Keitech easy shiners are the bomb. Paired with outkast tackles goldeneye jigs. They actually sell all jig wieght sizes in differant hook sizes. And not the big thick shank hooks. Lighter hooks that penetrate well. For example can get a 1/8 ounce in a 1/0 hook or a 5/0 depending on the size of the swimbait.
For the most part if you have a wide enough gap jig head or hook the stinger wouldn’t be needed. Especially if your fishing the river for the pigs.
But I’ve seen them be beneficial on some Shy lake walleyes.
I’ve done well with chubs big ones even rigged on a vmc livebait hammerhead jig with a treble stinger. Lip hooked on the jig and run the stinger to the dorsal fin.
Vertical jigged are night pounding bottom has worked well on eyes for me.
Even chubs up to like 9”-10” this rig works. We slow troll them down this way to making sure to make slight bottom contact every now and then.
<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>boone wrote:</div>
Most experienced, die-hards will go out until the authorities barricade off the ramps.then sometimes we drive around the barricades and get yelled at by the cops when we return to the landing.
Good luck Josh – great advice from Boone there!
Or even sometimes float the Boat right over the
Top of barricades 😉
Pretty sure that’s a mooneye. Shad don’t get that big.
Catch them on cranks every once in awhile on P2.
Although this is a mooneye not a Shad but Shad do get that big and bigger. Biggest I’ve gotten is 18”
Did you change snapshots setting to save on sd card?
Is the sd card under 32mb? That’s all that’s allowed. Anything larger and it won’t work as well
Yeah rivers been low in elk river. and fishing has been not as good as years past. I grew up fishing this stretch daily.
I have caught them on pool 2 on topwater. Mostly whopper ploppers and walk the dog baits find the rocks and with slack current near them and get it as close to shore as possible. They are smaller then what I’m used to on the upper Mississippi and streams/small rivers flowing into it.
There’s some very small rivers/creeks that flow into the sippi that very big smallies will stack in, and be willing to hit topwater like a peacock bass would.
I have a 1700 Lund!tyee with a 115 and that’s the max hp rating of the boat and wish I had a bigger motor after adding all the batteries and eleceltonics
Will you be able to have both transducers visible on the same screen? In my knowledge of running a net work, you have to select which 1 transducer you want the network to read from. That tells me that you would not be able to see the transducer on the right side of the motor simultaneously with the transducer on the left side of the motor. You would continuously have to go into your menu and change transducer.
This is in reply to running 2 transducers and a y splitter
Yes the y cable allows you to see them both on 1 screen.
I like my mega si humminbird, but the transducer was so large I had to install a jack plate to move the lower unit back far enough to not cause an obstruction. Now I don’t have to trimmed the motor up to have both sides working.
You could install a second mega si ducer on the opposite side of the motor for this reason, they sell Y splitter cable to run both for each side. Then you won’t have to trim up to see past the motor. I have a second ducer I got on sale at Cabelas for 200$ and the splitter cable for 20$. Just haven’t gotten around to installing the second ducer.
The bigger ram mount holds mine just fine and I trailer it a hour each way multiple times a week
Get a mega si. Live sight was kind of a flop from what I’ve heard
Hopefully there’s no people in either of those vehicles.
There’s some questionable stuff by them
Vehicles. There may be? Tough to say.
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It appears the vehicle rolled down the 4ft drop off. Can see the slide marks in the sand. And looks like the roof is kinda caved in.
Mike, you don’t even know how many good fishing trips I can attribute to this unit. Just last saturday scanning seeing only giants pods of carp on p2 until a school popped out at me that I thought were big walleye. Well they were and we pecked them off pitching.
My guess is it’s a Subaru truck thingy 
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1st pic shows the vehicle that’s straight out from the launch. Looks rolled over.
3rdpic shows that same vehicle with the log next to it on the right of the pic. To the left approximately 60-70ft is another vehicle.
2nd pic shows something I seen upriver a few miles. Appears to be.. I think a body but not 100% certain. Didn’t hit screenshot fast enough to have the possible 2 legs as well.
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Nope. My guess is stolen. You could tell they drove it straight down the ramp. The other ones a little further out and may be difficult to get out. I’ll post them pics when I get home from work tonight. Got caught up with some stuff last night
Did alright yesterday. 13 fish with a 29” and 27” being the biggest.
There’s a new feature in the water just out from the 494 launch as well. A truck sitting in 8ft of water. Pretty sure I nicked my prop on it. I let the cops know and they gotta get a dive team together to get it out. There’s another one to that’s up against the Wing dam just downriver that didn’t look as fresh lol.
Will post a pic of the screenshot when I get home.
If you turn the brightness down to like 7 or 8 you’ll get almost double the runtime
Out of it.
Was pretty slow today. Didn’t see really any caught. We ended up with only 2 fish both 24”-25”
the fish were probably hiding under that ice sheet out of the sun And hiding from the army of boats 
. Didn’t see much for walleyes in the stretch north of 494 on the mega imaging like I was seeing up until last week. There was big pods of fish but it seemed most were suckers and catfish that moved into them areas. Keeping the boat positioned right and slow enough was and tad difficult though today.
If you get orange peel as its called the bait’s surface had some specks of oil or small dust or dirt particles dried on it. Try lightly wiping the baits off with alcohol before doing the second coat of envirotex. If the spots thin again you’ll have to live with it.
I lightly wipe down my dried baits with alcohol on a very soft cloth before doing the top coat and run a nylon stocking over all the surfaces to see if I feel any type of debris stuck to the surface. Nothing will get past the nylon test and every woman has a drawer full of them you can use.
Buy yourself a tack rag. They have beeswax that pics up dust particles or towel lint. Open the towel up completely they are usually smashed in the bag. Could probably do thousands of baits with that rag.
I’m a custom semi painter by trade. That’s what we use to get a super clean pain job. They’re like 2$ a piece
I usually always have my sensitivity between 8-12 while running clear mode. Yes 10 is normal to pick up your garage floor.
Side imaging. Specifically mega imaging Has been solely responsible for so many good fishing trips in the last 3 years of owning it. Getting the ducer in the EXACT right spot is key to your success and getting used to changing certain settings on the fly.
I hear people say it all the time “side image doesn’t work sitting still you have to be moving to get good images”. Not with the mega though. With chart speed on 3 and sometimes 2 while spot locked on the river i will get the highest of detail on the fish at ZERO mph. Most the time fish are swimming now sitting still, stationary structure will be smeared but not the fish.
while scanning areas for fish I usually drive at 2-4mph and run the chart speed at 3-4 at most 5 then the side imaging starts to be useless but optimal is chart speed 3 and 2.5-3mph and level off your ducer to your boat angle at that speed.
Say I’m pitching a area for walleyes while spot locked on the river, I’m always staring at the graph watching how many feet away the walleyes are frequently swimming by at, and will adjust the boat to cast to that area.
On my 999 with 800khz hdsi transducer I never seen any of this stuff. Yes there is times when you have to switch off of mega imaging to get best image. Like when your fishing dirty water deeper then 30ft ill switch to 800 but that was on the g2 mega, the g3 model is exactly the same unit only it’s capable of mega images in deeper water and wider then the g2s. the g2s only really worked well out to about 100 feet then would wash out.
Also general rule of thumb is having your side image set to 3x your depth, 90% of the time I have mine set between 50-80ft to each side unless I’m trolling crankbaits or in really deep water.
Different bodies of water, and different times of year(water clarity) will need adjusting of settings to get the best image. In really fast dirty high river water your image will get really washed out and not be the good at all, in large bug hatches as well are things to look out for. Usually As I’m driving away from the boat launch I’m leash adjusting the settings to that body of water to get the best image, takes me maybe 1-2 minutes and then I’m off to some spots Right now the best time to get the best images on the river with the really really clear water.
And when it’s not helping you catch fish it’s cool to find stuff, I’ve found tons of cars and trucks. Some that they have pulled out. I bet if found easily over 100 sunken boats/barges/houseboats on different bodies of water,
i know of 23 on pool 2 alone
Even found a massive pod of paddlefish spawning on the Mississippi a couple springs ago and notified dnr tagging studies where and they got some trackers installed in some.
To me side imaging changed the fishing game.
and if your just gonna musky fish yes it will help you catch more fish.
Caught a 51” on tonka this year on opener on the 4th cast at a spot I wouldn’t had fished had I not seen the multiple muskies surrounding pods crappie.
I fished it On dec 23rd . Was kinda dirty and fast for this time of year. Wasn’t very busy and fishing was slow. Caught a 23” and a 26” eye. Had a really good one pop off around 9pm….
Any certain species or just in general? The st croix south of Stillwater is a much bigger body of water then north of Stillwater. And it’s closer to the Mississippi.
But Certain stretches are better for certain species.
Was thinking of possibly bringing the boat with me to work in the morning and fishing afterward. Get off at 11am. Was trying to decide between pool 2 or 4. But prefer 2.
I’ll shoot ya a Facebook message in the morning if I need help joe.
Appreciate the offer too!
Anybody been by the launch in the last day or 2?
Make sure you reset back to factory settings before removing the card out of your unit. Then erase the last version on your sd card on your computer before downloading the latest version. Load card in the unit and power unit up and then follow the screen prompts and let it load through all the screens before hitting any buttons. I’ve never had a issue this way.
I love the Cabelas e.c.w.g.s thermals. Super warm but breathable in the right spots.
The pair i have is probably 5 years old and there isn’t a ripped stitch or hole anyway and I wear them often for outdoor winter activities.
Expensive but worth it
