I sold one just like it last year for $150, had it on C’s list and sold it the same day.

Perhaps you could offer to help them out, you seem like an expert in all of this

I did my own on a merc about 3 years ago. Yes it took awhile to do, it took awhile to read all the instructions, but the results are nothing short of phenomenal. I did mine myself for the most part. I had a cable going bad so I thought about it and decided for the work involved in just the cable I might as well live first class. No regrets, easier than power steering on a 76 chevy.

Got mine off of the bay site and saved a ton.

You will like the results.

I have nothing specific for you but I can catch them on most any lake in the last 2 feet of the deep end of the weeds. Not the edge so to speak but just inside that where you still have some weeds.

Crankbaits work well for me on any water I’m not used to. Just run them deep enough to tag the weeds, not get hung in them. You should find fish.

Some lakes it’s a DT10 on others a DT16. Also I’ve done well on a norman DD14. I always start with a firetiger sort of color.

I use a simple 6 place rod holder on the bottom of my locker, berkley type made for use as a horizontal rod rack.

Then I lay another row of rods on top of that row with them more forward so the cork handles ride across the tops of the reels in the bottom row. Then another row on top of those placed in the same fashion.

All of them are in rods socks. Just put the ones you plan to use more or first nearer the top.

My reels don’t touch other reels that way and most look like new.

They could be low just from charging them and should be checked anyway, but your charger would still charge them even if they were a little low. Pull the covers off the top and see with a flashlight if the solution inside is covering the tops of the plates. If you can see something sticking up out of the solution you are low. They say distilled water is best to fill them up with but I have used tap water without any problems.

http://www.idofishing.com/forum/gear/ida_gear.php

I was also wondering if they are still available.

I watched frogs chase down and bite on little tube baits we were casting from shore. I had the kids out fishing for panfish and these frogs came chasing in the tube baits while they were reeling them back to cast again. When my son let one dangle by them 3 of them jumped at it.

You always see something new everytime out, frogs grabbing frogs is a new one on me.

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bernuli’s law i think it is

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bernuli’s law actually refers to the flow of fluid. Ok, Ok… I really didn’t have a clue, but it was easy to find. I think this bernuli fellow lives down the street from me. His “fuild flow” begins on Friday night and ends sometime Sunday, in the summer time….. usually face down in the yard.

Depressions for sure, what they are???? Drop down an aqua-vu and take a look.

Is the interference you are referring to just to the left of the center line? That thicker gray area? The only thing I can tell you based on what I’ve seen on mine is that anything in the way (motor, etc) usually blocks out the SI view of the bottom of the lake, and you appear to have that in great detail.

Very young Northern Pike will have the vertical bars, but I think by that size they look normal. So I’ll say tiger too.

As I’m aging I always wear the life vest and always connect the kill switch. You just can’t be too safe. It only takes one mistake, and it might not be your mistake. There are other boats always on the water and I’d say every time I’m out fishing there’s at least one guy who’s being stupid.

Good video, shows you how fast things can happen. I once didn’t see a wake that a pontoon was making. The sun was just right with the waves and I didn’t know it was there. I crossed well behind it and my boat left the water. I went up half out of the seat. Scared the crap out of me. I landed facing the same direction and level back on the water. I was lucky, this guy wasn’t.

I use a texas rigged craw tube all the time, rarely hang it up in anything. Use a 4/0 or so size gamakatsu EWG hook. Try to rig it so the hook point is flat against the bait. Skin hook the point in deeper and further, but still not on the inside of the tube. Skin it in so the point is covered past the barb. Then peg the weight.

Not sure if you really meant the hook was hanging you up or the worm weight though, but I’ve pitched these in some nasty laydowns and got them right though it. It’s when a fish grabs it down inside of those trees that you’ve got to set hard and pull fast to keep them from burying you in there.

Good luck

I think this is it.

http://www.cookstacklesystems.com

I saw a man and wife, with a dog, doing this in Brainerd a few years back. They pulled the dog in a wagon down the street asking for handouts and for food for the dog. At the end of the day we saw them walking back to a park where they proceeded to climb into a nice motorhome.

Makes you wonder.

Find most all of your answers here. Sign up to be a member. Under photos you will see pictures and comments on mounting.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/sideimaging/

Ok, not to sound totally stupid here… but how do you check the hydraulic fluid level? I got it to go all the way up yesterday and took the plug out of the side and could not find any fluid. It says on the label to check fluid with the motor tilted all the way up. It doesn’t though say anything about where the level should be. I put a skinny screwdiver down inside, about 6 inches, and couldn’t get it to read any either.

I’m interested to hear on this one.

He makes it look easy.

All I have is the small 797c2, but yes they are really good. I’ve found things on a lake I’ve fished for years that I never knew was there. I’ve found big rocks way under the water. Pockets in the weedline that I didn’t know were there. I snapped many pictures from it and saved them all to my computer to look at later. It’s also neat to be able to have the coordinates to go with those pictures.

As soon as I get richer I will get one of the larger units. That might be awhile though.

You might get it from running Belarc advisor.

If that doesn’t do it I’d google the phrase “product key recovery”. You should get some free options there.

Hope that helped a little.

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I like the plastic dippers. I catch one let it slip out of my grasp, look for it, roll it in the sand on floor then step on it. By now I’m light headed from all the bending over. Minnows are a hell of a lot of work. Just buy em dead to start with.

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That’s why I never use them in the summer. I stick with plastics.

Glad to hear I’m not the only one that gets light headed .

First off they are nice fish. But really they only look like they measure around 11″ long when I measure a 2 liter bottle up to the bottom of the cap. I have caught many of that size range. Now you add in the “full of eggs” look and you have what you see.

I’m not trying to take anything away from the fact that they are very nice perch.

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So is Millacs a dirty or clear lake?

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Clearest as I’ve seen.

You beat me to the post. Congrats to Skeet.

Iconelli takes second.

Yes that is a good one.

At the dirt track with my brother-in-law, or the 1/4 mile with my friends super comp dragster. Need that speed fix.

Yep, those smallies will hit ’em hard. I like to fish the fluke type of plastics and when they get going on those and won’t hang on to it the original rapala is the ticket. Just watch out for the hooks!

Prayers continuing. I’ve been through some pretty tough times with our daughter at Minneapolis Childrens and St Paul Childrens. Wonderful people to work with, and she couldn’t be in better hands.