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Thanks for the clarification. I'll give that a try this year for sure.

Do you mean Advance?

I haven't tried Elite, but Siege is my mono of choice.

If the water isn't too deep where you're worried about the oxygen being used up, it's the perfect situation for a drop shot.

Nice score! I don't have any experience with the Conquest, but I am aware that is one of the best jig rods on the market. I picked up a Steez bottom contact rod for next season, and I haven't got to fish it but just by taking the rod sleeve off and feeling all the vibrations, I can tell the sensitivity of the rod is leagues above anything I've ever used. I went with a Steez SV reel to pair with it.

Drivers by far are the #1 problem with BSODs, in Windows or Linux something like 90% of the time, and even higher when a recent upgrade is involved.

Now what part of the country are you from? Let me know if you're ever up this way for sure.

That is the first thing I noticed as well. Looks like that area and the western portion of the top circle which is largely in the same area would be good places to start.

What line are you using? My suggestion would be if you are using something like 15-20lb line, go with the Curado K and if you are going with 10-12lb line, go with the SLX MGL 70 for the smaller profile.

I can suggest three rods I have a bit of experience with that would work well for these lures (no problem throwing them all on the same rod) Daiwa Tatula 7'1" MH/XF Dobyns Siera 704C H/F (basically a MH, very similar in power and action to the above Daiwa) St. Croix Mojo Bass 7'1" MH/F Jig/Bait Another rod worth considering is the Shimano Zodias 7'2". The above rods are what I would consider MH+ rods (on the heavy side). The Zodias is even a little bit heavier, makes a good jig rod. I'm generally a Daiwa reel fan myself (the brakes are simply better) but for spinnerbaits, chatterbaits and swimbaits, the Curado 200k is a very far casting reel so it's a good choice for this application.

At one point I said the same thing. I kept hearing good things, so finally I caved and bought a handful of Pop X and Pop Max and S Cranks. As far as the poppers, they have the best action I have found, pop and walk very well and I don't lose them too often, so in the long term of things, they paid for themselves. And the S-Crank is a little more situational - it has a very wide wobble but when bass hit it, they absolutely smash it. I lost one, it sucked and I don't bring them out all the time, but they've paid off in the long term.

I usually find what I'm not throwing, and what seems to work well in places I fish regularly - often during the winter during downtime. Then I decide what I'm going to add to my arsenal, what rod and reels I have that may be appropriate to fish it on and how to fish it, places I am aware of where I would fish it and pick up what I need in preparation for the next season. This year, I didn't add too many new baits but more so stocked up on baits that I do use regularly in preparation for 2021. Of course there is still time for that to change - and it probably will. My goal for 2021 is to continue to improve on things I know primarily.

I just got the Plano Edge jig box. It carries significantly more baits than I had in my old Bass Mafia 3700 and as a plus it also fits chatterbaits.

I have a Garmin Echomap 93sv on my kayak. It has a pretty decent image, but not quite as good as Hummingbird. But it's pretty easy to use and once you get your settings right, you hardly have to change them with varying conditions. It was largely between Garmin for ease of use and Hummingbird for imaging quality for me - I ruled the Lowrance HDS out which has a fantastic screen but uses twice the battery of the same size Helix or EchoMap to power the extra pixels and I camp so that was a potential issue As far as must have features, I would consider side imaging a must. You can cover a lot of water to find various structure points with side imaging that would take much longer to find without it, and in some cases might even be virtually impossible as you wouldn't be able to tell what's really going on there. Ideally, I would want side imaging on both units as you could be trolling around an area that has structure, but should you decide to save a little on the bow unit at least get side imaging on the console so you can find structure while driving your boat. For screen size, a 7" and 9" unit will have the same number of pixels so the 7" will look clearer, but can also be harder to see in the sun, but I would want to go at least 7" - it will just be easier to see. You can get away with a smaller unit on the console as you're sitting in front of it, but up front you'll be around 6 feet away when you're standing. If you go with the same brand on the bow and console, you can interface to one unit from the other to share waypoints. However, if you go with different brands you can take advantage of things that you like from each brand. I was watching an interview with a Pro, can't remember who for sure offhand but they run Lowrance, Garmin and Hummingbird units to take advantage of what each brand does well. For example a 9" Hummingbird console and a 7" Garmin on the bow could be decent. Your call which way to go, either is acceptable. Finally, I think you are on the right idea that you don't need the absolute top of the line unit. In terms of Garmin, the Striker will give you sonar and downvu and sidevu depending which model you buy, and if you step up to the EchoMap that adds lake maps so you can find the depth of most lakes and that's pretty much everything you really need. The GPSMAP will have some more pixels, a fancier interface and you'll have to buy a transducer additionally, so it's a lot more expensive but you're getting what you really need on the 2nd tier (EchoMap, Helix, etc). Anyway, I hope some of that helps.

I would have hoped those things would have finally got phased out or brought up to date by now. Maybe 5 or 6 years ago, I had a VPN at work that required IE. Glad that got updated. As far as the speed of addressing issues, there was several major security issues with Apache and Java to name just a few that were well known and submitted an sat for several years. That never happens with Microsoft and Apple. I'm torn on the auto updates. Many people would be stuck on insecure 7 and not knowing how to update if not for them. They could have been more transparent about it. Maybe for a windows 7 update to add an update to Windows 10 line to the start menu or something and only update once someone hits the button. If anyone really does want a windows 7 that will not auto update, find a copy of windows 2008 server r2 web edition. It does require some configuration to remove the security measures, but it's just like windows 7 but a whole lot faster. I buy my office 365 sub every year if nothing else for the 1gb cloud storage. This way I can keep my music on it and play it from work, and some other things in the same boat. If someone hacks it, all they're going to get is pictures of my guitar and fishing gear, some vacation pics, music and shopping lists for guitar related stuff, fishing stuff and camping stuff. Hasn't happened in years. I keep my tax info locally just in case.

There's been quite a few and also many known security holes often sit and don't get addressed, or if they do they require a complete version upgrade so that can be a real pain, especially if you're running servers.

The problem with Yahoo is nothing to do with the computer or operating system but simply Yahoo's verification process. What caused it was deletion of a cookie, which would have happened sooner or later - no way around it. You can still use Internet explorer in windows 10, but you have to type it in the start menu. In this day in age, I honestly can't see a reason why you would use it. It's old, it's rendering engine is around fifteen years old and the Internet isn't the same as it was back then, and it freezes half the time. The new Edge is actually great but the old one is the same as the last version of Internet Explorer - I believe it installs the new one with Windows Update now). It's the first Microsoft browser I can honestly say that about, and it runs off webkit (same as Chrome) so it's up to date. If you don't like Edge, Chrome is okay but I would suggest Opera, which is also webkit but has a great startup page you can add your regular websites to - but Edge uses a fraction of the RAM of both Chrome and Opera and also loads pages in a fraction of the time. As a web developer, this saves me maybe a half hour a day! Windows 10 will be an adjustment, but I couldn't see myself ever going back to Windows 7. The drive access speed among other things was just so slow in Windows 7. And it's more customizable, although that takes a little but of digging around in the settings menu. It's worth it in the long term. I have ran Windows 10 on multiple devices since launch and have not gotten a single BSOD. If you are getting BSODs, I would check your drivers or hardware for overheating or bad RAM or the like.

Thanks, I appreciate you following up.

What I did a lot last year for kayak fishing was to buy the largest sub I could and eat half for lunch and half for dinner. As it got hotter, sometimes that seemed to not be enough for dinner, so I'll have to bring some Cliff bars, Battenkill Brittle (local made energy bars) or maybe some super spicy peanuts - live the spicy stuff. Then I'll carry a large stainless steel water bottle. On cooler days, that will last me all day. In the warmer days I'll add a couple of bottles of gatorade, specifically yellow on hot days - can't drink enough on those hot days.

If the Daiwa Aird-X heavy is anything like the 7'1" Tatula H/F rod, than that would make a pretty good all around heavy rod, although it's designed up to 1.5 oz so for for 2oz swimbaits you might be out of luck. The Dobyns Fury 735C is also pretty good but has roughly the same upper limit. It has a little less tip so you can really cast lighter lures well, but enough backbone to horse them out - although the Tatula H/F was pretty good in this aspect as well.

Way to take one for the team! I look forward to hearing about it.

No worries, life happens

I might actually do destinations again since we had such a low turnout. I also want to do location soon. I know at least @Michigander and myself had interest in that.

Tonight's call was surprisingly small, but fun. Seeing as so many people missed, when should we setup the next one?

Info for tonight's zoom meeting for those not on the list: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/86952520060?pwd=L2o0dWZ5MHp2Q24vMTQxcTRUSER5UT09 Passcode: 872423