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You could but most of the manufacturers have a lower end model that's specifically designed as a portable with a battery powered base and suction cup transducer mount. they normally run about $30-40 more than the non portable model. I'm not talking about those hang over the side finders that clamp to the boat either. If you wanted something nicer than you'd have to improvise a finder mount and something to hold the transducer.

The Johnny Morris line has a wide spool version. 160yd capacity vs 120 for the narrow. .2 oz heavier.

The problem extends beyond just the DT's. I can't tell you how many Glass shadraps I've had the bill break on. I've still got a few of them but have since switched to a Cabela's glass shad knockoff that looks and works very similar to the rapala bait. You're right though, they need to get this bill breaking problem fixed. For the kind of money those Rapala's are going for it's ridiculous for a bill to break off for seemingly no reason.

Use the fishing articles at the top of the page. There's an entire section there on bass boats. Here's the link to maintenance. http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/boat_maintenance_tips.html

Most E-Commerce 101 classes will teach you that some merchandise just won't sell well on the internet. That people just aren't comfortable buying something sight unseen. Jewelry, stamps and coins, antiques are just a few. It's the reason those E-grocery stores never took off. Folks just don't want a bag of groceries, usually with perishables like meat and produce showing up, delivered to their doorstep, that they had no involvement in choosing the actual product that wound up in the bag, despite how fresh or good the product might be.

A couple other things I forgot to mention. An Ebay storefront is also a cheaper way of putting yourself into a mainstream location on the web vs buying a domain from somebody like GoDaddy, designing your own site and then waiting for sales. The storefront gets your merchandise onto a site that has millions of visitors a day. That will also show up in popular search functions like Google and can be used in link form at sites like this place. Basically, it gives you the potential to get yourself out there faster than standard web E commerce methods. As for costs? IIRC, the charge was about $15 a month. Listing fees were like 15 cents for 30 days. There were various levels of storefronts, I don't remember the particulars and I'm sure they've changed in the 2 + years since I was involved.

Ebay had a special deal a couple years ago where you could try a storefront for a month for free. I tried it. At the time, listing fees were much higher than they are now. A storefront let you pay X amount of dollars and then you listed your items for next to nothing and the time of the listing was 30 days. Your back end commission fees weren't any different. Here's where the rub was. If someone does a search, Storefronts end up at the very bottom of the search in their own category. If a search on say "swim baits" turns up 2 or 3 pages, the storefronts don't show up till the end of the 3rd page. As often happens, the searcher rarely gets to the 3rd page before they find something they want. Anyway, I'm glad it was free. It hurt my sales vs. helping but I'm sure product line has a lot to do with that. Now a days, Ebay has really dropped their front end listing fees and loaded up the back end commissions. The advantage to that is if an item fails to sell in the first 7 or 10 days you can relist again and still be spending less than the old days if you did the same. But it's all about the merchandise too. If it's something hot and in demand, throwing it up for a shorter term duration is the way to go. You'll get more hits because it winds up farther up in the search function. If it's something like clothing that takes a little more time to attract interest, the storefront would probably be the way to go. I will say I've noticed there are fewer storefronts selling fishing equipment these days than in the past. BTW, one of the reasons why a storefront operation will periodically throw a few pieces of merchandise up for auction is to get themselves into the mainstream on the search function. If a buyer pulls up your item for auction he'll probably wind up browsing your storefront. Something that may never happen if you didn't do that.

I've never used a Morris rod but I've got a pair of the JMX 10HC's reels. Amazing reels. We'll have to see how they hold up but I could see changing to these completely from my Revo's.

Looks like you got a good deal at that price.

Pull a skier, tuber or knee boarder with a bass boat?! Many, many, many times.

http://www.iboats.com/Boat_Catches_Latches/dm/cart_id.656105559--session_id.242989064--view_id.257647

Just a heads up. Rich (Dink) is having his last tournament on Washington county lake this Sunday, Oct 5th from 7 am to 3 pm. Entry is $20 a boat with big bass at $5 per man. These T's have been drawing around 10 - 12 boats each, just about right for Washington county. Show up at the bait shop and register pre-tournament. Rich says this one will take off from the boat ramp area.

Just a heads up. Rich (Dink) is having his last tournament on Washington county lake this Sunday, Oct 5th from 7 am to 3 pm. Entry is $20 a boat with big bass at $5 per man. These T's have been drawing around 10 - 12 boats each, just about right for Washington county. Show up at the bait shop and register pre-tournament. Rich says this one will take off from the boat ramp area.

Basically these are TAS rods with an extra bit of material added for strength. These are heavy duty rods made for flippin, frogs, slop and any kind of fishing where you need great sensitivity but a rod with guts that won't break when you're hoisting a fish out of heavy cover. These won't let you down.

Bobby's has them as cheap as anyone. http://bobbysfishinrods.com/page/1hhhv/Allstar_Asr_Rods.html Classics for $75 TAS for $85 ASR's for $75 TAS BB's for $100 Platinums for $118. Good guy to deal with.

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I gave up trying to read it.

I fish nothing but All Stars. From Titaniums, Platinums, TAS and Classics. A great rod that has never let me down.

Of the 3 or 4 local stores that are still in business in my area, you're going to have to offer something more than a bait and tackle store to stay in business. You're not going to pay the electric bill at home by merely selling some lures, night crawlers, minnows, rods and reels and providing a place for guys like Burley or Avid to hang out, kibitz and play checkers. Services like rod, reel and trolling motor repair. Sales of hunting equipment, liquor and other sporting goods will be necessary to make it a success.

I'm still waiting for hard data that indicates that it was loans made under this plan that took the whole system down. Of the foreclosures I'm aware of plus many more folks that got into sub-prime ARMS that re-adjusted themselves into a rate that put the pinch on the borrower, none of them would've qualified for any of these programs.

So you drink all that milk and they still charged 75 cents to see the Mets back in those days? 1962 40-120 1963 51-111 1964 53-109 1965 50-112 1967 61-101 I suppose it was quite a thrill when a REAL baseball team like the Giants, Dodgers or Cardinals showed up. You could watch them play and dream that someday your team might be that good.

I've sold a few of them brand new. Seemed like really sweet reels. At that price I'd jump on it.

I personally haven't seen many instances where buzzbait color was a big deal. That bait is a total reaction strike, the fish is attacking the noise and sputtering action, the actual lure color has very little to do with that end of it.

25 years of pitching with a flipping switch reel and never torn up a gear yet. Operator error perhaps?

The original Lunker Lure.