Dirtyeggroll

If you're worried about how the fishing will be, then focus on the opportunity to be outside on water observing the beauty of nature after a cold uninviting week. Go. ?

And if you catch a coupon code right you can get them for around $80.

The ZX Rods are light, balance well and pretty sensitive. A goood bang for the buck when they are on sale. As stated above, if it doesn’t have problems in the first couple outings then it’s probably not defective and any issues are likely user error. If it breaks down before that the you can probably replace it with receipt <90 days.

Please, please, please put fenders on the trailer. Got my windshield busted out driving behind a trailer without fenders earlier this year. Not to mention you also run the risk of throwing debris through your own back window.

Does this wizardry work for Tatsu???

They should rotate and they should pull out. You might try shooting some WD40 at the base.

Has been a very difficult battle with the bait monkey this Black Friday/Cyber Monday. I staved him from getting into the boat fund I am building for Spring and have made zero purchases so far. Now I just have to keep him controlled for the Christmas sales.

Never had that problem.

Either will be a great reel. You will adapt to the brakes on whichever one you pick. While I am huge fan of my Tatulas, if you think the MB fits in your hand perfectly compared to the Tatula then maybe go with that one. In my opinion you would be splitting hairs between the two.

http://www.omfishingsinkers.com x10 x10 x10 takes a couple to a few weeks to ship, but it’s winter so who cares.

The lake near my house is being drained this year and showing are casualties from attempted ice fishing from years past. The water in these pics was 8-12’ deep before the drain.

Never been there. Lots of good crappie fishing at Stockton and on Spring river though too.

Shoal at the low water bridge access and Empire Lake in Galena primarily. This is one my dad caught last year out of shoal. We also frequent Stockton, Pomme de Terre, and Table Rock. Elk River has some really fun smallmouth fishing. Not a lot of really big ones, but on some days you can catch one on about every other cast all day long. I used to fish a lot of farm ponds down there but the guy who used to take me to all of them isn’t around anymore. Tons of GIANTS in farm ponds down there. Ive also heard great things about the strip pits over near Pittsburgh, KS but have never been over there personally.

Awesome! Show us pics when you get a chance.

Did you have any luck with this? I may be move toward central Texas in a year or so, so it’d be useful to know.

I feel ya. The lake near my house is being drained and all the fish miles due to zebra mussels. The other nearby small like I like to frequent has ice 10 or so feet out of all the banks. *Winter Blues*

How has the utilization of any of this advice worked out for you?

Whereabouts in SW MO? I grew up in Joplin and still have family there. I make several trips a year to fish with my dad down there.

Dammit. I bought several of the Tournament ZX Rods this spring/summer on the basis of the lifetime warranty.

If I used my wife’s toothbrush (any part of it), the lake wouldn’t have to be drained for me to end up at the bottom of it.

6th Sense will have 25% off entire orders for Black Friday.

One thing I have noticed so far is that all of the bills on the crankbaits have changed from clear to a more opaque milky white color.

Anyone know if there are any differences in hardware that come in the box between the Lowrance Elite 5 HDI and the Lowrance Elite 7 HDI? Are the the transducer and power cables all the same? Can the units be swapped out by without the need to run new wires/transducers? The reason I am asking is because I am selling my little boat which has an Elite 7 HDI. My dad has an Elite 5 HDI and I figured we could swap units so he could have a slightly larger display and because I don't think it will make any significant difference to the sale of my boat. He already has an Elite 5 configured on his boat.

So far the baits have seen an overnight in baking soda and a scrub with dish soap and a toothbrush. I got excited cleaning them and forgot to take before pictures of all of them. Will get more pics later.