Everything posted by Dirtyeggroll
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The latest sale thread
Which seller do you buy from?
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Most expensive lure
Panty Dropper Toxic Whipper Snapper - $280 - Pretty sure I could turn it around for more than that if I really tried hard. Its a sought after collector bait. I plan to fish it though. Bought it to tear up a lake I know has double digits in it this Spring. Demands of work plus flooding here and I have only had the chance to cast it a couple times.
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Urinating
I keep a 32 oz cup in the boat and use it to try to be discrete. I make sure to rinse it well after using it and get a new one frequently. A plastic soft drink cup from McDonalds or a convenience store. I have to go like every hour so finding a formal restroom doesn’t work so hot for me.
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'Wind Out of the East.....
“... catch a big beast.” Is how I have modified the axiom. All caught with an East wind in the last month.
- Fishing Care Package
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GYCB Kut Tail Worm ?
I use the 7” Neko rigged in hot post-spawn when conditions are tough.
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Jigs with Trailers vs Jigs without Trailers
I once fished a tournament where I had pre-fished and the water was chocolate milk but on he day of he tournament it was ~6-7 ft visibility. I happened to have one green pumpkin jig that already had a trailer on it (all the others were black and blue). about an hour into the day both of he pincers had been removed from the trailer. I continued to fish the jig anyway and ended up getting 2nd place with ~18 lbs having caught all but one of my fish on the trailer-lacking jig.
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Duracell AGM Marine Battery
Running three of them. 2 for trolling and one for cranking. Ran my -Ultrex, -2 Humminbird Helix 12’s -1 Helix 9, - a 360 - and a hydrowave for almost 14 hours nearly non-stop in 25 mph constant winds with 40 mph gusts this weekend with no apparent indication of power loss.
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The latest sale thread
I think it’s the only time of year you can stack a military discount to get a total of 25% off.
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Ranger R70 “easy” updates
Finally got her out for the maiden voyage. About 30 minutes in, the floor started filling with water. Apparently I had busted a livewell recirculator outlet when I was installing one of the many things that required me to access the bilge. We were able to put the boat back on the trailer and move down the hose clamp and didn’t have any more problems the rest of the day. Even put the first fish in the boat, and more importantly got my dad on some good fish too!
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Duracell AGM Marine Battery
My Sam’s club only offers an 18-month warranty on them while Batteries Plus offers the 30-month warranty but charge a bit more.
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Duracell AGM Marine Battery
Those Group 31 are about the best bang for your buck in a battery. Sometimes they go on sale for $159.
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Ranger R70 “easy” updates
Did you mean “waste”? If so, then you’re kind of right. With the gouges on the keel I was a bit worried about putting it in the water. I wasn’t confident in my ability to repair the keel on my own and had a week off of work that I had hoped to have the boat ready to fish by. Well that didn’t happen, so I used the week to work on all of the things I was comfortable doing myself until the guy who was helping me had a free afternoon. I spent the whole week in the garage in the boat. The garage was a wreck and my wife was certainly ready for me to stop being in there crawling around on it randomly cursing here and there. I am too and I am ready to take it out after having it sit in the garage for 4 months.
- Ranger R70 “easy” updates
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Favorite jig and trailer!?
Siebert Dredge Dock Rocker with a Rage Bug trailer. Comes through all cover fantastically and skips well. This gal ate one deep in a brush pile.
- Ranger R70 “easy” updates
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Latest Catch Pics Thread
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Why Do Crawfish Backup?
The hand gesture in your profile pic (if that's you) suggests otherwise... Maybe you are a craw fish too and trying to take your original form (making a big pincer out of your hand)!!! That would explain your unwillingness to accept Sam's story. Hahaha
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The impact of breaking off.
Have you ever wondered about the environmental impact of breaking off? Yes. If I break off a long section of line, it bothers me. Mostly, I don't like the idea of a swimming bird or rodent getting wrapped up in, not to mention my trolling motor prop. At what point is the lake or river so full of hooks that you can't step in them? Fortunately, breaking off doesn't regularly occur everywhere. It tends to occur mostly in the same locations for most people and thus any body of water should never be so full of hooks that they can't be stepped in. A highly trafficked small man-made reservoir near my house was recently drained. About 30% of the banks of this lake were lined with a felt-like landscape matting. When the lake was recently drained the number of hooks in that landscape matting was truly unbelievable; literally hundreds, if not thousands. The other place with lots of hooks were the laydowns. The laydowns also had significantly more line wrapped up in them as well. Some of the hooks still had plastics on them, but they were very few.
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Knowing Bass: The Scientific Approach to Catching More Fish
It’s a good read. If you do not have a biology or chemistry background, you will likely continue to learn from it with multiple reads.
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Booyah frog set
Popping frog can sometimes work better when there is a little chop on the water.
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The latest sale thread
FREE4U It was a banner on the app.
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The latest sale thread
$5 off in app purchases on eBay. Got me a free set of trauma shears for the boat for cutting snagged line (which is usually 100+ lb braid haha).
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Ranger R70 “easy” updates
The shop where we were working on my boat is flooded. Power poles are being held hostage in the upper mezzanine due to the flooding. Was in the process of replacing a thru-hull transducer when it had to be evacuated. If only had I just left it alone and not decided to do the upgrades I would be able to use it for the my week off in the first week of April... Maybe next year.
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The latest sale thread
10 lb Tatsu. For what application would you use this?