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Shad raps are great always, I also really like the Dredger Series. Don't forget wiggle warts either.

I use a little portable sealed acid gel cell 12 volt for my bow mount fish finder. Eliminates the need to wire it to another battery and create a mess of wires.

Boat worked perfectly today. Maybe my other tank was empty, but I'll still check into what has been sugggestes here.

I couldn't get the bulb to pump up when I got home either. On a hunch, I switched the fuel tank switch. Then it pumped right up. Fingers crossed that was the problem.

I noticed today my primer bulb was having a hard time staying firm. I could get it firm, then get on plane, and then the motor would die after a few hundred yards. Hopefully I just new a new primer bulb and fuel line? Or is it something worse?

Ned rig, unless the water is really stained or the wind is real bad.

Seven ratio Curado with an Abu Veritas 7'H. Fifty to sixty five pound braid.

There are actually a lot of decent lakes. Ask Glenn the moderator, he's the washington guru. He might give you a few tips and lakes.

They work year round but especially spring and fall. In warmer water a faster, burning retrieve is good.

Fluoro all the way

The main reason is that when frogging you're generally fishing very heavy cover, especially heavy vegetation. You need all the strength and lack of stretch you can get to horse the fish out of cover. Even a two pounder will dive down and tangle up badly in thick weeds. You pull the fish back with about 10 pounds of salad usually.

Bang Craw/shad combo.

Fluoro would be awful for frogs. Braid is the way to go. No lighter than 50 pound imo. Sixty five or heavier is best in really heavy cover where bass over 5 pounds are common.

McCoy mean green is amazing line.

Deep suspending jerkbaits, blade baits, float n flies, underspins, and a Ned Rig. Lipless cranks can be good too, especially in the upper range of those numbers.

Accent Hi Rider's Buzz B 2 is the slowest out there. It is a double blade model with floats. The best single blade model for slow crawling is the Cavitron, and overall it's my best buzzbait.

Very nice fish. There are some nice ones in there if you can get through the 1 - 3 pounders. How deep are they right now and what's the water temp?

The Ned Rig works great around grass when you keep the weight 1/15 of an ounce or lighter. Like others have said, when you snap it out of the grass, that's when you get bit. They usually inhale it, so the strike is pretty soft usually, you will feel the bass when you take up the slack. I fish it on the bottom some, but I get most of my strikes as the bait is falling, so I use a lift fall type retrieve usually. The less active the fish, the shorter the "snap" I give the bait on the retrieve. Here are a couple of fish just under two pounds on the Ned Rig I got on a rip rap bank last time out.

Hold onto the hooks CAREFULLY and shake the bait.

No, no band at deeper depths. The band is always constant in the 2 to 5 foot range. I took a screen shot but it was too big of a file to post here.

It's not, it's out of the way of the motor. I have trimmed the motor way up and it's still there. Thanks for the idea though.

It looks like I have some interference on this unit. It's installed near the console. At the 2 to 5 foot depth level, I have a large right the left moving horizontal band, near the surface. It's not surface clutter, and my noise filter won't take care of it. It also appears on my down imaging, and on my side imaging though much more prominently on the left side. The power to the unit is hooked to a fuse box my dad and I installed near the cockpit/console of the boat. Ducer cable is routed through the boat on the starboard side, but it inevitably contacts other cables. The interference is there even if the motor is off and the master power switch is off. Having the trolling motor on or off doesn't affect it either. Any ideas on what to do?

Tatula CT. The Curado is great too but is $179.00.

Does anyone know which trolling motor mounting bracket I should buy for my Helix 5 DI GPS transducer?

Pflueger President, President XT, and the Supreme. Have heard good things about the Daiwa Fuego as well. The Shimano Sahara is another really good one, but I stick with Pfluegers these days.