fishinwrench

You've eliminated the red (12v) wire completely from the system, correct? If I understand you right then you should be only connected to the white (or orange) 24v circuit, and the black (Gnd.) Just start following the voltage AND the ground, beginning on the upstream side of the switch. If there's no voltage loss on the downstream end of the switch then follow it to the rheostat (speed switch), then to the spade terminals under the top motor cover. Be sure to trace the Ground also as you go...rather than only moving the red meter lead.

If I can't figure out a good shallow bite then I look for bigger trees with limbs (no pole timber) and swim a pegged T-rig worm through them. Rod tip low, slow and steady reeling with no fancy rod tip stuff.... Sweep hard to the side when it gets heavy. Similar to the way you'd fish a crankbait, minus the twitches and pauses. If it gets boring then you're either not doing it right or your throwing to the wrong type of trees.

Does anyone throw a Front Runner anymore?

Yeah I try NOT to get caught out in one, but when it happens I just play the odds and hope for the best.

Thr PC crowd here would shudder if they knew how Brown bend got its name. The bends of the Osage (between Truman & Bagnell dams) in order: Big bend Brown bend (also known as Devils chair) Ivy bend Coffman bend Wilson bend Porter mill bend Terrace bend (aka; Lovers leap) Oak bend Turkey bend Shawnee bend Horseshoe bend Oak IS above Turkey, right? Crap now I have to get a map out. Edit: Yep BTW, This is a cool book if you haven't already read it.... http://www.dammingtheosage.com/

OP, Put a healthy bend in the rod and look at the path the line takes..... then you'll understand the need for more "properly spaced" guides. Jerry, I agree. Zebras aren't gonna hurt any body of water in this state I don't think. They've sure spent alot of tax payer dollars on propaganda concerning them though.

Like this?

Certain seemingly random areas have had pretty substantial hatches of them. The worst I saw was in Laurie Hollow (just above Hurricane deck bridge) 5-6 years ago. And the following year they were almost as thick here in the upper Gravi. When they pulled the lake down the shoreline was littered with PILES of them.

It would only benefit the lawyers if they were. And of course raise the price of a chicken dinner.

Interesting, is it above or below the bridge?

4 years ago it seemed that every other boat that came into my shop had zebras on it. But it's been awhile since I've seen a single one now. I think the water level fluctuations did them in. Tons of them were left high, dry, and frozen every Winter.

Ive taken a fancy to aluminum V's lately and I love the balance and layout of that one! I'd have to rip that Port console out of there though.

How's it feel to fish stoned.... Legally?

I remember it being at it's best during the 70's. Stable water levels, healthy beds of milfoil, clear (electric blue) water, and scads of 2-6 lb bass. I was in Georgia during most of the 80's so there is a window of 6-7 years where I wasn't here, but then I came back in 1989 and it didn't seem that much different. I noticed a drastic water quality change beginning in 1992. Suddenly (it seemed) the water lakewide took on a brownish stain. Damselfly's, dragonfly's and frogs became noticably scarce and the big mayfly hatches in August-September changed to hatches of big inch long midges instead. A few years later the water just looked and "felt" downright gross. It is definitely on a better path now but I'm not gonna crow about it because I want it to continue to improve. If we all start claiming that the water is "fine now" then the improving is likely to stop. I'm not gonna be satisfied until the frogs come back...and stay. I remember those leopard or pickerel frogs (whichever they were) being thick in thee backs of all the coves even AFTER they stopped spraying the shoreline with diesel fuel. So something in the early 90's decimated them, and they haven't come back since. Frogs are pretty darn scarce on Truman too.

I'm 75% in. Weather and work schedule depending.

I hear that a Ned rig is the best way to hook a non-fisher, and diamonds in the tacklebox help immunize against the future divorce that results in the loss of dual console bass boats .....but it all remains to be seen.

I could just Puke! After you got off your knees did she ever hand you the map?

I don't help matters at the ramp by my place, so if they've been HERE first then they probably assume that is acceptable ramp behavior. Unless there are fishing guys waiting to launch I just wheel up to the ramp and take my sweet time. If they are leisure boaters and it upsets them then I guess they need lessons on being more LEISURABLE. But then again, taking my sweet time launching/or loading my fishing boat still only amounts to about 38 seconds. Most of them take longer than that just to remove ONE transom tiedown, and take twice that much time to argue with their wife about where the keys are.

In a Largemouth lake....Me too! Unless there is an abundance of aquatic vegetation cover, then it can be as clear as it wants to be. Shoreline owners won't stand for weedbeds though, it totally freaks them out.

Yeah it will dirty up after a rain or during a period of heavy boat traffic.....but then it will clear right back up in a matter of hours. The consistent "stain" that the water has had for the last 15 or so years just seems to be magically gone. I'm even seeing some evidence of new aquatic weed growth beginning, which doesn't even seem possible considering that the places where it is growing were dry and frozen solid for a long time.

Rootbeer/chart. (Heavy on the rootbeer/light on the chart.). Smoke pepper/dk. melon pepper.

Are those deep crappie still totin' eggs? We got in a prime area for cats just before the storm blew through. We really should have done better, they just didn't wanna eat. 4 skinny little channel cat was the best we could pull off. I'm blown away by how fast the water clears up now. Has sediment somehow become heavier or WHAT?

I feel you, and then some. All but 2 of my boats require outboards, trolling motors, batteries, TRAILERS, plus annual property tax and registration fees. It has become easier to list the types of "boats" I don't or haven't own(ed). Never Had: kayak, driftboat, scarab, aircraft carrier .....Everything else has been covered multiple times

Impressed that you're still finding some decent crappie, I've given up on them for now. Excellent topwater bite going on this end of the pond on Thursday, and still happening Friday but my partner smoked me Friday throwing behind me with a square bill crank. Every fish he caught on that dang crank was an inch+ bigger than the last one I had caught....and he kept that crap up all evening. So now I wanna go play with crankbaits but everyone else here is all fired up about going catfishing, so the bass will have to wait until I can escape on my own. So many fish/so little time.

I love the old round reels, but that's one I have never seen before. Interesting!