Tim Kelly

A properly tied FG will not slip. I had a few false starts with it when I first used it, but that was down to me and not the knot. More practise and really pulling hard on both ends of line after you've done the first half hitch is really important. I tend to do around 24 weaves then the first half hitch. Pull like a lunatic on the braid and the fluoro to seat the knot, then a couple more half hitches. Clip the fluoro flush with the knot, then three more half hitches round the standing braid, then a double through half hitch to finish and leave the braid tag 1/2" long. Absolutely no failures since getting the technique down.

Once you wash the salt out of them Zman Zinkers float pretty well.

I must be way too old, I couldn't care less what anyone else has bought and definitely don't want to watch them unpacking it. I appreciate the difference between your own shopping and opening sponsor's product though. The world is a bit mad if people sit at home on their computers watching people unpacking their shopping. I might start a channel with a live fridge cam, so people can watch the traffic in and out of my fridge. Should be a huge hit!

A friend of mine has one. I've fished out of it a few times and it's a great boat. Feels more like a glass boat. He has a 150 XR6 on his, and it likes a drink!

Good luck with it all.

I don't have a problem with people making a living out of fishing and you tube, I have a problem with the total lack of sophistication the sponsors seem to have! Take Gene for example. He used to use those white rods and when explaining what his lesson of the day was and would mention the rod, the reel and retrieve ratio and the line he was using, just so you'd know what gear he used for the technique. Great and informative. Then he got a boat to use and that's obvious the whole time he's fishing, so he doesn't need to say too much about that. Starting doing videos just about some rods or whatever he's been sent however is dull with a capital D and in my mind reduces his credibility, which is a real shame. A good sponsor would allow the viewers to work out what he was using without the big presentation and if that influences their choice then so be it. Making a you tube channel as crass as all the others by making it all about the sponsors totally wastes the very thing the sponsors were attracted by in the first place and the very reason a person's channel has become popular.

It's not actually, I've never come across his channel. Certainly one of the guilty parties used to post one here though.

You're screwed. I used to subscribe to their "Extended cast" which was streamed from their website, but since they sold their broadcasting rights to whoever broadcasts it now the streaming has vanished, along with about 6 months of my subscription. Not impressed.

Seriously? I would think KVD would be interested in that gig! I can't believe that sponsors sign up for something just to ruin it. The whole point is that they see someone with a following and credibility and want their brand associated with them. If they had any sense they wouldn't ask, or expect anything more than the person to use their product and make an occasional mention of it. Full on Scott Martin style endorsement looks awful and convinces nobody, not to mention repelling people like me.

Why is it that once good interesting you tube channels become crass parodies of themselves after they "make it"? Some of my favourite bass fishing you tube channels have gone from being good genuine guys without agendas to the usual crass back patting, sponsor whoring, wastes of space that many of the TV programs are. These guys now spend time unboxing, meeting up with fellow you tube "stars" and generally losing any credibility they'd accumulated over the years by banging on about this sponsor's product or that sponsor's gear. It's a shame is all. The good interesting content has been replaced by bland nothingness.

I assumed she was his wife.

FG knot will solve your snapping issues, it's incredibly strong, but it takes a bit of practise. If you learn to tie it by weaving the leader over and under the braid you can easily tie it on the water, but it will take 2-3 mins. Worth the extra effort though.

(K)Not easy. A half blood knot is sort of right, but not the best knot. Putting a bobber stop on the line before you tie the knot helps deflect the snot a bit.

I think it would be funny to have a day in the boat with Biffle.

An observation on a difference between Tracker and Ranger aluminium boats that might be worth considering is that the Tracker revolution hull almost certainly runs a bit smoother on choppy water, but at idle speeds it's bow sits very high and it is not as easy to control, especially in a cross wind. The ranger hull sits flatter in the water and is easy to control at low speeds and it probably more stable as a fishing platform. I would choose a ranger if the price difference were affordable.

Hi Josan I'm from England and have fished Cijara a few times now. Great lake and now it's beginning to get a few zander in it as well, just to add variety. I stay with Lee in Helechosa when I'm there. I expect you recognise this spot!

I was going to post the exact same thing. LOL

It doesn't. Total myth for crankbaits. The same diameter mono would fish the same depth, or so close the difference is irrelevant.

I like the VMC aberdeen jig hook or the Eagle claw sickle shaped hooks in a size 2 for most ned baits.

I've done that Glen, and it works well. The issue is that when you've scrolled past the first 25 in the new content and press the "show more" or whatever it says to get the next batch of new posts up. If you then click on one of those posts and read it, then press the back button, you go to the end of the first 25 new posts, not to where you were when you read the post, if that makes sense? Basically every time you go back you have to scroll down through all the posts you've gone past and press the show more button as many times as it takes to get you back to where you were.

I have the same issue. I couldn't find a view new content button, so set something up in the activity tab that allows you to have a new content option. The not going back to where you were thing (once you've scrolled past the first 25) is a pain in the backside and I definitely look at less content than I did before the site changed.

Do you think it will be stable enough as the deck is very high?

I would bet that either the cartridge replacements broke a little O ring seal or getting them off caused a little air leak at the fuel pipe fitting. I would check both the filter and the filter housing very carefully, take them apart and put them back together again carefully.

It takes time to find bass deep. That's the drawback of the MLF format. The percentage most of the time is to fish shallow visible cover.

A friend of mine tows an RT188 with an Escape perfectly well. He does have trailer brakes, which he says are a nice upgrade over his previous Triton boat which didn't have brakes, but he's pulled them both for years a long way with no problems. The previous escape, and the Mazda Tribute before that lasted for over 200K before retirement.