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It would be so small that you wouldn't even call it a lake if navionics doesnt have it. If it's that small you can just cast the entire body of water. At least here in northern new york, navionics has really good maps of everything.

That is a divine idea. Dont forget, chicken bones have been used by our Haitian friends for generations. They have many answers.

Sounds good to me. I'm a lowrance guy so I'm not really familiar with the helix, but if they can be connected to each other to share waypoints it would be great. I have a similar set up with a 9" with si at the console and a 5" with 2d a di at the bow. Works for me. I would like a bigger screen at the front for di but the 5 is ok on 2d.

In shallow water either would probably be ok. Where I fish smallmouth, there is so much line out and the water is so deep(most of the time) I like a rod with a lot of backbone. It just feels like a ml wouldn't do very well to me, but the weights you mention seem light too, so a lighter action may work well for you.

That's what I did with my graphs. I have a 14' "rowboat" with an 8 horse that I use on some restricted lakes and on the small river near me. I just take the front unit off my big boat and use it on the small boat. It was a little north of $200, but you have the right idea.

It's a good place. It's a huge lake, but really good fishing. I assume they were getting a lot of smallies there.

I pocket carry an m&p 360 .357 mag every day. I can't remember the brand of holster I have, but it's a fairly loose fit and doesnt come out with the gun like some of them do. Its nylon with rubber on the right side so it sort of sticks on the pocket material when you pull out the gun. In the winter it fits nicely on the inside pocket of a carhart jacket.

Ha ha. Is that slang or.... I dont know why you can't fish as slow with a casting rig as a spinning one. Do you mean you are having trouble casting with it? If so, there are a lot of good you tube videos about casting them. Bring a spinning rod and the casting rod. If you get a birds nest that's really bad, just use the spinning rod for awhile and fix the line on the casting rod later. They can get frustrating, but dont let learning something new ruin your day.

I dont remember. But I'm sure it was with a nightcrawler. May have been under a bobber or over a sinker. My dad took us fishing a lot. But all he cares to fish for are bullheads, crappie, and walleye. Hes an old school fishing for meat kind of guy.

Theres too many to count. I dont even know what some of the ones mentioned are. I bought a wopper plopper last summer. I wasnt too sure about it after the first lake ontario smallmouth that hit it broke the rear hook, but it's been ok since. It caught some fish. A super spook junior outperforms it greatly though.

Yup. That's how I started. Learn the basics on you tube and then use it on the water and learn as you go.

I had a hook2 5x tripleshot. It was basically junk. I had to do hard reset every time I used it. Most of the time I would do the reset several times during a day of fishing. It constantly lost bottom. The 2d sonar would get really "noisy". It looked like the sensitivity was way too high, but the hook series is all auto adjust and has no way to manually adjust settings. The reset would temporarily fix these issues. When it was working right, it was pretty good. The thing just didn't work right all the time. When it was working, it did what it should. The structure scan gave a decent picture. I got an elite ti unit to replace it and it is way, way better. Way better. Better pictures, manual adjustments, and works every time. As for chart plotters vs. Mapping, I can clear it up for you. Gps mapping will have topographical maps of lakes. It will show your location on the map. My only experiance is with lowrance using navionics. It shows much more than just a map and your location. It shows navigational guides that are on the lake, danger areas like rocks or shoals, boat ramps, known wrecks, and marinas(tells if they have gas, food, bait). There is a ton of other info on there as well. Also, you can download updates and upload waypoints and see other peoples shared waypoints. There is a lot there. Gps plotters are basically just a white screen that shows your boat based on the gps location. No map. You can make waypoints and save them, but because they aren't on a map, it just turns into a bunch of dots. You can also make a trail. It will make a line behind your boat as you travel. That way you can follow it back to your starting point. I guess so you dont get lost? It's just a very basic gps. The mapping is well worth the money if you fish a lot of different lakes or unfamiliar areas. If you just fish a few places and you are familiar with them, the plotter will at least allow you to make waypoints. To me, mapping is worth the money just for the topo maps no less all the other information they provide.

Well, I dont regret buying quality electronics at all. I also feel that the mapping is as important as any other feature. It really helps you eliminate water that you dont want to fish and shows where the humps, points, holes, and breaks are. Then you check those spots with side imaging, 2d, and down imaging. People can say what they want, but I know I catch more fish with the electronics than I did without it. I always just fished the banks. Now I can fish deep water structure that I never knew was there. I really feel that I could not regularly catch smallmouths and walleye without my graphs.

Bullheads!!!

Ice breakers went through the st lawrence river the last couple of days. The first 2 freight ships made it into lake ontario today. Now that ships are moving the ice in the bays will break up fast. I'll probably be chasing perch the weekend after next. Here in NY, you have to wear pfd's at all times in a boat until may 1st. It's a good law in my opinion. You'd be in serious trouble if you fell in this time of year. The pdf could easily be a lifesaver.

I just got led lights for my trailers at tractor supply. They were a lttle pricey, but I like them better than incandescent bulbs. You dont have to worry about unplugging the lights before backing in the water with led lights. You can buy just the lights or a kit that comes with everything you need to re-wire a trailer including wire.

Crappie, perch, and bluegill. Slip bobbers and worms looks more like crappie fishing than bass fishing anyway. As long as the game warden isn't a member of bass resources! Ha, ha! He probably wont recognize you.

There is a 150 acre lake just a couple of miles from my house that I have fished more than any other body of water. It's also a couple miles from the house i grew up in. It has a 10 horse limit and a pretty big public shore fishing area. It gets a ton of pressure, especially ice fishing. It has good panfish, largemouth, and northern populations. They stock tiger muskies in it. In the last 20 years I have caught many hammer handle tigers there and have never heard of anybody else catching big tigers there. About ten years ago i pulled a 44", 26.5# tiger up through the ice there. It was awesome. I have never heard anybody claim to have caught a bigger fish there. I always tell everybody that I caught the biggest fish to ever come from that lake, but I obviously dont know that for sure. Also, that fish went back in so somebody else probably caught it again. Maybe it's still in there terrorising bluegill every day. Hell, terrorising everything.

You realize the spawn doesnt last through the entire tour, right?

I have 2 cats that were kittens last fall. I had all my rods in a spare bedroom after putting the boat in storage. One day as I'm watching tv, one of the cats runs by me, batting something along on the floor. He had a rat-l-trap. I dont know how he didn't get hooked. He even laid on it when he realized I was going to take it from him. I went in the room where all my fishing stuff was yo find that the cats had chewed on the line on every pole. There were several lures on the floor. I picked up every thing I saw, but just last week I found a 4/0 ewg on the floor in the d**n hallway. I'm hoping that was the last of it. I'm more worried about a human getting hooked than a cat.

I'm debating on going ice fishing this weekend. Still around 10" on my spot as of this morning. Warm today, warm tomorrow, but cold again this weekend. I'm sick of it.

If I talk to someone on the dock I am truthfully about what I got, where, and what lures. It stands to reason that some others would be the same. I mostly fun fish so I dont feel the need to lie to or mislead someone. That said, I rarely put much consideration on what other people tell me unless it falls in line with my own thoughts.

Is it the river you are trying to fish or the creek that runs into it? Rivers usually have lots of oxygen. The creek might not if it's a slow drain from swamps. I dont think you can tell by looking at it if there is a lot if oxygen. Usually rivers have plenty though. The current causes turbulance that basically aerates it like a live well. At least that's what I've been told.

Straight 6 pound mono. No leader.

Last summer I would see this kid bank fishing every time I went to a certain lake. One day when I showed up there by myself I asked if he wanted to go out on the boat. And fished with him for about 5 hrs. So I guess that counts.