jbmaine

Hello everyone. My wife and I don't hunt, but live out in the woods and see lots of wildlife. We have been kind of wondering about all the wildlife we don't see, and thought of getting a trail cam to show us all the critters we might be missing. As we are somewhat" tech" challenged we were thinking of a trail cam that uses a card, maybe one that will take a pic every 2-3 sec. as long as there is movement. Do you use or would recommend a not to pricy camera that would fit the bill for us? Or any one or kind to stay away from? Thanks Jim

Just can't seem to find the right combo to toss this Jitterbug. Any ideas? A guy on my woodworking forum made this from scratch. All except the hooks, Mustad size 20/0. A little humor, I thought you might enjoy.

I started with a worm and bobber, then inline spinners, spoons, and so on. Today I have tackle boxes with a lot of the new and cool stuff, but some times I'll throw the old trusty inline spinners or a jitterbug. I guess as far as I've come, I really haven't moved that much. Here's a couple of pics. The first is me and my dad on Mousam lake taken in 1956. I had the fishing bug from as far as I can remember. Even with the toy rod and real I was trying to catch something. The second pic is me on the same lake, this year.

Well, this was a bust. We ended up with about 2" of frozen slushy white stuff.

I usually enjoy the snow, but I'm not really a fan of the rain snow mix. When we were kids it just snowed. I miss that.

They keep upping our forecast. As of 2:37 PM ( just outside of Kittery) we are up to a possible 14" of the white stuff.

I'm 5 miles in from the coast in real Southern Maine and as of this moment it's pouring rain. It's supposed to change to snow tonight with 5-7 " expected. The snowblower is on the tractor, plenty of gas for the genny. I guess I'm ready to go.

You too Dan, hopefully we'll see you and the missus on the lake next Spring.

Just ordered a 9". With bass pro rewards I'm in at under $500. Can't beat it.

Thanks, I was thinking of just plugging it in for a few hours once a month or so.

Hi all, I put a new battery charger in my boat this Spring and it never worked right. However it was usable so I kept it for the summer. When I put the boat in storage for the Winter I pulled the charger out and the two battery's ( 24 volt trolling motor) I just picked up a new two bank charger and I was wondering, Can I hook this up to my two battery's to top off the charge periodically even though they are not connected to each other? I would think yes but I thought I'd check and see , Do you think this would work? Thanks Jim

Just saw Sean Connery passed. God speed 007

Don't forget the line! So so rods and reels will still do alright with good line. High end rods and reels will stink with bad line. I have rods and reels from different price points , but they all have really good line on them. This is one thing I won't skimp on.

Yep, me too. They don't call them " the good old days" for nothing

Thanks for the advise everyone. We'll give it a try.

Same here. It's one of my first go to baits!

I've caught bass down to 30+ ft. doing exactly that.

Hi all, We just had an update from windows 10 and now it says we have no speakers? We reset everything we can think of but no joy. No matter how many times we plug and replug the speakers in, the computer can't seem to find them. Can anybody suggest what we can try? Thanks Jim

As always A-Jay, great advise.

Hi all, For the past few years our car was a ford edge. We bought it slightly used ( 2014) with a factory tow package. It was perfect for us. Not too big, towed our 16" lund, no complaints, we loved it. However it was starting to show it's age. Power seats didn't always work, a couple of rust spots, things like that. As our only car we needed dependability, so we looked to upgrade. We looked for a newer used edge with a tow package, but no luck within hours of our location. Then we looked at toyota, honda, pretty much all other brands, but kept going back to the edge. Turns out our dealer offered us so many incentives, we ended up going new. So here we are with a 2020 edge, and for the most part we love it. However some of the changes are hard to get used to. It has advanced safety features? that for the most part I don't get. Lane keeping- you turn it on and the display in the dash shows the profile of your car with green dashed lines on either side. If you wander out of your lane the lines change color to yellow then red and your car shakes the steering wheel and steers the car back into the lane. Impressive!, except if the road is such that the car can't pick up boundaries it just turns off, the lines turn gray, no noise no beep. So you are spend a lot of your time looking down at the dash to see if it's still on. Not a great idea. Pre collision warning/ braking. Our car says we have it. it's turned on, But I can't test it. I've driven at our boat, house, trees , can't get it to activate, so I guess I just trust it works? I can talk to our car, I can tell it to turn the radio on, change channels. Turn the heat or AC on, change the temperature. sounds great right, but apparently I can't tell it to turn anything off. If I tell it to turn the climate control off, it turns it on high, tell it to turn the radio off, it changes channels. Thats kinda dumb! And my favorite. Our car has a power lift gate! we love it. push a button, it opens or closes, stick your foot under the rear bumper, it open or closes, genius However! did I mention we got the factory tow package. Well, guess where the lift gate sensor is. Right by the trailer light plug. I lean over to plug the lights in and it activates the lift gate. So far it has opened and hit me in the face twice, and closed and hit me in the head once. Really, not well thought out . So far as I can tell, a lot of there high tech. gizmos sound great on paper, not so much in real life.

My wife has tendonitis in both hands and arms, so can only use a spincast setup. She is also hearing impaired and blind in one eye, but more often than not she will out fish me just using a swim senko ( that's all she uses). When we are shopping for fishing stuff her big concern worrying we didn't buy enough. I think I lucked out.

Strike King coffee tubes!

I'm a big believer in coffee/ caffeine scented baits, and here's why. First let me say I'm a big coffee drinker, always have been. My wife, on the other hand can't stand the stuff. OK, good, more for me, but it's been kind of a long running joke for us, coffee,vs non coffee. So, some years ago, when Strike King came out with coffee tubes I bought some, as a gag. well, one day we were out fishing and we were marking fish down by the bottom, but couldn't get bit. As a lark I tied on a coffee tube and let it drop to the bottom. Bam, had a fish. Did it again, had another one. Told my wife " must be the coffee tubes!" She gave me a dirty look and tied on another brand of tube, same size, shape and color, just not coffee scented. I kept getting fish, she didn't. Finally, after I was ahead seven to her zip, she gave in and tied on a coffee tube. From then on she caught fish. A least on that one day, coffee scent way out performed everything else. We were fishing side by side, same line, hooks everything. Ever since then, given a choice, I'll tie on a coffee/ caffeine scented bait over anything else.

Don't fish that many baits with treble hooks, but the ones I do, I don't change out the hooks. I might sharpen them, if needed.

Great post. Good for you, spending time with your dad. Mine's been gone nine years now. I'd give anything to have one more trip with him.