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OSU played well and UT did not…Add some injuries to pile on and BOOM… roasted on national TV. It went about as bad for us as it could have gone. On to basketball…

@TnRiver46 probably needed the distraction this morning like I do… My only add is Native makes the Ultimate in various sizes. It is truly a hybrid canoe with kayak seat(s). They are great fish from and you can stand in them, with the larger sizes being more stable.

Yet!

He’s a YouTuber first, tourney fisherman second. This is all publicity.

Well those are choices you make… do you hate blueberries?

I use Optimum Nutrition Gold Standard whey and Vital Proteins Collagen. I add a ton of spinach to my protein shakes. I put the collagen in soups and coffee, but it will also dissolve in cold beverages. I like the chocolate Optimum Nutrition but the vanilla is also good. The taste and texture are just better for me than anything else I’ve found. A big thing with protein shakes is that if you just do powder and water it doesn’t really stop your hunger. It helps to add greens or berries or an orange, just for the fiber. Be careful of the calories if you are trying to lose weight.

We actually had a kindergarten teacher die from this. She was allergic and the bee stung her in the back of the throat.

I love a good winter wake bait bite. It looks like you’re in Dallas/Ft Worth so I’m going to guess your water very rarely gets below 40 degrees. The ‘where’ is usually more important than the ‘what’ in winter as the fish will move to food which usually moves to the warmer spots. The first break/drop off from shallow cover is usually a good bet after a warm day. Crawl a wake bait with long pauses over that. You have to pay attention in winter though because the takes are more of a slurp than a blow up. Past that crawl a purple Zoom Ol Monster along any prospective spots.

That’s very nice! What cork tape did you use?

You may make it do a backflip with a 9.9 on there!

Unless the air is warmer for a few days the water wont warm from the air. A warm rain from cloudy skies can change that a little. Hours of sunshine will warm shallow water and there will be some activity. Usually craws then minnows then the fish you want. Slow shallow water near winter haunts in the afternoons on sunny days.

It’s too cold if it’s crystalline. Otherwise, I’m saying there’s a chance… In reality, water below 50 becomes way less fun.

I still have a couple 200Ds that I use for 1-3 oz swimbaits. It’s almost the same reel. It is a great, failsafe platform. Absolute tanks.

These are just BEAUTIFUL fish! You sir are on the GRIND!! You need 7 fish in 20 days - you can do it!

I have both a kayak and a small boat, and I appreciate the zen that you’re talking about, and how far off the original topic we are… Maybe if you’re looking for that zen, don’t fish tournaments and take some of the stress out of all of this? But to the original point - I have autopilot on my boat and wouldn’t think of using that to put it on the trailer. Should it reliably work? Yes. But the consequences and swimming of the time(s) it failed far outweigh the benefits.

Drop me in the ‘almost never.’ I think bigger trailers take some of the vibration away from the skirt, inhibiting the skirt’s action/pulsation, which is where the money is. Slow rolling a big pulser slow? Ribbon tail worm.

I actually really like We Three Kings done by Bare Naked Ladies w/Sarah McLaughlin (spelling not guaranteed). The BNL Christmas album is good writ large.

CL8 Mighty Mouse is a fantastic wake bait. And you can cast it a mile.

It’s an obscure song that maybe many of you have never heard but my fav is the classic banger ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ by Mariah Carey…. 😀😀😀😀

I have actually really enjoyed Suffix ProMix in 8 and 12 lb test. I have never heard anyone else even mention it. It is pretty inexpensive. YMMV

You can probably sprinkle cayenne heavily around whatever active trees they’re working, or mix cayenne into a spray bottle/sprayer and spray trees. The coyote/predator urine around where they’re active may work. The results of the above vary. DNRs will usually trap and relocate so that’s probably the best solution unless you want to deal with beaver carcasses, I hear the tail meat is a delicacy.

Counter Culture Hologram is my daily driver of roasts. Roast date is on the bag so you always know when and where it got roasted. We also do Cometeer pods. They are aluminum pods so they are recyclable, and the coffee in them is absolutely fantastic. They are cheaper than a cup of Starbucks, but not cheap as pods go. They’re worth it for me, especially for hockey road trips where access to good coffee can be questionable.

What size pliers did you get?

Just to close this loop - I ended up with a Echomap 63sv for close to $600 on sale. It is perfect for what I want to do. If I ever want a bigger screen I’ll throw a Striker up on the bow. Thanks everyone for the input!

I don’t see the problem…