Jig Man

When I use a trailer, it is normally a single or double tailed grub.

If you use your unit for serious fishing instead of just depth, a 480X480 unit is a must which ever mfg you choose. I just sold an X125 to a friend. It is a great unit and I really liked the amber back light for night fishing but I decided to move into the world of color.

I have high speed cable with a new puter and I rarely find it fast. Sometimes it is soooo slow I get tired of waiting and go to another site.

California had poured worms. Gulp also has some pretty good ones but they would stink a dog offf a gut wagon.

If you have access to sycamore trees, they will sink without any weighs tied to them. A guy on Bull Shoals lake has put lots of trees in and last year he put sycamores on flats like you described. Within a month he was calling them his walleye hotels. He caught over 100 keeper (18"+) walleye from them. They were in about 40 fow.

I would network them so they can share waypoints. You can slant a skimmer transducer either forward or backward or to either side. However only for say about 5°. I have a "spooning" transducer under the livewell pointed forward and starboard.

That is the smart way to mount a transducer on any aluminum boat. Lund the best aluminum in the business comes with a transducer board.

Del at Aurora Canvas made the cover for my Champion. It has several thousand miles on it and spends around 100 nights each year in campgrounds. It is the best cover I have ever seen in my life. It is way better than any which my friends have.

Wow. I wish I could afford that stuff. I just put in 2 520c units for the tune of $1500 and networked them.

Actually August is a good time to buy a boat. The dealers ordered them last summer and have been sitting on them for several months paying floor plan interest. Most bass boats sell from mid winter to early summer (boat show to hot weather). Boats in inventory during August-Dec are not moving. Many dealers will sell them close to cost to get rid of them before the new ones arrive. If they are new noncurrents they will sometimes sell them below cost because they have been paying interest on them for over a year. Contrary to what many believe, cash won't get you the best deal. Dealerships arrange financing and get a kick back from the banks. So if you are buying and can get a financed deal with a no penalty payoff it is better to finance for a month or so then pay the bank off with no penalty. It could save you at least a new reel and a Gloomis rod. They also get as much as 50% kickback for extended warranty, so there is a barganing point if you know how to use it.

That price is well below NADA guides. If it is in decent condition, it seems like a pretty good deal.

I use Restore. Spray it on and wipe it off.

Pushing the BS aside. Use your depth finder. It will show them to you if you pay attention.

I use lime away. It is cheap and works as well as wonderfoam which costs 4X more.

This is the best article on Drop Shot that I have read: http://www.richz.com/fishing/articles/dropshot.html

The closest place I fish is 1 hour and 15 minutes away if I push it hard and 1 hour and 30 minutes at top of speed limit. I figure it is only money and that is replaceable as long as I have food and shelter besides.

I would be careful buying used reels. We have one local guy who has bought 2900 of the "didn't work returned to BPS" reels and sold them on ebay.

Thanks, I hadn't even considered that 'cause I usually dropshot with 8# line. Are you fishing this vertically or casting?

Looks like a thrifty idea alright. Where do you put it in the boat?

I was just at the workbench making up some brush jigs for this evening and got to wondering if I am missing something. We have a gazillion brush piles made by our conservation department and the corps of engineers not to mention what individuals put out. Many of these piles are made up of dozens of Christmas trees cemented in 55 gallon drums and dropped in big piles. Some really nice bass live there not to mention a lot of good walleye. Most of these piles are in 20-40 fow and are 5-10' high. Dropping into them and/or fishing through them brush jigs and trigs are all I can ever get throuh 'cause I raise and lower the bait over every limb as I come through. If any of you guys fish this way, do you have a method that I am overlooking?

I have 2 gps units networked and can get them to share waypoints just fine. Is there a way to get them to share saved trails or placed icons?

My neighbor is having that problem. He talked to a tech who said to change the old gas line. If that didn't fix the problem then he would need carb work.

That's a good thing cause I am not a Cabela's fan and I do kind of like Gander Mountain, too bad the closest one is over 200 miles away.

I have had water come in like that in an alum. boat with a really big guy. I thought about an inline check valve but never got around to it while I owned the boat. Another option might be to plug that hole and reroute the bilge pipe.

I own both Stradics and Symmetries. I also have a couple of Saharas. You don't really notice much difference until you have them apart. I don't know about the different materials or the quality of the bearings but I find that Stradic has 1 more bearing than the symmetry. With bearings costing $30 and up there in could lie the difference in price.