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I am looking for any older model lms series by lowrance. The 300, 400 or 500 series. My unit took a poo and I am in desperate need of a gps unit. Thanks in advance.

Think of the water column. Start top, then middle, then bottom. Same principle applys to retrieve. Burn it, normal it, then crawl it. You gotta find them in one of those depths and at one of those speeds.

I fished slims tourny yesterday and had 15 pounds. We didn't get there until 8:30 because we were on the St. Johns River the day before. Found a head at 2:30 that I flipped up two four pounders. At 2:40 we had to leave to make weigh in. The hyacynth was so thick in the rim ditch, that you had to go through boyscout cut to get to pelican. The guy who won the slims event had 18 and change. He ran through that mass of hyacynth and banged up his lower unit coming back in. It always happens, when you win some cash something goes wrong with your boat. Fred I think I saw you yesterday at slims with that beast. I didn't recognize you or otherwise I would have introduced myself. Did that big girl make it? One of her eyes looked pretty crappy. Glad you won some cash.

they definitely have to be cajun. slims fish camp in belle glade has the best boiled peanuts on the planet. i first tried plain boiled peanuts about 5 years ago, and like ghoti said they never made it to my stomach. cajun is the way to go.

Double Whammy by Carl Haiaasen. Fictional read that is set in Florida. Carl is the best about writing about Florida.

JD's customs frog. Those frogs flat out get the big snakeheads

Correct. There are 4 out of Okeechobee. 3 of them are at Clewiston and the other is Okeetanee.

im doing goblins as well. i may need a partner if anyone is interested. i'll know more this weekend.

It was $100. I actually enjoyed the whole experience. FLW does it right for sure. The line to get a bag was way long, but other than that, they have bass tournys dialed in!

This was my first time fishing the BFL and I decided to try it as a co-angler. Let me preface by saying that my boater was a great guy and he was a pleasure to fish with. However, his equipment and his boat were not up to par for the lake. Friday night we had our pairings meeting and when i met my boater, I asked where are we going and what do I need to rig up. He said he had only fished the lake 3 times- Wednesday, Thursday and that Friday. He then said do you know the lake? I was stoked to say the least. I told him I knew the lake a little and that I was on some decent flipping fish. That night I could hardly sleep because my partner and I had found some big flipping fish. We planned on meeting at the ramp at 5 the next morning and when he pulled up and I saw his boat, I knew it was going to be a tough day. I'm not knocking his or anyone elses boat, but part of the reason I didn't fish was because I didn't think my own boat was good enough. I have a Ranger intracoastal with a 200 VMax and a 101 riptide with a power pole. Boy was I wrong. The fella I fished with had a 1989 Vision with a 12 volt motor guide 40lb thrust trolling motor. Again, I'm not knocking his or anyones rig, but to fish the areas i usually fish on the lake you need a 101 pounds of thrust to last all day. We made it to my area, but we couldn't make it in because of the dense vegetation. His trollling motor was struggling with the eel grass. I asked him if he would start up the big motor and plow through some junk to get where we needed to be and he said sure. The problem was, his boat wouldn't start. He worked on that engine for about hour and when he finally got it started, I felt bad and said lets go to another area that was less vegetated. When we arrived at the next spot I realized there were 2 other boats already there. Still keeping a positive frame of mind, I started really focusing on my fish. I flipped up 2 two pounders and he decided he was gonna flip as well. He was flipping with a 6'6" medium action rod with 20 pound braid and a 1/4 ounce weight. I hooked him up with a 1 1/2 oz tungsten and he actually had 3 decent bites. He missed them, but he had 3 good opportunities. Those were the only 2 fish I caught all day and weighed in 4.01 pounds. I'm not bashing this guy what so ever, but I learned a valuable lesson for next year. I will be entering the BFL tournys as a boater!

wish i could go boys, but i'll be on the lake all weekend. have fun and be safe. fyi-my money is on mike for the big fish.

jeff and danny were running to their spot when they saw fish busting up shad. they stopped and put 28 pounds in the boat, including the 9.5 pounder within 10 minutes. Noah caught his 8.8 first thing in the morning and had four 2 pounders and finshed second with 16 pounds. the guy who won that tourny was fishing in front of us and he put on clinic catching a fish on almost every cast. he had a 9.4 pounder and they won the event with 23 pounds. yesterday 17 pounds won the slims event and the guy had a 6 pounder. there were 4 bags that weighed in 16 pounds and every one of those teams had 1 big fish with four small ones. we had 12 pounds, but couldn't get that big bite. we chased a school busting monster sized shad, but we could not keep up with them. yes there are some big fish being caught on the lake, but not in bunches. YET. its gonna happen soon.

i fished from sun up til 9:30 on sunday morning out of slims. every place we went to on the lake was dirty, rough and there was a lot of debris in the water. we were planning on hitting the pahokee rocks, but it was 2-4 foot on the lake. we scratched that idea and went to the airport hole where i caught a 2 pounder on a spinnerbait. that ended up being our only fish. we then went into pelican, then grassy, then ritta. nothing. at 9:30 we decided to split and go to the north end of loxahatchee. we faired much better with a 6 pounder and a bunch of 3 pounders. we were off the water by 1. i sure hope it gets better, because the next couple of trips to the lake i will be there from sun up til sundown in hopes of putting a decent strategy together for the bfl.

nice!

i know the feeling mike. you'll get her next time bro. lox is only gonna get better. yea we were out there on sunday.

swim jig. just ripping it through the eel grass. she hammered it! thats an 8 pound head om a 6 pound body. super skinny

The water temp was 80 when started, 86 when we left. It's been rainy and cloudy for two days, so water should stay pretty cool.

lox has been good and should be even better with all this water. moving water and eel grass are key.

here's a link http://my.sfwmd.gov/sfwmd/common/images/weather/rt/rt_L.OKEE.html

be careful with your vehicles on the alley. MANY trucks are being stolen. They seem to be "nice" thieves, because they are leaving the trailers. i know of over 20 trucks that have been stolen all along the alley. its obviously a ring

i have a vmax 200 ox66 3.1 L and my oil alarm went of during a tourny 2 weeks ago. i had nearly 2 gallons in the tank on the boat, and when i got home the oil was between the 2 arrows in the tank on the engine. i was told to turn the key on and hold the toggle switch on the engine and if the oil fills the tank up, itis NOT the oil pump on tthe tank in the boat. i was told it was the sensor inside the tank on the engine. i replaced the sensor($135) and when i went out last week the alarm never sounded, but the arrow on my tach never went to green. it stayed on yellow indicating that i was getting low. when i got home and popped the cowling, i could tell the oil had gone down some, but now im confused. what can i check next before i lose my mind? please help.

There was more water than the last time I was there, but I didn't even consider going on the sign trail. All of my fish were caught at the very west end of the canal in the open water. Just gotta find moving water, eel grass and sandy bottom. I usually look for the little islands that are close together and I will chuck a spinnerbait or swim bait to locate fish. Once I catch one or two, I then go with the topwater and dial it in.

Water was not moving; however, there was a strong south wind and the area I was fishing had enough wind current to trigger those fish. I lost a 5 pounder due to a super long cast and she jumped like five times before chucking my spook.

fished from 8-11 this morning and managed a couple of nice ones.