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I was just wondering what everyone does with their on board chargers? I leave mine unplugged until the night before I go and then charge all night then unplug in the morning. This is what the guy at the dealership told me to do, but I have seen that you should leave it plugged in all the time. So I am confused and wondering what the right move is in regards to this?

That is no joke

Figured I would start a thread on catching, tips, pictures of crappie. What is working for you?

Some of the things I have found about pike fishing: Always keep your tackle box/bag closed before casting again. Unless you want all your stuff spread across the boat. The small pike (folks sometimes call them hammer handles) go freaking crazy when you get them out of the water. So if you are using anything with multiple treble hooks I recommend using hook outs on them still in the water. My brother had a 4 lber go nuts on him and it threw a 6/0 treble hook in his thumb. Lucky it went all the way through and we were able to push it out and cut it with pliers. I love using the plastic grippers and a hook out tool for them, it seems to work out the best for me and the fish.

Thanks for posting the videos...watching these at work makes work less....work What kind of set up do you use to film that? Go pro and some sort of bracket?

Thank you everyone. She was stoked and very proud of her fish. She is ready to go back next year and both the kids are ready to go out to the local lake.

Would not touch them due to them being made at her... That is classic!

Was in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area for the last week and had a blast, Smallmouth, Largemouth, Walleye were on fire. My 5 year old daughter had a leech and bobber on and when we got back to the cabin to eat lunch she just threw the leech out on the dock waiting for everyone to get unloaded and she hooked her first fish. She hooked it and reeled it totally in by herself and it was a 3.26 lb Small mouth, great looking fish. She would not touch it , but did wave goodbye when it was released.

Wow....a Abu for $40.... I would love to go back in time and buy 5 of those reels because I love them. Great find!

Thank you for the tip, I am really new to the mapping software game and really do not have a clue really on how it works. I appreciate the feedback.

Oh, well I figured it would have a lot more detail than the stock map on the unit. Not really a hidden stump but old roads and obvious trails that will go through through to parts of the lake.

I am going to check out that Insight Genesis as I have a Lowrance. I can see now that it is definitely worth the price to get the mapping software, the $200 is a small price compared to the hidden stump that does not show up on the stock map.

That is no joke.

Fished Smithville yesterday and went to the Crows creek arm for most of the 9 hours I was there. Fishing for crappie and bass as I thought fishing would be slow so I thought I would just fish for what I thought would be there. I caught some bass with square bills in the flats in the backs of coves but honestly I caught more channel catfish, they were going crazy. I did catch some crappie on blue and char. slabbusters with a roadrunner head, it had to be blue and char as they would not touch anything else. I had minnows also and caught 2 fish the entire time on them, jigs were a lot better.

Just courious what everyone does to get ready for a tournament and what they do to find fish? New water can be intimidating if you have never been on that body of water and trying to find fish so how do you close the gap on the big swag of putting fish in the boat?

Agreed, he is arguably the greatest tournament bass fisherman ever. It would be like if Tom Brady threw 3 interceptions in a game and asking if he would be cut from the team that week. He is much bigger than the actual sport now, he is a legend.

Sorry to hear that, I had to put my hunting dog down a couple years ago and it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. You never know how much they truly mean to you until they are gone.

For any of you Kansas City folks just wanted to let you know that I was at wal-mart and they had those $90 Skeet Reese rods on sale for $35. Pretty good rod too, I love them. Got another round of rain today , Going to hit Smithville in the morning to see if there are any fish that did not get washed out of the lake.

Wish I would have spent the extra $59 dollars to do that, mistake to not just get it pre-loaded

Congrats!! Great fish

Man rain....... And the water at Smithville was just starting to clear up a little. I am going to bet that the crappie will be done and really will not spawn. I wonder what will happen to the bass?

Wow, great thread! I spend half my time trying to figure out if what I am seeing on my fishfinder is what I think I am seeing on my fishfinder

I have been looking at the different mapping software and am wondering if it is worth the price to get? Do they offer that much?

Went to smithville last night and was casting the banks with a KVD square bill. Did not catch one bass but did catch crappie up to 12" around the brush piles. Water is starting to clear a little and the fish seem to getting back to business as usual. It was a pretty night though...

Used this one last night casting brushpiles. Not one bass but crappie up to 12" seemed to like it a lot. KVD 2.5