Hey Andrew, here’s another vote for a topper. My current truck has what I consider the best setup for me. I have an ARE fiberglass topper with the flip up side windows that allow me to reach everything in the truck. Last year I added a Decked system, and it works awesome with the kennels, and now all the hunting gear that used to go in the back of the truck in totes or duffel bags goes into the drawer system. The Decked has tie downs, and I push the kennels all the way to the back to create lots of space and tie them down. It also raises everything up a foot or so, making it lots easier to get at everything through the windows.

I believe it doesn’t matter as long as both are the same size. The water overflow tube is just a piece of PVC pipe with one end shaved down so it fits in the drain hole. The other hole is for the drain plug. Both holes drain to the same place, so at least on the 1900 ProV I once had, they are interchangeable.

Independence, MN, but we get around to other parts of the state quite a bit, and they’d also ship UPS for $5-6 bucks probably.

$40 takes them all.

How about $50 for everything.

Can someone use these? Is my price too high? Seems very reasonable to me.

Thank you!

Grab a volt meter and check voltage at low and high speed. That will tell you a lot. Is your battery going dead on you ever?

Here are the bibs.

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Let’s try them at $125.

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Still available.

Here’s a picture.

I used to fish a small lake that had a really well defined weedline at 10 feet. If you could get your cranks right on that edge near bottom it was game on. After much experimentation I found that Shallow Shad Raps or standard floating minnow raps on an 8 foot leader behind a 2 ounce bottom bouncer allowed me to get the baits right down there and close enough behind the boat that they would hug the weedline was the ticket for that situation.

I use a couple of the same reels and don’t really have any specific tips for you. I love using them for crappies in the 20-30 foot range. I use 2 pound clear line on mine and tie my 4mm tungsten glow jigs on using a loop knot so they always hang horizontal in the water and I don’t have to adjust the knot after each fish. When I’m a good school of fish and they’re aggressive I’ve been switching to a small glow Slab Rap and it seems to help me pick off the bigger fish in the school and avoid the small ones. No bait on either setup, just a glow plastic in red or charteruse on the jig and fish the Slab Rap bare. Good luck!

Call and talk to Gail and Steve at Witch Bay Camp. http://www.witchbay.com

They’re on a very secluded part of Lake of the Woods, and great fishing is very close to camp.

Thanks for all the great advice, as usual, guys. I think I’m all set. I picked up 30 lbs of picnic trim from my local butcher today, enough to make a good dent in the bags of trim we have in the freezer and then weigh out the rest from there.

My venison trimmings are all cleaned up, no silverskin, no fat.

I PM’ed you an offer.

Clearly an advertisement for the handwarmers.

Not sure where you live, but I am west metro, if you wanted to come over I have some to spare.

A couple thoughts on line spin. Back in the 80’s and 90’s when I was learning how to get better at catching walleyes, the conventional wisdom on crawler rigs was that you needed to keep your crawler perfectly straight on your hooks to prevent it from spinning through the water. The thought was that this turned off the walleyes. Fast forward 10 years or so and we had slow death hooks and all kinds of different rigs designed to MAKE the crawler spin through the water. I think it’s another case of you never know what the fish want on a given day. I’ve spent time fishing 3 and 4mm tungsten jigs through the ice for panfish, one on an an inline and one on a spinning reel. Some days the fish hit both equally well, some days they show a preference for one or the other. That said, I reach for my noodle rod with a Free Fall inline reel more often than not. The bigger spool on an inline also causes less of a “slinky” effect in my line and I feel my hookup ratio goes up on light bites.

I started using an impact screwdriver like this one and haven’t had one strip out since.

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I just bought 6 boxes of them directly from Remington and got them in 8 days. They weren’t cheap, but I have enough for a few target shots and a of couple deer for the next 3-4 years or so.

https://www.remington.com/shotshell/accutip-sabot-slug/

Hey James, I lived in Denver for 7 years in the Air Force, and we used to go antelope hunting every year up in the Shirley Basin near Medicine Bow WY. Anyway, they were thick up there in those days and doe tags were $20 each over the counter. We’d sometimes get our bucks and 2-3 does each to bring home. The meat was excellent, best wild game I’ve ever had, as you said, provided we got them cooled down really quickly. Our routine was to skin and quarter them immediately and get them on a bed of ice in coolers with the plugs pulled so they didn’t sit in water. Good luck!

That’s an awesome idea, ThunderLund, thanks!

Same here, I’ve had a Stealth DC in my last three boats and they are awesome. On days where I make longer runs with the big motor, my trolling batteries are fully charged when I get back to the dock each night.

Wow, for that kind of money it wouldn’t take long for a dedicated new well for irrigation to pay for itself!

That doesn’t seem out of line to me. How many zones are they designing for?

What kind of a machine do you have? What’s it doing when you try to load a double?