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Booyah. I think its the older Mobster swim jig, but the new ones don't have the bottom part of the T, just the flat head shape.

Where did you take the measurement from with the multimeter? If you got a negative reading, that means it was connected to the battery backwards. If you did that at the battery terminal, are you sure you had the right wires from the multimeter on the right terminals? Also, 11.9 is low and definitely not a fully charged battery. Did you charge the batteries before you tried it? What did the other battery measure (if 24 V)?

I would second this and in fact just did this. My 6'10" finesse jig is a great topwater but I wanted just a little shorter, maybe a touch more backbone, same light tip. I grabbed a Cara 6'8" "medium heavy" and threw a revo SX 8:1 on it with some 14 lb sunline supernatural mono. I haven't fished it yet but I have cast it in the pool and worked a dawg back with it. Its going to be a great topwater setup. I'll maybe throw jerkbaits on it also. It feels partway between the finesse jig and the head turner. I don't think its going to be the rod to make 40+ yard casts across a big flat as the length will hold it back a little there. But for fishing down the bank its sweet.

I'd be looking at 5/0 personally. I don't fish an 8", but that's enough for a 6 or 7. A 6/0 wouldn't be bad either. How heavy of a weight are you looking?

I think it was this one

Bradley Hallman did a boat video earlier this year talking about memo boats and how it used to be that way, but very few are in that position now. Most pros are buying their boats outright and selling them at the end of the season. It doesn't explain the registration numbers, but its information.

I have yet to see a bed up here. I was out when it was 80 and the water was high 50's. I've been out since then with water in the low 60's. I've cruised shallows and bedding areas for both smallmouth and largemouth. Nothing. Not a single bed in sight anywhere. Now with the water dropping back down a little and the weather cooling and cloudy, I would be the fish have clustered in their pre-spawn hangouts and are just feeding up. Next week the sun is coming out and heating up. I bet there will be a good push over the next two weeks. This is very correct. The bass (and carp, white bass, and everything else) will fill up the feeder creeks right now. Ones like the Conodoguinet should be hot right now.

consider the amount of cable you need to run, how much of it you need to hide, and ability to access the port later. Slightly different circumstance, but I just installed mega live into my kayak. I had to run extra through hull ports to hide all of the wires and still have the connections accessible to me. Humminbird has standard wire lengths so consider where the wires are running to and from. rick

Really sorry to hear. We were there just a couple weeks ago with our 12+ wirehair vizsla and it was very sudden. Its a reminder that there is never enough time with them so cherish every moment you do get.

If it helps any, I only carry two colors of dawgs- sexy shad with the white bottom and chrome sexy. I only carry one size (the junior). if they aren't eating either of them, then its not a walking bait kind of day. I was going to suggest the same, but where's the fun in that! That said, if I were in a boat and could take 8-10 rods with me on any given trip I would probably have two HTs. So much they can do and a great working length balance for accurate casting close range, longer casts covering water, pitching, skipping under docks, and working baits tip down.

It will still take a while to get it all down. The heavier stuff, sand, silt, etc will drop out quickly. The finer stuff though takes a while to settle and will be getting stirred up in the shallows by the wind for quite a while. Given how recently you had the flood waters, I'd expect the 10-20' depths to still be fairly silty. Its going to be the end of summer before you are back to where you were before the floods.

Battery 1 black to battery 2 red. Battery 2 black to battery 3 red. You now have a 36v battery with an open red on @ battery 1 and open black on battery 3. Those posts get the wire from the trolling motor (or switch if you have one).

ha! Completely unintentional. Autocorrect at its best, but I bet it’s right. we always launched in presque isle because we fished the lagoons for largemouth and then the bay for smallies and largemouth. We didn’t go out on the big lake more than a couple times. catch a couple good ones.

The head turner is a good walking bait rod too. I fish it and the finesse jig about equally with a sexy dawg. Just depends on which lake I’m on and what else I’m throwing that day.

if you have anything shorter, give it a try. The 6’6”-7’ range is nice for tip down presentations.

Falcon expert finesse jig/top water (6’10” mh/mf), 14 lb suffix elite mono, abu Garcia revo mgx. The whole outfit is right at 8 oz and is easy to work a walking bait. I throw the 1/2 oz sexy dawg. I also just grabbed a used 6’8” cara medium heavy that I think will be great for them as well. I only catch big ones on them.

I fish both, though I tie my own hook trailers on the factory hook. Sometimes it doesn’t matter. Sometimes the bass want that little extra bit and will turn away at the lure without one. if you can tie your own feathers, then just buy them without and add as needed. If you can’t tie them yourself, buy them all with. You can swap the hook or cut them off later if you want.

Good luck! where are you launching from, pressure isle?

it’s made for finesse jigs and I use mine for light wire swim jigs in addition to lighter chatterbaits and lighter spinner baits (3/8 and down). For me, the cover and how you’re fishing it would determine what else to do with it. The rod was designed for more open water rocky highland lakes. It’s not a rod I’m going to grab as much in the summer when the grass gets thick. I’ll throw it with a lighter swim jig around docks and patchy grass with 14 lb mono. It’s not a rod I’d want to make 30 yard casts across a grass bed and work a big worm hook through. I don’t think it would have the power to set a thicker hook at distance. Trebles no problem. I’ve set into bass at 30 yards and it’s a great rod to keep them pinned. I haven’t fished it yet, but just feeling the cara swim jig rod tonight I think it would be a great option too, and it has a bit more power up the rod if you want to throw Texas rigs. I’m going to run it through the paces over the next two weeks.

180 acres is tough to make a pattern as such. There often isn’t enough variety and repetition of things on a lake that size. The more specific of a thing you’re trying to find the fewer of them there will be. I fish a lot of 100-300 acre lakes and you can get about as specific as fish are concentrating where two types of vegetation meet or fish are holding on any ‘odd’ cover like any piece of wood in a grass dominant lake. Lakes this size, when you find a couple fish, slow down and just keep working it through with different stuff. Where there’s two bass there’s probably five.

My falcon expert finesse jig gets my smaller chatterbaits including the mini max. Great rod for that.

You could check out the falcon peacock bass rods. I don’t have first hand experience with them but they are short rods and the cara and expert series regular rods are great. https://www.falconrods.com/product/peacock-bass

Perch, golden shiners, and crappie? are those sieberts jigs?

I throw either a keitech or a rage menace. They also double for other uses so I keep them stocked and pick based on the lake I’m on.

a bolt on kickstand from Amazon for $10 is what you need on the cart. It holds the cart level while you lift the boat onto it. glad you like the AP. I’m the same. Starting about now in the year I typically just leave it in the bed of the truck and the truck loaded with gear. If I get a sudden open afternoon I can pop out to a nearby lake and in 25 minutes I’m casting.