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as a direct corollary, trey McKinney recognized after practice that the fish he found in practice were probably going to pull back to a little deeper water with the cold front which let him stay on them. Through the tournament he recognized that the bigger fish were going to ease back up and he moved with them accordingly. None of that had to do with FFS. That’s just understanding bass behavior and changes with the days. Aka knowledge and skill.

you mean after they benched him?

how about Lake Chucknwind? Lake Anoderskunk?

The OP is in columbia MD, so has a little ways to go to find lake trout (north jersey I think is the closest). gregg, I used to fish trout a ton. I've swung back to bass but I bought my trout stamp this year again for a little variety. For stream/river trout it depends on the amount of water for me. lower flows and clearer water mean lighter line and smaller lures/baits. Bigger water means bigger stuff. Same with rods. I prefer the longest rod practical. In real terms, I fish a 7'6" ultralight, 1000 size stradic and 4 lb line for most things around here because we mostly have small to medium streams and low flow. I'm normally throwing single eggs and wax worms in that case. If i'm on bigger water where I need 2 split shot or more then I'm probably fishing a small worm or a panther martin. Then I'm fishing 6 lb line on a 7' lite action and a 2000 size reel. That's a good all around size to cover about anything you need for trout and I've caught a ton on that setup.

that looks more like propwash interference and not electrical from the SI view. edit: Ah, I see the faint bars you're talking about. I don't know on that one.

I think this is a good choice. Fish finders generally but FFS and big fish finders are sensitive to voltage. They need a consistent supply and you'll have that now. I think you'll be pleased.

I think that's called the opens now...

im certainly eating this quote. All 10 will break it for sure absent a tornado coming through and shutting down the tournament. They said that the top 27 guys were all within 25 lb of it at the end of day three. That means they were averaging 25 lb bags for the first three days and no reason they couldn’t have done it again. If there wasn’t a cutdown there would have been 20+ guys breaking 100.

well I guess there’s that! Hope it clears quickly for you. The good thing is once it starts, the wind will help it along quickly.

A 9” graph is about 2.5 amps. A black box is another 2.5. Lvs34 is another 2.5. If you have two graphs then that’s 10 amps. You can do the math on drawing down a cranking battery for a couple hours and how much power is left to start the big motor. If you do, I’d want a bigger cranking battery that can supply enough cca at half capacity to be sure.

this reel is absolutely beautiful. I’ve always loved deep red as the accent color for fishing gear. it’s also not my answer to the question (I can’t do round reels). BBB, I have a zillion, a bantam, and a met. All similar prices. I can’t tell you anything higher end but between these three the quality is the same and you’re talking preference. I prefer shimano’s shape, but the zillion is also excellent. And with the jdm prices a zillion at $215 is the Best Buy on the market.

60% is still a lot of open water. Mini icebergs aside, any reason you can’t be out there “tomorrow”?

Instead of the strips on the bait you can wrap lead wire around a hook. you can also add a second split ring

About $50 each. They were only $100 MSRP rods to begin with and they are 'years' old. Good luck.

This is my curiosity. We're learning that there are lots of suspended fish cruising open water that more or less were not being caught before. Maybe some guy trolling would get into them but certainly not something you could plan for as a pattern. Those fish were left alone to do their own thing. With the pressure, now what do they do? Go deeper? Stop molesting shad balls? I doubt both of those things. Maybe they start to hug tighter to cover? Johnny from fish the moment made some observations a month or so ago about a place he has fished a number of years with FFS (Chic maybe). Where the fish would have been on primary spots (brushpiles on a main point) in the past, they are now leaving those and going to smaller spots nearby like a hard spot on a seconary point or a depression.

rock and roll. Why not? Are you going to fish off that boat or just use it for depth?

You must not have many of them around. Anything that is baitfish looking they will eat up here. It was a jerkbait this last trip. Spinnerbaits will get torn up. They eat crankbaits too and will tear the heck out of keitechs (like nipping the tails of a fresh one straight out of the box). They are slimy and make a fish smelling mess of the boat. Even rubber nets hold their slime for a while and don't get me started on the foam decking. They are the only reason I ever wash my boat.

so weirdly, this is the same size description I’d use here. Plenty of fish up to 30” and 36” is around. I caught a couple at the 30” mark. Then again I lost one and missed another that were over 40” for sure. Both were clear water right near the boat. Same lake, about a month apart (could be the same fish for all I know). do you have pickerel where you are? They are a good approximation. Pickerel might be worse for slime but it’s close. Slime darts. And the 15-20” ones are hell on lures.

With those specs and solid glass I’d wager to say it was a back bouncing rod. Back bouncing is a cool technique like trolling in that you have divers near the bottom, usually with an egg sac attached, and you go downstream slower than the current. So the extra current acts like you are going against it and pulls the baits down while you slide down the river slowly. Usually with someone rowing slowly to slow you down. The clever bit is that if you get snagged you stop rowing and the diver floats up with the current you’re no longer pulling against. It’s precise presentation at whatever speed you want. https://fishwithjd.com/2016/07/10/how-to-back-bounce-plugs-for-king-salmon/

The rods? No. If anything keeping them dry after a rainy trip is a good thing. Depending how hot they get it might make the grease in the reels more fluid and you have to lube them more. I’d keep an eye on non braided line too. Heat messes with plastics.

This result was recently borne out in BFHQ (tyler berger) testing. The alberto was close to the FG for a leader knot relative to how much easier it is to tie for most.

I don't pee facing into it.

If you really want to mount it closer to the seat you can, so long as you give up a rod holder. There are Ram mount plates that replace the rod holders. they seal off the hold and leave a ball on top. then you ram mount to the ball. I think Navarre has them. I forget which mount system you went with but yak attack has the lock and load fish finder track mounts. You can add an arm or two to bring it back closer to you. When I used a helix 7 I had the base of the L&L fairly forward on the right track and when I lowered the angle I could touch the FF by barely leaning forward. If I pulled the L&L back to the rear of the track I could have touched it without reaching.

I'll try about anything if I think it will be better. But it better actually be better for me to keep using it. The double pitzen is one. Never heard of it until a year ago. Its a better knot than a palomar for everywhere I'd tie a palomar and I can tie it more reliably. It was a no brainer to swap to it. Same when I swapped from a double uni to an alberto for braid to leader. Easier, faster, demonstrably stronger.

we only have 2 or 3 lakes with decent populations of pike. NJ F&G concentrated more on muskies than pike. That said, my early season lake is one of the two and my second favorite lake is another. I'll end up with one or two a year. My early season lake is actually the lake they trapnet breeders from for the hatchery. At ice out every year F&G puts in 3-4 big trap nets and pulls out quite a few 10-20 lb pike from a 250 acre lake. They also publish the rest of the trapnet results and crappie feature highly. I always felt bad about keeping crappie from there until I read that each net would have hundreds and they would end up trap netting a couple thousand every year.