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Live imaging systems setup like trail cams on the lake. Pay a fee to log into them at your fishing spot.

At Melvern?

Caught a lot drum and got distracted by some crappie. The hunt for some Kansas smallmouth continues.

Any tips about which ramps to use or underwater hazards at Melvern? Going out there on Sunday against my better judgement (windy).

Turtle is delicious.

Screwed my finger to an exterior wall about 100’ up on a lift. At first just thought it got my glove. Started yanking on it and just wouldn’t budge. Looked a little closer and the screw was right through the center of my left index finger. Not sure how I didn’t feel it. Once my brother thought it would be funny to loosen one of the wing nuts on my stilts. Ended up coming out right next to a big pane glass window, lucky I caught myself on one of the ceiling wires, however I did not the scaffold over carrying my tile right through the window. Not long after that I spiked my brothers thermos with laxative on a day I knew he’d be up on stilts all day. I don’t know how he didn’t notice, it was a ridiculous amount. Man was it hilarious to seem him take off across the job site toward the job Johnny and figure out how to get in there with his stilts on.

I am not sure I completely understand your question. The whole “resolution” comment has me a bit thrown off. As far as running different transducers is concerned, Humminbird makes a splitting cable that allows you to run a separate 2D and side imaging transducers that I think will accomplish your goal. Make sure you get the one specific for Solix and specific for Mega imaging.

My dad was always my hero and fishing was a bond between us that lives on in me eternally. Literally my first memory at 2 years old is of fishing with him. He made some poor choices early in my life and we were separated when I was 10 years old. As soon as I was able to drive, I would have called up my dad and told him I was picking him up and we were going fishing. Unfortunately, that never happened and not much time after I was able to drive, circumstances became that it never could happen. The things I would trade to have that chance again. Looking forward I hope to build such a bond with my own son.

Had one steal an original custom painted DEPS 250 right off the back deck of the boat.

I buy the 1-1/4 oz Jackhammer, take the blade off then put the blade from a big blade chatterbait on it. It allows my to do 2 things: 1) make bomb casts which I am learning more and more to appreciate increase the likelihood of bigger fish; and 2) get down into thicker vegetation that a light chatterbait will just get caught in the tops. At my reel speed the 1-1/4 oz rides at about 4-8 ft below the surface depending on the trailer.

Any current sales on Jackhammers? Need to load up on the 1.25 oz.

I think of a bass like a dog. You shake a toy in front of its face it’s gonna use it’s mouth to grab it. Sometimes it’ll come across the yard sometimes you really gotta get up close and rile them up.

100% a live imaging sonar will result in the next world record bass. The newest version has 400 ft of range. Given that, live sonar systems can be setup like a game trail camera studying the behavior of fish. Moreover, certainly the definition and interpretation of live imaging will begin to determine more and more the size differences.

I have both. Look at it this way, FFS is rapidly developing, whatever you get now will be outdated in a couple years max. Spot lock trolling motors (Ultrex, specifically) have been around without a significant change and conceptually the mechanism is well defined. A spotlock trolling motor will be a big workhorse for years to come. FFS will continue to change and get cheaper and FFS for bass fishing really only is useful small portion of the time (although, when it’s useful, it can be highly effective). A spotlock trolling motor I use at every single outing. I vote new trolling motor.

I find close range with spinning gear to be the most difficult, with the most difficult presentation being trying to dropshot docks at close range.

They look good, are excellent quality and I heard they catch fish too ?‍♂️

The musculature on that 21” fish would suggest they do get heavier.

In the floor of the boat until the end of the day then in the trash at the ramp. If it’s windy, in one of the rear compartments.

Man the shoulders on that 21 incher are gargantuan. That's a potential 8lb class fish in the spring.

Catching a limit of 12-14" bass to fill your card then going hunting really depends on the lake. At a local like I fish. I can go out and catch 100 12-14" fish on about any given day fishing a dropshot on submerged vegetation lines. 8 out of 10 days will not catch a fish large only doing that. To catch the bigger fish you have to go off shore and fish a moving bait or big worm in the ditch vegetation and will be lucky to catch one or two over 15" but will not likely catch the 12-14". It depends on the lake.

I work every other Saturday until October 1. So I’m down whenever. We can decide who’s rig to take the day of or before. Mine has all the bells and whistles (which I have learned to really increase my big fish catches)… it’s just on the smaller side.

Let’s go sometime. I’ll pay for gas. Your rig or mine. You can choose the lake(s). didn’t have to drive that far at all for these fish tho

In my neighborhood it’s pest control and security systems. There must be some sort of pyramid scheme situation with these pest control companies because it’s always teenagers to early twenty-something’s bebopping around on Segways. Like A-Jay, my dogs are trained to ‘greet’ anyone who comes the front door. The security guys really are ridiculous. They will sit out in their car the whole day. Sometimes at the curb in front of my house. One time one of them insisted on coming in my house. I told him there’s not a chance and that seems like the opposite of something someone selling security would request. When he tried to hold the door open after I tried to shut it, my dogs let him know it was time to go. Recently, one came around 9 PM. I saw him going from door to door so I turned off my doorbell so it wouldn’t wake my 5 month old who we had just had a heck of a time getting to sleep. This idiot doesn’t even try to ring the door bell but just bangs the door down AT 9 PM! I was very angry so I met him in the driveway. He told me he knocked because he didn’t want to wake anyone who might be sleeping. If you think people are sleeping then go away. No one wants to buy your junk if they are sleeping.

Over a month and no posts. Fishing crazy god right now with this very steady weather pattern. It’s a bout to cool off so will probably slow them down or change them up a bit.

There are populations of suspended fish now being targeted, that are essentially naive to fishing pressure that are now being caught due to advances in technology. In my personal experience, these fish are not small.