MDBowHunter

Yup, pretty much. DSG never has anything new and exciting, just the same ole crap. It's ok if you need some hooks or sinkers on the quick, but most of their stuff is on the cheap end and what good lures they do carry they only have two different colors. If you want any other color of popmax other then white anaconda or baby bass you aint getting it at my local DSG. If you want an SCrank it better be Secret Gill (which is a sweet color by the way) or chartreuse again you better know what the initials TW stand for.

Braid to mono leader here, Ive never saw no real benefit to using fluoro as a leader besides it sinks, but that's what a sinker is for. I also believe that braid with a mono leader will give a slower fall rate which I feel is a good thing in a finesse situation. I use 20# braid only because it's the same diameter as the 6lb leader I use, and by doing this it's much easier to tie the leader to the main line.

1- let the fish tell me what pattern they want 2- fish that pattern

Now this motor is a 52 and it pulls 32 amps in a trash and that's not even pushing a boat or fighting wind. Even with this you'd only get 3 hours max. That's still around 3 to 4 batteries to run 10 to 12 hours.

A 55 draws about 50 amps most 12v batteries are about 105 amp hours that's about 2 hours of run time. Now if your talking about taking a 1 hour ride and then anchoring all day then traveling back, then yes you can fish all day on one battery. But if your doing a lot moving around it ain't happening sorry.

The only way your gonna get 12hrs out of a 12v55 is if you take about 4 batteries. I have an all electric 1542 Jon and I'm running 2-55s on the transom as my main travel motors, I ended up running 6v golfcart batteries hooked up in series and now I can go all day on one set of batteries. As stated earlier you could hook 2-12s in parallel and it would help some but I don't think you'd get the run time your looking for. Before I went to the 6 volt batteries we would bring 4 to 6 batteries with us, now that's for two motors. Oh and with one 55 your going to get an amazing 3-3.5 mph out of it.

Gotem, hopefully followed by grab the net.

Direct tie everything

I think you'll be fine, the one thing I did change was I replaced the front seat with a pedestal seat, because your real tight to the edge when attempting to walk around the seat. This isn't a real problem until you have a nice fish on and your trying to get towards the back so the fish can be netted. I used all 6ga wiring for all my motor wiring and would recommend you do the same. I just went to homedepot and bought it by the foot. Doing this will save you a ton over buying pre made hook ups from a boat place or BPS. I also used marinco connectpro plugs for my motors, they're a little costly but well worth it. I originally bought the standard plugs but after using them a half a season I started having issues with them coming loose, so I replaced them with the marinco ones and couldn't be happier. Good luck with your build.

Thank you, It's a 1542. To run in series you would take two batteries and connect the positive of one battery to the negative of the other battery with a jumper wire, then you take your motor and hook the positive lead to the one open positive terminal on your battery, then hook the negative to the negative on the other battery. In my case it made the 2-6s into one 12v, a lot of guys do this with 2-12s to run 24v motors. Now on my front I have 2-12s in parallel which is when you take two jumper wires and hook one batteries positive to another batteries positive then hook the negatives together, then hook your motor to one of then batteries. This will almost double the run time of the batteries

The first pic is a year old and the seating is a little different, and before I bought a bowmount. The batteries for the front motor are under the front deck tucked away in the rear corners, they're 2-12 volt batteries wired in parallel, my fishfinder is also hooked to them batteries with no ill effects even after two years. The rears batteries are in the compartment in front of the rear seat, I extended the deck so I could place them there to keep the weight more center. Them two sets of batteries are 2 pairs of 6 volt golfcart batteries wired in series, by doing this I can run all day with no worries of a dead battery. The charger is between the two rear batteries and I have the rear sets wired to the trolling motor output wires of the charger, and the front set of batteries is wired to the starting battery output. Everything works great, I get home plug in and it's ready to roll in about a day and a half.

I'm running the BPS 3 bank onboard it's pretty nice, I have an all electric boat as well. I run 2-55s with a 45 on the front as you do except I'm running 4-6 volt golf cart batteries for my 55s and 2-12s for my 45. If I was to fish today everything would be charged and ready in a day and a half. Do yourself a favor and split the batteries up for weight reasons, the closer to center the better. I built a compartment in front of the rear seat that holds my 6volt batteries and the charger, and my batteries for my bow mount are under the front deck.

Unless they're going to make my mortgage payments. I'm mowing when I feel like it.

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If your getting backlashes every cast you have an issue with either the spool tension, the braking or both. Try turning the brakes or magnets up and increase the spool tension. If you stand up with the rod sticking straight out from shoulder height with the lure you'll be tossing tied on, now release the spool. When the lure hits the ground if the spool turns more then two turns after the lure stops the spool tension needs to be increased. Once you get that set try turning the brakes about 3/4 of the way and try casting. As you get more comfy with it Turn the brakes down a little at a time until you get the hang of it. As stated earlier don't be concerned about distance at first, that will come in time. Also once you get a backlash are you pulling of enough line to make sure you have the backlash completely out, because if not that's where your problem lies. Hope this helps

I use his gridiron brush jig as an all around jig, brush, timber, grass and rocks. I also use his sniper jig for more of a finesse jig early in the year and when the waters are heavily pressured as they seem to get bit more. Then there's his football jig which is great in real rocky areas with a lot of boulders. These are the three I use so I don't have much knowledge with his other ones, but Mike makes an awesome jig and they catch fish that's for sure.

Frabil lure retriever pole, it extends to 18'. I bought it at the beginning of last year, and it's already more then paid for it's self a few times over. That's not counting all the lures that I've seen hanging in a tree and grabbed them.

Awesome great job!!!!!

Any good pair of glasses that have a glass lens are coated and I'll crack but won't blow apart. I was riding my Harley and had a rock fly up from the car in front of me going down the highway at 65. Well it hit me dead enter of my left eye and it did ruin the lens, but nothing came apart and no glass in my eye. One benefit of glass is it won't scratch like plastic will.

Go with the 15' you'll be happy you did, I'm rolling in a tracker 1542 that is decked and it handles 2 people perfect. Any smaller and it's going to very tippy if you put raised decks in it. Here's a pic of how mine turned out:

The polarization of Costas is second to none IMHO, love my fantails

I choose Costas which I currently use, but I've owned two different pairs of Maui Jims which are a very close second to Costas. I've also owned a pair of Oakleys and wouldnt rate them much better then some of the $50-$60 range.

When I did bank fish I would just take one rod and a hip sack like people wore back in the 90s. I always hated having to get everything together just to move 20 yards down the bank and so on. Since a lot of lures that work great from a boat absolutely suck from the bank, I'd just toss in a couple spinnerbaits, one or two shallow diver, and a pack of worms with a couple hooks and sinkers. I found I actually caught more fish just because I spent more time fishing and less time trying to keep track of my belongings. Plus I was way more mobile, I didn't have to stick to one spot. I was always moving down the shoreline just as you would in a boat. I found a fly fishing vest also works very well for bank fishing, just a little warmer then a hip sack.