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TBendBassin How do you register to be a Marshall? I have an elite series event coming to my home lake and would like to try it.

There was a long thread on rain suits a few weeks ago and it seemed that the general consensus was that the Cabela's Guide Wear was the way to go. Of course I read the thread a few days after I bought a top of the line Gander Mountain suit.

Take a look at the Welaka Lodge, www.welakalodge.com. It is right on the the Saint John's River, just north of Lake George and just across from the lock into Rodman. The place is great with plenty of room to park your boat by the cabin you rent or keep it in the water if you like. You will have to launch at the town ramp (about a half mile away). There is a great restaurant in town and the lodge owners are great. When to come. Right now! We are having about ten days of perfect weather--50 at night and 70s' during the day. The spawn may happen on this next moon. Fish are turning on everywhere.

It's great to see guys addressing the well being of the fish. Back when Ray Scott was doing the captains meetings before his tournaments he talked about tossing a fish into the bottom of the boat for your partner to put into the live well. He said, "If you do that you just killed the fish, maybe not right away but you killed it." Every time I see somebody swing a fish into the boat, like has become the style lately, I think of how Ray is reacting to that.

Could somebody give me a quicik rundown on attaching a photo to a reply to a thread. I saw an explanation once but can't locate it now. I tried to copy and paste with no success.

Could somebody give me a quicik rundown on attaching a photo to a reply to a thread. I saw an explanation once but can't locate it now. I tried to copy and paste with no success.

Could somebody give me a quicik rundown on attaching a photo to a reply to a thread. I saw an explanation once but can't locate it now. I tried to copy and paste with no success.

The Wife and I are going to be at a relatives between Christmas and New Years in Belle Isle and plan to try the Conway Chain again; didn't do to well last time. Anybody have any advice on how to fish that chain? What do the fish tend to do during weather changes? Any particular lake the best? Thanks in advance

I use the folder type organizer also. I tear the description and color off each bait when I open the package and place it in the pouch with the bait. Every Time I need to replace a bait or lose one I can easily identify it. I would prefer a box like the falcon box but I haven't found a good way to label the baits in it yet.

I have a 2009 EZ Loader Trailer (bought new with a Skeeter 20i) and I am having a little light problem I can't figure out. It is my first trailer with LED lights and my turn signal and brake light on one side has stopped working. The light has numerous LED lights, with the four center lights being the full time tail lights. When I have my lights on, those four lights on the opposite light are lit but only two of them on the light with no signal or brake function. I checked all my connections today and sprayed them real well but no help. Has any body out there had a similar problem or have any ideas what direction I should go next? Thanks in advance.

I am going to drive through the area on Sunday 11/21 and want to check out a good fishing resort/camp for next spring. Anybody have any suggestions. I found the state park that is on Hwy 227 south of Huntsville but wanted to see if anybody had any other suggestions. Thanks in advance

I was out in Chickasha the last few days visiting a buddy and he took us down to a national preserve near Lawton. I saw a couple of lakes that looked interesting; one even had some signs about small mouth and creel limits. Anyone in on the forum know much about the area? I may drag the boat out there next spring.

Last year I tried a product that is supposed to rejuvenate the waterproof qualities of rain gear. I have an old gore-tex suit that I leave in my boat full time. Like someone said nothing is 100% waterproof but I have found that using this product helps tremendously. I think I got it a BPS and I am traveling right now so I don't have the product name. You wash your gear in the washing machine with it and let drip dry and it improves the waterproof qualities a lot. It worked so well on the old emergency suit that I tried it on my new suit as well. Worked great.

You are fishing the lake I am talking about. Those rock pit lakes are south of the main lake in Saga Bay, closer to the high school. When I fished it from my back yard I would see little tarpon cruise by from time to time and on occasion muttons. I never got a bite from any of them though. I don't know what the lake is like now, but when the peacocks started showing up it seemed like the bait started becoming more and more scarce and the largemouth declined. About a year before Andrew some guys started fishing shiners and kept the largemouth they caught; that seemed to hurt the fishing also. If you go to the back side of the lake on the far east side of the development you will see a pumping station and a culvert that leads to a ditch like canal that goes to the bay. When Andrew hit the road back there was washed out and the entire neighborhood was under about four feet of saltwater for a day after the storm. I don't know how that changed things, never fished the lake again, but I am sure it changed it forever.

The lake off Old Cutler Road is in Saga Bay. Keep in mind that was just before Andrew when I was fishing the lake but I can't imagine it has changed much. There is a five acre park on the north side of the lake where you can fish with a couple of other access points around the lake. Technically you can walk behind any of the houses and fish but I don't know if you will get grief from some of the owners. We lived on the lake on the west end of the five acre park. After Andrew we had all sorts of dead fish in our pool that must of come from the bay--I saw a small cuda and some mangrove snappers. Our house was completely destroyed so we moved, but I bet the lake is still good, maybe better after all these years. If you happen to have a jon boat with a depth finder you should be able to drag it to the lake from the park and you will find parts of the lake around 70' and an old dump truck on the bottom on the southwest side of the lake. Good luck.

Hey SoFL-native Nice post! That is an interesting bag of fish. The jack really surprised me; I never knew they would work their way that far in. Before Andrew we lived off Old Cutler Road on a lake that only had a culvert that connected to a canal to the bay. We had peacocks, large mouths, tarpon, walking catfish, and believe it or not muttons in there, but I never saw any jacks. I have wanted to fish the blue lagoon area for a long time but I don't know where to launch. Do you mind sharing how to get in there? My wife has an office on the western most lake of that area and we have to go down there from time to time.

Thanks Lee My Skeeter 20i is less than a year old but I hate the boat mostly because of service issues. I have a couple of minor issues that the dealer has been unable to fix because of lack of support from the factory and I have been unable to get Skeeter Boats to return a single phone call in the year that I have owned the boat. I fish all over the country and I am just not going to advertise for Skeeter if they treat their customers like that so I will probably get a Stratos when Holiday Marine brings the line on.

Are we targets or what? Did anybody notice the adds in the left column for every kind of lotion, exercise or snake oil for tennis elbow? Just blows me away.

Lee That's kinda what I was thinking, but I have a buddy that has a tournament there next week and I promised I would pre-fish East Lake with him tomorrow. Oh well at least I will get to see the lake, I've never been over there. Bob P.S. How are you liking your Stratos? I want to get rid of my Skeeter and Holiday Marine up here in Leesburg is picking up Stratos and it is a possibility.

I am going to fish East Lake on Saturday for the first time. Anybody fished it recently and don't mind sharing a report or maybe a guess as to what might be worth trying this time of year? I'm thinking with this front that is coming through tonight and the wind they are predicting for the next few days it is going to be a challenge.

Way2slow Thanks for all your valuable input.

Way2Slow Thanks for your input. I had to leave my boat in my sister's barn for a few months during construction on a new house, hence I could not leave the charger connected. The batteries seem fine now, the only deficiency is the minor drop in specific gravity. I have a question about leaving the caps on during the charging process. For around forty years I have been told that the possibility of a minor explosion could spew battery acid all over the place. Has that philosophy changed? Also, when I was a kid I worked for a guy that rebuilt batteries and sold them as reconditioned/used batteries. We would charge the battery after changing a dead cell and add acid after charging to raise the specific gravity. That was back in the early 60s'. It seemed to work well but it was on auto batteries. Is that technique a bad thing for a deep cycle? Thanks for your input

I think I have seen threads on this topic but I can't get a search to turn up anything now. I want to get some opinions on battery maintenance from viewers. I am running a 24V system with Exide Nautilus Gold NG 27 batteries, a Minn Kota MK 345 charger and a Minn Kota Fortrex trolling motor. My batteries are about 14 months old and I have no complaints. I typically charge my batteries after each trip and if the time before the next trip is lengthy (two weeks or more) I will charge them the night before the trip. I pop the battery covers during charging and to date have only added distilled water when necessary. Recently it takes a bit longer to charge and I have noticed that my specific gravity on the acid is in the fair range, not the good range. My questions are: Any of you out there add battery acid during charging to raise the specific gravity and are there things that you do differently to maintain your batteries?

This thread has really gotten involved. I recently came back to bass fishing from offshore and flats fishing due to retirement and a move. You don't cast that much in salt water and for the first few weeks back on the trolling motor I had aches that I could never explain in the scope of this post. It seems the pain started in my fingers and translated to the bottoms of my feet. I don't use a seat and standing up there all day like a flamingo running the trolling motor takes it's toll. The hands hurt the most, followed by the forearms and then the shoulders. I can't remember who it was but I was watching a video and one of the pros said you have to learn to cast with two hands to spread the work out to take the pressure off joints etc. I am a mad man when it comes to casting, typically casting two or more times more than most people I fish with; I don't fish fast I just feel you can't catch anything if your line is not wet. I began trying the two hand technique that I see so many of the pros using, mostly to relieve the pain. Soon it became a game to see how accurate I could be and from how many different angles I could cast, while attempting to get into impossible spots without getting hung up. The technique has produced many benefits. I don't think much about casts anymore; it seems that my body and the rod just work together and choose the angle for any particular cast I need to make, I can cast fairly accurately from either side of the plate and most of all I don't hurt as much after a day of fishing. My distance has improved with little or no effort.

Does anyone have a link for Glenn's fitness video?