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I went this morning for the first time and had poor luck. Caught a small LMB in grass on the SW side but no bites anywhere along the dam or the inlet to the plant.

Over the weekend I picked up a 4lb pond mama on a chatterbait, and a 6lb cat on a spinnerbait.

Hi all, my wife and I live in KC and want to spend a weekend trout fishing for our upcoming anniversary. We've never fished for trout before, but we've read about Bennett Springs, Roaring River and Meramec. We're unsure where to start. I'm hoping to get some recommendations from the folks on this forum: Which park (or other location) would provide an easy starting point for two beginners? Do you have any recommendations for hotels/air bnbs? What gear should we be taking? We have 5' and 6'6 ULs - what lures should we be using? Thanks for any advice you can provide!

Looking at BFS reels on Tackle Warehouse, they almost all only offer gear ratios around 8:1, which all have around 28-32 ipt. Why is that? Do smaller moving baits not suffer from higher ipt?

Man, I'm embarrassed to ask this question but: What does it mean for a lake to be hard to figure out? Is that just where the fish are and what do they bite?

Great to know I don't need the joco permit for Olathe or Black Hoof! Thanks!

Hi Bluebasser86, resurrecting a 10-year old thread here: Do you still make it out to Jacomo? I'm out in Grandview, and I'm trying to decide if I want to buy a $30 resident boating permit for Jackson county or shell out $127 to be able to kayak fish the Johnson county lakes as a non-resident. I've had great luck at SML, Black Hoof and Olathe in the past, but I kind of want to save some money this year and try out the local MO lakes.

Great insight, thank you!

I'm looking for my first jerkbait rod but am having trouble finding something appropriate for my height. I'm 5'7" and mostly fish from a standing kayak or bank, neither of which give me significant clearance over the water. In my searching, it seems the vast majority of jerkbait-specific rods are 6'8" or longer, but I feel like I should be targeting something 6'3" or shorter. Can any bank-fishing short fellas weigh in here? Have you comfortably gotten away with a longer rod?

This was it! I had the black cables hooked up to the black contacts, and red cables hooked to the red contacts on the battery. When I swapped it so that it was black-red, black-red it suddenly worked! I'm confused because I had thought you always connect the same colors, but clearly not with this battery ? Thanks for the advice!

Great question - there's nothing connected except the power cable for the fishfinder. I called Garmin support and they think it's the cradle or power cable, so are shipping out new ones. I'll update this thread of that resolves the issue.

I checked the battery and cables - it's all red and red and black on black, which I think means the polarity is correct? Anywhere else I should check?

Would that just be at the battery, as in positive and negative switched?

I'm struggling to figure out why I can't power on my fishfinder, and I'm hoping the sharper and more experienced minds of this forum can help me make traction. Here's the situation: I recently purchased a Garmin Echomap UHD 93sv with GT54UHD transducer. I also purchased an Amped Outdoors 15Ah LiFePO4 battery to power it. My multi-meter is reading 14.5V at the battery, at the end of the power cable, and at the pins of the fishfinder cradle. The headunit needs 12V to power on, so I can confirm I'm getting enough power to the cradle. When I plug the head unit into the cradle, even though the cradle is getting 14.5V, it will not power on. This seemed like the issue would be a bad headunit or cradle. I took the headunit and cradle to Scheels to test on their power and confirm. I plugged the headunit and cradle into a demo station and the headunit powered on as soon as I hit the on button. So I'm at a loss. The issue clearly isn't the cradle or headunit, since it turned on at the store. So it must be my wiring setup, or my batter, right? But I'm reading 14.5V from the battery all the way to the cradle. Any help would be greatly appreciated!

These posts were very helpful, thank you everyone!