jbmaine

Just ordered a 9". With bass pro rewards I'm in at under $500. Can't beat it.

Thanks, I was thinking of just plugging it in for a few hours once a month or so.

Hi all, I put a new battery charger in my boat this Spring and it never worked right. However it was usable so I kept it for the summer. When I put the boat in storage for the Winter I pulled the charger out and the two battery's ( 24 volt trolling motor) I just picked up a new two bank charger and I was wondering, Can I hook this up to my two battery's to top off the charge periodically even though they are not connected to each other? I would think yes but I thought I'd check and see , Do you think this would work? Thanks Jim

Just saw Sean Connery passed. God speed 007

Don't forget the line! So so rods and reels will still do alright with good line. High end rods and reels will stink with bad line. I have rods and reels from different price points , but they all have really good line on them. This is one thing I won't skimp on.

Yep, me too. They don't call them " the good old days" for nothing

Thanks for the advise everyone. We'll give it a try.

Same here. It's one of my first go to baits!

I've caught bass down to 30+ ft. doing exactly that.

Hi all, We just had an update from windows 10 and now it says we have no speakers? We reset everything we can think of but no joy. No matter how many times we plug and replug the speakers in, the computer can't seem to find them. Can anybody suggest what we can try? Thanks Jim

As always A-Jay, great advise.

Hi all, For the past few years our car was a ford edge. We bought it slightly used ( 2014) with a factory tow package. It was perfect for us. Not too big, towed our 16" lund, no complaints, we loved it. However it was starting to show it's age. Power seats didn't always work, a couple of rust spots, things like that. As our only car we needed dependability, so we looked to upgrade. We looked for a newer used edge with a tow package, but no luck within hours of our location. Then we looked at toyota, honda, pretty much all other brands, but kept going back to the edge. Turns out our dealer offered us so many incentives, we ended up going new. So here we are with a 2020 edge, and for the most part we love it. However some of the changes are hard to get used to. It has advanced safety features? that for the most part I don't get. Lane keeping- you turn it on and the display in the dash shows the profile of your car with green dashed lines on either side. If you wander out of your lane the lines change color to yellow then red and your car shakes the steering wheel and steers the car back into the lane. Impressive!, except if the road is such that the car can't pick up boundaries it just turns off, the lines turn gray, no noise no beep. So you are spend a lot of your time looking down at the dash to see if it's still on. Not a great idea. Pre collision warning/ braking. Our car says we have it. it's turned on, But I can't test it. I've driven at our boat, house, trees , can't get it to activate, so I guess I just trust it works? I can talk to our car, I can tell it to turn the radio on, change channels. Turn the heat or AC on, change the temperature. sounds great right, but apparently I can't tell it to turn anything off. If I tell it to turn the climate control off, it turns it on high, tell it to turn the radio off, it changes channels. Thats kinda dumb! And my favorite. Our car has a power lift gate! we love it. push a button, it opens or closes, stick your foot under the rear bumper, it open or closes, genius However! did I mention we got the factory tow package. Well, guess where the lift gate sensor is. Right by the trailer light plug. I lean over to plug the lights in and it activates the lift gate. So far it has opened and hit me in the face twice, and closed and hit me in the head once. Really, not well thought out . So far as I can tell, a lot of there high tech. gizmos sound great on paper, not so much in real life.

My wife has tendonitis in both hands and arms, so can only use a spincast setup. She is also hearing impaired and blind in one eye, but more often than not she will out fish me just using a swim senko ( that's all she uses). When we are shopping for fishing stuff her big concern worrying we didn't buy enough. I think I lucked out.

Strike King coffee tubes!

I'm a big believer in coffee/ caffeine scented baits, and here's why. First let me say I'm a big coffee drinker, always have been. My wife, on the other hand can't stand the stuff. OK, good, more for me, but it's been kind of a long running joke for us, coffee,vs non coffee. So, some years ago, when Strike King came out with coffee tubes I bought some, as a gag. well, one day we were out fishing and we were marking fish down by the bottom, but couldn't get bit. As a lark I tied on a coffee tube and let it drop to the bottom. Bam, had a fish. Did it again, had another one. Told my wife " must be the coffee tubes!" She gave me a dirty look and tied on another brand of tube, same size, shape and color, just not coffee scented. I kept getting fish, she didn't. Finally, after I was ahead seven to her zip, she gave in and tied on a coffee tube. From then on she caught fish. A least on that one day, coffee scent way out performed everything else. We were fishing side by side, same line, hooks everything. Ever since then, given a choice, I'll tie on a coffee/ caffeine scented bait over anything else.

Don't fish that many baits with treble hooks, but the ones I do, I don't change out the hooks. I might sharpen them, if needed.

Great post. Good for you, spending time with your dad. Mine's been gone nine years now. I'd give anything to have one more trip with him.

Always keep a few in the tackle box. Fished them 60 years ago. Worked then, worked now.

Hi everyone, As some of you may remember, the wife and I had some tough times this year. We both lost our moms this spring, then my wife ruptured the cornea in her right eye, resulting in emergency surgery, and restrictions keeping us off the water for most of the summer. She finally got the OK to be able to go fishing again, and we got a couple of trips in. However, a couple of weeks ago our road ( private road) needed some work, which got delayed half way thru. ( long story, don't ask) so our boat was house bound for best part of two weeks. Well , the road is passable again and we are looking to get back out. I have to say, this is a strange feeling. With all the starts and stops we've had this year, we don't really feel " Connected" to any fishing pattern. Here in Maine fall is starting. It's been down in the 40's and 50's at night , and we've had a drought this summer, so water levels are very low. ( I've heard the water levels in our favorite Smallie lake are so low, I doubt we could get the boat in) As we've been mostly " out of the loop" for a while, any thoughts or tips on what's working would be greatly appreciated. Well, thanks for listening, Here's hoping we'll be having some good fishing trips to report. Jim

Just saw this thread was still going. Just as an update, third season with the ulterra, couldn't be happier.

Count me in!

Had lobster the other day, fresh off the boat, YUMMMMMM

6# Yo-Zuri Hybrid ultra soft for me. That's all I use, Never had a fish break the line.

Lures tied on, rods in the rod locker in the boat.

I would not be surprised to someday see someone pull up to the boat launch, release a fleet of drones, and have them sonar dip across the lake while he gets his boat ready. By the time he hits the water he will have real time info on where to go for the most, largest, fish.