MN Fisher

The ones you listed in the OP are all valid companies/organizations - Omnia for example is based less than 25 minutes from my house. Those I will enter, with all required information. TJ, FM and other internet personalities - na...I steer clear of those.

Even with correctly set brakes - especially on a dual-brake reel - it's the balance between them that really gets going for me. Correctly set - my thumb is mainly as a safety thing as well as letting me drop the lure where I want it if it seems it's going to overshoot my target. Now when changing lure weights, you usually want to tweak the brakes...when in a hurry, the thumb becomes more important as the brakes aren't 'perfectly' set for the new lure.

Poor baby...our highs today and tomorrow aren't even going to hit 50...lows of 32 and 31 next two nights in the Metro.

As already stated - thumb and brakes. Even a good dual-braking reel (Lews Tournament MP, Pflueger Patriarch, etc) will still need thumbing.

You're more up-to-date than me...I'm still on Win-7 Pro. Keep giving 10 a shot...but still hate it. You can have my 7 Pro when you pry it from my cold/dead fingers.

He's posted in other threads this evening...so he's still alive and online.

Dude - where's the pics of those Mexican Hawgs?

I've got 10# on my jerkbait rig. I did use KVD on it and it seems pretty limp for a copolymer line. I'll probably keep that on the rig for next year...still loving my 12# YZH for the crank rig though.

Ya - those are better and easier to clean. both are in the same family too - as well as Sauger...all close cousins.

Ya, it's on the trailer...leveled port/starboard and fore/aft. Couple spots it's a little bit of a squeeze - but the garage is small enough that the space heater I have will keep it working-temp even in Jan or Feb. I was also standing right in front of the door into the basement work-shop area when I took the pic...so that's another plus. BTW: Last seat is out, and all the leaves that were sitting in there have been 'vacuumed' up...just about filled the bag on my leaf-sucker...course until Sunday it'd been sitting under a tree that's already lost most of it's leaves.

Taking up loose slack on a spinning reel will result in this more often than not. Only time I'll use one of my spinners for topwaters is light poppers or my WP-60s. Jerks, spooks, etc go on my M/F casting rig.

I never add scent to any plastic. Fish in my avatar pic was caught on a 3/8oz double willow White/Chartreuse spinner with a 4" Pit Boss in Skeet's Chartreuse Shad as the trailer.

Lakefinder is my first stop if I'm wanting to check a new lake out.

Interstates are made by Johnson Controls - Walmart's and Autozone's home labels are also made by them. Personally, I always try to stick with Penn East batteries - those would include Some Duracell, O'Reilly marine batteries, West Marine, Deka and MK. Johnson may have the higher sales numbers - but for me that's because they fail more often, so more get sold for that reason.

Best I can find is the Eco Pro weights - they just claim 'Chip resistant', but come in quite a range of colors. https://ecoprotungsten.com/collections/terminal-tackle/products/eco-pro-tungsten-worm-weights

Why am I laughing at that? Next month I'm 62...so not that far behind him.

Brian - you and I are both too old to be 'hip'. My torn jeans/cargo pants are relegated to workshop wear only.

One thing the previous owner did with the transom on the Alumacraft I picked up...replaced the plywood with solid White Oak - sealed with Spar-Urethane.

It's like Crappie - which is another good tasting fish. Use to be that 'Tonka would supply decent quantities of 1.5#-2# Whites and 2#-2.5# Blacks....now I'm lucky to get 1#-1.5# of either.

Also - if there's any foam in the boat, standing water can soak into that adding even more weight. Check for any water left in the boat, dry it out thoroughly, and maybe get a bilge pump either with an auto switch built in or a separate auto switch.

That's a Group 27 battery...'27dc' Sounds like you had Group 24s before - not as big a difference there...maybe 15lbs per battery. Is there anything else that might contribute to more weight in the stern?

So you went up in size? Group 29 to Group 31 perhaps. That'd do it - a single Group 31 (on average) weighs twice what a Group 29 does...so dropping two Group 31s in a boat is like putting four Group 29s in there. https://groupbatteries.com/group-29-vs-group-31-batteries/

It'd be more interesting if it was tucked down her panties.

Actually - 'This Old House' did a segment decades ago. A system of deep trenches in the yard 4'-5' deep, sealed and covered, connected to a heat pump. For a little electricity, the house stayed in a narrow range year round with only the occasional fire in the fireplace needed during deep winter. Ground that deep stays near a constant 65-70 year round

Not enough leeway to replace the leaf-springs...they're still fully functional, so it's a 'maybe next year' thing.