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Come home from school, do your home work and lay it out neatly so your parents an look it over. I would think they care more about what you have done than watching you do it. Your education is going to provide you with the job and funds to finance you fishing in future years so the education is very important to your fishing. If you were my child I would be very receptive to this but if you tried to sneak one past me I'd ground you for so long you would be dying the grey out of your hair before you went fishing again.

Check the rods guides. Use a Q tip. If a guide is defective I am pretty sure BPS will replace the rod. Also check your reels level wind guide.

We have had several small Johnson motors from 3 yup to 10HP and they have all been water cooled.

1. I'd use colors tied to the forage base and 1 or 2 wild departures from it. 2. I don't have a favorite brand. 3. Drag it on the bottom, hop it and swim it at various water depths. 4. Assuming you caught fish before fish the same areas. I'd be sure to fish off shore humps. When you say norther are you talking northern lower or UP?

It takes a very small jig to be less than 1" in total length. This law has been in on the books in NH for several years, my guess is nearly 10. It only affected my Crig weights,split shot, crappie and perch jigs when it was enacted.

The reason the oil needs to be put in from the bottom is to purge the air out the top as you fill. For a small motor you can pump it in the bottom or just put the spout of the oil tube in the bottom and squeeze. When oil comes out the top put the top screw in quickly.

Sorry I said flouro not braid. Same thing with braid.

Use moderately priced mono until you develop your skills. Unless you are one of the very few you will backlash to the point of cutting the line off the reel and refilling. There is no need to use expensive fluorocarbon while you learn.

Crestliner is right on. Years before Lawrance came out with the "Little Green Box" I had the pleasure of fishing a good sized lake with a retired gentleman. He had his anchor rope marked in 1 foot intervals from about 10 feet to over 30. He would pull up on a point or off shore reef and ask me to put the anchor over and give him the depth. When I gave the depth he was looking for would have me set the anchor tell me what the bottom did around the boat and what the cover was. Structure fishing was done long before sonar was available. Structure is easier to locate and more detail is available with todays sonar but sonar is not a must. Oh! I have 2 graphs and a flasher on my boat.

IMHO using only one lure does not provide enough information. If you load the boat then you think what a great lure when in fact the fish were so turned on that a wide variety of lures would have been effective. Or if you couldn't buy a bite it may have been one of those days/lakes/spots where all the bass had lockjaw.

Years ago I heard Joe Foss talk. At that time Joe had a weekly fishing show. He said it took them 5 days to get enough film for a 30 minute show. I think that today it is much less but do you think anyone would watch a program that was not edited? How many times have you gone to the lake and fished a 30 minute period that would be worth watching. Fishing shows are to entertain and hopefully educate other fisher folks. If they don't do both they will cease to exist. If you don't like what you see watch General Hospital.

I have never checked the mpg's but I read a Boating or Bass and Walleye Boat test of my boat when I first bought it.Low mpg's at low rpm's. At 4500rpm mpg was at 4.5 mpg with a rapid drop off above 4500 rpm. Over the years I have looked at other performance checks and large engine or small they seem to have the best mpg's at about 4500rpm. And a surprise to me they all get about the same mpg's. This is all based on my maybe suspect memory and subject to challenge.

Get a Wall Mart deep cycle marine. Maintain the water level and recharge as soon as you come off the water. It might not push you for 7 hours but it beats rowing or sculling with a canoe paddle.

Mine was more likely 1956. My Dad, a friend of mine, and I were fishing; taking turns to row the boat-no TM's in those days. I got hung up and tightened up the line to show Dad where to row us in so I could get free. Just as I pulled the line tight and out of the water the hang up shook a few times and headed up the shore line towards a big tree down in the water. As the fish neared the tree I had both thumbs on the spool(no drags on bait casters then)and figured I either had to turn the fish or it would foul me up in the tree. Pop went the line. We were fishing for northerns and had caught them up to 15# in this location. I always wished I had seen this fish. It had to be considerably over 15 or on steroids.

Found it see PM on this site.

I have a pair of (If I remember correctly) Sheboyghan Boot (out of business) fishing boots. They have about 6" leather uppers and rubber bottoms mush like L. L. Bean boots but they have deck soles for better traction. Now that it's warmer I wear Mally World knock off crocks.

There is a step in the filler hole on each cell the water should be up to that level. Fourth season on mistreated batteries makes me think they have failed. I assume the boat is on a trailer if so you can pull it to an autostore and have the batteries load checked Wal-Mart's tire service can do it.

Are you using a wide enough gap hook so the plastic can get out of the way?

For very clear water I would use a leader but I'm not sure ir really makes much difference except in my head. I remember an In-Fisherman artical from many years back that claimed that some fish and maybe walleyes specifically would follow the line down to the bait. I use snaps for many of the same reasons. Foe R-bend spinner baits it is easier to put a piece of tubing on the R and then put the snap ahead of the snap. Keeps from having the snap slide away from the R during the cast or retrieve but half the time or more I'm to lazy to do it. Sometimes after a tough day it is hard the remember these creatures have a brain the size of a pea.

I am long past the youngster age and have bass fished for over 65 years. I am not a fan of spinning gear but there are some places where they are very effective, so I must have 6 or more. Small baits, skipping and drop shotting are examples. I don't have a spinning reel less than 20 years old nor did any of them cost much over $20. I have absolutely no problem with line twist. The reasons for line twist in older reels are: 1,You put it on wrong and started out with twist, 2, You are using a lure that twists, i.e. an in-line spinner or a soft plastic that's not on the hook straight so it spins, 3, You crank while the drag is slipping and 4.The reel has failed. I take care of these issues by: 1,To make sure the line goes on with out twist. I put the line through a few guides, tie it to the spool with an arbor knot, put the spool on the floor with the label up and take a few cranks while applying some tension. Put slack in the line and check for twist. If there is twist flip the spool over and repeat,if no twist fill the spool. 2, I put a good quality swivel on all my in-line spinners. You can put a swivel on the line and retie line to the swivel but when I'm fishing I don't want to take the time, watch the soft plastics for spin. 3.This one I prevent by having the drag very tight with the rod straight up and back reeling or just let the spool and crank windmill when I need to give the fish line. As for number 4,I have never had reel failure cause line twist. I have had parts break, frames broken through abuse, bails get bent, but never line twist because of the reel. Yep! I have had to take all the hardware off the line and drag the line behind the boat but I am sure I haven't done it for 10 years and it's more likely 20. I take pretty good care of my bait casters but the spinning reels get a wipe off, gears greased and the bail roller oiled on rather rare ocassions.

Wayne is right on. You can also punch in a waypoint and return to the spot easily.

In a while check your PM's. I've got to go find my lake map.

Sorry for the double dip. I just noticed you are from T.H. I was born there moved away and returned to RHIT (RPI in those days). I still have a few relatives left there.

Excellant charts of either Saginaw Bay or St. Clair should be avaiable at most or all tackle shops. Saginaw is also an excellant smallie fishery. Both LSC and the Bay are big water worthy of your respect but not fear.

Oh me! The first thing that goes is your hearing followed by memory and I can't remember what was next. I fish very clear water always see bottom at 15 feet and usually 20'. So even though I am not sure it is a big deal; line that is harder to see is a personal confidence builder. I am sure I used some Berkley and another one or two. I didn't have any problems with any of them I just liked the BPS price. Especially as my use of floro increased. My experience is strictly on bait casters. On spinning gear I use mono in 4 or 6 pound test except for the rig I use for skipping.