Jig Man

If you will put on 100 yds or so of mono instead of 10 then put on about 30' more braid than your cast length you won't have any digging in problems or fraying problems. I have some 30# power pro that has been on a long time and have had no problems like you describe.

6# mono and a 1000 reel is just fine. I use that in the fall and winter almost exclusively. I keep 10 on the 2500s.

I suggest that you find out the reserve amps of your batteries and next time you buy some get more reserve capacity. You need 180 or more reserve amps, especially with a 12 v trolling motor.

You will get a lot of different responses on this topic. Since I buy and make in bulk I can only take a few of each with me. I don't like to dig around through plastic bags so I use the plastic boxes and seperate them by types like beavers, jig trailers, craws, brush hogs, etc.

On the poison tail jigs he uses the same hooks that I use, Mustad 91768 BLN. They are quite good hooks.

This whole year has been crazy. The smallmouth and keeper lmb have gone away for me. I can't seem to get a pattern that will last more than a day or so. Normally this time of year rock piles and ledges get loaded up with smallies but not this year. I have resorted to making up a bunch of 1 oz jigs and plan to get "down and dirty" next trip.

I sent an old green Curado to a guy in Alabama. He did some magic to it and it will throw a light weight bait a really long ways now.

I'd mount the xducer on a board and screw the board into the boat above the water line. Lunds always came with one included so you never had to deal with leaks. https://www.firstchoicemarine.com/p-16508-rig-rite-transducer-mounting-plate-910.aspx

Since I make my own, I trim the skirts to match what I want be it finess with fluffy collars or full bodied. I do not trim weedguard. I may flare it but not trim it.

Since you already carry 2 batteries then you don't have an issue. Get the 24V and be a happier camper. The important thing about batteries is reserve amps. Be sure to use deepcycle batteries with lots of reserve amps (180-200). I am pulling a 21' boat with an 82# thrust 24V trolling motor. I can run into the wind all day long and not notice a drop in power at the end of the day.

I never have believed the hook rusting thingy. I have caught a few bass that had parts of hooks hanging out their butts that made it all the way through them and didn't completely rust out.

I am having to make some assumptions here. You didn't mention what type of line or type of reel. So I am assuming mono line. I fish open water and use 8/10/12 # on my reels. The reels that have braid have 8 and 30# on them. No matter whether it is a spinning reel or a baitcaster, I load the line off the top of the spool. Before I built a spooling station, I had my wife hold the spool with a pencil through the hole and keep light pressure on it. I do not have line twist problems from respooling. I also do not splice line except for fluro leader on braid.

Mine is a Flatfoot and I wouldn't take $500 for it.

For me it is easy. I have hundreds of jigs and 0 senkos.

Try swimming that jig. I have been catching a lot of bass swimming a 1 oz jig with a 5" trailer. Just throw it out and crank it back keeping it off the bottom.

Some will and some won't. MDC used to tag fish for studies on our lakes. They paid for fishermen to remove the tag and send it in. They found that some of the fish didn't move over a distance of hundreds of yards while others moved several miles.

I traded a 7' rod with a guy in San Frisco for a 6'6" rod. USPS charged me $12 and was going to charge him $30. On his second visit he told them what I was charged and they charged him the same.

My wife has offered to buy me a new trolling motor in lieu of a new boat. ;D I have a MG TE 82/45" shaft in good working condition. It has a bunch of hours on it but still works fine. Some guys are interested but I don't know how to price it.

I have both of those rams and have had 3 different Lows on them and the brackets from all have fit them just fine.

I carry Bounce dryer sheets in my boat. When the bugs come out so do the sheets and get in my shirt pocket.

I have an 02 Opti and have had 2 alarm issues. The first one was the constant alarm and the motor overheated while I was idling along eating lunch. A new powerhead gasket took care of that. The next one was the intermitten oil alarm. The motor wasn't overheating so I assumed it was getting oil. I took it to a shop and it turned out to be the float and sensor in the oil tank. A new tank and new sensor took care of that issue.

If it ain't broke don't fix it. I only pump my bulb when I replace my water seperating fuel filter which is once a year.

I didn't have the guts to put a Flatfoot tray in my Champion so I hired it done for $100. Even guys who do this often had a few problems and cut all the electrical wires running to my front panel. So I'd say go slow and be careful.

If you have Map Create questions, I'll do my best to help you out.

Cart map create 7 is way better than the other models. It has maps in it while the others only show blue (water) white (land). I use it to keep wpt, icon, and trail files for the 6 lakes I fish. I have about 1000 wpts and like to keep them in seperate files. I can mark as many as I want in a day and then look at the location on the computer with mc7 and see if I want to keep them or not. It really has helped me organize my stuff. I have the shot spots cards but am thinking about Nav since I looked at a buds and all the contours on Stockton.