I’ve had my BGE for almost a year now. If I want burgers or brats, I dump some charcoal, light it in a few spots with a mapp torch, and 20 minutes later it’s ready. I can make NY style pizzas at 600 degrees or ribs and brisket at 225. It’s a grill, smoker, and coal fired oven all in one. There is nothing that I used to make inside that I don’t think that would be awesome outside on coal and wood. I used it 1-2x per week winter this year despite the cold we had. Well worth the price to me.

The switch happens at the time you install the Y-cable. From that point forward your 2D sonar will come from your glassed in ‘ducer and your SI will come from the SI ‘ducer. It’s too bad the unit can’t be smart enough to switch 2D from one to the other based on GPS speed, but that’s not how it works.

Are you referring to one of the small gel cell batteries in the area of 7ah?

Your 858C uses way more juice than a grayscale Piranhamax. I would guess you’ll get in the range of 15-20 hours.

Thanks everyone for the suggestions, and to rod-man for the generous offer.

I stopped by Joe’s today on lunch break and the kids are now soon to be proud owners of a Spiderman and Barbie combo. I can’t wait to get home, take the hooks off a couple of old rapalas and tie them on, and give the new rod and reel to the kids.

Thanks Pat, maybe you are right. Snoopy is a classic first combo… and for good reason.

Plano boxes. Wrap a rubber band around the hooks on each crankbait. You can stuff a box to the gills and never deal with tangled hooks.

I fished it on opener this year and zero’ed. The theory was like you said, the earlier the better, and the cold opener would present a unique opportunity. It didn’t work out so well. Oh well I’ll try again sometime.

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No expert but this time of the year they aren’t on the banks but probably suspended in deep water. There are always some while trolling for walleye. If you find humps, sunken islands in deeper water you may have luck there. I don’t target them much now until fall

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I troll crankbaits almost exclusively when I fish the Croix, and I don’t remember the last time I’ve caught a smallie. Definitely not this year.

I do however catch all sorts of rough fish when I try rigging crawlers, smallies included

I also use this trick to get my line counters perfectly calibrated.

Take an empty LC reel, reel on your desired leader length, then your desired mainline (or leadcore) length, and then reel on backing until it looks full. Test 100 feet against 100 feet on a tape measure. With leadcore I actually like to see more like 97 feet on the counter against 100 tape feet to compensate for the fact that my backing is smaller diameter than my LC line. Use the drill to spool onto empty spool #1, then onto empty spool #2, then reel back onto the LC reel. You now have a perfectly calibrated reel.

Pain in the [censored]? Sort of, but I think it’s worth it.

Living in Mounds View this stretch of the Mississippi has some appeal to me because it’s so close, but I’ve always stayed away thinking I don’t have the right kind of boat. I run a 17′ aluminum v-hull. I do have the 101 Terrova so do have some decent electric power. I’ve though about putting in at 694 and just driving around with the electric to get comfortable with the area. Is that a misguided plan or should I be able to navigate fine with the 101 in that area?

It’s a sad story I heard the perps had a dysfunctional home life

Li-on batteries do not have a memory. I would expect a 3-5 year life no matter what you do. Don’t worry about it.

I thought a public launch was supposed to be in the mitigation package required to ignore the NPS and build the bridge against their recommendation.

Yep, found some info here. Anyone know what to make of the info on page 10?
http://www.dot.state.mn.us/stcroixcrossing/pdf/stcroixannualreport2013.pdf

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I have T-Mobile, I missed it. What happened ?

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Instead of hiding the true cost of the phone by subsidizing the phone cost with the rate plan, they’re separating out the rate costs from the phone costs. You can pay for the phone in installments or all upfront. There is otherwise no contract. You can cancel at anytime, but if your phone isn’t paid off then you still owe the remaining cost.

They’re also getting the iPhone.

The previous posts seem to knock this change, but I don’t understand why. The plans will be cheaper because of this because they aren’t subsidizing the cost of the phone.

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Sounds like the company I work for,its called COST CUTTING in big bussiness,sell your assets and combine to better serve the customer I mean
Ceo and board of directors salaries and bonus compensation .

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I’m thinking you may have nailed it.

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Exactly, and this is private equity. They’re notorious for this sort of thing. Take a dying/transforming business like TV, get the assets for dirt cheap, cut costs to nothing, juice the remaining revenue, profit, and move on.

Is there a reason besides price that you are looking at a 14-16 foot canoe? That’s definitely on the short end of the scale. I would consider 17′ minimum especially since you say that you want something stable and might have a third person.

If it were me with your requirements, I’d be looking used. A used Old Town or any aluminum can be had in that price range. They’re heavy, stable, and can take a beating. You might find that the seats could use some repair/replacement but I think you’ll find that you get something that fits your parameters much better than the ones you’re seeing at the sporting goods store.

Afterthought: For a trolling motor get a bracket instead of the square stern. You don’t want the trolling motor directly behind you. You’ll have much less fatigue/strain if it is offset to the side which is what the brackets do.

Don’t let it get to you Jesse. I hope the BS doesn’t stop you from continuing to run the league. I’ve had a lot of fun trying to fish up against much better anglers than I in your league. It’s too bad that if you try to do something for people there will always be that one person who finds a reason to complain.

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I have learned in life that some people will never be pleased no matter what they receive, but people who appreciate what they receive will always be greatful no matter how small or large the gift.

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No doubt. True story – my work has had donut Wednesday for as long as I’ve been here which is 13 years. Two offices recently converged into a new location. On the first donut Wednesday they sent an email to everyone saying where we could find the donuts in the new lunch room. Facilities got so many complaints by people that facilities killed donut day, something about sending the wrong message by having a fitness center and a donut day. What’s wrong with people?

Isn’t ML a good naturally reproducing lake because it has the right environment for the eggs to hatch and grow? I fail to see how removing them from the lake before the females drop them improves much of anything. Then again what do I know?

The Fulton one has worked for me on a 17′ aluminum boat. If I had a larger rig I’d proabably have crystal welding do it. They do their own after having problems with warping on the kit ones.

I’ve made the same repair on an iPhone. An iPad can’t be much different? I checked where I bought the replacement glass from and they charge $109 for a replacement iPad glass only (not including install). I’d say $150 all in seems reasonable. You don’t mention how old it is and how much warranty remains.

Thanks guys, I didn’t realize that they finally released an iOS version now too. Going to download now.

Sometimes I wish there was a “+1”, “like”, “karma”, etc. button on this site because that post by BrettG was darn insightful. Count me in as a p2 newb, fished there close to a dozen times now over the last couple of years.

Some of us don’t get out on the water much because life gets in the way. We like to hear about the latest tactics, what’s working and where. And we especially like to live vicariously through you guys posting those big fish pictures. Keep ’em coming please.

Google “pool 2 telemetry study”. This contains some solid info that should help get you started.

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Download this REEL FILL CALCULATOR.
The location is on the right side of the listed website just below the advertisements. Easy to use and very helpful.
Web Page Here.

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I haven’t found that calculator to be very accurate. Not saying the math is wrong, just that real life is different than a spreadsheet for whatever reason.

Joel’s technique is the only way I’ve found to accurately fill a line counter. By using this technique all of mine are accurate to the foot with 100 ft. of line out. You don’t even need two reels, you can get creative with a couple of empty line filling spools and a cordless drill.

Sorry for the outcome Wes. Glad you got some closure.

Last year my wife lost her credit card and whoever found it used it at a gas station to steal $100 in gas. I called the PD, told them where and the exact time the prior night. I said maybe you guys should call and see if they have videos on the pumps and you could get a plate #. Their response – maybe you could do that for us

I just drove by the Walker public launch on Leech at 7:30pm. The DNR employees were just getting ready to leave with their decontam trailer in tow. 2 rigs in the parking lot and with wind gusting 20-25 all day I’m thinking these guys had little to do today.

Are you staying at Loon Point there? I stayed there for many consecutive years growing up back when it was known as Kenadian Acres. We caught mostly bass and pike and from what I remember action was fairly steady. I don’t recall any trophy pike. Fishing from a canoe and no depth finder we’d mostly fish shoreline structure with crankbaits and spinnerbaits. If you have kids there was no shortage of sunfish to be caught from the docks. We used to fish an unnamed lake nearby, more like a pond, that an old timer that lived there let us launch our canoes from his property on. It was a great bass pond both for size and numbers. Ahhh memories… Good luck!

Is there a cisco forage in the lakes you’re looking at? They can be hard to find but sutton spoons are legendary for being good for trout and salmon. They’re paper thin flutter spoons. Here’s a size 31 next to a cisco one of its victims coughed up in the canoe.