YakingBass

In Jenks there is a small pond, it is called Veterans Park Pond. You can bank fish there. It gets a lot of traffic but I have caught a 3 and several 2's from the bank. I have heard of people catching 5+ out of the pond and have seen some that look like they would go 5. I have never fished for Carp in this water, but there is an orange colored Carp I have seen swimming around and it is as big as my leg. During the cool months it is stocked with Trout and you are limited to having no more than 2 rods going. but the bass fishing is hard there in the cooler months. In early spring, there is a lot of the floating algae that forms mats. Dropping frogs on the mat and hopping them from the mat to the bank has produced good bites for me. Jigged and Texas rigged worms and Ned rigs have also worked for me there. I have not caught anything in this pond on Hard baits, spinner baits or buzz baits. You might look at an app called Fishbrain. In the social media part has reports from local waters with location, number of catches, etc.

Think I got it figured out. Was able to put my triple shot transom mount on to my switchblade arm and will attach the active imaging to the transom bracket which I will connect to the Switchblade transom bracket. I will post photos when all together.

Thank you sir. I will look into this. I was wanting to find an over the side mount as I was concerned that there could be some cavitation interference with the FD drive prop being so close. Any issues?

Grand is good, some main lake issues in the summer with pleasure boating crowds, but lots of nice coves that you can fish and get away from the main lake crowds, also easy travel to a ton of lakes in Oklahoma, Southern Missouri, Northern Arkansas and not too terribly distant to some of those Texas monster bass lakes.

I actually use a St. Croix 7' 10" heavy, fast Mojo Bass with a Johnny Morris signature Platinum reel (7.3 gear ratio, I believe). Bought it for throwing big swimbaits, but it is an excellent flipping/pitching rod. Used to hate flipping/pitching, was always getting hung up or birdnesting my reel but started practicing with this rig in the backyard and now love it. I use 60 lb. Berkley braid, with a 3' fluro leader. Great rig for flipping those big football jigs.

I have a 2020 Jackson Big Rig. I got a new Lowrance Elite fish finder, active imaging with sidescan transducer. I had my old Hook2 Tripleshot transducer on a Yak Attack Switchblade, but the active imaging transducer is too large/heavy for this mount. Suggestions?

My Big Rig. I don't get there fast, but I get there. Edrive supposed to go up to 5 miles an hour. It malfunctioned the first time I took it out. It has been with Jackson for about a month. I pedal and paddle where I want to go. The pedal drive is awesome as I can hold my ground when I need to by peddling backwards. Love the micro power pole, it is a life saver, but you need to be judicious in its use. If out on the water all day, you can run the battery down (It always runs down when in the down position, never in the up position, of course). I have had it die on me twice. I was in about 3-4 feet of water both times, but in the thick weeds. I could have easily gotten out and sloshed around in the thick vegetation, to manually pull up the pole, but lucked out both times, once another Kayak was in the same area and another time a paddle boarder was coming by.

Can't upload the picture of my baitcasting rigs, but they are: 7' St. Croix Premier, H, F, Johnny Morris Platinum Signature, 8.3:1, 65 lb. Spiderwire Braid, 20 lb. Seagaur InvisX Fluro 7'6" St. Croix Mojo Yak MH, F, Team Lews Pro TI, 7.5:1, 50 lb. Sufix 832 Braid, 15 lb. Seagaur InvisX Fluro 7' IRod Genesis 2, MH, M, Okuma Helios SX 8.1:1, 20 lb. Spiderwire Braid, 8 lb. Trilene Fluro 7' St. Croix Premier, MH, M, Bass Pro Pro Qualifier 2, 30 lb. Bass Pro Hyperbraid, 12 lb Trilene Fluro. I just started bass fishing this year. Yeah, kind of a gear freak. St. Croix was my go to as I used to fly fish St. Croix rods. The top two baitcasters are excellent rigs (I particularly like the 7'6" rod reel for flipping and pitching). I got the Okuma reel on sale, thought I would try it out. Birdnested the crap out of it until I got it set up correctly. It is beautifully smooth casting and casts incredibly far. I almost exclusively use if for Crankbaits.

Spinning: 5' St. Croix Ultra-Light, F, Shimano Sedona 500, 4 lb. Spiderwire Mono 6'6" Bass Pro, Pro Qualifier 2, MH, F, Shimano Sahara 1000, 15 lb. Berkley X5 Braid, 8 lb. Trilene Fluro 6'6" St. Croix Triumph, Shimano Sahara C 3000, 12 lb. Trilene Fluro 7' IRod Air, ML, MF, Okuma Inspire 15X 40W, 10 lb. Sufix 832 Braid, 6 lb. Trilene Fluro

In January bought a Sea Eagle FX, with the small watersnake trolling motor. Bought an inflatable for storage space, price, transportation and it looked so easy to rig and get in the water. I was wrong, I was spending an hour and a half getting in the water, and after being in the water for the day, having to break it all down. Not a horrible rig, but I wanted something that I could get on the water more quickly. Two weeks ago I went ahead and spent some money. Bought the Jackson Big Rig FD HD, added the edrive and the micro power pole and a trailer. I can rig on my trailer (not the electronics, last thing I get out of the truck to add). It is truly a "Big Rig", but perfect for me. I am a big guy and 62 years old with bad knees, but I can stand and cast frogs into the back pads, which I would have never been able to do in the inflatable. Happy Camper.

Sorry your equipment got pillaged. I have been fortunate regarding theft. Watch those aft facing rod holders, if they don't have a fastener to hold them in, you can lose equipment. Found out the hard way, fishing under tree limbs, and my Daiwa Tatula bait casting reel was snatched out of the Yak and now lies at the bottom of the lake. Luckily I had it on a Bass Pro Qualifier 2 rod, and not one of my higher end rods. You can fish the big lakes, just find an area where you can easily get to one of the streams, channels coming into the lake. I have had some good luck (although you usually have a stronger current pushing you) on these and you typically don't see a lot of boat traffic (generally smaller rigs).