mxskeeter wrote:

You sure your trailer is 10 ft. wide? That would need oversize load signs going down the road.

Thanks for the catch haha. 101in – so about 8.5ft

Lost wrote:

If your place is on the lake, then go for the skid. I have a 6.5×10 skid house at the family cabin in WI and I’ve been very happy with it. Started off with portables, then built a ski platform for the 949i to tow around, and finally got the skid shack. World of a difference for fishing in comfort. On early ice with little snow cover you can push it out by hand, otherwise the Honda ATV with chains pulls it no problem. I now have a ranger that will be the primary pulling vehicle which should make it even easier. I’m on a small lake so theft is not much of a concern, but you could easily anchor one with an screw if you left a hole cover off.

I have mine set up with a jackknife sofa and boat seat. Have been able to squeeze 4 adults and 1 kid in fishing at the same time. Takes almost nothing to heat and the convenience of all the lights and other gear being attached to the walls cannot be beat.

Currently working on setting up a battery bank that I can connect my solar panel. Then I’ll be upgrading heaters to either a truma forced air or a diesel heater.

If you ever need to transport it, I wouldn’t go wider than 6.5ft unless you already have a deck over trailer. I have access to a tilt car hauler with a winch mounted to the front that lets me pull up the shack between the wheel wells. If I was going to get another to keep at my house and hit closer lakes with, I’d go to a 6′ wide.

I have a 8.5ft wide 12ft long snowmobile trailer with a front V. So width won’t be an issue. What kind of anchor do people use inside to prevent unwanted movement? We are on a part of the lake that is mostly untouched, and away from town. Theft isn’t a huge concern to me, but something to think about. To the earlier comments, I think if I’m dragging back to shore each use it almost defeats the purpose and I’d just stick with my otter flip over shack at that rate with a pop up for large groups.

Bearcat89 wrote:

Dragging the skid to shore if you have a lake place is what most folks do.

Sure, so leave it out over the weekend to minimize setup time, then drag back to shore when not around. That makes sense.

Thanks for bringing up the risk of theft. I assumed that being off ice roads would maybe deter that, but doesn’t sound like it. The cabin is just a weekend thing, so it would be left unattended for at least the work week, if not multiple weeks. Sounds like a larger portable with foam floor may be the better bet since I’d end up unpacking a skid house every time anyway.

Huntindave wrote:

<div class=”d4p-bbt-quote-title”>Don Meier wrote:</div>
Charged my 3 lithiums last night charger hits 150 degrees .

Using a digital infrared thermometer to get this reading? I don’t think most folks realize just how much heat is generated.

Yeah I’m not worried about the act of charging. The boat and the charger are designed to handle that. Again I’m curious if I can mount on the upper shelf location as described in the first picture without puncturing something. My Lund came from the dealer with the charger on the lowest spot in the rod locker, and that’s where it has been until I needed to change for lithium charging upgrade.

I realize I’m bumping a really old thread, but I’m replacing my old MinnKota 315d that used to sit down in the lowest section of this part of my adventure 1775. New MK330pcl doesn’t fit in that low compartment. Did you mount on the top step closest to your rods without issue? Just want to make sure I’m not popping a hole into a gas tank or something.

Jason, Lund was unable to provide me with a diagram.

I actually just had to wait until I was able to get to the boat in storage, but it was very easy. My battery is in the port compartment under the jump seat. There is an opening to the bilge if you take the battery out and look in there. Then from the bilge there is a black plastic tube that is a raceway to the rod locker battery compartment. Just make sure you tie a spare anchor rope to the yellow rope in the raceway so you can pull it back and reuse that yellow rope in the future. Hope that helps!

tim hurley wrote:

Love those TB videos. He has one where he uses SI to find crappies hugging bottom on a mud flat- so you see these little specks of value change on a mid tone background. So how do you know those are fish? could be rock on mud or sand, wood on mud. He had been there the day B4 and they were active and up high, next day cold front. So if you are like me and you change lakes a lot it is hard, you need some context or other info to figure out those little specs you are seeing.

It’s really incredible to watch how easily he puts them in the boat. Granted it is his job and he says he fishes 7 days a week. Thankfully I’m just fishing on Bemidji, so no frequent scenery change for me. I’d like to get good enough that I could drop the boat on a new lake and pick it apart in a day, but that doesn’t seem like an easy feat to do well at this point.

Water temp as of this morning was still very low to mid 60s. So I guess maybe next weekend I’ll have to start checking off shore structure, I did mark some fish on the first ledge, but nothing biting.

Bob Erfish wrote:

Side imaging is definitely not useless. Tom Boley videos are great, but if you watch all of them you’ll believe you should always be casting jigs back to a pod of fish. What I do when I can’t find any schools of <strong class=”ido-tag-strong”>walleye is troll, sometimes they’re just spread out. If your new to side imaging like I am, spend a day trolling crank baits and playing with your settings and just watching the screen. It helped me anyways.

As for Bemedji, I’m no help

Yeah I absolutely love side imaging for finding the structure, but I guess what I’m saying is I’m not able to readily find fish on the outside or inside edge of a weedline. I’ll have to try trolling more, I just hate the weeds that comes along with it haha

Dang, I had hoped conditions were improving with all the cold weather over the past two weeks. Was out in the south east end of Bemidji 2 weeks ago and had about 8-9 inches.