Deephaven

It is hard for me to remember. I don't burn. I can go from honky white ghost in MN to FL for a day of fishing in the winter and just tan. Makes it hard to have a healthy strategy. I also prefer to fish barefoot and even prefer to not wear a shirt...which is what I did in my youth. I now always put on sunscreen and try to cover up as much as I can but getting me out of shorts and sandals isn't ever going to happen.

I personally like a SC MXF 6'8" rod for them. For me they are a year round bait and outside of a frog one of my biggest confidence baits. I find them more fun even when the fish are aggressive and you can work them like crazy. The XF tip really helps getting twitches without forward motion which when done slowly is killer when the fish want that but also allows you to get the bait whipping back and forth a ton without moving forward. Straight 20lb braid for me as well.

The Lund 1675 only stores up to a 7'5" rod, but is a great small boat layout. If you are crafty, making your own small craft layout is probably the best. For a good example, see Ken's build here:

In 3700s filed away. Never in the packaging. So fun to open right away and so sucky to open on a boat.

High or at the same angle if to the side.

Topwater casting mxf and 20lb PP Senko spinning MF 10lb PP Senko casting MHF 30lb PP although depending on where I am fishing I could use a leader. Senko skipping casting rod HMF 17lb mono Ie, I don't skip with braid unless it is on spinning

I use Linux to do the same and everything except my Audi has accepted it. The Audi reads it just fine, but it may have a max number of files it can address. I don't believe it is the card size, but file structure. I would try the card from your camera after it was formatted as Fat in the garmin and see.

Is it a hard limit even if you format to Fat32 instead of NTFS? Most have the format being the limiting type...I think that is what you were implying Ken, but thought I'd clarify.

I have the LE version of that rod for the same thing. I wouldn't call it a lighter power than other mediums, but it has a really fast tip and then a limber mid-section while still having some power on the butt. It is the perfect rod for walking baits and other top water trebles.

There are other things to weigh when thinking about buying lake frontage. First, is it the lake you want to fish the most? Second, if you do and you keep your boat on it do you keep all your stuff in it? I used to keep my Ranger 521 at my dock....and then someone stole both my graphs, 20 rods and a bunch of tackle. Now even though we have a dock to keep it on it is in my garage safe and sound. Have a runabout on the water for other boating. To be fair the boat launch is so close to me that I can probably launch my boat faster than I could take a cover off so perhaps my compromise isn't normal. Personally, I would probably pick a really small lake where a powered kayak or other small vessel was king and keep that on the water and have my fishing boat in a garage.

That's what my wife.... Years later, but amusingly I built my ML to 6'10" right in between his choices.

Boat, sun protection, sunglasses, a rod/reel/line and a frog. The rest is also superfluous. ...but I do like to go overboard.

The less the cover the noisier the lure. For super slop, I use a H with 50lb braid, for slightly less a MH with 30lb braid and for nearly no cover a MXF with 30lb braid. The occasional foiled cast from looping a treble is worth it to me for the control and weed cutting capability.

I'm a PowerPro guy. Tried 832 based on the love it gets on this forum, but took it off and replaced it with PP before the end of the year. To be fair, it was 20 & 30lb test so perhaps the 832 is better in the larger diameters but I didn't like it.

Depends on what lures/baits you plan to use with them. Could make an argument for either...but would rather base that and how you will use it.

At one point, my 10'er was the fastest boat on Detroit Lakes. Was funny to pass people who thought they had hot rods as a 10 year old in a wee little row boat. My sons will not be having an overpowered thing like that....but they do get to have some fun.

As a kid I learned the hard way. Had a 10' boat and my Uncle left a 15hp at our cabin. Did a hair under 40, could pull me on skis and was a hoot. My neighbor was pulling me on a kneeboard one day and turned short so there was slack in the line. I pulled on the rope and rolled the boat over enough to swamp it. It threw him out and was pegged. He had the brains to pull the gas line and hung on to the side of the boat until it ran out of gas. Of course it completely capsized so as a 13 year old I needed to learn how to strip down a motor. Both the safety and motor lesson left their permanent mark. ...and now I have a 55mph tiller, lol

When I am frog fishing I typically have 3 setups on my deck: Super slop - 7'10" Loomis FS904, Chronarch, 65lb PP Not as thick and smaller frogs - 7'10" St. Croix 5C70MHF, Metanium DC, 30lb PP (had Suffix 832 to try last year, but going back to PP) Walking slop frogs - 6'9" St. Croix 5C70HF, Chronarch, 30lb PP Exactly how I feel on Tonka with frogs which SUCKS since I can be on the water in less than 10min.

I figure everything for sale is negotiable. Saw your progress and wanted to look to see. Posted everything I saw, not just the good options. Obviously all of them point to buying locally from someone you trust

Hard to do more than 4 hours each way for an overnight...but mostly because going further than that here doesn't mean better water. 3 seems to be the sweet spot and I am totally fine with it. I've done that drive plenty of times for just one day of fishing as well, but obviously the more you drive the less time you have to fish. Ugh, that would be harder than a long drive. Anything before 4:30 an my body aren't very well in sync.

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When fishing moving baits I'd agree, but if I am pitching jigs or other drop/lift/retrieve like techniques I prefer if my fishing partner comes up front with me. I use it as a time to communicate spots and make sure we completely pick apart the water before moving on. It does take another competent caster or a large front deck, but it is no problem. There were lots of times when I had my SC 521 that I'd have 3 up front for that exact reason. When covering water with rattletraps/cranks/spinnerbaits/chatterbaits or with lots of sharp trebles like jerkbaits then space and separation in the boat is a great idea.

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I think it sounds perfect. You need someone to speed you up and he needs someone to slow him down. Be vocal when he is wrong and prove it by catching and vice versa. You will make each other better...but you have to TALK.

Just beer tonight...