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I have a couple of Scorpions & several Scorpion Mg's. I use them all the time. They are great reels. They can cast lighter baits with ease.

Could you trade for a Shimano this year?

I would

I have one & use it all the time. It gives me time to fish in the grass & pads without having to run the T/M all the time. Quiet is much better, it has improved my catch. If you tournament fish & are a shallow water fisherman get one it's worth it.

A weighted hook works for me.

I sure hope you insure your gear. I have a lot of high end gear but not like you & I have a rider That covers it anywhere. You just never know.

Linda Colt no longer works there. I understand there was a problem with her new boss & she left after 21 years.

If its plastic I think its a Rebel. If its wood I think its a Bagley. I have that bait up at the lake & when I go there this week I'll check it out.

I am guessing you are retired Navy, as am I. We have Santee Cooper lakes which are good fishing, plus the Cooper River. The other thing is there is plenty of retired Navy around here, an excellent VA hospital plus MUSC. If you are under 65 you can use the NWS Clinic. Columbia has Ft. Jackson so you could get medical services there I just don't know anything about them. Good luck on your decision, oops one more thing, it gets real hot here in July, August, & September.

Yes. See show your ride page 12. SC Bassin

Go to the Mercury website & look up the props that fit your motor

I have most of the Shimano JDM low profile reels. I use the left handed versions & most of the export versions are right handed. As Raul & Redlinerobert said there is not much difference. The last 7 or 8 I have purchased have been the export ones. The Calais 201 A & Calais 201 DC. I will not buy another Shimano JDM reel until the dollar gets much stronger.

I am wondering about when they get his computer & find out where all the stolen property went. What then?

You can get a gas operated one that will fit, at a marine dealer

Glenn: It's a 2008

I have never seen a circuit breaker between the charger & batteries either but that does not mean that some could not have one. What I have seen is a Perko switch(off & on) on the hot lead between the engine & battery. It is used to protect the electronics in the engine during a charge. It's turned off before hooking up your charger. Maybe that is what was meant. It's not a good idea to to jump a battery it could play hell with your electronics or worse if it was shorted & gassing a spark from the jumper & the battery could blow the top off the battery. This goes for your car also. Now in the real world most of us do it or have done it. I would have to be hard pressed to do now though. Engine electronics are to expensive now a days. Glenn it is not a good idea to use a deep cycle battery for a cranking battery. They are designed to be deep cycled & not top cycled. That will shorten the life of that battery. I have never heard that saying, but as a battery discharges it sulfates & when you get back you want to reverse that process asap because the sulfation is what shortens the life of your battery (as it hardens on the plates it lowers the capacity of the battery). I use the 4 bank 15 amp charger to get this as soon as possible. You never get all the sulfation off the plates but the quicker you get to it & get it done the more you get. As a battery is charging it is taking less amperage as it comes up. (If you are charging 1 battery you notice your meter is decreasing as your battery charges). Your cranking battery usually will finish 1st. because it not as discharge as the T/M batteries with my charger those 15 amps will have switched as needed therefore getting the charge over quicker.

Thanks AL. The diesel boats had lead/ acid batteries deep cycle batteries. If I remember right 1 cell was about 2ft square & 5 ft tall (I have to look my Quals book). We had to charge them every 3 to 4 days in port, every night before going to sea & at sea. Then every 30 days came the equalizer. When you top cycle a lead acid deep cell battery it causes it to build up sulfate on the plates(shorted the life). In my 1st post I use a poor choice of words in which waytoslow brought to my attention. He reminded me of being a non qual again. ;D In my 2nd post I hope everyone understood not to bring your battery to zero volts that will cause you to have big problems. I am sure most of you have had days that by the end of the day your trolling motor was give out. Head to the hill & put it on charge ASAP. Use a decent size charger, I just plug my 15 amp per bank on board charger. If you one of those big ones make sure you don't boil the batteries over as the heat will warp the plates. Now with all that being said Al & waytoslow have said that the battery manufacturers have said not to do what I called item 4. I have noticed these type batteries being called wet cells. Maybe the plates are being made of a different material as lead is suppose to be bad for your health. So lets scratch item 4 from my 1st post I have six Trojan six volt batteries in my golf cart that I run around the camp ground in & I have more than once had to push or get a tow back to the camper to charge the batteries. In fact it happens on a regular basis. In January those batteries will be 9 years old. I don't use them in my boat because of the weight. They are heavier than the interstates I am using & with a Yamaha 250 HPDI hanging on a 10" Hyd jack plate, power pole, 4 batteries & 2 live wells full of water I am pushing the weight limit in the back of the boat. I hope everyone has a Happy Thanksgiving

Wow looks like I put Way2slow's shorts in a big wad. After rereading my post using the words trolling motor quits was a bad choice of words. I pull my batteries down until in the high speed it's not pulling the boat around very well. (in the 10 volt range) I did state that I had a charger that had 15 amps per bank, not thinking that someone would be using a charger that charges at 2 amps per bank. I have had a bass boat since 1974 & never had a charger that did not have a output of less than 10 amps. I never had a on board charger that had less than 10 amps per bank. Now to be clear on how often I pull the batteries down. I average 15 to 18 days a month on the water over a years time. In the spring & fall I exceed that average. In those months I am running the trolling motor most of the day so I might go 7 to 8 weeks with out deep cycling. Because of some days due to wind I have to run on high all day( that pulls the battery down far enough). If I am doing a lot of running on the outboard I'll do it sooner 4 to 6 weeks. If you top cycle a deep cycle battery it will sulfate sooner therefore shorting the life of the battery. I also would not use anything less than a 10 amp per battery to charge it back I have been maintaining my batteries like that since 1974 & before that I was a electrician on diesel electric submarines for 21 years. so I think I am qualified. We did things that you will never find in a manual. As far as ticking me off, it never happened. I just hope you did not have to have the doc hook you to an I.V. full of blood pressure medicine.

I am using Interstate Batteries & have been for a long time. Having spent 21 years as a Submarine electrician I can tell you for sure that if you keep them maintained they will last 4 to 5 years easy. I use my boat between 180 & 220 days a year for the past several years. Here is what I do. 1- Check the water level every couple of weeks & in the summer do it weekly. Use distilled water when adding water. (Very Important) 2- Clean tops & post with a damp rag after checking water levels. Make sure to dry good. 3- Put batteries on charge as soon as you return home. Helps to prevent sulfating. (very Important) 4- Deep cycle your batteries. I use mine more than most so I do it once every 4 to 6 weeks. Run your trolling motor to your batteries quit then go in an charge them. This drives the sulfate from the plates (Very Important) 5- I leave my charger plug in when ever my boat is not in use I am running a 2008 Ranger Z-21 with a Minn Kota 460 on board charger.(4 banks @ 15 amps per bank) & a Minn Kota 101 trolling motor These maintenance steps will increase the life of any new battery. I said new because there is no sulfate build up yet. Doing this with a battery that you have been using for sometime will help but you will have sulfate build up. I would make sure you have the proper amount of water & do the deep cycle step to start with. I hope this helps & good luck with your battery choice

It's not included in the price. If it gets stopped at customs you will have a bill to pay before it's left with you. It also depends how the seller ships it on what your chances are of it getting stopped. It depends on the cost of the item as to the duty.

Not at all. I have as many as 6 of the same blanks with different rigs on them.

I also put a Racor on my boat a couple of months ago. They are on the expensive side as fishfordollars stated. Mine was $129 including new hoses & bulb. I now can get non ethanol gas @ 89 octane for $2.899 a gal at the landing.

This is my 2008, Ranger Z21 Yamaha 250 HPDI Bob's Machine Shop 10" Hyd Jack Plate 6' Power pole Lowrance LCX112c and LMS 520c Minnkota 101 w/ Sonar

I also thought the BPS brand was made by Toray & the Cabela's brand was made by Seaguar

The only time I had ice in one of my guides is when I spilled my sweet tea on the rod, a cube got caught in the 1st. guide ;D