12poundbass

Trying something different tonight. Miller Light at home lake side!

I’m counting on you to be the guinea pig Brad. Vexus is calling your name too!

The elusive MEGA Live will make it’s debut at the classic and a few pros have them on their boat now.

You’d almost think you’d see some sort of damage on the rail if it were impact.

Yikes!

Practice, practice, and more practice. I tried for years then gave up. Last year I was fishing off my dock, the fish weren’t biting so I decided to practice skipping and I spent the next hour or two trying to skip and that’s all I did. I first got the fundamentals down then I started working on accuracy. One thing that helped was on the follow through slowly lift the rod tip and this is what helps the lure skip further, this is something I still struggle with at times. Another tip is to turn your brakes up, and as your thumb gets the hang of skipping, back it off a little at a time. Mark Zona who’s a great skipper says it’s something you need to continue to do otherwise you’ll get rusty and the muscle memory will go away and you’ll be back to square one. Mark Zona, Andy Montgomery, and Brian Latimore all have good YT videos that help.

Hank was prepping himself for his patrol last night.

What was I thinking letting my boat go with teeniebobers ?

I don’t believe the COVID excuse because they could at least get a couple pros a unit or two to pimp but they haven’t. They’ve ran into issues along the way is the only reason for the silence in my eyes.

I love those two movies.

Finding Nemo

Nightcrawler

Sunrise on the home front. These never get old!

Looks like there’s plenty of room for you in that place. The property taxes are over half of what my house payment is including property taxes. ?

At least you have a Lund....oh wait Que the Beck song. ?

Booyah Pad Crasher and cut one side shorter than the other side. My retrieve, first we’ll start with the cast. I launch that puppy high in the air so when it hits the water the bass know it’s there! Pads I’ll try and hop it here and hop it there, and let it sit in any openings for a bit and give the slightest twitch here and there. Grass mats or over submerged grass, I’ll walk the dog. The other retrieve over grass I’ll have my rod tip at 1 or 2 o’clock and life to 12 or 1 o’clock as I’m slowly reeling making the frog bounce (if you will) creating a nice ripple and drawing attention. I’ll also move my rod to 3 or 4 and drop it to 5 quickly as I reel, basically the opposite as above.

And that’s a reason I have a tin rig that isn’t gigantic. One of my public lakes I fish you have to back your boat down a narrow two track about 300’, only to launch and turn your trolling motor as far backwards as a cable steer will go and back your boat up that way about 100’. It’s a Great Lake with monster bass but most don’t want to deal with the hassle which I’m fine with. Another lake you have to drive down a sandy narrow two track about 1.5 miles to get to the shallow sandy launch. That one gets a few more anglers but not bad. The fishing is ok at best there, so we don’t visit it as much.

One of the many pluses of living on a small private lake, throw in the average age of the people on the lake are 60, and virtually every boat but mine is a pontoon, and you know where I’ll be. ? The rest of the lakes around me have a no wake time from 8pm-11 am so there’s plenty of time to fish if I wanted to venture away from my lake.

My brother had an 18” sub that was in a gigantic box and put it in the back of his Mazda 323. There wasn’t much room for much of anything after that. We just wired it directly to the stereo, no amp. We still thought we were cool. ?

The Trackers are nice but they’re a no go for me too because they’re basically a cookie cutter boat. I have a G3 175 and they’re nice boats and I’m happy with it, but I’m wanting something a bit bigger and the storage is lacking. It gets the jobs done, and it’ll be a few years before I upgrade.

Nice write up. I’ve looked at this boat is on my short list for my next boat, along with the RT188, and a Vexus AVX. edit: forgot to add the Lund Renegade to the short list ?

Ok ok, that one got me.

Huge!