Darth-Baiter

not sure i could tell you how deep a crank runs for me. you can tell with Livescope?

math. not for everyone. and okay, Mr. Details.

This is what they sent me. I didn’t dive into the details. Much.

my friend had the same criteria. he was pricing out lumber and it was getting expensive. he told me what he wanted and i sent him a pic of this. we put it together fast and it is working perfectly. it is a big low, but he can still load to/from his truck super easy. a jet Ski dolly.

to be clear, my friend can stand up to fish. he gets imbalanced when he needs to look down..like at his junk or something. something about his ear, maybe. whatever, we still make fun of him.

maybe the internet phantoms heard me talking about a tracker. I was sent an unsolicited advertisement touting they are here to help me with some inflation pricing. ironically, I'm old school and think with inflation that last thing to buy is a boat..but I digress. I do admit, I was shocked. some 16" bass-tracker with a 50 HP motor (not sure what the Suzuki upgrade will cost - I'm looking at you Glenn! :D) with the very generous discount to help ease my pain with inflation..it was around $14k!! the heck? my friend has that in his decked out Hobie ProAngler!! and he still can't stand up to pee. $14k is not bad. wonder how much it will cost to turn my side gate into a double swing gate. haha... opps. wife is waking up. gotta go pretend to do work.

I understood what you meant. maybe more, trebuchet! I found if you add a tiny "yank" to the butt end at the right time, it will fling the heck out of bait. just a basic class-1 lever.

I keep trying to read this in while I am in my meeting, but they keep asking me questions. go it done. GREAT ARTICLE. this topic speaks to me as a kayak fisherman. I slip around quietly, best I can. I also really advocate for the long-bomb casts. I like to really fire at distant targets so not only do I minimize my sound, I minimize the bass seeing me. in shallow waters I shut off my FF as well.

load it with line, and let it rip. only one way to find out.

time to buy a Garmin GPS watch @AustonW!:D "yawn..i wonder what time it is.....(tap a button)?...when are we gonna hit your next favorite spot?" serious reply? as you fish, you will just kinda home in on the fish. some of my best bass-runs were a result of me just casting out to some random spot in a random direction for a random reason. i found one spot trying to cast out past a loose spot on my reel spool. i was trying to clear a mild loop in the spool. i casted out, worked the tiny loop..and BOOM! i stayed off shore and cleaned up.

great point. it would suck for the big boat sellers to see their pros lose to a bunch of dudes in homemade tiny boats. hahha.. 16" bass tracker.

one got gently rearended by a drunk. uninsured. so i bought a new one. only to find a body shop willing to get creative enough to fix my old truck within the $3500 uninsured coverage we are allowed here in CA. (Stupid, dont get me started). they reused some emblems, found a perfect tailgate on a front end crashed tacoma, same color...etc. i thought it was totaled. i'll sell it. but i think it runs smoother than the new one. they fixed it beautifully!! i should sell it. gah..i love that truck.

killing me!! hahahahha..

its just math. i'll do the most expensive option first. using a Tesla Supercharger. no need to call BS. maybe just say your sceptical? i just charged my Work Tesla. i went from 40 mile range remaining and charged it to 300 miles. cost me just shy of $12. (not sure if we get a discount since we are huge). so 260 miles for $12. take my Tacoma. using an unrealistic 20mpg. 260 miles will take me 13 gallons. 13x$5.25 = $68ish. 12/68 = roughly 18% our utiltiy tracks our usage. it shows our weekly EV charging is $23 and we do about 350-400 miles. all this is for a week. i pay $50 to buy half a tank of gas for my tacoma. 10 gallons. 200 miles on a good day. i paid $500 for the charging station. you are grasping at straws. i can tell you an oil change, timing belt, coolant, etc for the TESLA is $0. i just change the oil on both of my toyota Tacomas and it was $100. every 5000 miles. you can get all nitpicky on the minutia. but why? why give a rat-ass about someone else's business? you dont like EV? there is a perfectly EASY solution. dont buy one. how much is my time worth. hahahaha..my wife and i are sleeping when our car charges. that is the exact definition of efficiency and value to using our time. i read a book once. i was shocked at the catalyst that cause us as a country, to move towards the horseless carriage, and away from Horses. trust me, there was similar pushback like there is today. i'll let you find the answer yourself. but the parallel didnt escape me. change is hard. very hard. expecially for me. but i mitigate by only doing what i want. i dont worry jackchit about what everyone else does if it doesnt affect me.

please let me know if you find a BlackFriday deal on a Windbuster. i already bought a huge roll of wrapping paper, so i can have it under my tree. unless my wife cant take an obvious hint. i'll try my 2500 Vanford on it. and stay with my 20lb braid to leader. if not, i'll go with a 3000 Kage, or something.

it is almost 50/50 if some dog walker doesnt walk by and asks, "so, are they biting?" hahha...it never gets old. (okay, i lied :D) i got two reels back from DVT. a Shimano 150MGL and a Garden variety Daiwa SV TW. i took both undersized reels to Brazil and took LARGE hard-charging fish with them and they came back "different"., the Daiwa made an awesome clacking noise and required a bearing be replaced. haha. it took one or two 10lb fish to damage that reel. the Shimano just needed a clean and lube. it took many many fish. DVT said the drag was A-OK! (and the winner goes to....) i typically use a west-coast dude to do my reels. no issues really. but he is retired. so i sent my reels x-country to our very own DVT. PAINLESS. there is a certain level of trust needed to send a reel out. DVT, didnt fix anything unneccesarily, and he had full transparency. i was quite literally that guy at the Mechanic's shop saying, "it's making a weird noise!" "well, sir you appear to need a new transmission, it will cost you about the same as my kids orthedontics bill..errr...$4000" Nope. DVT took care of my stuff, and he even sent me the wrecked bearing as proof. haha... back to my culdesac "fishing" both reels are SINGing. i almost ran inside the house to toast some bread, because both reels are BUTTER! and DVT didnt take all my reel settings to ZERO like my last guy. the last guy tucked in all my centrifugal brakes and turned the dial to ZERO. and loosen the heck out of the spool. my first culdesac cast last time resulted in cussing and scissor work to clear the resulting mess. i think he wanted me to pull out my reel, spin it and go..."whoaaaaa". this time i was wise enough to double check. i was plunking the basketball hoop foundation from very far away. fun. great service. fast!! really fast.

I’m with @MN Fisher on thus one. digitaka is my first search. OP. I think it’s less expensive from Japan because the exchange rate is in our favor. Tears all, it not a cheaper product. Prob the opposite.

AJay would throw himself out a window if he woke up one morning and found out he only owned my stuff. I like my streamlined inventory. simple, plain. for a cheap reel. my Abu REVO-X I got for free surprises me everyday. but after year3, it is starting to show signs of troubles. not sure I will ever get it serviced. I'll just drop it off at Goodwill one day. it is my only slow reel and it nice for big rubber swimbaits.

I remember when I was young, I watched a mountain bike race. I raced in the slowass rookie event and lost admirably. but I stuck around to watch the fast guys. why? there was a dude absolutely owning the group wearing JEANS and a regular shirt. hahah.. he won in the end. got me thinking. is there a pro basserperson that goes out with say a 16" Tracker and cleans house? there are no boat regulations right? just curious.

I use the med sized YakAttack box. 13x16. I have three rods on the 16" sides for a total of 6. usually enough. I am toying with trying some Kayak Tournaments, next year. (maybe). figured I need to get 8 on board. so on the short side, I had a problem. the box lids opens in that direction, and the hinges poke out maybe 5/8 inch. I got to thinking. SPACERS! it works. anyone needing more rods, this is a good workaround. I used 1" spacers and 2" stainless screws. BOOM.

I have nothing but old SixGills (yuck) and Lews rods for punching and they are like awful. that six gills was my biggest waste of money ever.

I don't roam around in tackle shops. bad habit, and it usually results in nothing but trouble. I see (bait)monkey hair on peoples clothing when they come out from the dark corners of the shops. nope. hand to my sides, and eyes forward. get what I need and leave. I got two reels respooled while I was listening in on a ZOOM meeting. I walked into a corner. oh-o. I just picked it up. no tape measure to see how long it was. I just saw the tag that said, "$7". for $7, I'll toss it if it doesn't fit. I get it home and try it. ARGH! to short? but it felt weird. so I peeked into it with a flashlight. I see something down there. I drop the snaggiest thing I have down there, a busted up topwater bait with a treble hook on the tail. and pull out a wadded up rod sock. I drop my rod piece in and it fits perfectly!! I found a cheap travel tube for my Megabass Triza Dragoon. no more plan sheets, cardboard tube. JANKY at best. tada. total luck.

yea. let me get started on my excel spreadsheet.

Thanks. 7-11 is too long for my kayak I think. ‘’I think this will work. Mmm

I want to fish Rosevelt one day. I'll road trip by with my kayak. maybe August