Boomstick

I can't find anything for the original UHD. There is one for the Echomap Plus 73sv, which I think is the same but I'm not 100% sure. Your best bet is probably to call Garmin directly. On a side note, I stopped taking the display unit out of the base after having some pins break off. In my case, the problem was made worse by a sun shade but I've heard others who have the same problem without the sun shade. But given how it's on a kayak, it's not a big deal to leave it in the base all the time. If you do decide to upgrade, the GT56 transducer is a significant upgrade over the GT54 in both clarity and range, and the 93sv UHD2 has a few more pixels so you can enjoy the added range and clariyty.

Well I'd probably pay the ticket rather than try to fight it, as that could cost more - then I would look to move to another town so I'm not paying that same police department a dollar since they want to play that way apparently.

Doesn't sound fun. I get very minor kidney stones that kind of burns when I pee a little and I have to pee a little bit every 5 minutes until I drink a gallon or so water and it passes. I initially didn't even realize what it actually was, and my doctors didn't believe I never had a kidney stone based on my current condition of my kidneys... But I hear they can be really painful.

So this year marks year three of camping and watching fireworks from my kayak. Here's a short clip of the fireworks.

Yeah I don't want to go smaller. It's usually two of us. If my oldest son comes, he does have his own 3 person tent (cause I snore) but if he ends up in the tent with us, he still fits in a 6 person. REI has a CORE Equipment 6 person that looks similar to my old Columbia, so that's a fairly safe bet. But I'm half considering going with a Canvas tent.

Good news is I do have another spinning rod which I often leave at home but it will throw the same things fine, maybe even better to be honest. The Tatula Elite ML/F runs on the lighter side - I got it to throw 1/16 ned rigs further. There is a shore spot I fish a lot and my Acid X ML/XF couldn’t quite cast to where the bass usually hang out. And I’m pretty sure it’s still under warranty too

So I’ve been camping on Lake Bomoseen, VT all week, but the devil controls the weather up here, we got two cold days where it rained from noon until 9am the next morning and one afternoon of heavy thunderstorms. To make it worse my tent started leaking a ton of water and our sleeping gear all got soaked. We made it out on the kayaks three days. On Tuesday, I got two decent smallies and two rock bass. The first smallie was in around 16-20ft of water off the shore on a jig and the other three fish were in about a foot of water on a crankbait. We decided to continue to the north side of the lake and check out Rabbit Island and the surrounding areas - some docks and milfoil up there but we didn’t get anything. On Wednesday, we decided to flip the milfoil and lily pads in the more northern part of the lake but didn’t get anything Today, we made our same trek to the point but then went to Neshobe Island. I got a small largemouth on a drop shot and a small rockbass on the crankbait. I got nothing near the island but we tried the shoreline south of the state park launch. Here‘s where we went wrong: it would have obviously been smarter to fish offshore on Tuesday instead of head up north, but it was our first day there and we expected 5 days on the water, so we wanted to explore a bit of a lake that we only ever fished from shore so I can’t really complain. But Wednesday, the surface water temperature was 69-70, just like on Tuesday. We should have did our trek today on Wednesday and today where the temp was 74-75, tried the far northern or southern weedy portions of the lake for largemouth, I bet we’d have fared much better on both days. Oh well. I also broke my Tatula Elite ML/F rod that I was using for a tube. I hit it with a crankbait on the back cast and immediately stopped casting because I knew what I did but it was too late to save the last two guides. Despite all the bad stuff, tent leaking, not sleeping as a result, breaking a rod and not catching as many fish as we got from shore here in 2019, overall I’m in a far better mood now than I was the past few months. More trips to come… I live for this

Well I want to pay them a visit sometime no matter what I do, now that I know we have one a hour and a half away. If I decide on another tent, well I just remembered tonight that we broke two forks in our cheap Walmart camp dinnerware set, so if my other kid gets time off, we might have to go out to get plastic forks. I would like to buy a set of nice stainless steel campware.

I didn’t realize this but there is one in Albany. I can hit that, the Dick’s and Field & Stream in one giant store in Latham and the Clifton Park Bass Pro. I was browsing their site and they have what looks like a fairly high end 6 person tent that looks like it may be a good long term replacement option if I go for something similar. I am half considering going for a four season glamping bell tent. Then I can get a kindling burning stove for the winter.l, and I can actually stand up to change clothes in it. Something like this https://a.co/d/09Jp6Bq9

That’s impressive! Even though it’s usually my youngest kid and myself, I need at least a 6 man to hold my clothes for the week. I don’t want to keep that in the car as that gets in the way of fishing when I’m at the boat launch.

So I am camping on Lake Bomoseen and we got a 8 hours of rain Monday and despite spraying my tent down with water sealant my tent leaked and all our sleeping stuff got soaked. My current tent is a discontinued 8 person Columbia. I’ve had it for years and it saw a ton of usage, and it’s definitely better designed than some other common brands I’ve owned that I got maybe two setups out of. I would buy another if it was available. I can do a 6 person tent for my youngest son and I, but the 8 person has been ideal for a week’s worth of clothes and us space wise. I’m looking at two options, one was my prior tent, a Walmart branded bell tent. It leaked a bit of water, I sprayed it with tent sealant and it never leaked again but it started ripping in the front. The other is a Night Cat 8 person tent that has the exhaust port for a small woodstove which might be cool. Anyway wondering if any of you campers have recommendations for tents that hold up.

Frog rods are in particular one rod where I don't see any benefit from a high end rod. You just want the biggest broomstick that can pull them out of anything. Anyway, Daiwa's 7'4" H/F frog blank is perfect for just that. I would personally save some money and go with the Tatula, but there's a Steez model if you really must.

Any MH/F rod will do. The idea is a more moderate rod might reflect off say rocks or stumps, but it doesn't matter if you can't set the hook.

My thought was I might consider the 6'10" ML/XF rod if breaking the tip on the 7'3" is a concern.

10lb would work well in clear water, but 12lb would give a little extra assurance if there's any weeds or rocks, and as others have said it's already the same diameter as 8lb Big Game.