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Good way to put it. I spent the day getting 3 new tires including a new spare. Also got a new jack with a case that I can keep in my truck. That case also has room for the tools I need to change the tires and remove the spare. When my next blowout happens I'll be more prepared to handle it.

Think the tire pressure was the primary problem. Then driving 70 with poorly inflated tires was just a recipe for blowout.

Thanks for the discussion everyone! I've been catching up on the thread as much as I could. I think you all are right that improper inflation was the likely culprit. Here's a part that I left out of the original story and the list of all the mistakes I did that likely led to the blow out. The trip is about 4 hours from my house. When I left first thing i noted that my blowout tire was a little low and that I will get some air along the way. I waited almost 2 hours on the way up before I put air in it. I had an air guage in my truck but it only went to 50lbs. Thats funny enough because my truck tires hold 85lbs so that whole thing is worthless. It was maxed out but I added air until it looked good. Then I never bothered to try and purchase a proper air guage on the road to inflate them properly. If that wasn't good enough i still went ahead and pulled it down the road like that at 72-73mph. I didn't really think about it at the time but reading the comments And stories here have shown me thats definitely what happened. It didn't matter the tires on it were only a couple months old. I'm usually pretty on top of maintenance and care of my equipment. I honestly thought that since those tires were new they would be fine but all it took was one instance of my own neglect. We can overlook something for years and never have a problem or overlook it once and have issues. Fortunately it was just a tire and no persons or property was injured.

Hi everybody! I mostly lurk and don't post but today I thought I'd share my first trailer tire blowout. I was on my way home from a 3 day fishing trip on the wisconsin River. Was about an hour from home when I had a full blow out of the driver side trailer tire. Here are a few of things I learned from this. First I had the very bare minimum on me to change that tire but I was able to do it. My 4 way lug wrench barely got my spare off its bracket. It just wasn't made for it. My bottle jack while compact is a undersized and on top of it leaked its fluid. I used my truck jack. It was missing the crank so I had to improvise with fishing pliers. Not the way to do it. Next was my spare. It was weather cracked and looked terrible. I was relieved it took some more air. One of those things I always told myself to replace but it "looked fine" on the side of my trailer not needed. I puckered all the way home at 45 mph. Lastly I felt very exposed changing a tire on a 4 lane 65 mph highway. It was driverside so I was exposed roadside for much of it. All I had were my 4 way flashers. Road flares, highway cones, or reflectors, anything that I could have put up a few hundred feet behind me would have made me feel just a small amount better. I'm not sure what caused the blowout. Both tires are only a couple months old. Regardless I am going to re-tire again and get a brand new spare. Just wanted to share my experience with a blowout. Happens to us all eventually right.

I will agree with what slonezp said. I said I have the V2. I have the pilot version of it. Spot lock and not having to worry about the horrible foot pedals was worth it. It can be purchased normal and then ipilot added later with minor installation needed. That could be helpful if he needs time to save up for it.

Its a long shot many of us have tried man. The V1 power drive pedal is notorious for burning out and there isn't service parts available anymore. I ultimately bought a new V2. The few V1's I actually found were stupid expensive. On top of that any V1 pedal is going to be a time bomb to burn out. You're best option will be to try and find the best used 12 volt trolling motor available or buy a V2. You may as well start looking now.

Just wanted to thank Glenn and NHBull for the follow up. Im going to pick up a couple items here soon and try them out. If i think about it I'll do a follow up post. I usually only lurk so I have poor posting habits.

Hi Glenn, always love the videos. Do you have recommendations for big and tall? I have not really looked at simms gear yet but I will. Im about 6'6 and almost 300lbs. I've played sports and lifted weights most my life so while I'm no longer as slim as I once was people mostly guess my weight 50 lbs lighter than what I actually am. I've always had a hard time buying clothes regardless of brand or size. I could buy a pack of t-shirts off the shelf and have 2 fit great and 3 fit very poorly. Some shoes i wear a 14 4e some i wear a 16. Clothes shopping is a pain in the butt. I've yet to see a big box fishing store have a big and tall section to try stuff on so its kind of a crap shoot to buy something online. Just curious if you or any other bass resource members have experience with big and tall fishing apparel?

I was in on page 2. We have had warm weather with temps above 50 for a week or so now. Our ice is unsafe at this point so I am hoping it's gone by sunday so I can get out for a few hours! The lakes and stuff around here will be frozen for a little longer yet but the river where I like the to start the year at may just be open. Here's hoping!

Truth be told I've lived in Illinois most of my life and have never been further south than peoria. I've only ever been there once or twice. I'd love to visit southern Il sometime to see the state and do some bass fishing. I moved to Iowa a couple years ago but can still see Il from my house. Still work in Il also.

http://imgur.com/gallery/1uBXMDl Bear with me, I've never posted pics or links on bass resource so I'm not sure all of the rules around it. I typicslly only lurk and only jump in every now and then. If you can see that gallery every one of the bass came out of the canal.

I live in the quad city area so when I do fish the Hennepin it's anywhere from the mouth at the mississippi river in Rock Island up to Atkinson. I've only just started dabbling in Kayak fishing. There are major access and recreation points all along the canal so start exploring some of those to start with. Find areas of the canal that have areas of deeper water. Deeper water may just be 3-5 feet. Right now is a great time to just hop in your car for a day trip and just explore the canal. Check out a couple of the access points. Alot of the canal has roads that runs along or near it so it's very easy to explore by car and just get out and poke around a little bit. I'm on mobile but I'll try and post a few bass I caught in the canal last year. Wasn't in my kayak though it was in my boat.

Soft plastics. When I was first getting into bass fishing most of my fishing was done with cast and reel lures. Mainly spinner baits with a small amount of crankbaits on the side. Opening myself up to soft plastics and the ways to fish them has made me such a better fisherman. I feel almost any day, I can go to almost any lake, and catch at least one on a soft plastic. I may have a few days that get ugly, but I seem to rarely get skunked. Mostly because I feel at some point I can at least catch one bass on a soft plastic.

If you're near the hennepin canal, parts of it can be incredible. I've caught some big bass out of it. It's usually well protected from wind, very mild current, and easy Portage. It might just look like a rotted old irrigation ditch but it can be tons of fun to fish. Interesting history behind it too.

Made it in on the second page. Finished winterizing the boat today so that's always sad. My goal is always first weekend in march but living in unpredictable midwest weather and Mississippi river flooding it's hard to tell. I am going to go with first saturday in april on April 4th. Until then I'll keep lurking bassresourse. Maybe post more often.