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My Thursday order arrived yesterday. Well packed, too. ? The square jars are a little different, but at least the lids won't rust.

The NADA guide says the 2002 1848 weighs 405 pounds. It also says it's rated for a 9.9. www.nadaguides.com/Boats/2002/Tracker-Marine My 2014 1648 Grizzly weighs 495. Or it did when it was a bare hull. It's rated for a 25. The 2021 1648 weighs 638 and is rated for a 40. Now I know why the price has gone through the roof. "NO HAGGLE NO HASSLE National Price $4,095."

I have a heavily loaded 1648 and a 9.9 Merc 4-stroke. I'm still using the 3-gal tank that came with it, but I always have a full 1-gal can with me. It's $15 worth of insurance that I won't have to paddle to shore.

"Bunch of top 5’s and 10’s pay better than 1 first." How about finishing in the money in 50% of all the tournaments he entered? "In 1976 he won his first B.A.S.S. “Angler-of-the-Year” title, and followed it up with another B.A.S.S. “Angler-of-the-Year” title in 1986. Along the waterways of America, he has acquireded two national B.A.S.S. tournament victories, he’s placed in the money an astounding 50% of the time he’s competed and has won over $400,000 dollars along the B.A.S.S. and Wal*Mart FLW Tours." www.bassfishinghof.com/inductee/jimmy-houston

I figured I try out a few jars and get some hair jigs and some more Kalins grubs. When I went to the site I got a mailing list popup asking me to enter my email and spin the wheel. Okay, whatever... I got 10% off on my entire order. Merry Christmas !!!

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Back in the mid-80s iirc, a friend had an old glass boat with a walkthru windshield. One day after work 4 or 5 of us took it down to Walkers dam on the Chickahominy River to fish the herring run. We anchored just below the small dam and proceeded to catch some herring and drink some beer. Yum, fried roe and jars of salted fillets for later. At one point the wind shifted and owner told me to pull the anchor while he moved us. The anchor came up with a huge wad of mono on it and there seemed to be something on the line that was still in the water. My buddy shouted that it was his boat and he claimed the fish and he proceeded to pull in a really nice catfish. While he was fooling with the fish, I found the other end of the mono where it left the big knot and pulled in a nice Fenwick Boron rod and an expensive reel that never did clean up just right. But that pistol grip rod looked like new and was better than anything I had. He tried to get it away from me, but I wouldn't trade him for that stinky catfish.

I use a half a drop of Dawn in an ultrasonic cleaner I bought on Amazon for $35 two years ago. My wife thinks I bought it to clean her engagement ring. It's good for parts: interior dimensions of 5.4" L x 3.6" W x 2.1" H Magnasonic MGUC500 is the model.

"SV BOOST A next-generation SV concept that achieves a high level of both exhilarating cast feel and trouble-free performance, and increases flight distance. The stroke of the induct rotor, which used to be a one-step operation, has been extended to achieve a second-step stroke. At low revs, the appropriate brake is applied only with the first stroke, and at the time of full cast, after the optimum braking that makes full use of the two stages, by returning one stage, the weak braking force is kept in the latter half of the trajectory, and as a result, the latter half of the cast It gained growth and contributed to increasing the flight distance." www.daiwa.com/jp/fishing/item/reel/bait_rl/steez_ltd_sv_tw/index.html Or, if you'd prefer to read it in Japanese... "SV BOOST 爽快なキャストフィールとトラブルレス性を高次元で両立し、飛距離アップを果たした次世代SVコンセプト。 従来、1段階の作動だったインダクトローターのストロークを伸ばし、2段階目のストロークを実現。低回転時には1段階目のストロークのみで適度なブレーキを効かせ、フルキャスト時には2段階をフルに活かした最適なブレーキ後に、1段階戻ることで弾道後半は弱いブレーキ力をキープ、結果、キャスト後半の伸びを得られ、飛距離アップに貢献した。"

We had two citations in the boat at one time. Five years ago my friend and I were fishing a private 100-acre lake on a breezy, chilly afternoon. He was driving my boat and we were fishing squarebills on every little cove and creek mouth and picking up some dinks. He was using some no name 3" gray thing with a black dot on it. He has bins of gear going back decades, so he couldn't tell what it was. Heading into the wind he made the first cast at the next little creek and hooked a big fish. He lipped the fish and started fumbling for his scale and camera. I kept saying, "Want a hand?" and he kept saying "I got it, take a pic with my phone." No he didn't. As the wind drifted us backward, I got fed up and cut the bait off his line, tied it on mine, and fired a huge cast over his head before the creek mouth was out of reach. I turned the handle 10 or 11 times and I had my big fish. His was 8 pounds 4 ounces. Mine was 8 pounds 2 ounces. We fished that area for another 30 minutes and didn't catch anything.

"Seaguar Gold Label is designed to exceed the expectations of the most demanding saltwater anglers." I'll be sure to tell the guys on the Point at Cape Hatteras. The ones throwing 8 ounces of lead plus a chunk of mullet out into the dark as far as they can for trophy red drum. I love those retail marketing folks. edited to add a pic of the all tackle world record red drum/channel bass/redfish/etc caught at Avon, about 8 miles north of The Point near the Hatteras lighthouse. It took him an hour to get it on the beach. 11/7/84. 94 pounds 2 oz. (My wife wants to go down for the week after Christmas. Twist my arm.)

"Asian Portal is selling 20 Metanium 6.2:1, left handed, for $270" Whew, dodged that one. I don't have any will power this early in the morning. "Out Of Stock" (They do have other Mets in stock)

Time: about 30 years ago. Place: a 30-acre pond on a 9-hole golf course in a little town in eastern VA We were fishing minnows out of my mentor's 1648. I hooked into a nice bass before lunch, but the line broke off above the bobber. We were about 75 yards north of the clubhouse dock. After lunch - a couple of hotdogs from the clubhouse - we headed south from the dock to an elevated train track/embankment. There were two bushes on the whole thing and my buddy said, "Is that a bobber under the left bush?" He threw a minnow over there and caught a 7.5-pounder and I got my bobber and hook back.

I can't tell you the number of times I've seen the guy in front throw a spinnerbait or frog, or something else 4 or 5 times at an opening in the pads, timber or brush and then the guy in back catches a 4-, 5- or 8-pounder by casting 2 or 3 times into the same hole. I've been on both ends of that. Either the fish came to the noise, or it was asleep and had to be hit in the head a couple of times, or maybe it yawned and just got hooked. I think too many people want to drive so they can run and gun, make a cast and move on.

I would like another Steez. The site I checked said their first preorder was closed. I wonder if the price includes free shipping and a full spool? Only $658 and change.

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I've never had a Riptide, but I'd buy one without a second thought. It looks nearly like the Endura Max 55 I bought this year and I love it after many years of using a 1995 Minn Kota with the mazimizer and 27 pounds of thrust. It moves my heavy jon boat nearly as well as the Maxxum 70 on the bow. I have a 1648 Grizzly with carpet, extended rear deck, 3 67# batteries and a bunch of junk that makes it an extremely stable boat (heavy.) The bare hull was 495# before I started on it. Add a couple of 220-pounders and it starts adding up. A friend has a Maxxum 70 and a small old Minn Kota on a Polar Kraft 1648 and another friend has two 12v Minn Kotas on a Alumacrat 1448. All maximizers. I wouldn't buy one that didn't have a maximizer. If you run a maximizer motor at full speed it will eat a battery just like running a 5-speed on 5. If you run at half power or 2/3rds it makes the battery last two or three times as long.

"If anyone can tell us all what the practical advantage of the various colors are (aside from generating sales for Garmin) let us know!" I'm hoping they have a color scheme that I can see better than the usual fish finder options. I'm seriously colorblind/deficient on most reds and a lot of greens and don't see a lot of many shades correctly. It runs in the family. For example, have you ever heard someone talking about off-white paint colors and this one has a touch of blue and that one has a little green, etc? I don't see it, never have. I'm lucky to tell the blue and black socks apart. Heck, I bought an old house once that had faint pink tile in the bathroom. I didn't know. I just now received a Vivid 9sv from Crutchfield the auto/home audio company in Charlottesville. They're a Garmin dealer. TW still shows OUT with no expected date for the 9sv and my 2014 Lowrance Elite 5 HDI is broken (random shut downs, locking up on one depth, and recently giving a reading of 124 feet in 9 feet of water) and the Garmin GT52HW transducer will fit on my old Maxxum 70 with a quarter inch or so to spare. I have enough to worry about without having to protect a transducer on the transon from all of the standing and not quite standing timber. We will see.

"I’m still using the same 4 spools of mono I bought when I was like 24 ft or a total of $12 (I’m 36 now). I doubt I’ve spent $100 on line in my entire life and I fish way more than 99% of the population" I can spend $100 on line just surf fishing some years. It's the only thing between me and the big fish. I have 3 new 1000-yard spools of XL in 12, 17, & 20 I got from Dick's for $11 each, a bunch of my favorite 10# Invisibraid, 832, and YZHB and some other odds and ends I've tried or will try. It's a hobby. I fish a lot of thick pads and dead wood in heavily stained water and don't mind changing line regularly and when it gets too low on the reel. I couldn't afford nice gear and new line when I was a kid in the '50s and '60s. I couldn't afford Stren when it came out in '59. My first fishing rod was used and rusty. It was steel. Yeah, I'm old. I still have one of my old reels. Here it is on the old blue, steel rod. The good old days - I don't miss them. If I don't spend it my wife will spend it on the grandkids.

I finally decided to try fluorocarbon line after a lifetime of mono, straight braid and hybrids. I signed up for an Amazon Prime credit card a couple of months ago and was given a $100 credit. I used it, along with some of my own money, to buy 2 1000-yard spools of Tatsu - 15# and 20#. I also got 5% cash back for buying it on Amazon using the card. I spooled one on a Metanium MGL and one on a Steez. I already owned some line conditioner. So far I've caught fish on spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, medium-diving crankbaits and a few on other things including 5" Senkos. I love this stuff. What's not to like. I just received 3 200-yard spools of Invizx from Bass Pro. They were on sale for $11.99 each and I was ordering an 11" seat post so I got some. We'll see how it goes. I'm sold, although I haven't tried it yet in freezing weather.

"because the deal was too good to say no." That's how it works. I got an email two weeks ago about a weekend sale. Mostly DT6 and DT10, but not all.

I have a Maxxum 70. If I run it wide open it will eat the batteries just as fast as a 5-speed 70# motor run wide open. The advantage is gained when you run it at less than full speed - which is most of the time. When run at less than full speed it's powered by pulses of electricity instead of being constantly on.

"reduce time spent reeling back between casts to shoreline cover." All I can say is slow down. I can't begin to count the number of bass that have followed a slow spinnerbait from the bank back to the boat. And even hit it when it was coming straight up to the boat. It's worked for 30+ years and the guy who taught me was doing it before that. My first 9 pounder was caught under the boat at the end of a slow bottom bouncing retrieve. A nice solid 9.25 on the scale.

"They are coming in four different packages on four different days" My wife had wanted a can of Campbell's Cream of Celery soup for over a month because she wanted to try a new recipe. The local stores didn't have any - and still don't fwiw. Anyway, I tracked some down at walmart.com, but they would not sell single cans, only 4-packs. What the heck, send me two 4-packs. We got one can from West Virginia and then the next day we got 7 cans from North Carolina. I understand that deliveries are swamped, but sometimes it's just too strange. _________ To keep this boat related, I needed a $24 crimper to make some 8 ga. battery cables. Instead of driving 30 minutes to the nearest Home Depot and 30 minutes back, I ordered on line and had them send it. The blister packed crimper came in a box big enough for 5 or 6 twelve packs of beer and had about 30' of wadded up brown paper to keep it from rattling around. And they shipped it from Wisconsin to Virginia. Strange times indeed.