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A Ranger canoe out of NH, early 90’s, they only make 1 model so selection was easy.

Cut from the Ma Regs Lead sinkers, lead weights, and lead jigs weighing less than an ounce. Any sinker or weight made from lead that weighs less than 1 ounce, and any lead jig (meaning any lead-weighted hook) that weighs less than 1 ounce, is prohibited for use in all inland waters of the Commonwealth. The term lead sinker shall not include any other sinkers, weights, fishing lures or fishing tackle including, but not limited to, artificial lures, hooks, weighted flies, and lead-core or other weighted fishing lines.

It’s always too soon, sorry to hear.

I don’t enjoy the winters anymore either. Went out hiking today, I had on 3 layers, my wife had 4. If monthly rentals hadn’t gone bonkers since Covid, we’d be somewhere in Florida now, which was the original plan.

T rigged plastics are easily 75% white double bladed spinnerbaits and jigs another 20% bait monkey baits are the last 5%

I went with a 100 ah Enjoybot @ 30lbs. For $370 3 years ago. I went by the battery testing Will Prowse does on YouTube, he seems to know his stuff and does very in depth testing on them, at least he did 3 years ago. I did build a battery box with a battery monitor in it as running a trolling motor i/was new to me. I have no sues with the battery, as far as I can tell it works fine. My concern at the time was to get one that actually would put out 100 amps, many only said 50 amps in their specs. I was under the impression a 55 lb trolling motor could pull 55 amps at top end, in practice mine is more like 45 amps max. fwiw, 100 ah s way more then I need, could have gotten away with half that. I’ve never used more than 20%.

It’s like being a Patriots fan a few years back.

Line conditioner, if it made a difference I not good enough to tell. I should go through my tackle and toss everything I don’t use, I’ll bet it’s at least 50% of what I have. If I try something new for 30 min and don’t get fish it’s back to what I have confidence in. I really shouldn’t blame the tackle, but I do.

Welcome to the forum.

Will do, if I can remember, come April.

I have a Bass Raider, fwiw, my 55lb Minn Kota Endura Max weighs about 22 lbs, the 100ah lithium battery, which I keep next to the motor, is another 30. Looking on Google the little 6hp motors that look like a weed wacker are 27ish. The 9.8’s that look like an outboard weigh 57. I don’t see the weight of the first being an issue, the 9.8 is probably too much for the transom. I believe my transom is sheet metal wrapped around the plastic with a wood core. I can see it flexing with the trolling motor just coming up to speed too fast, I suspect the 6 hp would do it too. You might have to come up to speed in a controlled manner to limit the flex.

if you use Facebook at all there are a couple groups on the Bass Raider and Bass Hunter’s, in the past I saw a few folks with motors posting there, you might join and post your question there if you need more opinions.

I was researching black bear for carving and found out.

I always get a kick out of scenes on tv where a couple long time canoe paddlers are crossing a body of water flipping the paddles side to side to keep the boat straight .

If it comes down to it… I broke off a tip a few inches down, a shop local to where I was (La Grang, Ga) put a new tip on the stump. It started as a 2 pc 7’ rod and ended up a few inches shorter. Works fine as far as I can tell. Big difference is that I broke the rod.