Smokinal

get her WPC! There's nothing I'd like to see more than you holding that sow!

But, but...the guys on the show find them every day.

And here I thought the term "tiger trout" was just a punchline.

^^This; Rage craws, Rage chunks for instance.

You can call it "undisclosed" if you want; at least you can in Maine. That's my plan.

lol, I hear ya brother!

Ya, 01's, 02's and 03's. Never a DD that starts with a 1 though.

Odd update: Took the boat out yesterday, it ran great in the morning until early afternoon, then started running awful. Took it out today, ran horrible again right from the start. We fished a few hours, then I said I wanted to try to diag it again. I was going to pull off one wire at a time and run it so I shut it down, took the cowling off, started it back up to run it until it skipped but it ran flawlessly immediatetly after I took the cowling off. I ran it all over the place with the cowl off and it was perfect; put the hood back on and it was still perfect. ??? Which was similar to the first day I tried to diag it. 2 thoughts=air blockage in the cowl. How and where does the air get into the cowl on a black motor? Other thought is what I thought before, something electrical heating up. taking the cowl off gave it enough cool air to stay working properly?? But even after I put it back on it was still perfect up and down the lake. No clue anymore...

I just purchased a plane ticket. I'm on my way. Pick me up at the airport please.

Welcome to the forum! Edit: wizard^^^

Most definitely! You know what they say about the worst day of fishing... It's been a great week so far with the highlight being that my son, a freshman in college, got to come home last Sat through Tues for the long weekend; and this Sat we go up to his school for family day. I'm so proud of him and really enjoy keeping in touch with him, hearing about his classes, his baseball etc... He says the thing he likes best about college is having the gym at his disposal until 11pm. Gee, I wonder where he got that from.

So I'm on vaca this week. Started my week on Sunday, took out the kayak to a new little pond but only caught 2; most of the time was scouting it anyway. Then on Wednesday, my buddy and I took my boat out to western Maine area to fish a lake with a pretty good reputation. I will not repeat that though. We fished 9 hrs and caught 1 bass each. Needless to say I will not be returning to that lake again any time soon. I shouldn't say that, it was a tough day all around. We spoke to 2 guys in Rangers and they they both had a tough day as well. The bite just was not on that day. We had a good dinner, some great beers and stayed in a motel for the night as we had planned on fishing said lake Thursday as well. Well after a couple beers we decided to stay the night there but get up early, drive back to our home lake and fish that today; and it didn't disappoint. Back to the normal 55 between the 2 of us in half the time. Saw a couple of eagles and then saw a moose swimming across the lake. We trolled over near it but I didn't want to stress him out so we stayed back as it got on shore, stood there for a couple of minutes catching his breath then wandered off into the woods. Here's a couple vaca bass

I caught this one a year or 2 ago

Right handed; all left hand crank.

If a boater showed you a brush pile that he sank personally, and no one else knew about it, I wouldn't fish it. But many of his "spots" are probably well known areas and free for the fishing. What are you supposed to do, stay away from every ledge on the lake just because he brought you there before?

Welcome to the forum. Someone correct me if I'm wrong but isn't the primer bulb the only check valve in the system? My guess is still the bulb; maybe a defective one; possibly a crack in the fuel line somewhere letting air in and killing the prime? (did you replace the whole line or just the bulb?) Either way, it doesn't sound normal to me; I don't re-prime my system all day once it's started for the day. Let us know what the final fix was.

Welcome from Maine!

You better pick up one of those BBZ Ratz! You been catching a few carnivores lately.

My coldwater baits are a suspending jerkbait, a blade bait and jigs.

One of the best explanations:

Absolutely! Maybe if I was Dean Rojas and could catch a bass on a frog though the ice, then I'd continue to throw it. But there are just so many other proven producers that work better when water temps fall. Why try to force a bite? I'd rather pound em.

You're tellin me!! When our lakes freeze over hard, my boat sounds completely different on it.

You just gotta wonder what were they thinking?

Nice smallie AJay! I'm pretty pumped for the fall bite and throwin some blades. Im on vacation next week and plan to hunt some toads myself.

What water are you fishing? I was out 1.5 weeks ago and water was 65 degrees so I would expect water to be about 60-61 now. I'd throw a red craw trap, green pumpkin Ned rig, jigs in green pumpkin and blk/blu and bama craw; square bills and spinnerbaits.