MN Fisher
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Winter fishing zoom call series
IT LIVES!!! Umm...any evening for me.
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Unreported Record Bullhead?
Ya - that ain't a bullhead unless it's a genetic deformity. Bullheads normally don't have forks in their tails
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Seasonal Habits of Largemouth Bass
As always, Glenn - good info done in an entertaining format.
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10 foot jon boat, worth it?
Between two adults, TM and battery - you're already at the weight limit. Whoops, no capacity for tackle, cooler, etc. A 10' jon boat is pretty much a one-person rig...
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Poor man's sonar for larger waterbodies - Navionics Boating
Nope - just have a leash attached in case the tablet falls out of the mount. Once the maps are downloaded, you don't need the Wi-Fi running - long as the tablet has GPS (mine does) you're good to go.
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Poor man's sonar for larger waterbodies - Navionics Boating
Or your tablet - I've got a clamp mount for my 8" Galaxy that I run that on...switched from I-Boating this year. It really does a good job...highly recommended for those who don't have maps on their fish-finder.
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WRITING IS ON THE WALL
Ya - my 1998 Chevy WT-1500 (it'd be a 1500HD now) was rated at 27mph highway. A trip to MA I actually got 27.5mpg going out empty. Dropped quite a bit coming back as I was helping someone move from MA to MN. Back of the truck was stuffed...couldn't even close the topper window...and his car was towed behind on a 2-wheel dolly...also stuffed.
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Fantasy Fishing 2021 - Official Thread
Well now I'm not feeling so bad - got 944 for Guntersville.
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Fantasy Fishing 2021 - Official Thread
Well, even with none of my picks getting into Sunday, it wasn't a total washout. Still doing better than I originally thought I would when I jumped into this blind.
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What is your best shaky head plastic?
If it's not a Trick Worm, it's usually a Zoom Finesse Worm.
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Replacement hooks
For general use on most crank/jerkbaits - I have two options that I use. Prime choice: Owner Stinger ST-41 Value Choice: VMC 9650
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Garmin Echomap guys
What's an SD card? The Striker records the maps to internal memory - no SD card slot.
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Garmin Echomap guys
Ya - Quickdraw is really good - I've been using it on my Striker since the Community maps for 'Tonka are a little lacking. Really nice feature on the Garmins.
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Zoom, done?
Only thing I'll buy from BPS is maybe one more of their 'Extreme Qualifier 3700' bags - they fit more boxes than any other bag that can slide under the mid-seat of my canoe.
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WRITING IS ON THE WALL
I miss my old WT-1500 for that very reason - 5-speed w/overdrive on the floor
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Zoom, done?
If it's Pure Fishing - Zoom might stay right where it's at. Mitchell is still based in France for their design engineers, Pflueger just moved from Ohio to South Carolina, but day-to-day operations are still run by Pflueger employees...not 'run from above' by PF. One thing I've noticed is that when PF buys a company, they pretty much just let it run itself with some oversight - they don't come down on it like an 8kTon gorilla and make drastic changes.
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Bunk boards flipping 90deg???
This even works on my canoe...didn't catch the vid yesterday, but set the trailer and just with the TM I powered the canoe onto the trailer...easy-peasy.
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Zoom, done?
Got that right - just Minnetonka alone has 16 tournaments scheduled for this open-water season - that's 3 a month.
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Cell phone question, can't get a straight answer
I tried Verizon for a year - went back to AT&T when the contract with V was up...there were places I couldn't get a signal from V...I've never had a 'signal not found' from AT&T. That includes a place I use to go to a gathering in 'no-where Kansas' - everyone wanted to borrow my phone because I had signal and they didn't (Verizon, Sprint, etc).
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Tackle Warehouse Issues
The worse part of their backorder policy is that they won't ship any until all are in stock. Ran into that this past year - two items were backordered, one came in just a couple weeks after the initial shipment - but the other kept getting put off further and further...and they wouldn't ship the first until they had the second on hand to ship. Finally canceled the one that kept getting it's expected date shoved out - and they shipped the other one...I'd found the one they couldn't get in stock (for what ever reason) at three other places.
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Fish app identified this as largemouth bass
Yep - it's a largemouth.
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Cell phone question, can't get a straight answer
I've been with AT&T for 26 years - three flip-phones and two smart phones and I still have the same number I started with. Latest upgrade, we even ditched the land-line and the wife's phone is our old home-number...so no running around telling everyone and his brother that our main number changed. Of course I've always gotten my new phones through AT&T, so I dunno what they have against buying a phone direct - it's just a SIM card that you need really.
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2021 Minnesota Fishing Season
Should have wished me luck North Arm: Surface temp 65-67 (7am-10:30am) Wind: 10mph (average) S-SW Mostly cloudy turning mostly sunny by the time I was off the water. Fish caught: 1 dink bass (maybe 10", I didn't measure it) That was it - had sunnies following everything I threw, but no takers and no other bass even sighted.
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Awww, cute. My first FG knot. !!
I got bad teeth - I don't trust them that much. I do the 'around the pinky' method Luke showed in the Salt Strong vid - works fine for me.
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Awww, cute. My first FG knot. !!
Vise-grips and around the leg works for you, so it works. Long as you have tension it's fine...you could even just sit on the grips if need be..