KayakKid

Last year while on a trip to the boundary waters CA, I found myself using only spinner baits (except mr. twisters for the eye's). Since the only rod I had brought was a medium-medium with 8 pound mono on it I got to know this set up pretty well. After that trip I wouldn't recommend using mono for spinner baits at all, maybe it you had like 20+ pound or something to the point where it stretches only a small amount, but I wouldn't recommend that. I also have a rod Med. Med. with 8 pound braid that I feel is a little weak for spinner-baits IMO. In recap, after the trip I spooled 20# power pro and haven't had a single complaint yet. I think you would be fine with 8 pound mono, floro, and braid, it's just IMO there are better options out there.

Are you looking for this to be something to use while trolling or like is it just for carp and bass and stuff.

I just spooled 50 pound gander braid on my punching rod and backed a few others, and so far it seems pretty good. The color wears off real easy though. After spooling I could see green on my fingers, and that was without water contact. I got out a few times in FL this spring break and it seemed just like Powerpro so I guess we will see how it holds up.

I think I will make something out of the angle like you said and make the plate the motor mounts to out of corian. Once I finish it I'll post how it turned out.

Hello, recently I have upgraded the motor on my Jon boat from a 2.3 Honda 4 stroke, to a 9.9 Yamaha 4 stroke. Although there are a plethora of benefits from switching, I have found so far only one dilemma; that being It's a long shaft. One of my main reasons to buy a Jon boat was to have the benefit of cruising into the shallow waters that I fish. With a long shaft that isn't even possible to conceive. Being of no income at this time, I am planning to build a jack plate here shortly without the extensive use of welding. While thinking (Lets be honest, daydreaming) about this at school about a week ago I came to the cold truth that building a variable height plate would be to difficult and require a great deal of welding. So my question to you is- Where should my prop (or the main fin just above the prop) be in correlation to the bottom of my boat as a general standard? I want to be able to get the best performance out of it as well but just don't know how high is too high or too low is too low. Any help would be appreciated.

Milk crate with all my tackle and 4 rod holders with rods Homemade bow mounted trolling motor Homemade rudder system for the stern of my yak Paddle Life jacket Anchor LOTS OF FOOD!!!! Lowrance 4-HDI Pliers, tools, and another rod holder up front Dry box with my wallet, phone etc With all of these things on my kayak it gets really congested (especially being a SIK), so I really only have about 6 or 7 of the items on my kayak at one time. It all depending on the conditions and where I will be fishing and stuff like that.

It's really hard to tell from the picture but I think they might be tadpoles. I've never seen a bass scarf them down so I can't say for certain, but this would be about the time they are in too.

I don't put braid on all of my rods, but I do back all of them with braid which is something I would recomend.

I would get a pair of crocs, they are the comfiest.

Although expensive and in weird colors, banjo minnows aren't all that bad action-wise. Actually they were my first confidence bait. My first time using them I hooked into a large dogfish right away and the rest after that is history.

Power pro is what I like as well. Last year I tried #65 on one of my set ups for the first time after I had some left over from spooling my musky rod and it worked fine for frogs and stuff.

I like 7+ foot rods because I prefer longer handles. I do have a few 6' and 6 1/2' rods that I use while kayaking, but for everything else I think 7 foot or higher is the way to go.

Although I haven't fished with inline spinners allot for anything other than trout, I really think that the weedlessness of a safety pin style spinner is worth shelling out a little more storage space in my opinion.

For line I would suggest braid (a no brainier for me), I would go about 10 to 15 pounds since you already have your upper poundage's covered with your bait-casters, and I wouldn't go too lighter as for braid has a very small diameter comparably to mono or fluorocarbon.

I usually carry only one bass fishing, a medium casting rod. Now if there are colossal crappies and/or gills, then I will carry an extra ML spinning setup.

I'd get him some plastics. Then if he doesn't like them he could turn them into trailers.

I prefer frog togs too, I haven't had any problems with mine leaking, and the pair I have is lightweight for backpacking in Wyoming and the boundary waters.

I think you could probably just drill a hole in the ice with a 1" twist-bit, then take a saw-zaw or even a small hand saw and cut out a circle however big you wanted.

I don't know about any of you, but I think looking at fish underwater is really cool; especially when they are holding on to cover in clear water and you can get really close without them spooking off. So anyway it was a hot day sometime in august, and me, my dad, and my uncle were out diving on cribs, you know just looking to see what was down there. We were on a shallow rocky flat, about 10 foot deep, and we were trolling along looking for these cribs that would hold giant small mouth. We had always in the past looked for this one crib that was about in 15 feet of water, but without GPS we would have to be right over the top of it to see it(making it almost impossible being 400 yards or so off the nearest shore to know exactly where it was). Well the water level had been down that particular year so we though we would have a good shot at finding it. We found it after what seemed like hours of searching, and at this point we hadn't caught anything all day so we were ready to jump right in when we got there. A boo-ee hadn't even been thrown by the time I was in the water and I was approching so fast I didn't even notice a short log floating above the others. I was about 5 feet away when this musky turns broadside and darts away. I didn't get an accurate judge of how big the musky was but I suspect it to be in the upper 30 to upper 50 range. It scared me so bad i actually had the strength when I got to the surface to pull myself above the gunwale and fling myself into the boat. To this day that is the most scared I've ever been.

I used to rip the curly tails off and fish them like a tube.

My family heats with wood, and we haven't had to use the backup furnace for years. As long as you enjoy cutting wood and being outside heating with wood is the real deal.

Well you probably could just talk to your paperman and ask him for some bags. They only cost my dad 2 cents a piece when he bought him from the gazette, and I'm pretty sure you could just pay your paperman for some for dirt cheap.

This may seam really ghetto, but when my dad used to be a paper deliverer he would always have to buy these bags to slip the papers into to keep them dry when it was raining. Well as it turns out they are very waterproof and about the same size as a sock, so when we go out into the rain, we always put the bags over our wool socks before putting them into crocks (or tennis shoes). Then we just tuck the bags into the tops of our socks and roll our pants over our socks.

I have a rod similar to the one you have, its a 7 foot medium power medium action, and I can tell you it will work for anything. Since it's an ugly stick I wouldn't be concerned about breaking it throwing anything above the rated weight.

Hey everyone, i'm Jon. I started using bass resource about three months ago after seeing BassResource's YouTube videos, but decided to check this place out before joining . I decided to create an account a few weeks ago, and just now found the Introduction section. Just like the title says I live in southern Wisconsin about an hour south of Madison. Something you also might want to know is that I am/was a pretty big kayak fisherman. Since I can't drive I created a kayak trailer that I can pull behind my bike to get to the local lake, and that was pretty much the start of my kayak modifications. I have since then created a bow mount trolling motor for my kayak out of a stern mount trolling motor, a homemade kayak rudder system, and a few other small things here and there. The reason I say I 'was' a kayak fisherman, is because this fall I purchased a 1448mv jon boat, and I don't know how much I'm going to use my kayak now. That's pretty much it, can't wait to contribute!