fishinwrench

If you've got four 6ga. going up then it's not cheaply wired.... somebody just didn't configure the wiring/ switches quite right (or it may just be a missing or loose jumper wire at the switch. If you actually use the 12v option it would be worthwhile to get that straightened out so that your pulling parallel off both batts when on 12. Most TM upgrades I do are from 13/24 to straight 24, and in that case I terminate the 12/24/chg. switch and run 24v up both sets of cables and either upgrade the plug or hard-wire it straight to the pedal. Keeps the whole circuit nice and cool.

Right. Whats on top, the crappie, the whites, or the mudhens?

Bird watcher, if that's true then your boat is wired cheap, your 12v should pull parallel. Do you have only 3 leads running from the stern to the bow, or 4 ? Switchable 12/24 has never made sense to me, there's no benefit to running 12v when you can run 24v at a lower setting. Never understood the concept or reasoning for that.

I agree, but I guess if you had to "fill" a freezer, "legally",.... you couldn't do it with crappie.

Firstly, always replace 24v TM batterys in pairs. Secondly, "fully charged" only means that the cell has taken all of the charge that it is capable of..... that doesn't mean that the cell is "good", it just means that it will not accept any more amps. A bad battery will show 100% charged on an automatic charger, because it actually is "fully charged"..... it has reached it's full capacity.

Charley, if you find yourself in the Lake Ozark neighborhood gimme a shout, there are plenty of easily wadable streams in the area that hold some decent smallies. A med-lt. Spinning rod and some smaller sized plastics will practically guarantee success.

Hunnewells boats are probably registered. You can switch motors on a registered boat without making any changes to the registration of the boat.

Yeah, the strip pits and ponds where the top layer of soil has been removed from the area are sometimes gin clear.

The top soil around there is really slimey cornbelt dirt and underneath that is clay. , during dry spells the top soil cracks open and water cant penetrate the clay. The runoff is heavily stained because not much of it has a chance to sink in and be filtered through rocky substrate.... it just sinks in to the layer of clay and ozzes back out of the ground muddier than it went in. Ozark lake water gets "silty" and off colored during heavy runoff but clears back up when the silt particles sink. Mark Twains "color" isn't silt it is just mud-stain that just doesn't go away. When you scoop up a glass full of it and hold it up to the light you don't see little particles suspended in it, you just see chocolate water. The same way that coffee or tea holds its color even after sitting still in a pitcher for weeks.

I was lucky enough to have fished MT alot in its early days and the bass fishing was outstanding. Then I moved to Georgia for 4 years and when I came back it just wasn't the same. All the places where we used to do so well were seemingly void of bass.... and we worked it hard. I'm not sure what happened while I was gone, but sonething did, and it really hasn't seemed to have gotten better since. I have some buddys that still fish it regularly but they never have anything close to the days we used to have. I think it's a forage issue. deep muddy water doesn't have much to offer bass so they basically live in the shallow wood cover, and "back in the day" if you located good wood cover near shelf-rock you were in bass paradise. That location pattern just died for some reason.

Well kinda. First I sat up nights racking my brain.... "What in the world could a guide have done to be exiled" ? It really perplexed me. And just before I realized that whatever it was had no bearing on my own future whatsoever I was summoned to swap out a battery box, and that took me over the edge. I got coloring books for christmas for several years after that, and I have just recently become capable of talking about it.

Take the end of the strap thru both rings (actually squares) then back through the first one. If it slips you have the strap upside down.....flip it over and repeat. I have seen cheap ones where the serrated buckle was put on backwards.....that'll drive you crazy.

Cougar tits, yes I heard it. I think that's why we keep checking this thread.

Chief, to that I'd have to guess mountain lions...... unless the children have access to plenty of cash. LOL A far greater danger in my eyes is a cul de sac full of pistol packing city folk that can't hit a 200lb. target with a full box of ammo.

Now that's a face only a mother could love. And the fish ain't all that handsome either Wasn't that damp Northerly breeze refreshing today? I got my butt handed to me on the opposite side of the concrete wall. Tough day!

Motorguide has expanding "T" type mounting anchors. If you run in rough water much though you'll wanna get a few spares to have on hand and replace them every so often, they hold really well but they don't last forever.

LL is 656.9 and surface water temps vary depending on where you are (ranging from 51-60). Alot of the females (of all species) still have eggs, even the Walleye.... so the best is yet to come I think.

" There's kids all around!" "An estimated 35 shots were fired by residents" "the animal appears to have escaped unharmed." That's a scarier tale than any coug-attack story I've ever heard. OMG!

New legislation is in effect, they outlawed them. You hadn't heard?

Yep, it's what I started with as a "first boat" and after numerous other high-tech/specialized rigs over the years it is what I have gone back to. You just can't beat a 16' jon for value and getting the job done.

Excellent, man! What did she eat ? Did she get air?

I haven't been in the vicinity of Shawnee bend access since the rain but the constant up/down water level makes the color and temp of the water a redundant issue. Why they are so afraid to hold some water in this lake is beyond me. Maybe the St.Louis area folks are running the A/C all day and the furnace all night. We are at 657.2 with heavy generation scheduled for the entire week.

Well, he didn't take very good care of that gobbler or those kittens. LOL That's a nice mess, good job ol'boy.

The female dogs at many license bureau's just love to run people through impossible obstacle courses.....they get off on it...and they saw you guys coming. I make it a point to do my DMV biz immediately before lunchtime or right before closing time when all they care about is getting me out of there fast. You may think I'm kidding, but it works 9 times out of 10. Which proves that all the crap they routinely put people through is completely uncalled for and unnecessary. I "have seen" plenty of real doosey's slip through and no DMV worker has ever gotten in trouble over it. They can easily make ANYTHING real quick and simple.... when they want to.

Al, I think Eric's position was that otters are native and not the real problem. Myself I think the whole hating otter thing is just because bad otter press has gone viral. I only see enough otters (and their sign) to appreciate them, and wouldn't assume that they were any kind of threat at all if I hadn't heard/read all the BS about them. It's kinda like the quail/turkey thing, some "scientist" writes a piece about turkey eating quail eggs and from that time on bird hunters cuss turkeys.