Brent Bartman

Anyone ever fished one of these. The weekend me and buddy will be in Clewiston they are having one. no entry fee? figured why not. whats anyones experience with this?

I have a : Gloomis GLX missing about 3 eyes. Gloomis IMX Broken Tip Gloomis NRX Broken in half about 1st eye How is Gloomis with there replacement/Repair program anyone tell me there experiences with it?

I appreciate it. I'm headed there tommorow and I'll check it out. I appreciate the help!!

So this is my first boat with a hydraulic jack plate. its a 6" atlas. My first boat with a 250 and first boat fast enough to chinewalk. As far and starting off and trimming the boat to pad whats the best way to do this. I have basically found my sweet spot of about 2.5" on my skeeter FX-20 and trim the using motor trim and leave the jackplate alone from there. Once on plane I have played with it a little but it seems to want to chine walk any way I move from 2.5" How do you guys operate your boats with yours? Trimmed out and WOT and a decent load turning about 5500 RPM on a 250 SHO with a 3 blade 25P prop I can run about 72MPH but she seems to want to chine walk anything past this. Any thoughts?

when you check the ground go ahead and remove the ground wire and wire brush the attached metal and bolt and expose some good bare metal. I like to use Dielectric grease on every connection I make on my boat or trailer. I just use a little bit to prevent corrosion. You can pick up a little packet at any autoparts store for like a dollar or so. its cheap. so cheap I never remember the price when i pick it up. I actually keep about 10 extra packets in my tool box in the boat for just in case. also make sure the lug is attached tightly to the wire. and then tighten the wire back to the trailer.

also i lied about the wire being black. I just looked at mine after seeing this diagram and its white

is it the truck or the boat? can you use another trailer and see if its the truck. or use another truck to the trailer. As far as checking the ground. the ground wire should be attached to a bolt straight to the trailer. it should be the only wire not going to a light.

I think it depends on how deep your trailer is. My dad has a 25FT center console that because of the bow pulpit has to be power loaded with the trailer pretty far out of the water. when the boat is seated in the trailer so much of the boat is out of the water you never have to hook up the boat. My 20FT skeeter once power loaded cant be powered off with out swamping the entire boat with prop wash. I think with a smaller boat this would be an issue. but with large heavier glass boats on carpeted bunks its not a problem provided the trailer isnt all the way in the water. with a john boat sure. Im not a weak guy at all and tried this with a tracker 175 trailer and couldn't move it a bit.

it seems like when every all my lights go out its a ground issue, check the trailer ground wire. should be black and make sure its properly grounded. Every light has its own power wire but they share a ground to the trailer.

GUYS IF YOU ARE GETTING MAD AT SOMEONE STRUGGLING AT THE RAMP. LEND THEM A HELPING HAND AND TEACH THEM. WE ALL REMEMBER HOW STRESSFUL OUR FIRST TIME WAS. DONT SIT BACK AND LAUGH. I unload my boat by myself my prepping everything. i take about a foot of slack in the bow hook and leave the winch in lock. that way the boat wont pull out the strap. I slowley back down as normal untill i wet the boat. then I slowely back down untill the boat starts to float. When I say slow i mean SLOWWWWLEY. I put the truck in park. engage the parking brake. then let of the brakes. i get out and start the motor. no point of launching untill the motor is running. especially because my boat is almost impossible not to power load. IT WILL TAKE MORE TIME TO RELOAD YOUR BOAT WITH NO MOTOR THAN IT WILL TO TRY AND GET IT STARTED FOR A MINUTE OR SO. with newer motors its not a big deal. how ever older 2 strokes can take some time. I think this is important I then unhook the boat and back it off the trailer. Pull up to the dock and tie off the boat. then hop in the truck and park. I can do this is about 3 minutes. Things I have learned. Its 2016 and everyone has smart phones. download a checklist app and use it. Always check everything. Everytime. double check triple check. at first I was so stoked to get it into the water. Now i do my list. then check it again. it takes 2 mintues to walk around the boat and make sure everything is ready. Im better off with the trailer further out of the water than in the water. Meaning if i swamp my fenders the boat wont load. I have found this true for most boats that are power loaded. before you trailer double check your lights,Hitch pin, hubs,brakes what ever you have. I learned at the ramp my reverse lights we shorted and my surge brakes would keep locking up and i couldnt back the boat down the ramp I learned to stage my mooring lines on the side of the boat i expect to tie up. nothing is worse that launching and realizing you have to dig thru your boat to pull out the lines.

I really appreciate the offer. I'm active duty Navy so my schedule doesn't give me much time for travel. Im looking for something more local. I would struggle making the events that weren't in the Charleston area.

Yeah I just moved here in February. Every time i think im starting to unlock the cooper river it skunks me again. this tidal fishing is tough. and I would really appreciate that!

I would like to think it probably catches more fish.

Yeah. being from Florida I have never really worried about gators. But I have been in VA for the last 6 years so i forgot about them. I just moved to SC and last weekend I hooked a 5 foot gator that decided he wanted my pitboss in the grass and it about scared me to death.

Yeah i was thinking the same thing. I might get a heavy XF spinning rod for the woman so she can actually fish with me when im fishing heavy grass. and before you guys say anything its easier to stay on the water untill after dark when I dont hear nagging from the back of the boat.

I have trouble with line twist and wind knots with mono on spinning reels so i stay away. and I might have to give the Stren a try.

Carbon Lites have been notorious for breaking with me. I have broken two 7"6" Heavy action rods. Granted BPS will replace it for free. I like my veritas. How ever i have heard stories of bad blanks when they came out. I have a Mojo Bass and that thing is an indestructible broom stick.

Look into saltwater rods for a heavy moderate. I Have a St Croix Heavy Moderate Tide master that is 7'6" I use for salt fishing.

How do you like the Stren? the thing that keeps me with Triline XL is the color. the blue florescent can be seen in the worst lighting conditions and disapears as soon as it goes under.

So I use almost every type of line on the market. I feel like they all have there applications I normally use the following: Braid-powerpro Flouro-Seagar Invisx Mono-Triline XL in the florescent blue I have always been under the impression let the fish tell you to use heavier line. I would rather get bites on 12# mono and worry about getting him to the boat than use 80# braid and never get bit. Story about this. Earlier this year me and my dad were fishing in Florida in tough post frontal conditions. we were frogging eel grass and lilly pads with matted hydrilla. I was using 65# braid and he had 12# mono. twitching frogs and letting them sit dead for as long as we could stand it. He was getting crushed and I wasn't getting a single bite. After he had 6 fish and I didnt even have a blowup . I swapped reels and started getting crushed. that day really showed me line matters as much as baits. maybe even more. We lost no fish that day. We couldn't horse them thru the mats and had to go get a few out. Fishing Florida hydrilla mats with 12# mono I couldn't believe it. Today I was picking up a spool and the guy at the tackle store scoffed and says no one uses mono. Am I the only one? I hear of pro's using mono and I have probably caught more fish on 14# triline XL than any other line. anyone strictly braid? or do most people use everything?

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MY MGX has seen about 4 years of hard use and is my most used reel and it rocks. I will probably get banned for saying this but...Out performs my chronarch every day of the week. but...... Noticed they are on sale for 249.00. bought two of them last night WITH a 500 dollar gift card i bought online for $415 So in my mind 700 dollars worth of reels for $415 cant beat it. Probably gonna ****** a few more up before they sell out there stocks

I havent been here for a few weeks so tidal fishing is still new to me. But seems the stronger the current the more number I will catch. I havent ventured too fare into the rice fields. Im not confident is fishing large flats for bass. Im more off a finding deep ledges and points (deep meaning 10-15 feet) with mats coming overtop of them.

New to Charleston. Looking to join a bass club. I have only been here since march so Im learning the tidal waters. I have fish the Cooper River about 3 times, the Back River about 6 or so.and moultrie once I own a 2011 Skeeter FX-20 with a 250 Yamaha SHO and would be joining as a boater. I would like to fish a few events as a non boater to a head start on learning tidal waters. they are really kicking my butt. Anyone in the area in a club looking for members let me know! Appriciate it! Brent

Got a bit of a late start today. went out of Cypress Gardens in moncks corner around 830AM Mostly cloudy today with a falling barometer winds from the south. Had a tough time getting on the bite. the tides didn't seem to turn them on like i was hoping. also the fish seemed to me to be in a pretty hard up post spawn. I was hoping to find some spawning fish in the back of the creeks but they seemed to have moved to the mouths and found some fish stacked up in hydrilla in about 6-12 ft range. froggin ended up being the only thing to draw bites throwing Zoom Horny Toads in tree frog color. they wouldn't take any other frogs or color. I was rolling as slow as possible with the rod tip as high as possible. caught 12 fish. My only keepers were 2-4, 3-1, 2-1. Wrecked about a 6.5-8lber and she wrapped her self hard up against stick-up in the Mat. I had her about 2 feet in front of the boat when she came off the hook. She sat on the surface for about 5 seconds which was enough time for me touch her but not grab her. broke my heart.