ah geeze, now i’ll never be able to sell my 9.9!:). i was hoping to sell it to one of the pontoons–the bad thing is that the regulation enforcement is lax on that lake,mostly due to cutbacks i suppose. There will be many violaters when the big motors go on the pontoons, although it shouldnt reach the craziness of coraville,there are many who just dont understand or worse, care.–the new improvements will sure help erosion,but heavy waves will take a toll on banks still not riprapped. I havent been back out on it since the new structure was placed-been a different part of the country, but i watched them build the structure, it should be a jewel by this time—funny thing-the structure seems to have set up some sort of walleye movement pattern-often times my dad and cronies can now catch walleye off points easily accessed by car–if theres two poles with nightcrawlers(they only fish with daylongdead smelly minnows for catfish) then sometimes they will catch two walleye,its happened several times-my dad has bank fished that lake for 40 years, its never happened before–i admittedly am extrapolating what walleye behavior is here, but it is interesting, and Macbride is now a small but really neat walleye lake-i know a few who hate the fact they lost the bass habitat around the laydowns – they redeveloped a comparative few to what was there, but lost hundreds to the riprap development-i recon in the long run it will be good again as they continue developing bass habitat!
i suppose a making examples out of violators quickly would shut down the “wakemakers”, but folks pay attention to whats going out on that little lake, they know how few enforcement folks are there from year to year due to the scrutiny and exposure by the media-if it passes, i suppose it will be wait and see–also, i wonder, will macbride one day have a slot limit,or lesser limit when all the locals start consistently hammering the walleye with good walleye boats and methods-that is not a critical or the “sky is falling” comment, just wondering
good fishin

thanks for the reply phillip. around here i get no straight answeres from dealers, and i am kind of a marine greenhorn. Now i was almost convinced i had to have a 4 sroke motor for my new 17 crestliner VJon, now i have doubts. I like to troll, i thought a 2 stoke would foul up the plugs in short order. What ever motor i get will be the primary motor, and i expect to be able to troll with it. Id like to save that 2k(2 stroke intstead of 4 stroke) and apply it to the next deep V i a couple years.

what is true here? thanks

!Yeah, i got the word,” handheld” too.

now, what are whiffer maps?

-where can you get “Lakemaps”?

What advantage does Lakemaps have over Hotspots?

great post gianni