Jig Man

It wouldn't be a home repair thing at my house. I'd have to take to someone who makes his living off people like me.

Pull the prop and look for mono behind it. As stated check the connections. It may be time for a new set of brushes and a good lower unit cleaning.

The need to upgrade is purely based on how you use or plan to use a depth finder. If all you want is to know how deep the water is at the boat, then any unit that shows depth will work for you. If you plan to find suspended fish or bait fish and know what you are seeing or be able to tell if there are fish in brush piles, then you need to upgrade. The first consideration for me is pixels. I want at least 480X480. If you upgrade and color is in your budget then pixels and color. Color makes target seperation easier. If you do a lot of casting toward the bank, a trolling motor upgrade probably makes more sense as Trackers usually are way under powered in that category.

Take time to visit NADAGUIDES.COM and check out the unit. It may surprise you at the net value of that rig. It won't show with that much motor. You will have to look up the motors and add for the 70.

I have tried a bunch and the best and easiest is the modified Albright or Alberto's knot. It is a 5 wrap up and 5 wrap down very small knot and needs no glue. http://www.stripersonline.com/Pages/Articles/article_arby_albertos_knot.shtml

You might buy some Spinnerbait R wire forms and bend them to suit yourself if you have a mold. If not then you can buy spinnerbaits with R wires and make them like you want. The pic looks like a tandem that has been converted.

They are asking $2800 more than the average value of the unit ($9,110). Contrary to what many buyers think, cash customers aren't as good as credit customers. Dealerships make lots of money getting customers financing. If I were interested in it and it all checked out, I'd make them an offer of $7500 and wait for their response. THEN LET THE DEALING BEGIN!!!!

On the jig inserts only use 4/0 hooks. Trigging I use 3/0 and 4/0 EWG depending on which fits best.

Like RR stated I'd like to see you start with one good setup and go from there. I'll go one step farther on the recommendation. Get a Shimano Symmetry in the 2500 size and a St. Croix Avid rod if those fit into your price range. It will be a lifetime combo if you take care of it.

One of my friends kept a Lowe Jon going for 25 years with JB Weld.

Get you some black, gray, brown and green tubes. Rig them with jig heads or fish them weedless Texas rigged. Learn to catch fish on them then branch out to other plastics.

Go to the lake with him and run the thing for yourself. If you don't like what you see, don't buy it.

It only takes a few seconds to set.

I fish 4" tubes with 1/8 and 1/4 oz jig inserts. Most of the time I use a weed guard that I attach to the jig head.

4" tubes are the only size I use and catch several smallmouth each year on them.

I use lime away.

I had some, cut it off, threw it away, bought Power Pro and haven't looked back.

There is a unit that can be put in with a plastic plug that has a T on the end of it. I have had it on my last 2 boats but installing it will depend on what you already have and how hard it is to get out. I have run the type of plug you mention many hundreds of hours on the outside of the boat and had no problem. I don't pull my plug on the boat. That is why I have a pump.

Many bass boats come from the factory with a 42" shaft trolling motor. If you plan to fish windy water then I suggest a 45".

The one I like most is a MH F 6.5'.

I have had a motor or two that did that very thing with cable steering. I used a bungy on the steering wheel to keep it from turning.

If you spend a little time doing some research on this site and www.tackleunderground.com you will come up with all the info you need. Also look at places like Netcraft and Barlows to see what materials they have. You will need some molds, plastisol, dye, and a way to heat the plastisol.

I never run the gasoline out of my motor. I only buy it 20-30 gallons at a time so it is seasonal and fresh.

I have a spinnerbait box and a spinnerbait/buzzbait box. I threw my other spinnerbait boxes away. This thing is great.

Don't worry about it. Take it back. Those people are fantastic. I lost a lens to one of my black lights. I called and asked if I could get another lens. They said bring the light in and we will see what we can do. I took the light in and they gave me another one. A couple of weeks ago a guy exchanged a fly rod and reel at the Springfield, MO store that had burned in his house.