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I also used a large cooler for a few years and had no problems. Just be sure to change the water at least once an hour, run your aerator all the time, use a livewell additive. Oh ya, and watch when you open the lid

Thanks......... Prior to reading this I checked my terminals and found some corrosion. I cleaned up the terminals and connections. I also found the wing nut had worked itself kinda loose. After the clean up and tightening the nut I turned on the front unit, cranked the motor, the sonar/gps stayed on, problem solved I believe. Yes, it has a fuse.

To all the people who demanded that the Wings would win, including Barry Melrose and Matt Barnaby (ESPN analyists) Way to go PENS

When I start my boat my front sonar/gps shuts off. It's a real pain to have to turn it back on and have it re-search for satellites every time I start the boat. The unit is a Lowrance 522c which I put on this year. The former unit was a Garmin 160, it never did that. It's running on the same power wire as the 160 was. Any ideas????

So, what did you end up having to pay the guy? Just curious.....

Let's go PENS!

Anyone use one of these? I'm an IDIOT.........I'm possibly purchasing a third boat and rather than buy another trolling motor I thought about trying one of these brackets so I can switch a TM from one boat to another. I assume that I will buy the bracket then have to buy another "puck" which is the part that mounts to the boat. Any input would be appreciated.

Awesome! Please PM me. I have fished the Allegheny River (Kittanning Pool) which is where you will be for the championship.

A close friend who lives in Erie was in the area outside the bay you describe last Sunday, the absolutely whacked 'em, and big ones, all in 6 feet of water and all on jerkbaits.

Most of the open team T's here have gone to an 6 or 8 fish limit. I've fished 3 opens so far this spring, all with 8 as the limit. It does make culling a little interesting, and keep in mind we're not gonna see a limit of 5 pounders from this lake. The average winning sack's fish will average about 2.5 lbs. Now, bass season is closed here now, excpet for this particular lake which has no closed season due to it having 2 states that share the shoreline. Once bass season opens, most of the T's have a 6 fish limit and on those lakes a 4-5 pound average is possible.

Boater: I fish my strengths, and look for areas that I can do that in. For example, had an open tournament yesterday (which we ended in second place ). I've been on this lake for several weekends for opens and club tournaments. Take off yesterday.....my partner asks whatya wanna do? I tell him to go up the shoreline 300 yds and stop. He looks at me all funny, says "you serious?" Yep.....as a heart attack. So, we stop, I jump up while getting beat around by boat wakes, fire out a lipless crank to a rocky flat shorline. In 10 casts I boated 4 keeper fish. When the boat wakes stopped so did the bite.......I had 4 fish in the box before most of the boats were to their first spots. My point? I like to run and gun and target active fish, when the conditions permit, so that's how I plan my days. Weather and type of lake plays a part in deciding how I'm fishing of course. If I can crank, jig fish, spinnerbait fish, or run an area flippin and pitchin, that's what I do until the fish tell me to slow down. Yesterday I had to slow down in the afternoon and really be methodical, but still covered fish holding areas. The bite slowed....alot.....but from 1:00 PM till 2:00 PM the sun was high and I culled 3 times by making repeat and rapid pitches to multiple targets. In prefishing I look at weather forecasts, then look for areas that I can run my style and strengths. In a nutshell that's about it....

Are you saying that over the first 2 or 3 days of the event you could have caught enough fish to be in the top 10 on the FLW tour event and on a lake that you've never fished? Your in the wrong line of work then

Susquehanna Fishing Tackle was also out last time I placed an order a few weeks ago. Man, I didn't realize the BMF was so hard to come by now. I only have 5 left, hope I don't loose any! BTW, if your using this hook, learn how to tie a snell knot and forget the barbs or shrink wrap barbs. I actually mash down the upper barbs on my BMF hooks. A properly tied snell knot will force the hook point upward when setting the hook on a fish. I rarely loose a fish even flipping into the gnarliest cover. Often the fish will hook itself when the hook rotates upward as the fish moves with the bait. Try it, I promise you won't be disappointed!

Although I have not been able to venture up yet, a close friend who lives in Erie and fishes the bay all the time left me a voicemail yesterday. He is whacking the smallies, and big ones, fishing the tops of the breaks with jerkbaits. On Sunday he boated over 50, many over 4 lbs, including one he estimated could have gone close to 7 lbs.

Yep, usually around the Susquehanna River or the Havre De Grace area this time of year.

I own 13 Kistlers ranging from Graphite series, Magnesiums, LTA's. Love 'em all.

I owned a MK Powerdrive, never again. It didn't last on my boat 2 months and I replaced it. Definately NOT a motor suited for windy conditions, current, constant use. For bassin, go with a cable steer!

Yes, it's the same Kim Bain-Moore. She has been fishing FLW events since 2004.

So when they apply and are approved for the grants, they use the grant money for the study? I think your post led to my actual question, what is the grant used on?? The grant money pays for additional officers to be on the road. These officers soley do agressive drivng enforcement. It is usually overtime. For example, I'm doing it the next 3 months. I get 3.5 overtime hours per month. During those hours I only do agressive driving enforcement on the highways that PennDOT says we have to do it on.

Allow me to add my .02 We have and participate in traffic safety programs here. The grants are intended to put officers on the street soley for enforcing agressive driving actions or seatbelt violations. Here in PA a police dept has to apply for the grants, then be approved for them, by our DOT. PennDOT examines the crash statistics for the police depts region then tells us what highways we have to run the enforcement on. Officers are ASKED to average 2 stops per hour. It's about visibility... I can tell you firsthand that these programs work. We have a particular strech of road that averaged several crashes a week due to agressive driving. We have reduced our crashes on that strech by 40% over the past 2 years. On top of that, I can't tell you the number of additional things we have acheived like DUI arrests, drug arrests, warrant arrests, etc while performing these enforcement waves. If you think it's about the $$$, so be it. I personally have no idea where ticket money goes and I've been doing this almost 15 years now. I'm out there to help other motorists be able to safely about their lives without having someone ruin it by driving like an idiot and causing a crash. That's what it's about for me...... As far as the negative and derogatory comments about Police in this thread........ :-X :-X :-X

I use a reaction Innovations BMF hook (straight shank) for 90% of my flipping baits. For flipping tubes I use an Eagle Claw HP hook. On occasion I use a Gammy EWG superline hook, but that's rare.

Definately an exciting game! BU dug deep and found a way to get those goals, just shows how good of a team and coach. I feel bad for Miami OH, they played a great game. The OT goal was kind of a fluke but went in none the less. I was going back and forth between the college game and the Pgh Pens vs. Montreal game.... The Pens scored 2 shorthanded goals on 1 Montreal powerplay, when is the last time you saw that? I don't think I ever saw it? Looks like the Pens will play your Flyers in the first round, that will definately be a great series!

I always fish the bay by boat. I have a close friend that lives in Erie, he wades the flat between the entrance to Marina Bay (West Pier) and Perry's Monument. He uses jerkbaits, tubes, small swimbaits, grubs, tubes, and catches a fair number of smallies doing that. Early pre-spawn, tubes, drop shot, blade baits on deeper breaklines and humps. Later in pre-spawn, jerkbaits on the tops of the breaks near spwaning flats. I don't usually fish spawn there, I have, honestly it was too easy. You can go down a spawning flat and see the beds. If a fish is on a bed it will hit just about anything, they are so agressive on beds. Post spawn will find fish back out on the breaklines and humps. Early morning can be good on the flats also, same baits as I mentioned above, but a soft jerkbait like a fluke or a topwater like a Sammy also will catch fish. Another friend fished the bay last week. They caught smallies at the bottoms of the breaks on drop shots and tubes.

May and June is prime time. The Bay still has smallies at that time and the main lake is getting really good at that time.

I have heard of a few smallies being caught in the bay. Things will get good there in the next 2-3 weeks.