jbmaine

Yep, it was a chain pickerel, I would love to catch a northern, never have.

I don't target pickerel, but they can be fun to catch. If you fish waters that have pickerel, you will catch them from time to time, that's just the way it is. Larger ones put up a good fight. Nothing wrong with that.

To me it's all about waste. Hard to get ticked at someone who kills a fish to eat, when you buy fish to eat at the grocery store. Easy to get ticked at someone who kills a fish just to show it off, then throws it away.

I'll check that out. Thanks

Sounds like a set screw. Is the screw or the hole or both stripped? Please include a pic. It would help in giving you the best advise.

Can you give us a pic of what's stripped? With more info it could be an easy fix.

Ya, it's been a strange summer for sure. Thanks for the input everyone

Yesterday we fished an area about the size of a football field. 7-12 ft. depth, weedy bottom. Weather was very overcast, drizzly. We caught several fish and had more hits and misses. Went thru the same area later in the day and came up with zip. The only difference was by then the sun had come out. I'm assuming the sun had spooked the fish and turned them off. However I'm wondering if in a 3 hr span, could all the fish have vacated that area? Do bass ( LM) move that much in a short time span? Thanks Jim

Thanks, that's just what I needed

Hi all, I have a Garmin echo map chirp 73. Could someone tell an old electronics dummy Exactly! what card thingy I need to make maps/charts with this unit. I read the manual but am still confused. Thanks Jim

They would not leave the spinner bait alone today. Caught fat little dinks up to much better ones.

Bubbles in a lake could be from all the above mentioned...………………………… bubbles from a bath tub...… well that's a different story?

The last SM I caught was on a ned rig in about 25 feet of water. He bent my medium rod over more than I thought it would go, took about 20FT. of line, and when he finally decided to come up, shot out of the water like a rocket. When I got him in the boat he weighted 1.12. Have yet to catch a LM that size that was anywhere near that feisty.

Generally speaking SM fight much better than LM, kind of like sedan VS sports car.

I bet you'll love it. We have a Lund Fury XL and couldn't be happier.

I like a rage tail toad. Keep your rod tip up with a steady retrieve and they will run on the surface, slow down and they will run sub surface. I've caught a lot of fish on them just under the surface and /or stopping and let it sink.

RICHF- Great looking fish. The second picture, the one where you're kneeling. Watch out for that evil looking blue thing at the end of the dock. That's well documented as the fastest spreading invasive species known to man, and bad news to fisherman everywhere.?

thanks, I can understand the fishing maps not being super accurate, but I thought the navigation maps should be.

hi all, I have a garmin echomap chirp and have been noticing inaccuracies in their maps. For example, today I was on a lake and the map showed a couple of islands that just weren't there. At one point it showed me going right thru an island when I was in 10 ft. of water. Anyone else notice anything like this? Thanks Jim

I'm not waiting. Heading out tomorrow. But my kayak is A Lund.

I have limited rod storage in my boat so my rods are mostly " general purpose " rods that can throw different baits acceptably well. I catch fish. That's good enough for me.

nicely done, easy to see the attention to detail.

Can't stand anything around my face but I have a hat with flaps all around my head, neck, lite weight Columbia shirt and pants, and when it's really hot and we want to relax in the shade, a sun top for our boat. best thing we bought for it.

I'm not quite sure how to express this correctly, but here goes. When I was a kid ( 60+ yrs. ago) we had a camp on a lake. My folks gave me an old Zebco rod and reel, put on a worm and bobber, and I was fishing. Loved it from the first moment. I would sit at the end of the dock, staring at that bobber, waiting for the fish to make that bobber bounce. Couldn't be happier. One day a family friend stopped by, came down to the end of the dock, cast out an in line spinner and caught a fish. From that moment on a worm and bobber just didn't cut it. I saved up my money and bought one, then this, and that, and so on. It's been a slippery slope ever since. I'll never be able to afford the best of everything but I have decent stuff. Sometimes I miss the "good old days" when sitting on a dock, with a worm and bobber, satisfied me, but If I did that now I know I'd be bored in no time.

Biggest LM we've ever caught ( 7.1 ) was in mid September on a t- rigged Senko in 6 ft of water.