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Apparently skunks are afraid of clowns... clown pattern chrome jerkbaits that is ??

Welcome to the forum My approach would be to not buy the boat unless the motor started. If he can’t get it figured out, other boats will come along, albeit you will likely need some patience on a $3,500 budget. However, if you buy someone else’s mess you will quickly be spending far more, or you will have spent money to keep it on the trailer. Good luck!

Make that 4 skunks!! Had a nice one that was dumb enough to bite the jerkbait, but it shook off before I saw it. Didn’t get another sniff! My vacation is quickly turning into a skunk-cation

Gave me 3 skunks!

First time on the boat. One of them absolutely loved it, the other one was super stressed with the life jacket on. Can you guess which one had what experience?

I also have the bottom contact rod. Compared to my previous jig rods it seems a bit tip heavy and wants to fall forward at rest. I do find it to be oh so sensitive though!

Finally going to reap the tax benefits...

Side. You can get close to a down imaging return between the boat and the bottom with side imaging

You may be right. I meant the parts department. If you can get hold of them they are still excellent. Running a skeleton crew these days it seems though.

Yes. Will cost about $800 to add LINK to an Ultrex. As far as G3 vs. G4, the price is pretty similar right now due to super high demand. Good luck finding either in stock. The G4 units can’t really do much now than the G3. G4 has a WIFI capability which no one knows the function of yet, and a direct connect for NMEA engine data. I wouldn’t worry so much about having the latest and greatest. Even the “outdated” G2N equipment provides and excellent image. The only problem you may run into is support for networking older and newer units

I’ve found you can fit about 50% more crankbaits in the EDGE boxes if you trim the divider in half to make it shorter and allow the bill to sit over it.

What’s stopping you from going forward to that?

I believe that to be true. I usually try to aim for the decal in hopes that it might help. The hardcore conservationists would say to lip the fish and unhook it in the water. Considering that 20 years ago that fish would have went into the frying pan had I caught it, I think I’ll live with myself for snapping a picture on the deck.

What you mean to say is they are both owned by the same parent company. The original service department that is well-known as being top notch still exists but is just under new parent ownership.

Oh no! She’s not dead. I should have kept her in the net while the livewell filled. I’ve actually thought about this a lot. More trauma than she needed. rest assured she swam away with no problem. I even got it on video.

If you can find the Duracell 31 AGM at a Sam’s club nearby, they are the best bang for the buck 31 series size AGM. A great battery!

Use the satellite overlay on Google maps and look for the big grey rectangular thing near the bank. ?

Well the idiot that posted the picture sideways finally learned how to post them properly!

Anyone else want to give this a shot? @Heartland did a fantastic job and sent some fantastic jigs and I'd love for him to make more but last I spoke with him he was out of commission.

• Upsize bait • Fish slightly deeper • Just keep fishing the same spot from different angles. In my experience, if the fish are grouped up there's a big on in there, just gotta get give them a chance <= this is not the same as fishing a pattern that it is producing smaller fish (Don't mean to contradict A-Jay, but I have caught multiple 5+ lb fish in spots where I had caught several 2-3+ fish by simply come back and back and back to that spot either within the same session or same day)

But that really only lasts for one cast. It doesn’t go back on the spool that tight reeling it in unless you have the drag cinched down and your reeling in a big rock. I know some here are going to scoff but I find that using line conditioner on braid makes a ton of difference! agree about the slack line sensitivity of braid. It’s terrible!

I used it all the time fishing farm ponds growing up when all I used was Shakespeare spinning gear from Walmart. Caught thousands of bass up to 8 lbs on it, including the one in my profile picture. Broke off a few times but can’t say it would have been less with any other line.

I find it very satisfying and relatively easy to skip a weightless Texas rigged senko on about any gear.

I got it, I'd get it again and I'd recommend everyone to get it. I am around deathly ill and dying covid patients everyday. Swimming in their respiratory cloud and secretions. Working in their airway. Performing tracheotomies when they've been intubated for several days or after they've recovered from the initial phase and end up in the hospital due to a stroke and can't protect their airway. Turning off their BiPAP when they decide they don't want to be intubated. Calling them with the results of their screening test before a surgery and recommending they quarantine, despite they feel fine. Fielding their calls when they have some mild symptoms and counseling them when and if to come to the hospital. Sharing the joy with the families when the endotracheal tube is finally removed and they can breath on their own. Empathizing with families because they finally get to leave the hospital, but are destined indefinitely to a long-term care facility, "recovered." Old, young, introverts, extroverts, travelers, homebodies, out-and-about, isolated -- much like getting coached about motorcycle safety, its the other guy you have to watch out for. -"How could I have gotten it? I wore a mask. I stayed in." -"I know exactly how I got it, met up with a bunch of friends at a bar and had a good time." -"It was my brother's funeral, he died from covid and about 75% of the attendees of the funeral got it." -"She had covid back in July and stayed home from school with no symptoms and in December she ended up in the ICU for tonsillitis. Comatose. With a breathing tube. She's only 14, I thought covid didn't do much to children." -"I had it, I didn't even know it. I felt fine. Never had any problem." -"I lost my sens of smell, but that's about it." The vaccine covers you, no matter your lifestyle. Like wearing a PFD when you are fishing, only you don't need to take it off and put it on and its much more comfortable. People always asking for 1 (or 2) shot cures for horrible diseases instead of having to take lots of pills and have lots of interventions. This is it. I didn't grow a third eye, or arm or any other mutant side effects. I did feel like crap for about a day after the second dose. I had no residual side effects following that. I have seen a couple people have some lymph nodes swell up around their clavicle and armpit and then go away about a week later. A few of my colleagues have had to take a day off from work due to nausea / vomiting or body aches, some have had no symptoms at all and most have had a slight annoyance of feeling achy. Only a handful of people with severe side effects suspected across the world. I would recommend everyone to get it. However, its your own personal decision. If you're on the fence about it and have questions feel free to PM me. I don't claim to have all of the answers, and I will be foreward that it will be my intent to encourage you to get it, but I am happy to try to answer any questions even if it only leads to one more vaccine. I am surprised this thread is still alive.

Do they stay!?!? That’s brilliant!