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Sweet. I do like that part a lot.

I think it's less mobile friendly on my iphone. I was hoping it would stay as it was before only be easier to add attachments. It looks like they went the way of reinventing the wheel as developers tend to do.

When you get one let me know. The default layout isn't jiving with me.

So far I like the simplicity of the old layout better. Maybe I'll grow on this.

I did not know this

I can't believe it but I've never eaten there. Now I'm scared of the throwed rolls so I may never make it.

It's got silent other than the hooks of course. I can add a rattle if I wanted but for now I want to see it work. Excellent call on the feathers.

The humminbird helix graphs are known to have good bright clear displays in your price range but I have never used one. Go look at bass pro but buy online. Digital oasis, universal mania, bbg electronics all will have prices that can beat bass pro plus you avoid taxes. Call them for the best price after looking on their site.

Thanks for the opinions gentlemen.

I think with what I'm working on I'm about even with the buzzjet on wobble but on roll I think I've got more. There's more tinkering to do yet. I may glue one up and fish it this weekend a little just to see really what I've got here. A buzzjet type prop would be cool to add some resistance but with what I'm working with I don't think it's doable.

Reel is a right hand retrieve. Will trade for a left hand retrieve ballistic or tatula. Also will sell for $80. Pics to come.

So can you cash those suckers in your last 100 days before retirement?

Is there such a thing as to much wobble or roll in one?

Cranking rods don't need a moderate action if you lighten up on the power. There's more mechanics to it than just taper. Some "pros" even use actual flipping sticks for deep cranking rods. I'm not totally sold on that for me personally though but that me. As for the rod above though it being a medium action will let it load up more regardless of the faster taper. It may not be worth a crap but it's definitely worth trying. The gloomis cranking rods are faster than your typical cranking rod. The mhx blanks from mudhole are loosely patterned after these.

I'd have to see this thing but it might be a decent dragging rod. Like football jigs, big worms etc. Something where you need to move a lot of line on the hook set and make long casts. Don't over look it for deepish cranking too if it's not to powerful. You'll just have to experiment. Without putting line through the guides and actually putting a bend in it though I'm just taking guesses.

I'll pull my boat next to yours and you can just throw it in.

Beh this sucks

No reason why you couldn't. I lose jigs at such a rapid rate this would be a very counter productive endeavor for me to try.

On the first part about the upper end I'm glad to hear you say that because I've tried and tried and just assumed I wasn't figuring them out like I should. I tend to let failure get in my head an spin me out. Another thing, and I've heard Bo mention it I believe, but the population just doesn't seem very strong past eagle rock especially. Again I'm not trying to pass the buck here. We've had several good days but not with the quality or quantity I've been hoping for since I've been fishing this end exclusively for the last few years. I get a few things going here and there but man it's so isolated. I've got more work to do and I've really got to lose the "river" fishing mindset and lighten up my tackle some. I need to start low and work my way up the quality scale. I think that is killing my confidence. Now on the side imaging yea I totally see what you are saying. I doubt there is much more for you to see with the time you have on this lake. Not to mention the relationships with other anglers and the combined knowledge. For a guy like me with miles to grow being able to see way more of a flat at once looking for that single tree or brush pile uses up a lot less of my Saturday. Last fall (this is not the intro to a success story) I idled into a creek by eagle rock and saw a tree at the mouth that was stacked with crappie off to my right on the si. It looked like it had leaves lol. I idled back by it a couple more times to look at it. I tried to drop what I had available in the boat (jigging spoon maybe) but had one bite and that was it. It was so windy it was hard to stay on them. I always look at that tree when I idle in though just to see if anyone is home though. It's just neat to see the fish just doing their thing on the graph. So I assume you are running hds units just without the lss2?

Btw thx for clarifying this for me. Personally I like looking for fish on the graph and dropping to them. It's when to stop doing it that I struggle with and part of the trouble I have fishing on the upper end the last few years yet remembering how I used to fish on the mid lake and lower end. I mean I never got worth a darn or anything but it's not intimidating and I enjoy it I should say. I haven't been able to get it going in the eagle rock area like that. I recently told my wife I may just start trailering over to shell knob and Indian creek area some of the time when we come down. It's a mental disconnect.

Right on. That's crazy that the fish seem to come from nowhere after you catch one. They are apparently spread out hunting and watching each other rather than how we think off them typically grouped up under shad. Does that sound right? Or are you seeing much shad? I remember several years ago tournaments being won out of isolated trees in the middle of nowhere deep with heavy bags of spots in them. This was before si came along. Since then I've thought how much easier finding those trees would be with today's technology. You being a guide though that's not really a situation that would be helpful I guess. Most aren't looking for the best 5 and also working a single small tree hoping for one or two good bites may not be the easiest thing for most clientele.

Thanks for the explanation. You mentioned deep trees so I didn't know if you meant that you found them there or didn't find them there at all. Are the schools very big? Do you ever use si when hunting schools like this or do you stay with sonar?

Fantastic!!! What a witness!!! God is good! Thank you for letting us take part.

So not all of the fish were relating to anything at all? Just suspended over deep water at the mouths?