be less windy and possibly better quality fish.

Welcome, I'm in northern, IL

Hey Dave, Welcome, a lot of good info to read in this forum.

Anyone know anything about Lake Elizabeth one of the Twin Lakes in WI. I have a tourney there in 4 weeks and I'm looking for some spots and techniques. I am going there this Sunday to fish it so I will post some results.

Nice fish Paul, seems you have the "Chain" figured out.

As far as I know, it is open 24 hours a day. If the attendant is not there, there is a cash box in front of the attendant's booth.

No doubt some days are tough. I've never gone there in consecutive days and gotten a lot of fish over 18" per day. Delavan is very similar to Geneva. Geneva can be on fire for a week or two then it seems to die. They are both phenomenal fisheries if you can deal with all the traffic.

Delavan has a lot of big fish in it. The key is to go fish there at night. You would be surprised at the multiple numbers of 4'sand 5's. On the flip side Delavan can be hot for several weeks and it also has days where it is like the Dead Sea. But you have to remember that their min is 18" one fish, so there are a lot of smaller fish under 18"

Fished Brown's on Sunday for 6 hours, got 8 bass all on jigs and a Paca Chunk along with one snakey northern. Minimum size on lake is 16". We did not get a lake legal. All fish were between 14.50" to 15-3/4". Overall not a bad day of fishing.

Thanks for the report. Looks like the water is starting to warm up.

Well that's interesting. The one at Long I've launched several times with no problems, the one at Loon, a couple of years ago, I launched on the pad on the right side as you are facing the lake, correct? Seems the ramp is higher on one side than the other. Launching is not the problem. Retrieving the boat is the issue. I have a Ranger 619VS and she needs more deeper water, so maybe my tires are off the ramp and in the mud when I launch at Loon.

Let me know how you do and what the water temps are I tried to fish this lake several times last year and their launching ramp is really bad. I got my trailer almost stuck both times, thank god for 4 wheel drive. Let me know how the ramp is and how you do out there. The second lake is the better bass lake.

Where are you headed out to this weekend?

At least someone is catching fish.

Well, I will enter my sad day on Powers Lake. Started out with it being cold and very windy in the morning. Followed by some sporadic snow showers over passing clouds. Is this May or am I fishing in March. Anyway, my wife got 6 bass on a jig all under 14" and 1 snakey pike. I got 1 bass under 14". My wife has been kicking my butt from the back of the boat this year. I don't know what the deal is. I can't seem to pull anything out of the front of the boat. Anyway back to the tourney, water was very clear, 59 degrees on the main lake and 61 in the back bay. We brought nothing to the scales. However winning weight was 5 fish 9.43 pounds. Out of 38 guys, maybe 10 caught fish. Another pretty bad tourney for me. It was nice to get off the lake after 8 hours and back into a warm car. Well there is always the next tourney to look forward to. Hopefully it will be warmer, water and air temps.

Hope it goes well for you and you cash a check.

Where are you fishing and when?

We're having a tourney out at Powers Lake, WI this weekend. I'll let you guys know how we do.

It is illegal and unethical to take someone else's bait, copy it and sell it for profit. You can copy and give them away, but you cannot profit on someone else's design. Why not make your own design and sell it. How would you like if you came up with a great money making design, and everyone started copying it and ripping you off? Just some food for thought.

Lacquer paint will hold up better followed by an epoxy topcoat, however stripping the heads completely and powder painting is the best solution.

I would fish them hard for the first year like mentioned above. After that, you can clean the reel and super tune if you like to your needs. I will say that my Revo Premiers cast must better and with more ease after I cleaned them and then flushed the bearings.