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I run A 1860 seaark CC jet with a Yamaha 90/65 and ulterra 80 up front. There is definitely a learning curve. First time I unloaded the boat I ended up backwards on the pier, the only thing worse than the low speed forward handling is anything in reverse. Pretty much a trolling motor party for any low speed stuff. Mine isn't that bad on chop with the mod v hull, but as stated before, it isn't a pleasure cruiser. I was a little worried about the ulterra durability but I've beat the snot out of it and it keeps on ticking. I did add a come along and some sand anchors to my supplies this year as I spent a couple hours waiting for the dam to open and bring up the river last year, shallow sandbars and fog are a bad mix, but I had a rare summer Friday off so it was go time. Overall a great rig for a shallow,stump and rock filled river , wife and kids like being able to go up to no mans land and have huge sandbars all to ourselves as the only other people that can get there are the occasional canoe/kayak.

If they allow scoping they should allow trolling, then you would really see some big bags and Randy crying

I'll pull some flicker shads over the weed edges on the one pothole we fish when the conditions warrant it but to be fair it's 50/50 bass or Walters so I don't feel real bad about it. It's fun with the daughter and nephew as well, they grin like possums when they get hit by a nice bass or pike.

I like it for fishing chunk rock and boulders in the river. Jigs and trigs get hung up , but a 3.5" tube on vmc Tokyo rig comes through great, bouncing over the rocks with the current, and hammers the smallies

Cabela's/Bass pro member Monday stacks with their other sales, if you're a club member a complete livescope plus is basically $1150

That's what I was leaning towards, I already have a helix 12 on the bow, Garmin on the counsel, just thought the mega would be both cheaper and easier to just hook up to the existing helix but I don't want to kick myself down the road either I bought the Garmin, with club member Monday,their sale,and 200 back for club members it was basically $1150, I couldn't pass it up

That's what I was leaning towards, I already have a helix 12 on the bow, Garmin on the counsel, just thought the mega would be both cheaper and easier to just hook up to the existing helix but I don't want to kick myself down the road either

First off I know I don't need it but damned if the advertisement isn't working. I primarily fish a river less than 10 feet deep for most part for smallies and walleyes . I sold off some unused fishing gear which obviously means I have to buy new fishing gear, d**n you bait monkey. Cabela's has the mega live for 900 ish this week and live scope for 1500ish. I have both graphs on the boat, both compatible, is the Garmin worth the extra $. From the videos I've seen the megalive looks pretty solid after the updates. Consensus seems to be that the livwscipe is better, but is it dang near twice the $ better? The price isn't a massive deal but that $600 could go towards mount, battery,etc

Only certain colors/weights are the discounted price, you have to go through one by one and find the sale actual ones on clearance

The stretch was when I spooled with straight invisix, my normal 5’ leader of red on my 832 is about perfect for me.

Ok maybe I shouldn't have named brands, maybe mid priced reel and high end line vs high end reel and mid priced line. But either way I think the line is winning the fight. I use 832 mainline and a seaguar red leader with and Alberto knot on everything spinning and casting and it works nice

Was just reading the thread asking about line and leaders and Glen responded that he would fish tatsu on everything if he could afford it. Here's my question, where's the break even point? Would you rather fish a tatula spooled with tatsu or a zillion with invisx? The cost difference between the two would buy a lot of line. I only fish braid with leaders, tried invisx on my casting setups and thought it was a rubber band, I fish the Wisconsin river sand and snags 90 percent of the time so I like knowing worst case I'm donating a 5'leader, not 30 yards of braid or floro to the river gods

Add a bag of green pumpkin senkos to that setup and you wouldn't be under gunned in any water I fish

It will not be fully banned in the elites , maybe in the BPT to try and make a splash since that tour seems to be gasping for air. NPFL is a fringe league at best , this is like arena football banning tackles below the waist, maybe some people take notice but little to no effect on the “real” NFL the people actually care about. I don’t care either way, but it really is becoming an electronics arms race at this point,

Are they the ones with the little red tabs in a circle around the mechanism? I know on my 4 they didn’t move very far between being on or off. It was night and day when I got mine set , I run them with only one on anymore