moguy1973

When I'm wading I break out my 6' medium action berkley Amp rod with a Abu Cardinal 102i on it and 8lb P-line premium CX. It allows me to throw pretty much any lure I want from a small rooster tail up to a heavy top water walk the dog. The shorter rod is better IMO for portability and ease of use under low hanging trees. I used to use a 5' UL rod and reel and let me tell you a 2 1/2lb Smallie is a fight on one of those. Stepped up to a medium just so I wasn't fighting them for a long time.

Yeah, senkos aren't turning out to be that great of a deal on there this time. They've done better with those. But the $2.99 hula grubs and some of the other plastics are a pretty good deal.

I'd just make a removable bracket to hang the transducer over the side and get a Scotty or Ram mount to mount the finder on one of the thwarts. Then get a sealed battery like this one from Cabelas and you are good to go...That's what I use for my kayak... http://www.cabelas.com/product/Boating/AutoBoat-Batteries-Chargers/Marine-Deep-Cycle-Batteries|/pc/104794380/c/104698080/sc/104446080/Cabelas-Rechargeable-12-Volt-Battery/700551.uts?destination=%2Fcategory%2FMarine-Deep-Cycle-Batteries%2F104446080.uts&WTz_l=Unknown%3Bcat104446080 Lots of ideas here on how to mount it also http://www.google.com/search?q=fish+finder+on+a+canoe&client=safari&rls=en&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=nCrOUYWHCZLm8wTPtYGwCw&ved=0CCoQsAQ&biw=1440&bih=704

I have no affiliation with this website. Just passing on a good deal. http://www.overstockbait.com/default.asp Use coupon code GY632 for an additional 20% off!

I caught my first wacky rig bass the other day on a green pumpkin/gold flake stick-o. They have great action wacky rigged. I only suggest using o-rings with them because I lost the worm twice while reeling in fish.

The Strike King Sexy Dawgs are super easy to "walk the dog" too. Rebel Pop'Rs work great too...

Most do it your self jig makers I've read about go to tire shops and get their discarded wheel weights. Usually give them away for free so they don't have to pay to get rid of them.

Some states DNR's think so I guess...

Rapala owns Storm Hence why my post says at the top, "I got this email today from Rapala"

Yep...Gander mountain lists the 7 and 10' flats below the square bills on the link I posted.

He culled a fish on the Minnesota side of the river and it's not allowed to cull in Minnesota. Someone reported it and he lost his day 2 total, which didn't allow him to fish on day 3 because he didn't have enough weight.

Got this email today from Rapala: SNEAK PEEK: PALANIUK’S SECRET LURE -------------------- In the eye of the Storm - new bait rocketed Palaniuk to huge, early lead in River Rumble Lost in the storm of attention around Brandon Palaniuk's six-pound Day 2 lead in the Bassmaster Mississippi River Rumble last week was the secret lure that gave him such an advantage. Fittingly, it was a Storm® lure - a new square-bill crankbait, the Arashi™. "I tried a bunch of other crankbaits [on the Mississippi], and this one definitely caught more fish and - I'm a hundred percent confident - caught the bigger fish," Palaniuk says. Next month at ICAST, Storm will officially unveil the Arashi - which means "storm" in Japanese. Four models will be introduced in 12 colors - the Arashi Square 3 and Arashi Square 5, Arashi Rattling Flat 7, and Arashi Rattling Deep 10. The numbers in the name indicate the bait's maximum diving depth. Until then, Palaniuk is the only Elite Series angler that has them. Small wonder then that Palaniuk was the only angler to bring consecutive 18-plus-pound five-fish limits to the scales in the first two days of the Mississippi River Rumble (18 lbs. 4 oz. on Day One, 19-3 on Day Two). He was the only angler fishing with an Arashi Square 3. He threw it at big smallmouth bass holding in eddies in one to three feet of water near isolated rocks in the river's main current. "That's where those smallmouth live," Palaniuk says. "They just sit there and allow the food to come to them. ... As soon as [the Arashi] hit the rocks, it went straight over the rocks and right into their face. So they had no option other than to eat the bait." Palaniuk's Arashi Square 3 was one of only a few in his arsenal that would come through the rocks at triggering speed and not get hung up repeatedly. "I would fish this bait extremely fast," he explains. "It was bumping and grinding through those rocks, and all of a sudden, your rod would load up, as soon as they hit that bait. And they were eating it good." 'Milk run' Palaniuk built his six-pound lead in the first two days of the Mississippi River Rumble, mostly throwing his new Arashi and a Rapala® DT® crankbait in four or five small, specific spots. "I would just make a milk run through those and those fish would pull up and down," he says. "They'd pull up on top of those little sweet spots and feed and then they'd pull back down into the deeper holes when they weren't feeding. If you got your timing right, it was lights out." Self-tuning line tie Three features combine to make the Arashi the perfect bait for numerous shallow-water applications, Palaniuk says, noting that it will be just as effective elsewhere in the country as it was on the Mississippi River. Most unique to the Arashi is its free-moving, self-tuning line tie. "Once this bait is in tune, it will never come out of tune," Palaniuk points out, explaining why that's important. "You can turn this bait on a high-speed real as fast as you can possibly move your hand on the reel, and it will run true all the time," he says. "It will never blow out, never kick out to the side." That was especially key to Palaniuk's success in the first two days of the Mississippi River Rumble, he explains, because the fish's strikezone was tiny in such fast current. "Most crankbaits would kick out to the side, and by the time they got back on track, they were already behind the fish," he explains. But the Arashi tracked true right through the strike zone. Rotated hook hangers The Arashi features rotated hook hangers to nest the hooks close to the body preventing hang-ups, and accommodate larger hooks. "And fishing in fast current like that, when you're burning this bait by 'em and those fish come up and slap at it, you got a lot better chance of hooking up with them if you've got bigger hooks on," Palaniuk explains. Circuit board lip The Arashi's circuit-board lip construction allows for a thinner bill, which makes the bait durable and gives it more action at slower speeds. "I was digging those rocks in a foot and half to two foot of water most of the time, and I threw the same crank bait all week," Palaniuk says. "I never had a problem with the bill chipping or any of that." http://www.gandermountain.com/modperl/product/details.cgi?pdesc=Storm-Silent-Arashi-Square-ASQS03&i=756528 Looks like a pretty nice lure! And it seems to work, at least for Brandon...

Palaniuk was slamming them using the Storm Arashi's on the Mississippi this past weekend before he was DQ'ed.

The winner of an Elite event gets 99 points. For every place below that they get one point less all the way down to 100th place that gets 0. Tally it all up and he who has most wins. http://www.bassmaster.com/blog/points-are-not-points It's all about consistency. Faircloth may have won an event but he's also had a 61st, 54th, and a 47th. Not good.

This is what I do. Although I use Google Drive. Out of all the apps I looked through, a simple spreadsheet that I made up works best because I can put in the fields I want without having to leave fields blank that apps had in them that I really didn't care about having to record. My spread sheet even adds up the total weight of fish that I've caught (in lbs. and oz. no less ) You won't want to be fumbling through your phone app entering data when a strong bite is on.

I know people that get doubles on WTD topwater baits when smallies are crushing schools of shad on the Ozark lakes.

One thing about fishing from a boat compared to bank fishing is that you'll be pulling your baits away from the bank. This means when you use a crank bait it will follow the contour of the bottom of the lake as you pull it back instead of dragging it up the bank as it nears the shore. Also when jig fishing the jig will bounce down the contour instead of dragging it up. A boat does make it easier to position yourself to be able to cast parallel to the bank too so you can stay fish more effectively.

Everything in this article points to all their products being made in the USA http://www.redding.com/news/2010/dec/04/wright-and-mcgills-fine-products-are-the-of/

http://www.eagleclaw.com/content/our-historySays it right on eagle claw's web page too http://www.eagleclaw.com/

Wright & McGill (made by Eagle Claw) are made in the USA. Works for Skeet and Brent Chapman!!

I can smelelelelelelellll what your are cookin!

I use a Flambeau AZ3 tackle bag when I'm walking the bank or wading. They are $30 on Walmart's website but I think I got mine for less than $20 in the store. Has 3 small boxes included and lots of pockets for bags of plastics. http://www.walmart.com/ip/Flambeau-AZ3-Light-Soft-Tackle-Bag/16326924

Yep, makes buying a boat on CL from Illinois who doesn't have those rules hard to do. And like Team_Daughtery said, we have to pay Personal Property Tax on that kind of stuff every year. It's kind of a rip off...

Not in Missouri. The boat, motor, and trailer all require titles. OP, i think if you bought the motor in a state that doesn't require a title you need a bill of sale showing where you bought it and fill out a title application for it. The DOR website is kind of vague on what to do other than they tell you to call the license office.

CTS-v's have one cam. They are not DOHC. They have an old school pushrod OHV engine. Just letting you know.