Just got my finger saver. $9 well worth the investment!

Thanks guys the finger saver looks great for tying knots and a dowel or broom handle is just the ticket for snags.

I use the palomar and a double uni knot to tye leader or to backing.

Dave uses a three way swivel with 12oz weight and a gamagatzu 8/0 circle hook. Cut bait either asian carp or skipjack. If the current is strong He likes to “go with the fish” so you can see the float behind him in the boat. He ties that to anchor line so all we had to do was reel up other lines and go. It is a slick deal. Let’s you run lighter tackle. He still runs 80 lb floro to the gamagatsu 8/0 circle.

Those pies look pretty nice. Enjoy the fish fry!

Great advise guys. I plan to put a lot of hours on my new 4 stroke so I put a tiny tack on order based on your post. Sounds like an easy solution to stay on top of engine maintneance and reads engine rpms as a bonus

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I don’t fish for ‘skies, but I don’t think there is a comparison. Kinkaid…

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Kinkaid for sure. If you want some great big fish action drive another five hours to Mountain Home and fish Norfork for stripers. They’ll be feeding strong by April-I’ll be there in late February. I’ve got the striper fever now just like 20 years ago when I got the musky flu. Still love the hunt targeting skis but figuring the stripers out is challenging and awesome action when you do. Leave the 7′ heavy at home and pull out a medium action baitcaster with light line and you’ll have a blast! There great eating too if your a fishivore

Thanks Grant I few more of those and a new big screen that will take a computer feed and I can cut the cable bill in half
Netflix has a lot of material they stream too but lots of the good new movies are DVD only, I get one DVD at a time so for $9 a month I get 7-8 movies while in current couch potato mode and in Feb I will have it on hold til next fall when ice up is back

I have had success selling two Jet Ski’s both partys paid asking price and anyone who came to look was serious. Also sold a used light pole and a older used car. I think the car sold from for sale sign in car window Meeting someone in parking lot or public place is good idea if you would otherwise bring them into your home but running boat or other item somewhere to avoid them coming to our home is a lot of work. Have you been scammed by a voyeur? Cash is King but there needs to be some faith in fellow man.

While visions of fishing rods danced in their heads! Teach them well.

I didn’t do my research on this one guys sorry. The Ram web site offers the rod holder only, RAM 117 BU for 21.28 so I ordered it-have to pay $10 shipping but it will allow me to use the mount and not have another bracket to drill holes in my gunnel rail.

Hey Mojo thanks for the planer board concerns-may be a problem plus I have hard time coughing up the coin for the expnesive one. I need to oil up the wallet and live a little more…

Thanks Jon,
I saw the trolling motor bracket only sold seperatly after already purcasing the whole TM bracket (works great BTW) and found I needed the longer reach one after trying the short one.

I just checked the web site for Rule and they’ve got same pump in 24 volt and so I’ll order one. Problem solved.

Thanks Codger for the input but as you say screen and data could be bigger. Gettin older and bigger is better.

Nice work with the crank baits, Jon. Keep it going all week!

Nice CPR Jeff! Professional for one man band. What weight line were you fishing?

I haven’t ice fished since I was a kid-remember the good old days I’ll stop in and see what gear you can set me up with!

Congrats on the nice slabs. I’ll try them tomorrow on the lake. I think the past few nights cool temps may have prompted a little feeding frenzy.
I didn’t know they feed at the surface like that. What is the water temp? What depth are you finding the walleyes?

Rock River has crested at Rockton and is dropping fast. I hope to be fishing tonight on the bank. Catfish are biting but its challenging to keep line clean…. When are we going to see the river flow brought on by dog days of summer?

Im on the rock in Machesney Park and the river finally crested July 31 at just under 13 feet. Normal summer level is 5.5 feet and the closest we’ve come so far this summer is 6 feet.
The good news is the water is dropping faster than typical after a major flood.
I was thinking about going to pool 9 at lansing but it seems they have high water also.

Big G I’ll mount the pump to a pice of aluminum- I can get some but have to track it down and had the plywood handi so went that direction. Good input because I can use thin-1/4 or 3/32 and will pick up more than on top of 5/8″ plywood.

Hey Trumar, I got a couple of ideas from other posts so should be OK, otherwise I’ll send some photos. I am sending a photo to you since I’ll never sent one before on this site. Seems to work, hope you get it.

Hey Stuwest
Mine is just laying there now and its not been a problem so Thanks for the input. It doesn’t seem to float when it rains and the pump runs even though the plywood is there…