Wayne P.

Well now he is a she and can be his own girl friend.

Maybe the "boils" were blue gills or carp and neither were interested in plastic.

I have the 2005 edition of Hotmaps Premium East and New Jersey is in Region 1 of the 5 selections. The Delaware River shows contour lines.

In your area I suspect the vegetation is milfoil or a similar weak stemmed plant. Use lighter weight presentations than what you would use in hydrilla.

Branuss04 is correct, you have to select which file on the Navionics software to view when you go to the map data menu.

I fish wacky about 80% of the time and don't use a jig for weight. I use 30# braid with about 4' of 20# fluorocarbon line for weight to make the braid sink. I'm in no hurry for the rig to get to the bottom so the fish have plenty of time to see it in the water column. If I need weight for deep presentations or in wind/current, I add a small nail to the head of the worm. The most weight I use is 3/64 oz. for depths up to 25'.

On bassboats, they are way more popular than sit-down seats and more used than no support at all. An observation at any lake will indicate it. Their use on small boats should be limited to ones that are stable with a higher center of gravity. I had two of them on my former fiberglass bassboat and have one for my aluminum bassboat.

Those chargers are sold at Walmart for about $50. I had one, used it for a few years and gave it to a guy that bought one of my boats. Worked well.

If you plan on keeping it for many years, get one with no wood in the floor or decks. You will find several mfg. that use it, including some mentioned.

You can also use Mend-It Soft Bait Glue to melt the parts together without getting burned fingers. Takes a lot less time and effort too.

A friend of did the HDS software install and has problems with Navionics also. Maybe if enough complain to Lowrance, they will fix it with another software upgrade. Typical first year product release from them.

This week, the bass at Lake Fork have been killing the Chatterbait using a steady retrieve just below the surface in less than 5' depths. I've been using a chrome blade with a sexy shad skirt and Zoom double tail trailer in white. Also a gold blade with a sexy shad skirt and a Zoom double tail trailer in silver rainbow. Both are 1/4 oz.

I have no problems with a properly tied Palomar knot with super lines.

I used a size that fits over my seat pedistals. Two of those (one for each pedistals-short ) and then a longer one in the middle to keep the length between the pedistals from sagging and just sits on the floor. I did not glue the parts together so I could store it easily. I'm not home to check the size, but is approximately 2 1/2"

I haven't been there this year, but yes there are some nice bass in the lake. Occasionally a smallmouth is caught too, I caught one last year about 2#.

Sure it is. After a divorce they are eligible to be kissin' cousins, LOL

Strike King

Until you do it correctly, install the drain plug from the inside so no protrusions will be on the exterior to get bumped/snagged/pulled.

It feels like Stealth and is cheaper than Stealth by $2 in the 300 yd spool. I still have a few hundered yards of Stealth left before deciding on which to purchase next unless the EZ is a replacement for it. I like the stiffer braids for throwing wind resistant lures like buzzbaits and big bladed spinnerbaits. IF the dreaded semi-professional overruns occur, they are easier to untangle.

Raul, I add weight to the worm occasionally too. I just put a steel finishing nail size 3d or a Lunker City lead nail 3/64 oz. into the worm head depending on depth/wind/current without reversing the hook. Still works great. On very windy days I put a nail in each end. I do the same with a finesse worm but use a 2/0 Gammy Octopus hook instead. I catch more and larger bass with the finesse worm than the Trick worm when wacky rigging. I'll be fishing mostly deeper than 10' next week at Lake Fork so the lead nail will be my primary weight addition.

I do just that using 30# braid with or without a 20# fluorocarbon leader. Any spinning reel with work.

blueultra2, it's rigged weedless with a 3/0 Gammy Octopus hook. A low profile, much stronger hook with better hooking ability than any other hook I have tried. I fish in waters with timber, heavy vegetation, and big bass. This hook, rigged this way, will get the job done. I rig it like you mention also when the cover is sparse or non-existent.

Try the PBS in Hampton and/or Tracker dealers in the Richmond area. Ed's Marine in Ashland usually has trailers in stock also-not sure what brand/s.

adclem, the bass really like the Trick worm rigged wacky style too.

In recent years it seems like Lowrance uses the buying public to do their product testing for reliability. They advertize a "new" unit and then hurry it to market and then find out how good it is by the number of failures. The 332 unit with the numerous keypad failures is one example. Some more: a unit that would turn itself on, GPS antenna interference with the head unit, and an internal GPS antenna unit that would not work if the head was tilted.