Jig Man

Our Wal-Mart carries rod tips. They cost about 3 bucks. You can heat the old one with a candle and take it off. A little flecthing cement and the new one installs in about 15 seconds.

I have a couple of them. I have been using them for the last 5 or 6 years with no trouble at all. Shimano has changed the style and come up with the 2500 and now changed it again since I bought these reels. I fully expect them to last me a lifetime.

I keep mine mostly in boxes like my hard baits. I keep them by type (chunks, grubs, craws, etc). Small grubs for vertical jigging and drop shot are in tackle bags.

I don't really have a dog in this hunt but my suggestion is buy the 2 piece and fish with it a few times. At lots of places you can take it back and get the 1 piece within 30 days if you don't like the 2 piece rod.

I use them mostly as jig trailers but like them trigged in brush piles.

I lower the motor when I trailer it, raise it back up and lower it a second time. This gets all the water out. Then I go home put it into the garage. I have never winterized a motor. I use it as often as I can so I don't use stabilizer in the gasoline either. I have never had any problems.

If you should have an electric soldering gun, you can use it to cut and seal the straps in one process. I have done that a lot of times.

I bought some sickle hooks for jigs and worms. Yesterday I tried them out and had a bad day holding fish. I only got 5 of maybe 40 hits stuck and to the boat. Any of you have this kind of experience with them. If so is there a cure besides deep six. :

The fall fish I like to target mostly are the ones which come into windy banks or points. For these fish I use a swim jig or spinnerbait. When there is no wind I back off and use a craw jig or tube.

A time or 2 I have had a brain fart and left my unit on in the garage 'till it ran the battery down. It never hurt the transducer 1 bit. I'd say your friend has "stinky breath".

You might as well pick your repair center because if you buy a boat that old you will get to know everyone in the shop.

I buy Pline in bulk through Ztackle.com for a few friends and myself. We usually buy around 30,000 yards at a time.

I buy from Ztackle, Jans, Barlows, Stamina, Shorty's Hooks, Bass Pro Shops, and Do It.

You should be able to find out the mfg by looking at the title. Then look up the boat/motor/trailer in nadaguides and you can see if the price is good. It seems high to me for a rig that old. I think a $1500 offer would be quite high. By comp he is referring to the motor's individual cylinders compression.

Buy you a new Gloomis rod and a good reel. That should give you a reason to hit the water.

Your system must be a 12/24 with both parallel and series wirings. You can simplify the whole thing by going 24 only. You would need a + from battery 1 to the + trolling motor lead. You would need a - from battery 2 to the - trolling motor lead. The connections for the charger are a bank + to battery +, a bank - to battery - then the same procedure with the other bank and other battery.

I used to have that problem playing golf 7 days per week. There is a band which you can get and strap around your fore arm. It will help some.

One of us is smoking too much weed. 8-) For 12v you need a + and a -. For 24 v you need a + on battery 1 and a _ on battery 2 with a jumper wire from - 1 to +2. Somewhere in the mix you have completely lost me. If you have a camera, some pics would help this poor tired mine.

I no longer have the cojones for cold nights.

Tap #1 fish taking bait into its mouth Tap #2 fish spitting bait out Tap #3 same fish or another fish taking bait into its mouth Tap Tap Tap Tap some kind of brim trying to get the bait in its itty bitty mouff (We call that the TBerry shuffle here in the Ozarks.)

Modified SDJ.

;D ;D ;D ;D We have all been there. I spent the winter trying to make little plastic baits which I could buy for $3.00/dz. I spent around $100 and got lots of burns before I had a finished product. BTW: Watch the toaster oven. I have ruined a bunch of jigs due to meltdown in mine. If it were me I'd put a few in and set it for about 250° and pull them out in 15 min. fish them and see how good the paint adheres. If you need more time use another 1/2 doz and go for more minutes. Don't put all your jigs in one basket. ;D

First time you miss a fish and come in with the Y guard on the hook point you will know the difference. :

You could very well have a lower unit on the tmotor needing repair.

Take your time and look the boat over all the way around it. Get down and look under it looking for missing chunks and cracks. Look the trailer over from outside and from underneath. Look at the tires for uneven wear which could be a bad axle. Pull the cowling off and look at the motor. Get in the boat and look in all of the boxes. Turn on every switch in the boat and make sure that the accessories work. Open the bottom screw of the lower unit and see what comes out (hopefully only lube). Ask the owner for a maintainance record. Like stated insist on a compression check and test drive. If it measures up and is within reason, make an offer. Good luck.