Jig Man

You are more likely to have issues caused by the trolling motor than the two depth finders. I have had as many as 3 units on the same battery with no interference. Your units might “cross talk” if their sonar cones overlap.

Sometimes it is the fish hitting the blades, but a trailer hook may give you more insight into the situation.

We’ve been having 95-100% humidity most mornings. I try to fish early and leave by midday. My extra cooler filled with ice and water allows me to keep a wet cool endura cloth around my neck.

I try to fish 100 days a year and have for a long time. I’ve never had that happen to me. If I did I believe that I would say look me in the eyes and see if I give a —— what you are doing.

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Lately I have had trouble getting on the site and sometimes opening a thread to read it.

I fish it a lot and carry 5 setups. Gloomis ml bronzeback/Curado 70 2 Gloomis Gl 3 ml/Shimano Symmetry 1000s 2 Fenwick HMG ml/Shamino Stradic 2000s All have Yozuri hybrid 6# line.

I say trolling motor with spot lock #1, new electronics #2. Power Poles maybe #3 maybe not at all. I had Power Poles on my boat for 2 years and used them maybe 10 times. My boat is usually setting in water too deep for them to do me any good. Spot lock is the bomb and spot lock jog is super.

If it exists smalljaw or cadman will know about it.

Have you talked to Noco? They are the ones that told me to shut off the main switch if I planned to leave it plugged in all the time.

Contact cement.

If you leave them plugged in you should unplug your trolling motor or throw your main power switch if you have one.

I have extra reels not extra rods. I keep 6 extra spinning reels just in case and 2 Curado 5:1 bait casters for winter time Arigs.

I usa a Curado E7 most of the time on it but switch to a 5 for the Arig.

Some on setups that I don’t use a lot is very good for a year especially 12 and 15 # test. On setups I use most every trip I get several months out of it. It is still strong but gets a lot of memory. I have had a lot of trouble with 6# not lasting so I have changed to Youzri Hybrid for that.

I use mine for jigging spoons and Arigs.

I use Elaztech worms from Strike King and Zman. My favorite color is green pumpkin but I use several on each trip looking for the best bite. My heads are homemade, some standard jig heads, some screw locks and some my leggy stand up jigs. The weights are from 1/8 oz to 3/8 oz with hook sizes from 2/0 to 4/0 depending on the type and amount of cover.

I rarely see smallies on my units.

That depends on where you are located and where you fish. Around here most every shop can work on Mercs, many on Yammys and few if any on Suzukis.

A 1/2 oz jigging spoon is tied on a setup all of the time. It will work anywhere in the water column.

I used to buy a lot from them (I knew the owners). Since they sold the place and new owners took over I haven’t been back. I hope that they are as good as they were before.

There are lots of big pleasure boats in that area until the weather gets cooler.

I normally have fluorocarbon on 18 setups, now only 13 since I put Yozuri on my 5 Ned setups. I don’t have any trouble and don’t use any conditioner on the fluorocarbon.

I use a heat gun on the high setting. I warm up the gun and meticulously count the seconds that it is in contact with the jig head. I don’t want mine hot enough to make the powder shiny. I just want a dull coat that sticks. That gives me a very thin coat which won’t run when baked in my $2 garage sale toaster oven.

Might it be a hormonal thing connected with feeding activity?