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Did you mean vertical maybe?

Even at BOGO, I don't know why we are having this conversation after I saw the price of the Dingers.

Wow, do I like the looks of that! Gotta have! Gotta have! EDIT: where do we sign up?

My first 40 or so will be on a Husky Jerk.

Good feedback. I picked up a pack this winter and plan on trying them this summer as well. Out of curiosity, did you rig with tail up or tail down?

I was in there today, looking at baseball stuff with my son. And of course, had to wander over to the fishing section. I just picked up a couple of packs of 4" and got the BOGO deal so I thought I'd see if there were any other colors I missed. Well I walked by the Yum section and saw the Dingers at regular price of 2.99 for a 10 pk! I felt raped! I wanted to return the GY baits at 7.49 per pack and get Dingers! I don't think the GY baits are going to be any better than the Yum; maybe I'm wrong...idk I don't throw them enough to tell a difference. I left with a pack of blk/blue flake 4" Dingers for 2.99....

Glad to hear it. It's nice to have a project like that crossed off the Ta-Dew list. Now go post some pics of you with fish so I can be envious.

^^I hope you're right brother

I sincerely wish you the best my friend.

I think this will be the latest ice-out I can ever remember.

If the new 8.0 is included, count me in!

Was it relatively clear water? And maybe warmer than you might think?

Funny you posted this. I was in there today picking up 2 bags of 4"ers. Good deal for sure.

Thanks for the warning. I'll stay off the sidewalks! JK, congrats. That's a great feeling.

Don't be nervous, keep calm and a cool head. You'll do fine.

Well, to truly check a battery, you need to check the specific gravity of each cell. Pick up a gravity tester (around $8 at any parts store) and follow some of these instructions: http://www.trojanbattery.com/BatteryMaintenance/Testing.aspx Please wear safety glasses and basically, you just pull up some of the electrolyte from each cell and get a reading. You can check state of charge that way and test for a bad cell too. If all the readings are similar, most likely the cells are all good. If all are up but one is down, you have a bad cell. Pretty easy and straight forward. The link above shows what the readings should be on a fully charged battery. So, charge them, let them cool and then test them. Then, go fish and test them again after to see what the state of charge is after use.

Yes, you can only use one bank for one battery; unless you did some yankee engineering like cut the rings off the wires and put big charging clamps on them Then you could just unclamp them from the first 2 batteries and clamp them on the second 2 without undoing all the wingnuts etc... Personally, I'd try it a couple more times and if you don't lose battery power on the water, I'd leave it alone. I wouldn't go by how long it takes to recharge.

Sure will. You will double your reserve capacity. You said above "I dont know for sure the batteries were dead. Im basing that off of how long it took to recharge." Did you actually have a loss of thrust from your motor or are you just going by how long it took to recharge the batteries. And nice wiring figure there Numb!

^^Wicked happy for you! Glad to hear everything is complete and shined up. I bet that's one sweet ride. And I love the led trailer lights. Nothing like em; I replaced my tail light assemblies last year with leds and they are amazing. So we expect a post in the "show us your ride" thread now!

This is the direction I'm heading in as well; sounds like something else is wrong. You should be able to go almost all day on 2 good, fully charged batteries. As Slone asked, are they group 24's? 27's? Deep cycle or are they just "car" batteries? Are you sure your charger is charging from both banks? Sure they were both fully charged?

I'd love to hear them say the F word on the weather forecast! FIFTIES!! Unfortunately they have been using the T word (teens)

Thinking the same thing.

don't ask...

And to Opie, you can see, as AJay wisely stated above, many different thoughts here. I would recommend trying to find a buddy with each style of rod, ask to borrow and try for yourself.

Absolutely Mike. I should have worded my first post a little different. If I only had one rod to throw both of those baits on, a 7-11 MH Composite crankbait rod would be ideal. I guess I would err on the firmer side for the deep divers and you certainly can throw a trap on that rod as well.