AlabamaSpothunter

Thanks for the help! With that 12" graph and the updated LVS34, it would be about $2700. Or he could go with the LVS32 on sale at bps for $999, and then grab a cheaper 9" chartplotter from Garmin, and maybe be into it for as cheap as 1500-1600. That's the route I'm hoping to take. Been reading over on Garmin Livescope FB group and it seems the LVS34 is a little clearer and has little further range than the LVS32

There's the proof of life centerbrick anchor I needed to believe this post ? Sounds like a blast outside of getting your ego's checked

I'll quit once I catch the next fish is like I'll quit once I win the next hand in poker/blackjack......it's literally impossible to do for myself. Catching a fish sends a new wave of energy and motivation through me, doesn't matter how small......"I'm like yeah this when it's all gonna turn around, finally I've nailed down the pattern" ?

So a friend on the lake I mainly fish is wanting to get FFS, and I'm trying to help answer some questions but as a non FFS owner, I thought better to come here first and get expert opinions on it. Is it as simple as buying Garmin's Livescope Plus transducer and blackbox, and then hooking it up with a compatible chartplotter? He's looking at the Echomap Ultra 126 that's on sale right now at BPS.....so if he bought this, would he just need the Livescope Plus + blackbox and then it would be plug and play? Thanks a bunch in advance!

Wow, that's a pretty epic story, and fish! Incredible testament to catch and release, three anglers got the fish of a lifetime from a single magnificent fish. That's just brilliant. Bob Lusk always says that big Bass don't get that way by not being standouts in terms of aggression, and propensity to eat.

Straight tail Roboworms 8" Magnum Zoom Lizards Live Magic Shad Damaki Armor Shad Scottsboro Tackle swimbaits

That's a beautiful toad, congrats!

Awesome stuff, I'm jelly ?

I saw it I can't have down time for the Zillion while it's OEM drag is shipped, I can't fish without it, it just sucks, you know this ? Building the arsenal back ain't cheap, I'm a few more rigs short of having a nice layout to start customizing handles, knobs, drag dials, etc.

Haha you were the first post and it's appropriate, took a popular youtuber clickbait title to get it noticed. It's fantastic info in so much in tells us we can stop trying to answer certain questions about Bass behavior like we can with individual personalities with humans. Now tell Todd to do the weather please ?

Beat me to it. I got the deep version

Truly a magnificent looking fish, and equal magnificent beard. That fish looked up and said, "this ain't no real Santa" ? Welcome, awesome group of guys and GAL in this thread.

Yeah, and the one where some youtuber took the concrete evidence of this thread and the study and put some clickbait title that made the viewer think some kind of concrete conclusions besides the ones already listed here in this thread could be gleaned.

Imagine the caloric output/intake it must take to make a 20-25m journey as a Bass. Bob Lusk is a wealth of info on Bass biology because of decades of shocking. He's shocked two 7lbers in a lake in the same location, put tags in them. Later on these fish were shocked again.......one was exactly where it was the first time, and the other one was at the extreme end of the 125acre lake. The fish at the other end of the lake was long and skinny, and he said he finds fish like this often. One thing I'm learning is that Bass will tolerate certain things we as Bass anglers don't think they would tolerate or endure as long as a certain other ingredient is present, might be the right D.O., the right temp., cover/structure with baitfish near by, etc. There is no such thing as "dead water" once you spend enough time on the same body of water. One advantage to fishing one body of water exclusively for a longer period of time. You will find a day, week, month where the fish are places you never thought they'd be.

Pretty wild, myself and another Crappie angler I was talking to on the lake today were talking about how frustrating it was to see so many fish on sonar without any of them biting. That 38d night last night put the lockjaw on them that's for sure, otherwise it's was a perfect day to Bass fish. Caught one small guy, and 3 Crappie. Only had three followers on the Shimano swimbait which I threw the vast majority of the time. Spring just sucks ?

As more knowledgeable folks said, every Bass is a law unto itself. Toledo Bend telemetry study showed some never left the general area they were found in, others moved miles. Watching a lot of livescope videos will also show you just how unique every single Bass is. I think watching FFS reactions really drove that point home to me.

Time to go chunk a big swimbait around ?

Yeah that's a big thing because just yesterday while chunking this thing I was thinking to myself that unless a giant Cat or Bass or breaks me off once hooked up, it'll be pretty darn hard to lose this bait. It's a lot more fun throwing a $40 bait around when you know it won't get snagged deeper than you can get to, or that ESOX fish won't bite me off.

Great job, and an obvious fish of a lifetime! Congrats!

Or more likely there are a lot more people out there with okay credit and a willingness to pay for a Bass boat over a decade +. It's like anything in America today, many people are overextended and have empires built on credit. But from the outside nobody sees the scramble to make payments each month. Had a few buddies lose top of the line Bass rigs after getting swallowed by the payment book.

Can't wait to see the first toad you post caught on it! The Ghost Trout actually looks better to me, looked like it would throw even more flash. Your gonna have a blast fishing it. You are constantly engaged with the lure which keeps things exciting.

Haha, all I know I need is a gucci Zillion like that, heck I just need another stock Zillion ? I love the way Zillion SV TW looks. Literally the only complaint I can come up with since late Aug. is that they don't use an AI drag dial like on the Zillion TW HD. Eventually I'll get around to replacing it with something like you got going on. A metal drag dial just fits this reel better. See I can knock the Zillion too.

This is where I'm at. I'm happy to know that she likely spawned a bunch during her lifetime, and she was likely near the end of her life, but on the other hand this story could have ended totally different if she had eggs and was a bit younger.....something ON DNR could not know until they killed her, or at least her age.

Haha, yeah that's the tank that destroyed that made for such a pretty strike. The bigger Spots are still fat, but the last two heavy 4/light 5lb class fish looked to have lost that awesome fat and eggs they had during the winter. This has been a very confusing time to be fishing, but it seems to at least be improving.

Don't or can't post the video from the father/son's friend, but anyway the fish was killed which we knew by the ON DNR so they could conduct these tests. It was a female, she was 16 years old, and was without eggs. I'm still saddened by the fact the fish had to die, and adds more fuel to the FFS/Giant Bass argument, but given she didn't have eggs, and was 16 years old......surely she was at the end of her life anyways. Imagine how special of a fish, how much it must defy the odds to reach 16 years old, and 10lb+. I'd say greater than the powerball winner who won 2bil. The thing I would love to know the most is the growth chart for this fish. How fast did it reach 10lbs, did it ever get to 11 or 12lbs? It's very possible this fish was a half to pound heavier at some point in the last few years before the ON DNR killed her.