gnappi

I dialed in my new bow yesterday shooting at the opposite bank of the freshwater canal at my GF's house. Snakehead and Tilapia beware ?

Thanks, I installed Linux on one of my disused machines and got a changed login notice from the site, that's much appreciated.

Snakehead are good eating, did you try it?

Where snakehead have been introduced I've seen bass (and peacock bass) populations go down radically where they once thrived... small neighborhood canals and lakes connected to them. One day I met a fellow at a fave bass fishing spot who said he went night bow fishing for snakehead there. Coincidentally I had noticed that the bass population was rebounding and I could again see small bass in the shallows... exactly where snakehead inhabit. Hmmm... So I started switching my methods, and more towards larger bass and snakeheads with frog lures. Not only did larger bass respond to the frogs I started catching snakeheads, and places I took snake heads from (and ate, they're quite good) showed small bass in the shallows within a few months of taking the snakeheads. Now with colder (relatively speaking) waters in south Florida snakehead fishing mostly turns off and they stick to the warmer shallow waters, perfect targets for a bow and line. I bought a bow setup for "fishing" in a pawn shop and I'm kitting myself up to take them as well as tilapia and clown knife fish, and I'm waiting for a comprehensive list of invasive species from FWC that may be legally taken by bow. Has anyone else tried bowfishing for invasive species?

Nowadays I target snakeheads and catch a few bass yearly by accident. I "KNOW" that snakeheads supposedly do not out compete bass for resources but everywhere bass were once plentiful few are found. NP snakeheads fight and taste better, there's no catch limit nor size notch anyway.

When I lived in the Catskills I had no problem catching the larger fish on a Rapala with the diving lip broken off. The lure drives them nutso skimming across the water.

I have a CZ SP-01 it's a well built, reliable and accurate firearm, but in my hands my Tanfoglio is a better fit.

Would you please have Rand McNally put all of the dangerous roads on the map? Oh, Google too? Or is that some racist sentiment? I lived in an area with multi million dollar homes, there were two murders and one attempted murder from 100-300 yards from my house. The only dangerous roads are where dangerous people are at that moment. I do not PLAN on meeting them but am prepared in the event I do run into them on a previously NOT dangerous road.

Nope, put one of their pics on a computer screen FULL SIZE and all you get is grain. I have 2 25Mp phones my GF has an apple and all of their pics FULL SIZE look like crap. Try it.

Cell phone cameras are a waste, enlarge them to full size and all you see is grain. They singularly lowered humanities expectations in visual quality. IMO... I have a multi thousand $$ Nikon digital camera rig (which never sees the boat) and the GoPro 3's (I have three on my boat, one on the forward fisherman, one on me, and one on my hat. Two are plugged into a dual 18650 battery bank and will run unattended all day. The one on my hat I keep a spare battery for. I paid something like $45 each (averaged out the prices) and they're absolutely the best investment in fishing I ever made.

When I go out I have 3 gopro hero 3's. Two on a custom made mount, one on my hat. I keep one dual 18650 battery bank attached to the camera mount and the GoPros are good for many hours of shooting if needed only limited by memory card space. To me that's the greatest strength of the Gopro, being able to power them externally and not rely on the internal battery. I monitor them and the one on my hat with the Gopro phone app.

Either your charger or battery is having a problem. A charge of 12.1 volts is barely over half charged. Is it a wet or AGM type? If wet did you check the SG in the individual cells? First maybe try charging your other battery and read the voltages before, during and after charging. After that if the battery comes up to near 12.7 volts (see chart) you know the charger is good. Then take the suspect battery to a local auto parts store and they'll check it for you.

In your initial post you wrote "battery" not batteries and did not specify 24 volts. That's a horse of a different color, and a more expensive one. The link you provided states 12v @ 10 amps. You CANNOT get 10 amps from a 50 watt panel (math doesn't lie), well not in my universe anyway. Even for a 12v system with two batteries what you're looking at is Waayyy too small, plus you're looking at needing a 24 volt system unless you want to charge the batteries individually with a 12 volt setup. Craig's list has many little 12v solar setups for sale from boaters and "off grid" dreamers who realized this too late and blamed the panels for dead (expensive) batteries, not their lack of planning and research. To answer your question... with a solar panel and "charge controller" you go straight to the battery. Going through a battery charger would be a waste of power, size, money and be overly complicated. So you know, a solar controller IS a battery charger. Your main concern I think will be theft of a solar charger, but only you can answer that. At any rate, my charger very portable and is 80 watts (panels bought from a cheap yachtsman upgrading after killing his batteries) for a little 35Ah U1 sized battery and it works fine for that. See the solar panel below. I think it would make a suitable bare bones start and it could be rigged to go portable like mine rather easily. Renogy (@ 12v I use another brand) has lots of larger panels you may want to reach out to them with your location, and battery Ah specs (both very important to know) to see what they can gen up for you. Panel specs and distributor (note optimum operating current): https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VLcAAOSwPn1eL2XF/s-l500.jpg Panel price: www.ebay.com/itm/Renogy-270-Watt-24-Volt-Polycrystalline-Solar-Panel/124062981583

My cables go to the bed tie downs and the boat rear handles have motorcycle tie down straps with winching type tie down straps to secure it. Good for a flat nose Jon, not so good for a deep V. Just bear in mind that all states have overhang limits and if you go beyond them, supplemental lighting and flags are required. There are also max overhang limits where you cannot overhang at all and you need a trailer. My boat is just under four feet overhang and in Florida I do not need lighting or flags. I've considered making up a pair of lights that I can connect to my trailer light coupling just so some texting yahoo can't say they did not see the boat. Anyway: Under the Federal Size Regulations law, the DOT allows trucks to overhang a cargo by: 3 feet in front 4 feet in the rear 4 inches by the sides

If you build a solar charger you lose the cord. I posted this pic in another thread. I built this one and at 80 watts and with a decent amount of sunlight (no problem here in so.Flo) it will keep most batteries charged. If you go up with more modern panels to say 150-200 watt 12 volt panels (WITH a charge controller) unless they get a lot of bird dropping or snow on them, or spend a lot of time without sun you will be just about done. Oh, PS it's not cheap (mine was ~$80 with some used parts) but it will get you where you want to be.