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Thanks, that's helpful. I've been throwing a 3/4 oz, but I'm struggling to feel any blade movement when I reeling slow enough to keep it deep. Maybe I need to pay more attention. ? Thanks, I appreciate it. My biggest complaint has been not able to feel the blade turning. I need to try one of these. ? Good stuff, just printed a copy. Thanks for posting.

I'm fishing a smallish lake with the deepest depth of primarily 10-12 feet. What's the best blade configuration for slow-rolling a spinnerbait along the bottom, to still get some vibration without getting too much lift? Thanks for your help.

Thanks for the tip. Haven’t got there yet but still working on it.

I’ve been running a Lowrance Hook Reveal DF for several months and generally pleased with it. A friend has an identical unit and offered to share some of his waypoints with me. He exported them up to an SD card and I used the import function to bring them into my unit. The import process showed the correct numbers of waypoints imported, but none of them show up in my list of waypoints. I’ve tried restarting the DF, repeating the process with a different card, etc but nothing helped. His export file was a .usr file version 6, which is the same file type I use to backup waypoints. I would love to have those waypoints but don’t know what to try next. Any suggestions or guesses? Thanks for your help.

Ditto. I’ve become a big fan of the keepers. I usually add a bead between the weight and the keeper for maybe a little more “clack”. I’ve also started using the same keepers when I rig a dropshop, one above the hook and one below, both pushed up tight. For me, they do a better job of keeping the hook perpendicular to the line than any knot I’ve been able to tie.

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LOL! Now, there's an optimistic thought. I would love to be able to tell you! ?

Thank y'all!

I finally got out one afternoon this week in the midst of a stretch of the nicest weather we've seen this season. I only had three, but one was 3#+, and this one weighed in at 8lbs 15 oz, a personal best for largemouth in 60+ years of fishing. She inhaled a chatterbait with a curly tail trailer. A quick pic, a quick weigh-in, and then she swam quickly away. By all indications, the bass had spawning on their mind until the bottom fell out of our weather. The second cold front within two days just blew thru, with another coming right behind it along with a string of 4-5 mornings around freezing. Regardless, a good sign of things to come. ?

Thanks, that makes sense. A better, cleaner setup is the long-term goal, but at least I have a better idea of what I'm dealing with. I appreciate your help.

I wondered about that, but it takes up more space than it frees up. The only other item on the circuit breaker terminal is one accessory wire, and it's there because the previous owner also used the circuit breaker as a master cut-off switch. Thank you.? I thought that might be true, but however he put on the red cap, he made sure it would not fall off. Considering it is immediately preceded by a manual circuit breaker, you do know of any reason why I might want to keep it? The only thing downstream of it is a trolling motor. Thanks for your help.

I recently bought a used Tracker and trying to figure out some of the wiring changes made by the previous owner. Would anybody venture a guess at what the gizmo is with the red cap(?). It is attached on one end to the outgoing terminal of the trolling motor circuit breaker. The other side is attached to the positive wire leading to the trolling motor receptacle. I assume the red piece is a removable cap, but it does not remove easily and I have not yet forced it. I thought it might be some type of a fusible link, but if so I don't understand its purpose since the circuit breaker is there. Any reason why the trolling motor wire should not be attached directly to the circuit breaker terminal? Thanks.

Thanks for the feedback, good info. Yep pretty certain it’s a conventional 12V set-up. Originally, it had one trolling motor battery. The previous owner added the second in parallel, with only one set of TM wires heading up front. The boat has some wiring issues with electronics, but the TM wiring is simple and straightforward.

Thanks for all the feedback. I wasn’t very clear. I have a charger with the usual clips. Since it sounds like it should work, I would remove the clips and wire it to a new trolling motor plug, then charge thru the port where my trolling motor plugs in. This is primarily for convenience - The way the boat is docked, it’s much easier for me to get to the trolling motor receptacle, rather than the hatch for direct access to the batteries. It would also avoid leaving the hatched cracked open. And yes, this is just a fix until I can eventually get an onboard charger. Thanks for the tip regarding single bank vs 2-bank. That makes sense. I’m learning good stuff already. ? Unfortunately, the boat doesn’t have a factory-installed 110 plug. That would be nice to have, so eventually I’ll need to address that also. Thanks again for all the comments.

Hi - I'm a newbie to this forum. By way of introduction, I live on a small NC lake that does not permit gas motors. I recently got my hands on a 2003 Tracker Pro Team 165 that's set up with a foot-control trolling motor and 2 deep cycle batteries in parallel. The hull and interior are in reasonably good shape. I've had several bass boats in the past, so I have some familiarity with boat maintenance, but nothing anywhere close that had the age of this boat. Wiring for depthfinders and accessories, as well as the trolling motor, are both issues that need addressed, but not today. When the time comes, I'm sure I will have a ton of questions. BTW, I'm in my mid-70's, so if any of my questions come across as crazy to any young studs out there, please just consider the source and be tolerant with me. ? For starters, just one quick question. Is it possible to charge the batteries through the trolling motor receptacle? I realize I'll need to get an extra plug for my charger. Any issues in charging that way? I'm not an all-day fisherman, but the boat is in the water, so I need to ensure there's plenty of juice for the bilge pump. Down the road, I'm considering a dual bank permanent-mount charger, but it's quite a ways down on the wish list. Thanks in advance for any feedback.

Thanks for the feedback. I cannot believe this one would not have been a different model, even if for a small test market. Most Pop-R's I have from around the same time have no internal rattle at all. Maybe a few sound like something loose. This one has a rattler similar to a Zara Spook. It's hard for me to imagine it's a production run thing. 'Course, I've been wrong before... ?

Thank you. No hurry at all, it's been sitting around for years and I've taken it out of action until I can decide what to do with it. I appreciate your help.

Newbie here... I wandered across this forum while trying to research a lure online. I figured if anybody knew the answer, this would be the place. I've bass fished throughout the Carolinas over the past 60+ years, inheriting a love of top water fishing from my father. His favorite plug was a Paw Paw, but I fell in love with Pop-R's from the time they were introduced. I am not a collector in the true sense, but I have collected too many tackle boxes and too many lures over the years to know what's inside most of them. But enough about me... While digging thru an old tackle box, I came across several Pop-R's I didn't remember I had. To my surprise, one of these has a distinct noise chamber with what sounds like a couple ball bearings. It's the classic P60 Pop-R, 1/4 oz and 2 1/2" long. It is most definitely not the larger P70/P71 model which has a rattle chamber. It also has Rebel Pop-R embossed into the plastic near the tail of the bait. I don't recall Rebel ever making a Rattling Pop-R, and I cannot find anything at all on their website or anywhere else on the Internet. I found one Google reference to a P60R, but the webpage it linked to was no longer available. I had two very good days of fishing with it before I got to wondering about it, and now I'm scared to fish it, worried I may lose the last of a generation. Does anybody remember a Rattling version of the P60 Pop-R? Thanks for your help.