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do you still have these for sale? i'm interested if so. cell # is 417-438-4854 if you would to call or text to let me know. thanks

look up doug varhenberg on you tube also. he has a whole series of videos on the use of the side image and down image units (800, 900, 1100 series graphs). i think he may be one of the guys that has articles and videos on bbc as well. some of the guides on this forum are very informative and knowledgeable, so use the search engine, and you should find a lot of info that will help you. thats what i did when i bought my 858 and 898 last year, and i learned so much. good luck pat

Hi Dave. I got the rods yesterday afternoon. Thanks so much. They are awesome-I am looking forward to using them soon! Pat

I caught a 6 1/2 pounder off a short steep point about a mile up river from eagle rock last year in september while bass fishing in the the evening all by myself. Thought I had a nice catfish the way it pulled toward the bottom as i worked it through the trees off the point. I was throwing a 1/2 ounce chomper jig in pbj with a green pumpkin zoom critter craw trailer, in about 16 fow. That's my biggest walleye ever and wasn't even fishing for them!

I have a few crankbait rods that I use for lighter crankbaits, and I like all of them, One is a Falcon 6'6" med "jerkbait special", that is sweet for those as well as lighter jigs. Then I have one of the 6'6" med. HD rods they make that I just bought and have only used once, that feels really nice as well-slightly less backbone and softer action than my "jerkbait" rod though. Two others are American Rodsmiths-one a 6'6" med with a softer action tip that works great, and the other is a 6'6" med with a little heavier backbone and slightly faster action tip that also works well with the smaller jigs. The Rodsmiths were 50 or so bucks, the Falcon HD was 70, and the Falcon "jerkbait" was roughly 160. That's the one my wife bought me of course! She KNOWS what I like, but am too cheap to buy! Thank heaven for birthdays and christmases!

Those Johnny Morris reels that were on sale at bass pro must have been only for one day-I looked on the site and they were $119.00. Still a good price, but darn! 40 bucks less would have been much better!

I have two of the BPS Rick Clunn models, most recent generation, as well as two of the earlier Clunn models, and a new Johnny Morris and I love all of them. Had one of the older Clunn reels chew the gears up, but I had bought it used off of e-bay, so I think it was probably on it's way out anyway. I have used the newer Clunns for about 3 years now and have had great success with them. Most of my fishing is 3/8-3/4 oz. jig fishing. I just bought the Johnny reel about 3 months ago, and so far it is sweet. The Clunn reels fit perfectly in my budget at 100 or so, but I think I will be upgrading to the Morris models because they have the dual braking system, and I dont think the Clunns do.Hoping my wife gets me another one for Christmas!

Sorry for the late report. My wife and I put in at Big M at about 3-3:30 pm. wed. afternoon during the last day of that warm south wind hoping to catch some spinnerbait and/or crankbait fish. Started out bad as I had a blowout on my trailer right as we got into Big M park, and had to drop the trailer and go back to Cassville for a new tire since I already had my spare on the other side. We finlly got on the lake two hours later than planned. We didn't have as much luck as i hoped, but did catch a 13 inch largemouth off a transition bank right off with a medium depth shad rap imitator within the first 5 minutes, in about 6 fow a couple miles down river from the ramp. My wife isn't a big fan of throwing a spinnerbait or crankbait, so after about an hour of listening to her whine about not getting to throw her eakins jig and moving slower in quieter water, we finally headed across to the protected side to hit some main lake pockets. She caught the first and only keeper of the day at the back of the very first small pocket we hit. 16 inch largey on a green pumpkin jig and twin tail trailer. over the next 30 minutes, we both caught a few more barely shorts out of the same pocket, one of which was a scrappy 14-1/2" smalley. So much for ever getting my girl to throw a spinnerbait again! Those darn jigs do her well every time! That's okay though cause I love throwing them as well. All in all, it turned out to be a good end to a rather slow start-any day on the water is a good day, especially when i can get my wife on a fish or two!

Sorry for the late report, been busy. My wife and 20 yr. old son and I launched at Big M on Wed. late morning, and fished the Rock Creek to Roaring river area from 11am-4pm. Each of us caught 4 or 5 LM, all shorts, but i did boat a 20" Walleye in about 12' fow, off the first big channel bend inside rock creek, with a 1/2 ounce jig and craw. Wasn't expecting that one! The wife and son both caught a 14.5" LM near the same area, in the rocks on watermelon seed big critter craws. Saw a bunch of used up spawning beds in the back of a small cove up Roaring river, and caught part of the shorts near the middle of that same cove, on 1/8 oz. shakey heads and finnese worms in 8-10 Fow. Mid afternoon, my wife had a 2 1/2 pound LM way up Roaring river that shook off right at the boat as she got ready to hoist it. Darn! If she would set that hook like a man, she'd get them puppies in the boat! She is a pretty good fisherman, but loves wade fishing and canoeing the ozark creeks more than boating the lakes. I get her to go with me maybe once or twice a month during the warm weather months, but that's about all she can handle. Says she doesn't catch enough fish-I guess she doesn't have that "I love the CHALLENGE of lake fishing" attitude like alot of us! I can say I am grateful she likes the outdoors though, so I think she may be a keeper! Almost 27 years of marriage and six kids ought to qualify her for the Grand Keeper prize! All in all, a little slow for us, but any day on the water is better than the best day at work!

I love the Pro Guides from Battery Outfitters down in Golden, near Eagle Rock, or up in Joplin. I have bought three of them over the past four or five years and plan on buying more. They are very reasonably priced, and the guys at Golden are great guys. I had one of their 27 series trolling batteries that i put on my pontoon, and didn't use the boat for a year and a half after we got hit by the tornado that went through the Neosho/Granby area in 2008, and when i finally went to charge it a few months ago, it was still at 74% after leaving it set at about 90% a year and a half earlier! That's a heck of a battery in my book!

Hey all, this is my first attempt at posting here. Not new to the site though-I am on several times a week, but have never felt like I could contribute a whole lot. Mostly get on the site to daydream, and learn, which I have done much of since joining a few years ago. I used to spend most of my time on the creeks and rivers of S.W. Missouri with my 4 boys and occasionally my wife, smallmouth and goggle eye fishing, but since i bought my first bass boat 3-4 years ago i have gotten the bug, and the river trips have gotten far and few between!I fish only a few times each winter, usually at Tablerock, and probably fish a total of 20-25 trips a year, with 75% of those being at the Rock, and the others at Grand, and Stockton. I live about ten miles east of neosho. Took my dad out today for his first ever dedicated spoon and dropshot trip. We launched at Big M at about 1pm and ended up spending our entire afternoon till about 5pm at Roaring River, mostly because we took a fella whose boat had broke down near Big M and needed a ride back to Eagle Rock where he was parked, and we thought we would go ahead and explore the channels in the first mile of R.R. since we were already there. My dad doesn't know much about working or reading a depth finder, or how to fish with one, so we spent the day exploring and practicing with mine so he could see how fun it can really be.He caught his first ever spoon fed largemouth in 47 ft. of water right on the bottom of the first big channel bend inside the mouth of the river over where it swings real close to the bank. Caught it with a 1/2 oz. silver/black Real Image spoon, just slightly jiggling and bouncing off the bottom. We actually caught 4 or 5 fish from that same area over about an hour, all shorts except one keeper, that weighed about 2 pounds, and of course quickly released each of them. All were very light and mushy bites as you would expect. We messed around on up around a couple more bends as you continue up river for about a mile, and marked fish and shad in a few areas but could not entice any more to eat our goodies. I did catch a short on a drop shot with a green pumpkin 4" Zoom meathead, but the others were on the spoons. Water temp was anywhere from 39 to 40.5, and all were caught in that first deep channel bend. We saw ice on and around those north facing banks, and i heard that farther up river it looks like it is fairly thick still- we did not go very far back. I did actually throw my favorite for a short while, just to get my fix, which is a brown Jewel 3/8 oz. jig, but no luck. I wanted to throw a stick bait along some of those tree lined banks up river but as Captain Joe said, the wind was pretty much non-existent, so i didn't waste my time. It ended up being a beautiful afternoon! There's my report for you all. sorry for the long ramble. I hope to start spending more time on the water during the winter, and I will post reports as I do. I will try to make a habit of getting pics too. I appreciate all of you posting on this site-I know you all hear this a bunch, but it is true-this is the best forum in existence!