Scott F

Modern depth finders are very sensitive to voltage. Could be your battery is going bad or it wasn’t charged up enough. Or you’ve got a less than ideal connection in your wiring. Sometimes it’s just that the power connector on the back of the unit isn’t plugged all the way in. A weak battery can start a motor just fine but not run the depth finders. When my battery was going bad, my depth finder would shut off any time I tried to start the motor. Once the motor was running, and charging the battery, the unit would work fine. DO NOT run the unit without a fuse! If there is an issue with wiring, you could permanently damage your depth finders.

Most of my trips with my boat I stay in cabins that are lakeside and have a dock that I tie up to each day. I prefer this style as I find them easy to use and stay in place. Even if the water gets choppy, those fenders protect the top rail from getting scratched if the boat goes under the dock. I’ve used the longer style with a hole in each end. For me and my boat, those work better tied to a post on the dock. Not every dock is the same and I know that those freeboard bumpers will work on every dock.

I noticed the address, Theresa, NY. My father was born in Theresa, NY 100 years ago! Those lures were probably made for catching fish on the St. Lawrence River which is close by. Just because someone is asking $500 on eBay, doesn’t mean it’s worth that amount. Finding out what someone actually paid for the lure will give you a better appraisal.

I use that same type of fender. I mounted additional cleats inside the gunnels just below the top line shown in the circle in your photo. You can use folding cleats so they don’t catch on stuff when not in use.

The OP isn’t interested in my copy, if anyone else would like it, let me know. $25 or best offer.

If you spent $5 for a coffee every day, that’s $1,825 in a year. I haven’t ever bought coffee from a coffee shop. I won’t even use Keurig pods because of how much they cost. It’s so cheap to make it at home. My flavored creamer is the most expensive part of my daily coffee habit.

For most of the fly fishermen I know, I used to be one, it’s more about the presentation and the art of it than about catching fish. There is a real challenge to learning to cast. To get the line to lay out properly without getting tangled. Making your own flies and catching something with them can be rewarding. Two of the best fishermen I know only use a fly rod. I picked it up as a kid because my father showed me how. I was never into the art of it but I found it effective on heavily pressured waters because the fish hadn’t seen those baits. I gave it up because it required too much of my time to do both, fly fishing and using gear. There are too many times when conditions make fly fishing difficult at best. Days when it’s windy or you don’t have the needed room for the line to stretch out behind you to cast. It’s possible to overcome those challenges but that’s when I don’t want to spend all the extra time to learn those techniques. If the fish are more than a few feet deep, you need specialized line to get baits deeper and learn how to handle the line. There aren’t a lot of guys who fly fish for warm water species like bass. When you are good at it, you can do well, but it’s rare for someone to outfish a good bass fisherman using fly gear.

I’ve got that book. I don’t know if there was more than one edition. Published on 1976, mine is the paperback version numbered 99/5000. Billy Westmorland and his family were hunters and fishermen who lived in the area that was flooded and became Dale Hollow Lake. The book is mostly stories of him growing up fishing Dale Hollow and what he learned, by spending thousands upon thousands of hours fishing that lake. Modern fishermen may not agree with everything he writes, but it worked for him. I’d be willing to part with my copy that’s in near perfect condition for less than what you saw it for, if you message me we can work something out.

True, you can’t turn the motor on an electric steer as fast as you can a cable steer, but if you are paying attention to where your boat is going, it’s not hard to keep yourself out of trouble. I cruise the banks with my Terrova frequently with no issues. When you consider all the advantages, like being able to spot lock, automatically follow a heading, being able to put the foot pedal anywhere in the boat or use a remote, having a slower turn speed shouldn’t be a deal breaker. I’m not familiar with the depth finder you are using but I use the built in transducer on the Terrova. If that doesn’t work for you, you might consider mounting your GT 52 on the back of the boat and running the cable to the front. Just a thought.

4 years ago, I got a $10,000 quote for the generator, transfer switch, permits and installation. At that time, there were supply issues and I would have had to wait 6 months just to get the unit which was a big reason I didn’t get one then. My sister paid even more because they had to run a gas line around her home from the meter to where the generator had to go. The prices have risen substantially since then.

I have looked into whole house generators recently. When my sump pump broke last year, the cleanup got expensive. I wanted to avoid another issue if the power went out. To get a 24kw natural gas unit with installation was going to run $14,000. Even a smaller 10kw model would cost $10,000. In the 4 years I’ve lived in this house, I think altogether we’ve been without power for a total of maybe 3-4 hours. Instead of a generator, I got a 3 kw power inverter and hooked up 2 deep cycle batteries to power the sump pump. Depending on how long the sump pump runs, those batteries should run the pump for at least 12 hours. I can also hook up a bit of power to keep the WiFi and a few lights going as well. If I lose some food in the fridge and freezer, it’ll still be thousands of dollars cheaper than the generator. Having a portable generator that needs to get started and hooked up, probably during a storm, is a possibility but not one I’m looking into.

6’3”, mostly Irish, with some English.

I’ve been apart of a smallmouth club that focuses mainly in rivers for over 25 years. A big thing I’ve noticed from reading the online posts and personal experience, is that when bass in rivers are feeding, they aren’t too picky. On any given day, reports show the bass are hitting a variety of baits. While one guy is getting them on jigs, someone else is using jerkbaits. Location and presentation are far more important than what bait is used.

I think the opposite is true. Water takes a while to cool down or heat up. A lake one mile long has significantly less water, and is probably much shallower than a 20 mile long lake. Just like on the stove, a small pot of water will come to a boil much faster than a large pot with the same amount of heat. Where I fish in Wisconsin, large lakes are often a week or two behind the smaller lakes in terms of fish getting ready to spawn. Where water temps on the big lakes might be 50°, the lake across the road which is very similar in most respects except is much smaller, the water may already be in the 60s. When a cold front comes through, the smaller lakes are affected much more than the big lakes are.

A lot has to do with depth. I’ve fished large impoundments where there was little water under 5 feet deep. I’ve also fished big lakes where there was no water over 10 feet deep. Hard to compare. Just too many variables to consider. Bottom content, current, water clarity, weed growth all have to be considered.

My astrologer says superstitions are stupid…😂

So like werewolves and similar myths? Or like bass only spawn during the full moon. It’s certainly not science.

Opening an old thread. Yesterday, it was 70°. We were walking around in short sleeves, doing some gardening, getting ready for planting. Today, it’s snowing. Gotta love spring!

Red (actually the Redeye Shad in orange craw) has become my favorite lipless crank that I use mostly in very clear water in northern Wisconsin.

While the wire is tieable, it’s not like tying fishing line. The tricky part is pulling the knot tight. The wire will pig tail easily. Because the wire is pricey, I don’t like leaving much of a tag end that I’ll be throwing away. I use a pair of hemostats to help me tie. It takes some practice to make leaders that lay straight without the wire curling. I recommend making them in advance as trying to tie them in the boat can be time consuming. I don’t tie the wire directly to my main line. I make individual leaders that I can reuse. Trying to keep the weight down, I tie a small, oval split ring to one end of the leader that will attach to my main line, and a loop knot or a snap on the other end to attach to my lure. The wire leader length depends on the size of the lure I’ll be using. As a general rule, I make them 6-8 inches long.

I haven’t fished the St Lawrence in many years, but unless it’s a very late spring, most of the bass should be post spawn at that time. Early spawners should be back on the bite by then.

Being able to break off a snag is the reason I don’t use anything bigger than 10 lb braid….even in the rocky rivers I fish.

I’ve used nothing but straight braid, (10 lb) no leader for a very long time. I won’t use anything else. I don’t have to deal with zebra muscles, and I don’t drag my line and baits across rocks so abrasion has never been an issue.

Since bedding bass are not feeding, it may not be that they “prefer” white it’s that they see that as more of a threat and pick it up to remove it from the bed. A friend of mine who bed fishes, (I avoid fishing bass on beds) prefers white because it’s easier for him to see when the fish picks up the bait. In my experiments with colors and plastics, I couldn’t find and difference in catch rates when using different colors. Using Senkos, which we all know are fragile and don’t last long, I’d change colors every time in needed to replace a damaged bait. It was only when on a trip and switched to a Berkeley power bait sinking worm that didn’t catch a fish, then in exactly the same spot switched back to a senko and started to catch them again. In those experiments, color didn’t matter.

Was the cat still riding the 3 wheeler? 🤣