Vilas15

Only had to learn this lesson 3 times. Now I'm a little more intentional with my morning routine before going out on the boat. Worth getting on the water a few minutes later instead of getting a bait in the water only to put the rods away and run back to the dock or nearest undeveloped shoreline.

Hows your tire pressure?

1. Bed fishing 2. FFS 3. Snags because I fish a lot of rock 4. Wake boats 5. Tournaments (or even more so non competitive anglers) that load up there 5 biggest bass during spawning to drive them around all day for a photo at the launch before releasing them in one spot miles from where they picked them up

I've got a new style for my mower that you click a button, then tip it upside down and push down to fill like a racecar pitstop. Then when you lift it up the nozzle closes automatically. Maybe not ideal for every situation but it works great.

What kind? I'm not familiar with the different species enough to know whether they're all good for eating or not. I'm sure somebody here's got a good recipe.

Same. Not with White River's history with welded aluminum hulls. Rivets leak and the fix is replace the rivets. Welded hulls crack and the solution is replace the whole boat. Thickness is 0.125 which matches the ranger deep Vs. The ranger mod Vs are 0.1 as far as I can tell.

Fellow 2005 ranger fish n ski owner here but mines a 1850 with a 150. I'm going through replacing the torsion axle right now since it's wore out and rubs one of the tires on the fender. Something to watch out for if you don't sell it any time soon. The 1850 deep V brings a little more cash from the northern crowd than the bass hull and they go for mid to high 20s from what I've seen for the mid 2000s VS models. Your price seems appropriate to me. How much attention or how many inquiries you get will tell you how it's priced.

They'll say the same thing about OH Ivie of the 2020s in 20 years so get on out there

Can't use rangefinders on the PGA tour to get probably the most important information a golfer needs. This sport involves animals and fair chase needs to be considered. You can't hunt with a drone. Those provide real-time feedback on the exact location of the prey from a distance, sound familiar? No previous iteration of fish finders meets that standard. Traditional sonar requires you to be directly over them to see them, and side scan let's you see them once and you've got to go back to the spot or fire a cast knowing where they were at that instant, but not once they've moved. It improves the ability to catch fish. That is detrimental to the population either through increased harvest, or much less so in the case of catch and release due to increased accidental mortality. This is a big topic in musky fishing since they're not as hardy and vulnerable to delayed mortality. They're lowering panfish bag limits around here. Since the guides and guys with FFS clean up, the average guy who doesn't catch a limit nearly as often can't keep as many when he finally gets it right when the stars align.

Maybe I'm a weirdo but I use the remote 100% of the time and sometimes supplement it with the footpedal. Even when going down the shoreline. I set it to a constant speed based on the wind to keep me moving around 0.7 mph. I use the autopilot to keep it pointed in the same direction and make adjustments between casts as needed with the remote clipped on a beltloop. If the wind is really variable I break out the foot pedal but only to make steering adjustments while maintaining constant power. I do operate it from the back deck quite a bit since for a while the only GPS fish finder was at the console.

Cool story. Lucky to had a dad who's able to share the hobby. My dad used to do a "skip day" every few years, I can remember one of a trip to Chicago and going up the Sears tower. "I cast at her 15 or 20 times,” says Stetson. “I was about to give up because I thought the fish was flat out blind." I'm not a fan of bed fishing but to each their own. Wait I'm hearing this was using FFS, not bed fishing. Well like they say you can't force them to bite...🤔 Maybe he's just on the fast track to learning fishing isn't all about catching the biggest or most fish, something it normally takes some people a lifetime of fishing to realize once they've finally gotten pretty good at it.

I've just done a ton of research trying to figure out how to organize my units and ran into this. NMEA will share waypoints but both units need to be turned on. Any waypoint you create you will see pop up on the other unit as well. But they won't be able to share all current saved waypoint created before the link. You'll have to find a way to share those through SD cards or something. NMEA cannot share transducer data or maps, you need ethernet to do that which as you mentioned is not compatible with Ti2.

I'll be on the water in the next few weeks probably catching more pike than anything while technically targeting bass since they've got the open catch and release season. I accidentally caught a 31" last spring. Lake Mendota is unique in that it doesn't get muskies stocked and has no natural population, so pike are the top dog. The pike limit is one over 40" so everything goes back. I've got another trip to Lake of the Woods planned this year as well. Last year the group had a 35" and 36" which was a lot of fun.

I dont care about live bait. I use it, though not for bass, and I dont own FFS. All I know is Lord help us if/when FFS ever becomes cheap enough for the bucket brigade. They dont even need a boat here, they just wait for ice season.

But since they're cold blooded the amount/frequency that they need to eat is, on average, directly tied to the water temperature. IMO you've got to either go with a juicy meal that would take very minimal effort (jerkbait worked sloooow), or something like a blade bait that triggers a strike without allowing them to think about it.

15 lb braid with 8 or 10 lb mono and no problems with the alberto knot. Never learned the FG. Typically tie it just short enough that with the bait at the rod tip the knot never makes it to the first largest guide since that ones got the biggest angle on it with line coming from the reel during casting.

Give me a map with 1' contours and a sonar that can show me hard bottom or height of weeds and I'm pretty much good. Ive got a looong list of purchases to make, boat related or otherwise, before I upgrade my electronics any further.

I just picked up a used 7" unit with a broken SD slot for cheap and thought I'm going big time since it's my 3rd screen 😄

I just did the same. Only took a few minutes. Thanks for the tip.

Bingo. I can't think of a single redesign St Croixs done that I liked, except maybe the mojo bass upgrade from SCII to SCIII. Fortunely I've bought quite a few of every variety over the last few years that I dont need any more. May look elsewhere in the future as it seems like every upgrade is an opportunity to cheapen components, reduce amount of cork, and increase price.

Yes. Borders Oneida. Most lakes I frequent are 400 to 1000 acres. Most of the time theres 3 to 5 trailers at the launch, sometimes none, and one time I think I saw over 10. Now with a boat at home I'm on the Madison chain more where the lakes are bigger and there's more traffic.

Yes. Up at the cabin theres over a thousand lakes combined between the county we're in and the next one. Its taken about 10 years to learn about 10 pretty good and try another 10 a few times. Gotta know a spot and have some good info to make it worth driving any more than a half hour past all the nearest lakes. They're all different and I can now pick a lake depending on time and year and what species I'm looking for which has drastically improved success rates.

If i had to pick one bait to use it'd be 3.5" keitech easy shiner on plain ball jighead. 1/8" to 3/8" depending on depth but mostly 1/4". I catch bass, pike, and walleye. It's as close as you can get to a real minnow or baby perch.

Ive got a grey Rapala folder ruler that goes to 60" that i use for everything from crappies to musky. Stores out of the way. Musky bump boards are like 60" and only fold in half and have a massive sidewall on them. I dont catch enough to warrant that. The hawg trough looks nice though since it cradles the fish. Ill look into that.

That makes sense if you fish only private ponds or lakes. I fish public water where the fish are a public resource so their management and harvest by other anglers directly afffects my experience.