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So Cal lakes are too small to pattern IMO. Mainly fishing spots.

Took a year to get a backordered Curado BFS reel. I thought I had canceled it.

Hook weight is critical to maintain stock performance. Stock hooks weigh 0.345 grams. Closest I have found are the Aaron Martens TGW Nano G-Finesse hooks at 0.337 grams for #6 and 0.392 grams for #5. I will mix and match depending on what I the bait to do (suspend, slow sink, slow rise)

I almost always T-Rig dropshot. 1/0 thru 3/0 Owner Cover Shot depending on the size of the worm which is always a hand pour of some sort.

I could never figure this out either but I feel the same way.

Same here. Hand position when casting and retrieving is different. You don't palm a reel when casting. Everyone I see who claims a left handed reel is more efficient switches hand position after the cast. I fail to see how that is more efficient. I can and often do pitch left handed but I'm palming the reel during the pitch.

No lower limit here. Southern California is nice all winter. I stay off the water when the ambient temp reaches 105 deg F.

I quit for a decade. I got too deep into tournament fishing, and it ruined it for me.

There is a TB for the Ghost: https://www.lowrance.com/globalassets/lowrance/help-and-support/tb-164372-ghost-over-current-protection-11_07_22.pdf?xnpe_tifc=hFVjbuojxI1DOInZb.oZ4jpsafeWaeiWhFW5b9PLauLLaIoXnkEAbfs3tu4vaMXlxfbDbDLshFYjOknJ4DbX&utm_source=exponea&utm_campaign=November%7C%202022%20%7C%20eNews%20%7C%20AMER%20%7C%20Ghost%20technical%20update&utm_medium=email Personally, I don't find having the TM tied into the graphs that useful. I prefer the Ulterx over a Ghost because it's a lot easier to see where your transducer is pointing with FFS.

I hate that Southern California has become this. But it is a fact.

Same. When everyone except Zaldain left BASS for MLF, Zaldain was all that BASS had left so they propped him up like he the second coming.

A lot of pros switched to Yamaha because that's what their boat sponser uses. Ranger dropped a bunch of pros and Skeeter picked up quite a few of them. Yamaha owns Skeeter so that your only choice of motor. I like MLF better. You really have to be on fish to win. With the best 5, you can really struggle and still do good. Just look at the last BASS Classic. Christy was hardly hammering them and managed to win.

Even the best get skunked at Puddingstone.

The vast majority of my large bass catches have been at night. Unfortunately, here in Southern California, we don't have much opportunity to fish from boats at night. As far as colors go, bass see red and green. Yellow looks white/gray to them. I see a lot of problems with Doug Hannan's statements from way back.

I still use them.

Silent Red Eye Shad was one of my sneaky go to baits. A serious producer for me. Was devastated when Strike King dropped it.

My condolences. I can't imagine the difficulty of losing a child. I always enjoy your posts and hope you stick around.

As far as I know, only Minn Kota will follow depth contours. And you will have to have it linked to a recent Hummingbird graph for the feature to work.

$125 for reels and $175 for rods street prices.

I thought kayaks weren't allowed at DVL. I have never seen any on the water.

Depends on your lakes. Lakes around here are tiny and get HAMMERED. Over population is not a problem.

I pinch the barbs down on baits that you might gut hook a bass on. Weightless Senkos etc. I was in a fly fishing club when I was a kid and many of the streams I fished required barbless hooks. I agree, tournaments should ban barbed hooks. Especially MLF.

To be fair, these reservoirs were created to store drinking water. We are lucky we get to use them in any recreational fashion.

Not sure if it's the DFG but someone is stocking DVL. It's on their facebook page. Mt. Lassen I think.

I've had both. I will never run a bass boat without a hand control. If they have both, that's great. But I HATE graphing with a hot foot. I spend way more time graphing than running wide open. All my lakes have 35 mph speed limits anyways so I rarely drive wide open.