Vilas15

Rust isn't contagious. You're not "introducing rust to the new baits". Keep the water out and you'll be fine.

Why do most new boats I see have black or dark dark grey interiors? It's less of a concern up north here but it still gets hot for a month or two. I can't imagine having black seats and sitting on those after they bake in the sun down south. Are the fabrics something new that dissipates heat well? I can at least understand the look of a black exterior so long as you're up for the maintenance to not let it be covered in water spots, but the full blacked out boats inside and out are wild to me.

They are notorious for not hooking fish well. Not sure any of the knockoff versions have solved the problem but it's a possibility. Cant ever let the pressure off otherwise you're in trouble.

Thats the gill rakers. They'll get you every once in a while and they're easier to avoid on bigger fish with more room in their mouth.

Never heard of that happening with a leader that long. Gotta be the bait choice. Too small and a probably sitting still between jerk/pull/twitches allowing them to line it up perfect and get the whole thing at once. If it's a bait that swings out wide maybe the leader ends up next to the bait instead of out in front of it. Better change something quick before he kills a few more fish. You don't even hear about this happening with live bait and some guys waiting minutes to set the hook (which you shouldn't do).

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.

Maybe I'm a weirdo but I use the remote 100% of the time and sometimes supplement it with the footpedal. Even when going down the shoreline. I set it to a constant speed based on the wind to keep me moving around 0.7 mph. I use the autopilot to keep it pointed in the same direction and make adjustments between casts as needed with the remote clipped on a beltloop. If the wind is really variable I break out the foot pedal but only to make steering adjustments while maintaining constant power. I do operate it from the back deck quite a bit since for a while the only GPS fish finder was at the console.

Cool story. Lucky to had a dad who's able to share the hobby. My dad used to do a "skip day" every few years, I can remember one of a trip to Chicago and going up the Sears tower. "I cast at her 15 or 20 times,” says Stetson. “I was about to give up because I thought the fish was flat out blind." I'm not a fan of bed fishing but to each their own. Wait I'm hearing this was using FFS, not bed fishing. Well like they say you can't force them to bite...🤔 Maybe he's just on the fast track to learning fishing isn't all about catching the biggest or most fish, something it normally takes some people a lifetime of fishing to realize once they've finally gotten pretty good at it.

I've just done a ton of research trying to figure out how to organize my units and ran into this. NMEA will share waypoints but both units need to be turned on. Any waypoint you create you will see pop up on the other unit as well. But they won't be able to share all current saved waypoint created before the link. You'll have to find a way to share those through SD cards or something. NMEA cannot share transducer data or maps, you need ethernet to do that which as you mentioned is not compatible with Ti2.

I'll be on the water in the next few weeks probably catching more pike than anything while technically targeting bass since they've got the open catch and release season. I accidentally caught a 31" last spring. Lake Mendota is unique in that it doesn't get muskies stocked and has no natural population, so pike are the top dog. The pike limit is one over 40" so everything goes back. I've got another trip to Lake of the Woods planned this year as well. Last year the group had a 35" and 36" which was a lot of fun.

I dont care about live bait. I use it, though not for bass, and I dont own FFS. All I know is Lord help us if/when FFS ever becomes cheap enough for the bucket brigade. They dont even need a boat here, they just wait for ice season.