Jig Man

If stock you mean on hand then I have at least 20 colors of silicone from fishing skirts and brown, red, black, blue, chartreuse, white and orange living rubber that I buy by the pound from living rubber.com.

If you get units that have gps you won't regret it.

My tip would be read the manual so that you know when each maintenance item needs to be done. Then take it to a pro when the hour meter says it is time. I'm the kind of nontechnical dude who can turn a $25 30 minute job into a 2-3 hour $100 knuckle buster.

The bow is where I use mapping the most. I use it at the console to approach a way point, then I deploy the tmotor and use mapping to get on top of and stay on the way point. I have units that share a map card so I only have to buy one card. I'd feel lost without a gps in the boat.

I am running the blue tops and have been for several years. They are as good as any batteries that I have ever used. I have a 250 Verado and use one for cranking also. The ones I had in my last boat were over 4 years old and still going strong.

Well I just must be unlucky about them. I had to cut them apart yesterday with scissors. They were so stuck together that they would not pull apart. Many of them were in packages that had never been opened. I keep all of mine in the original pkg. in tackle bags with nothing else in the bag.

The heat is what ever the sun puts out in the summer time. They never come out of the boat. Every package of the newer ones have stuck together. I have some old ones that were labeled 3X. Not one of them has stuck or deformed.

I use 6, 8, 12, 15 # for the various ways that I fish. I like to have 2-3 setups with each. 6 Ned 8 Crank 12 Shaky and jig 15 Spinner bait

I have been carrying them in two different kinds of tackle bags with the worms in the original packages. The worms in both bags have welded together and in one bag they have gone flat in the other they are almost square. Anyone carrying them in a way that they don't weld or misshapen?

I have 844c and 843c rods. I find I use the 843c rods a lot more than the 844c. Either will work well with 1/2 oz jigs. I don't like the 844c with anything less than 1/2 oz.

I used to be a fanatic about my waypoint files. I kept a different file for each lake (6) that I fish. Every time I got home I would save the file to an sd card, then delete it from the units and purge the units. When I chose a lake for the next trip, I'd load that file and go. As new technology came along allowing lots more storage and my old waypoint management software became obsolete, I became lazy and quit backing them up. A few days ago I was looking at the chart to decide on an area to fish next outing and discovered a bunch of stuff that should not be there. There were indiscriminate waypoints in places where there should be none and multiples (doubles up to quintuples) of the ones that should be there. Needless to say my file has been corrupted. It showed that I have 5600+ wpts when there should be around 2000. I have been laboriously deleting the garbage waypoints one by one. I now have it down to one lake that has about 800 wpts so if they are only tripled I still have around 1600 to get rid of. As soon as I get a clean file I'm going to save it, unhook the units from each other, delete and purge each unit then hook them back up and reload. I'm thinking I need to find a new software management program and back up the files after every trip. So my suggestion to you all is back them up often.

One option would be to look for a storage unit close to the hotel that has inside storage large enough for your boat and electricity to charge your batteries. I have done that and been about to rent for about $10 per night.

I replied in the other forum where you posted.

By far my best color lately in stained water has been red/chart. with chart split tail trailer. In clear water red/white with red trailer.

I hate to go in the winter with a single console boat. For that reason I rarely go in those boats. I try to take mine.

Once you learn how to use it your jig tying will be a lot more fun. When I used to make a lot of buck tail jigs I could tie 2 dozen 2 to 3 color jigs with chenille in less than a hour.

My idea is that you need a new cranking battery. Optis have to turn over a few times before they will fire. I had one for 14 years and as long as I kept a minimum of a 1000 CCA battery in it I had no problems.

I fish a lot of elaztec worms and Texpose all of them. I don't have hook set problems.

I've bought several things from them. They always have had good prices on the things I have bought.

I used to be a Nitro hater until the last few years. They have made significant improvements and now have a pretty good boat on the market. In fact I own a Z20 which I got for $16,000 less than a Ranger 520C. Both boats would have been equipped the same way except for the engine. Then Ranger had a Pro XS and the Nitro has a Verado. If you are looking for the most bank for your buck I think you can find it in a (new non current) Nitro.

A new carpet job will cost you around $1000 +-. It won't increase the value of the boat by that much but will help it sell faster.

I do it when crossing a cove so I don't have to put the sonar in standby.

The keystrokes (commands) are completely different. I have a Low and my bud has a Bird. Neither one of us can use the other's unit at all so if you are familiar with either brand go with the familiar brand or like Francho said go to a store and spend some time with both units. You may also want to put Garmin in the mix.

I tried a lot of digitals and could never find one that gave consistent readings so I bought a Boga several years ago and haven't looked back.

You would have to burn a hole in a TRD to get it to even go on that keeper. I have the Midwest Finesse mold and even the wire keeper is worthless so I filled it in with silicone.