Vilas15

If you end up over in Vilas county I could help you out with some info. We fish a 16.5' Lund as well and it's perfect size for those lakes. I also went to ISU but for grad school.

Too light. I use 15 lb 832 on spinning reels but won't go less than 30 lb on baitcasters. I dont need the strength of 30 but the 15's just too thin and has the problem you describe.

Something about LVD... Jeff Van Remortel guides up there. I can only guess this one came from there. I've caught one natural tiger that was only 28" I believe.

Knocked our skeg clean off on a reef in canada 2 weeks ago. Insurance is paying for a new lower unit. Wish I lost a side plate instead!

I have heard parking it overnight with a cover is worse than uncovered because they can slip underneath and grab all your electronics and gear without anyone noticing. Park near lights and if you use a cover maybe get some sort of motion alarm to put underneath as well.

3 spinning, 2 baitcasters. 1 for panfish/trout. 2 for musky. So 8 total. I haven't bought any in a while and think I'm set unless I break one.

Only had to learn this lesson 3 times. Now I'm a little more intentional with my morning routine before going out on the boat. Worth getting on the water a few minutes later instead of getting a bait in the water only to put the rods away and run back to the dock or nearest undeveloped shoreline.

Hows your tire pressure?

1. Bed fishing 2. FFS 3. Snags because I fish a lot of rock 4. Wake boats 5. Tournaments (or even more so non competitive anglers) that load up there 5 biggest bass during spawning to drive them around all day for a photo at the launch before releasing them in one spot miles from where they picked them up

I've got a new style for my mower that you click a button, then tip it upside down and push down to fill like a racecar pitstop. Then when you lift it up the nozzle closes automatically. Maybe not ideal for every situation but it works great.

What kind? I'm not familiar with the different species enough to know whether they're all good for eating or not. I'm sure somebody here's got a good recipe.

Same. Not with White River's history with welded aluminum hulls. Rivets leak and the fix is replace the rivets. Welded hulls crack and the solution is replace the whole boat. Thickness is 0.125 which matches the ranger deep Vs. The ranger mod Vs are 0.1 as far as I can tell.

Fellow 2005 ranger fish n ski owner here but mines a 1850 with a 150. I'm going through replacing the torsion axle right now since it's wore out and rubs one of the tires on the fender. Something to watch out for if you don't sell it any time soon. The 1850 deep V brings a little more cash from the northern crowd than the bass hull and they go for mid to high 20s from what I've seen for the mid 2000s VS models. Your price seems appropriate to me. How much attention or how many inquiries you get will tell you how it's priced.

They'll say the same thing about OH Ivie of the 2020s in 20 years so get on out there

Can't use rangefinders on the PGA tour to get probably the most important information a golfer needs. This sport involves animals and fair chase needs to be considered. You can't hunt with a drone. Those provide real-time feedback on the exact location of the prey from a distance, sound familiar? No previous iteration of fish finders meets that standard. Traditional sonar requires you to be directly over them to see them, and side scan let's you see them once and you've got to go back to the spot or fire a cast knowing where they were at that instant, but not once they've moved. It improves the ability to catch fish. That is detrimental to the population either through increased harvest, or much less so in the case of catch and release due to increased accidental mortality. This is a big topic in musky fishing since they're not as hardy and vulnerable to delayed mortality. They're lowering panfish bag limits around here. Since the guides and guys with FFS clean up, the average guy who doesn't catch a limit nearly as often can't keep as many when he finally gets it right when the stars align.