Tennessee Boy

LakeMaster has the best maps for the lakes I fish. They were created from recent surveys. Some lakes are better than others. If you have a smartphone you can download the One-BoatNetwork app and look at the maps of your lakes. They require a subscription but there is a free trial period.

Welcome to the club. 😊

If I catch a state record I’ll turn it in. The lakes I fish are large and the impact fishermen have on healthy fisheries is minimal. My biggest concern would be that it would go to my head and I might lose my humility. My humility is one of the things I’m most proud of. 😆

I’ve always been amazed at what spooks fish and what doesn’t. I’ll give you a recent example. I saw a group of fish about 25 feet from me that were positioned in the shade of a tree. I couldn’t tell for sure if they were bass. I made several cast with different baits. None of them moved. I decided to troll over to get a closer look. They were bass. I just kept moving slowly closer to them. I got to about 10 feet from them and they still hadn’t moved. There’s no doubt they could see me and hear me. I reached to put my rod down and I dropped it to the deck of my boat from a height of about 3 inches. That noise made them scatter.

My biggest complaint with Apple is the planned obsolescence. After a few years your old devices will not get new features even if they are fully capable of providing them. I can’t see myself ever using Android because Google is basically a spyware company. They don’t share your information with other companies but they remember everything and use it for their advertising. If they control your phone they have the opportunity to gather a lot of information about you. Apple really won me over about 10 years ago. I had 4 year old Mac that was out of warranty. I got an email saying they were recalling the hard drive in my computer because of the high rate of failures they were seeing. Mine was working fine but they replaced it free. This was a 4 terabyte Fusion drive and it was not cheap to replace.

A lot of people slay the smallmouth around here on a float n fly. I probably shouldn’t be sharing that. 🤫

Can you give us some details on the problems you’re having?

You’ve got two options iOS and Android. You didn’t say what you’re currently using. If you don’t like it maybe you need to try other. I’m an Apple guy, Mac, iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, Apple TV. It all works well together. I wish they made fishing stuff, lol.

Hockey? Isn’t that the sport where fans throw catfish onto a big frozen pond? I think we have that in Nashville.

FFS is rocking the boat and a lot of people don’t like it when the boat rocks. The screens on my boat give me information. You can’t learn without information. There are of course many sources of information but FFS gives us information that we’ve never had before. You’re never too old to learn if you have the right attitude. If Rick Clunn can learn from FFS so can the rest of us. He’s wise enough and humble enough to admit that he still has a lot to learn.

I went fishing with a buddy in his boat a couple of weeks ago. It was a very low tech fishing experience. He had 2D sonar, no GPS, no mapping. To make matters worse the cell coverage was bad and I forgot to download the LakeMaster data for the area we were fishing to my phone. It was like I was fishing out of my boat in 1992. I still remembered how to fish that way but I did not feel a sense of nostalgia. I felt mostly frustration. I replaced “hey there’s a stump with a fish on it. I wonder if I can catch it” with “I’ll cast over there, maybe there’s something there.” It’s what Randy calls the mystery of fishing. I call it uninformed fishing. Having the technology to know what’s down there gives you the information you need to learn and make informed decisions. I respect those who fish “old school”. I have no desire to go back to the old days.

@Way2slow I agree and I wish we could stop spreading this rumor started by the lithium battery industry that a 100 ah lead acid battery is really only a 50 ah battery because you can’t discharge it below 50%. The reality is discharging batteries is bad for them regardless of the chemistry used in the battery. The deeper this discharge the more it shortens the life of the battery. There are many variables. This chart says it all. Notice that there are no drastic changes at the 50% mark on this graph. In fact the slope of the drop at 50% is steeper for lithium than it is for lead.

I don’t know how much my ever increasing age has helped me understand bass behavior. I do know that watching them behave has helped me tremendously in separating myth from reality. I’m looking forward to aging with the technology.

I’m a little late reading the new post on this old thread and want to acknowledge @Largemouth Hunter the new member that resurrected the thread. That’s a heck of a first post. This forum is full of opinions on virtually every topic. Almost every thread has opinions on both sides based on individual experiences. I don’t really trust anyone’s interpretation of their own fishing experiences including my own. We humans are notorious for seeing patterns in random data where there are none. @Largemouth Hunter wondered if the visibility of braid affects fish so he did a controlled experiment and objectively looked at the results and shared them with us. He shared how he conducted this experiment in detail so we could evaluate his approach. Thank you @Largemouth Hunter for sharing what you’ve learned and welcome to the forum. We’ve had hundreds of post on braid and it’s visibility. Your post is the most informative post on the subject I’ve ever seen on this forum. I hope you will become an active member of this great community of anglers.

I wonder if it has a hidden compartment full of lead weights.

I have Mega 360 connected to by Solix up front along with the transducer built into my Ultrex. I used the cable they recommended. It’s a y cable. You connect one end to the fish finder and the other end of the y has two cables to connect to 360 and your regular transducer. It’s very simple and there’s no way to mess it up that I can think of as long as you get the right y-cable.

Steve Kennedy is a likable guy and fun to watch. He should have his own TV show. He could be the next Bill Dance if it wasn’t for his horribly ugly cap. 😂

I’ve gotten skunked on Smith lake when others were catching them non stop. It’s not as hard as it sounds.🙂

Great question. I’ve wondered the same thing. I hope someone who knows what they’re talking about has the answer.

It's important to lay down the rules right from the start.

I don’t think the BMS needs to be reset because you are able to charge it. My guess is the water ruined one of your cells. These batteries typically have four 3.2 volt cells. You have 9.7 volts fully charged which is what you would expect with only 3 cells. I would expect to see no voltage when the charger is disconnected but every BMS is different. A small battery like yours may have multiple small cells grouped together in parallel to make what I’m referring to as a 3.2 v cell. If one of these small cells shorted out it would short the whole group.

I would love to hear your answer the question I posed earlier in this thread. If you go fishing and catch a total of 10 fish on two different colors, how many of the 10 do you have to catch on one color before you say it’s the color the bass prefer?

You don't let guest pee over the side of the boat? I insist that they pee over the side of the boat.

Let's say you go fishing and you fish two different colors of the same lure equally and you catch 10 fish total. (Note: I realize that no one in the history of fishing has ever fished two colors equally to get a fair comparison of their effectiveness) How many of the 10 fish would you have to catch on color A to consider it the preferred color of the fish for that day?