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Bull Shoals, right after ice out. You could see the bottom in 25 ft of water. You could actually see fish way out ahead of you but when you moved your arm to cast they spooked. Club tourney. One fish won, about 12", everyone else blanked.

Of my fish shots you get that one. Great Smallie CJ. Great work on the video Russ. That was my first roadtrip and I will be back. It was as fun as it looked on the video.

Yep. A TV set with a digital tuner and some sort of UHF antenna. If you're on cable or satellite you don't have to worry at all.

TV stations previously on the UHF band will continue to be on the UHF band, as will all TV stations. The only difference is they will be transmitting a digital signal. Here's the interesting part and I'll use the St Louis area as an example. Digital Tuning Frequencies For St Louis Stations: KMOV CBS 56 UHF KDNL-TV ABC 31 UHF KSDK NBC 35 UHF KETC PBS 39 UHF KPLR-TV WB 26 UHF WRBU UPN 47 UHF KTVI-TV FOX 43 UHF Currently, KMOV, the CBS affiliate is channel 4. Their digital channel is 56 on the UHF band. Will they suddenly change from Channel 4 news at 10pm or change to Channel 56 news at 10pm? People in the St Louis area are so ingrained knowing which channels are affiliated with who it could cause some obvious confusion. KDNL is currently one of a couple stations already on the UHF band, channel 30 to be exact. In June though, they will cease transmitting the analog signal on channel 30. They are currently transmitting their digital signal on channel 31. Will they drop channel 31 and switch exclusively to 30 or not? Interesting scenarios will come from this.

Technically, the actual name for that is a firmware upgrade. It's very possible there was a programming glitch written into the original firmware that is causing the malfunction and only an upgrade will fix the problem. This doesn't mean that all 520C's experienced the problem, probably only certain runs. LCD tv's also have certain problems that can only be solved by a firmware upgrade. If the upgrade can be accomplished by the customer, Lowrance should have a download available for it along with instructions on how to perform it. BTW, whether a TV or an LCD fishfinder, never perform a firmware upgrade unless instructed to do so by the manufacturer. Firmware upgrades are the equivalent of upgrading your bios on a computer and you never do that unless it's certain to do so will fix a problem.

The rod is the most important piece between the two. You can get a competent reel like a BPS Extreme, on sale for around $50 and then match it to a nicer rod like a Team All Star, Mojo, Quantum tour, BPS Pro Qualifier, etc. for around $100.

I would avoid adjusting anything until you've determined that the throttle linkage (and choke plates) are operating cleanly and not binding. As already stated, it does sound like gummed up carbs. Not unusual if that boat sat for any length of time. When you get it going I'd suggest adding a can of Seafoam to each tank full of gas. Helps decarb the motor and is a fuel stabilizer as well.

I downloaded the catalog and took a closer look at that page. It's clear they used last years photo of the regular TAS rods and then added the cranking one. Give me your opinion though, it almost looks like they "shopped" the cork onto the rod handle, something about that photo looks amiss. between the really blurry photo to the odd look to the cork... hmmm... either that or they grabbed a bad rod off the reject pile to photograph.

I hope it's a young kid fishing one of those Roland Martin bazooka rods with a banjo minnow tied onto it under a bobber fishing for crappie. The entire bass fishing industry will collapse.

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I'll try and clear this up. Up till digital broadcasting, television broadcasting was analog What's the difference between digital and analog? Let's use audio as a comparison. Previously, on a vinyl record for example, the audio as it was recorded was put onto the record and the music you heard was a direct result of how it was etched onto the record. If you hooked up an oscilloscope, you'd see a garbly sine wave that was a direct representation of how the music came right off the instruments or microphones. Digital is different. They feed the analog signal coming from the instruments/microphones and convert it to digital. A bunch of 1's and 0's. MP3's, CD's etc are all digital medium. In your stereo receiver at home, the digital is reconverted back to analog just before it goes to your speakers for you to hear. Now for television, they merely take the analog TV signal from the TV camera's and convert it into those same 1's and 0's. It's transmitted through the air, received by the antenna, deciphered by the digital tuner in your set or converter box, then sent into the rest of the TV for conversion to be shown on the screen. None of this though has any relationship to the actual transmitting of the signal. It's done much the same way it's always been done. Currently TV transmission signals are approved by the FCC for VHF (very high frequency) channels 2-13 and UHF (ultra high frequency) channels 14-69. Now, how does that work? The optimal length of an antenna is directly related to the frequency you're trying to receive. In the case of say a set of rabbit ears antenna that sit on top of a TV, the long rods that stick up are for VHF reception (since the transmission "waves" are longer) and the smaller loop is for UHF (the transmission "waves" are shorter). In the case of the antenna shown by Eddie Munster, the back half of that antenna with all the long poles sticking straight out is for VHF reception. The very front end is for UHF. Come June, he could saw that antennae off right at that V shaped appendage and still receive all the digital signals he wanted to. In June, all transmissions on the VHF band will cease with those frequencies sold off to the highest bidder. That leaves the UHF band for TV transmitting. So why can't regular TV sets that already have a UHF tuner built into them work beyond June? Because the signal being sent will be digital instead of the 70 + year old NTSC analog that's been sent up to now. The old analog tuners in those sets won't be able to decipher what it's receiving. That's why you'll need a convertor box, merely a box that has a ATSC tuner (digital) and the circuitry needed to convert the signal into something the older TV set can process. Finally. So if everything is being broadcast digitally, won't it all be High Def? Nope. After June everything going out onto the airwaves will be digital content but unless it was originally recorded with High def camera's or was produced with HD graphics engines it's not HD. BTW, for a short while, some manufacturers were producing sets with both types of tuners, the old NTSC and new, digital ATSC. Although the sets are completely capable of receiving digital transmissions they ARE NOT HDTV. HDTV's have the ability of reproducing a picture in the 720 or 1080 mode which non-HDTV's don't have. but that's for another thread.

Yikes! That's really, really bad. I hope that's not indicative of what the real thing looks like.

I believe the Maxxums had just 2 wires coming from the pedal for 24v only. If You're getting 24 volt's up to the pedal you've got an issue inside the foot pedal. You can gain access to that by taking the plate off the bottom. Once you get that off you'll need to troubleshoot from there and find out where you're losing the voltage. Possible problems include the on/off/on momentary/continuous switch (I've had one of those go bad), the actual on/off switch on the pedal, circuit breaker or the electronics. The easiest way is with digital voltmeter. Put the ground wire on ground and then trace with the positive lead. At some point you'll have voltage going into something but nothing coming out.

1. Has this TM worked previous before you added the new batteries? 2. Are you sure the new batteries came charged? 3. Have you checked the circuit breakers on the TM, red button on the foot pedal and the breakers on your boat? 4. Did you rewire anything?

The changes involve both digital transmission AND the frequency which they will be broadcast at. All VHF channels, 2-13, will cease to exist for television transmission and the US government will be selling those frequencies off to the highest bidder.

You do have the toggle switch on the side set to either mom or Con right?

I used to have an All Star Titanium Wacky Worm AST815WW baitcaster that was 6'9", med/hvy, mod fast action. It was a great rod for senko's or other weightless plastics because the moderate action of the rod allowed the tip to load up just the right amount on the cast. All Star hasn't made the baitcasting model in a few years though it is available in spinning. I sold mine. The rod just wasn't versatile enough to justify taking up rod box space for just one method. I now get by with a 6'6" Med/Ex fast AS Platinum rod.

In Missouri, 2 things you can unload a box of shells on without fear of limits or regulations of any kind. In fact, the conservation department whole heartedly encourages you to fire away. Feral hogs and Amadillo's

One thing about those old, huge outside antennaes. Most of bigger elements on those antennaes that stuck out were for the reception of VHF stations. UHF reception was handled by a very small bow tie antennae mounted towards the very front of that array of long rods sticking out. Come June when VHF goes away, the vast majority of those metal elements will become useless.

Lucky you. The wifes been at Panama City Beach this past week. There are bikini's there, lot's of them.

The Doctor Phil types have a syndrome named for folks like this. Can't remember what it is. The purchase has less to do with need but more about fulfillment of a desire to own and the rush one receives when actually making the purchase. Ultimately, once the initial purchase thrill is gone, the item winds up on a pile with all the other previous purchases. Sometimes much of it never gets used. After 40 + years of fishing, I look at all tackle as tools and I evaluate new stuff as to how it might fill a niche in what I already have or how it might work better than what I have in various fishing conditions. But hey, the tackle industry needs guys like you to survive.

If they're in a rural area, doubtful. Once the changeover happens in June, finally, and everything goes digital it's going to take a better antennae than before to produce a picture. Unlike the good old days where if you had poor reception you'd be able to see the picture, just with a lot of snow, digital doesn't work like that. There's no snow but the picture will pixelate so bad you won't be able to decipher it and most sets these days will bypass any digital signal that won't produce a fairly strong signal while they autoprogram. You may need to put up and outside antennae.

The BPS crankin sticks are probably the best buy within the entire BPS rod line. Although I switched to All Star, it certainly wasn't because I wasn't happy with the BPS crankin sticks. Great rods at a terrific price.

http://www.bassresource.com/fishing/hope_chronicles.html This is but a small synopsis of the entire John Hope study of large bass that was originally posted in "In-Fishermen" magazine in the late 80's. The entire book, "Trackin Trophies" is still available. A few things I remember. Big bass fall into 2 groups, those that spend their entire time in shallow water and the majority that spend their time in deep water. Those deep water big bass make a home very close to where they were spawned from. They return to the same place to spawn each season. They have specific feeding times. When feeding they cruise the shoreline at about 6-8 feet and look for feeding opportunities. They are very vulnerable to being caught during these times. Non-feeding times finds them on a point, usually, suspended and nearly un-catchable. They use this same homebase all year. They are territorial. Boundaries are defined if 2 giant bass are using the same area. The fish during feeding will swim to the end of it's boundary, turn around and go back. Lot's of very interesting stuff. I cut the article out of the magazine but still can't find it. He gave names to all the fish. Interesting stuff.