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I have the yak attack transducer arm and you can remove it very quickly and switch to another kayak. The biggest challenge is where your battery will sit, and running the wires to that. I put mine behind the seat and could still do the whole switch on 5 min I think, so I'd recommend it for your scenario.

I recommend searching the forum for the posts of @WRB-2.0 and reading every one of them. He was the most successful big bass hunter I've ever come into contact with and shared his knowledge extensively on this forum before his passing. You will gain more from reading his posts than any book. What is your biggest catch so far? If everyone here is saying the same thing, you should listen. Very few people on earth have caught a DD bass, the access here to people who have done it is unparalleled. Look at largest catch on their profile and weigh their advice accordingly.

This describes me well. I haven't eaten a fish I caught in over a decade, but I told my kids we will this year so I guess it's on. I think it's valuable for the kids to go through the experience of eating what we catch.

This pond is directly beside a lake. About 200' from the bank. So if the egg thing is real and I believe it is, it'll definitely get stocked some that way. But I'm here to help it along and curate to the extent I can! Bluegill stocking is the easy part. My kids catch hundreds a year so we'll just have a fishing party with friends to jumpstart things. Other species is the hard part. What are everyone thoughts on adding channel cats?

@Blue Raider Bob your spot is beautiful. In my case, I don't own it, it's a neighborhood retention pond being built. So I won't be able to do a fountain and am not going to pay to stock it. This thread has been very helpful though, as I've learned I need to focus on bait first. My boys will be doing lots of adventures with crawfish trap and throw net as soon as things thaw (yes we're in nc and water is frozen, someone do a wellness check on @Pat Brown 😎) I'm not sure what species the minnows are that are in the shallow of lakes and ponds around here, I assume shiners but have no idea. Whatever they are, they're easy to catch and will be going in the pond along with bluegill. I can probably catch some shad with a net as well.

Awesome! Did you put any structure in it to protect the bait or anything like that? I'm thinking of stuff like that in addition to species to stock.

That is basically exactly what I was thinking. I can get an almost infinite amount of sunfish and shiners in there by the end of July with just my two boys. The challenge is getting decent bass in there afterwards.

I regret buying the regular maps card. Should have bought zlc. My small lake is on there but not hd and it's not even close to accurate.. I guess I'll just buy the card. I've never heard anyone say they regret buying it

Let’s say, hypothetically, there was a new pond constructed which was several acres. In this hypothetical, there is not an option to professional stock it, but it is near other water so you could reasonably guerrilla stock it. What is your action plan? What species first, how many, what strategy, assuming only transplants? This is hypothetical so the only rule is not professionally stocked. The goal is trophy largemouth in under a decade. Hopefully this will be a fun topic as many of us enter icemageddon tomorrow.

Thank you @casts_by_fly . Do you use the computer software Autochart with it, or only the ZLC? The ZLC is much less expensive than the computer software, and I'm not clear on what the software lets you do. It sounds like my use case would be very similar to yours, unless I had a friend joining me kayak fishing and I wanted to share data with them but that seems rather unlikely.

How many of you are using this? Do you like it? I have a small lake and the map card is not even close to accurate, so I'm thinking of buying this to add to my Helix to get better mapping. Would love to be able to map vegetation, etc., in addition to contours, which this allegedly does. Second question, could I buy a software license from someone no longer using it? Sometimes I get a windows key or something from a computer getting tossed, and I'm curious if someone switched from Humminbird to Garmin or whatever and no longer needed it if I could buy second hand and it'd still work on the software side? Looks like it's pretty expensive to buy new, although I guess 'expensive' is subjective...

I've been fishing a rock quarry within my lake.. Deep water, around 50 foot deep.. Historically I've caught white bass and largemouth and crappie in this spot.. Yesterday I saw what I believe was 3 or 4 different species schooling in there. I'm curious if any of you are good enough with side imaging in deep water to help me identify the species pictured here. I'm hoping the larger spaced out ones are largemouth, thinking the tight group is white bass or perch. I saw what I think were crappie also but not picture here.

My budget is I only buy things that are on sale, and things I may use eventually one day.

First - Welcome from another NC bass fisherman. What brand shaky head are you referring to? There are so many options, it'd be helpful for us to know exactly what you are referencing. I've never seen a separate spring supplied with a shaky head but they are always coming up with something new.

I don't think I have much to zip tie to. We'll see. I'm gonna have to get deep in there to the extent I'm able.