DawsonH

Try some live bluegills. Put them out with a bobber big enough to float them, and give them about 12"-18" of line to play around with. The reason I tell you to use the short line is so that when it struggles it will make a lot of surface commotion. This should attract the attention of whatever fish are in the area and hopefully get you bit. If you can't catch a baitfish in this lake then give up on it.

Put it on the left if you have a right side console, for weight reasons. :edit I probably have the same boat as you just an older model of it. Thing leans to the right when Im alone, even with ancors, tm, and tm batts all on left side. I weigh 190.

25 pounds is a lot of weight.

Why do you make the distinction between bullheads and catfish? For me, I have caught a bullfrog on a jig, and I have had them chase my bobbers when bream fishing. I got a red ear on a dd4 while bass fishing last year, and I have snagged turtles on a sugar shad a couple times.

Texas is where its at. There are ponds, creeks, rivers, big lakes, small lakes, LAKE FORK, the coast is within a days drive or less of all the major cities and we don't have California's gas prices or emissions control standards. We have a bumper stick that says I wasn't born here but I got here as soon as a could.

The title says it all.

Whatever is in the lake that you are fishing. See minnows swimming around the bank? Crawdads? Frogs? Insects on the bank near water?. Catch those and use them. Buy yourself a cast net and learn to use it, you can catch local bait easily then.

so get rid of it and buy new one in other words?

I have a charger that says tapering charge on the front of it. Is that good?

If its your neighbor why haven't you talked to them before with out any agenda? If it was me I would be offended that the first time you came over was to ask to use my pond that I may/may not even have fish in.

If you will search around you can find a chart to help you determine that.

Hear it all the time when things get quiet. Its means its working properly, sending out sound waves to help you find stuff

Where if it freezing could have caused that.

Ive seen it at all of those places. I got some from a marine dealership too.

I'm going to buy a minkota maxxum 24 volt variable speed. Right now I use to batteries wired parallel so that I can use a 12 volt motor all day long. I also run my electronics off these batteries. When I switch to this new motor will I still be able to run light, aerator, bilge pump, and fish finder x2 off these, OR will they all have to go on my starting battery. I run a 30 hp engine, so I don't need alot to crank it. My definition of all day is daylight to dark or dark to daylight, so when I say all day I don't mean 6-7 hours, I mean more like 12-15 in summer.

Don't forget he can DIY the transom saver also.

Ive perfected the art casting with right arm and switching before the bait hits the water.

There is no thermocline in the middle of January.

I dunno how cold the water was at 35', but I know that I went to a dif lake and the bass were the same. Its not from damage. The crappie don't have red mouths and there both relating to shad in the middle of the lakes i was fishing.

If your budget allows it get a bigger motor than that too.

the brain is between the eyes and slightly back from them. A pellet gun or an ice pick takes care of it easily.

How did it come off?

Never, ever go without an oar. At least one. They can also be used to pull people out of the water, to signal if you need help, and as a weapon(this would be extreme but sometimes beavers and nutria rats go crazy).

Im sure they are. And someone is catching in it too. I dunno who though.

Its because of the cold water. When I was crappie fishing back in January every bass that I caught had a reddish tint to its mouth. These fish were in about 30-35' of water and were feeding on shad.