Jig Man

I finally go Photobucket to post here.

This site won't allow me to post pics from my photo host and we don't have the web store set up just yet.

How many hundred would you want? Salt or not salt?

Put on a set of greasable axle hubs and you should not have any problems or have to repack them. Mine have been on for 13 years now and I have only looked into them once and that was when I was making a 2000 mile trip with the boat.

I had that happen to me on a travel trailer and didn't see the problem until a guy pulled me over. By then there was a fire and the brakes burned up. I took a chisel and cut off the frozen race. I filed the spindle back smooth put new bearings in and went on home. Later I replaced the brake. I used that trailer for several more years then sold it to a friend 9 years ago. It is still going strong.

I can't see it well enough to tell the color.

Yep that is what I'd use.

I'm not sure what you are wanting to do. Are you wanting to completely remove the weedguard or do you have some flared out from the rest?

I had to quit using my butt seat because of my knees. Both are bad and one has had surgery and the other needs it. It was different learning to cast sitting instead of standing and I just can't flip at all sitting.

I'd be very skeptical of this battery as it does not show the reserve capacity. That is the number you need to be checking to see how long it will hold up to continuous running. I'd not get anything lower than a reserve capacity of 140 amps but higher is better.

The only other thing that I do is take a drill bit the same size as the spout hole and (by hand only) gently clean the walls of the spout.

I wouldn't do it without first buying a fish tape and using it. They only cost a few bucks and are well worth the money.

Generally around here in MO the east wind is associated with the passage of a cold front and the resulting low pressure area which spins in a counter clockwise direction. That happens after the cold front's barometric pressure change which usually has shut off the bite, especially in the prespawn period.

I like red jigs at night in the summer with a white trailer in the waxing moon (gibbous to full).

You can do most but stay away from Gulp products. They don't work well when remelted. As you mix them you will finally wind up with brown.

My setup will be a Curado E 7:1 reel with a Gloomis 844c rod. The bait will be a home made A Rig. I hope that will be late this week or early next week.

Water on south facing banks get sun all day long.

It would really help to know about your rig. Is it single axle or dual axle? Do you have brakes? How old is it? Do you have an actuator on the tongue? I have it all the time with my trailer. The actuator lets the tongue slide forward then slide back as I apply the brakes. I have had it rebuilt and it still is there. I called the mfg and was told that a new actuator would not fix the problem so I just have to live with it or buy a new trailer.

The first time I used a gps it was very foggy and I had 4 miles to go to where I wanted to fish. The gps took me right into the mouth of the cove that I wanted. I have not been without one since and don't ever plan to be. So yes get the one with gps.

It depends on who is selling as to what I would do. I'd be skeptical unless it is like someone on this forum who has been around a while or off Ebay where you might get some backing if it didn't work. I've sold a few here and on other forums to members and so far I haven't had any feedback so I guess they were working when they arrived.

Since this is your first rig, you might be better off if you took it to a shop and had it fixed right before you get hurt.

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I like them because of their dependability. I used my old ones hard for 15 years, cleaned them up and sold them for nearly what I gave for them. Not one of them ever had to have a part replaced. I switched to new ones when the Es came out. I may never buy another reel because they seem to be as dependable as the old ones that I had. I never found that with the D and G brands.

I fish a lot of tubes and mostly with the same rigging as you mentioned. There is nothing more important than watching the line. Sometimes I can feel the bottom very well and sometimes not. I get more feel with braid and a leader than I do with mono. Lots of times the bite is only seeing the line jump or move with no thump at all.

I make my own from stainless steel wires. Then I wrap it and coat with epoxy.