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milehi

going to replace my old old finders and one of many questions I have is side imaging. do I need it.The lake I fish is wall to wall docks and I spend pretty much all my time flipping, pitching, skipping them, so I'm usually fairly close. Does it work that way, being not more than 20' away? Looking at...

milehi

I personally think boat flopping, letting them flop around on the carpet is a hell of a lot more harmful than somebody keeping some

milehi

gotta look good at the ramp

milehi

Think I'll just keep carrying a touch up bottle of nail polish in the boat

milehi

Sounds like a business to me! I've seen your jigs, long ago, things of beauty. I have a good friend who makes great working topwater swimbaits, beautiful paint jobs, much in demand by locals on the lakes he fishes. so far has stuck to his guns & make only what & when he wants. thanks, all th...

milehi

Hey jigging4bass, thanks so much for your help, I will check that site out. A million years ago I used to make ball head jigs for myself & some friends, unpainted, always worked great. What do you think, do we make to much of it? Course I'm on a lake with no real pressure. Thanks again

milehi

Hey, fun post.

milehi

I've given every type head a shot, arkie style by far the best. footballs will not work

milehi

Wow, that's some great info, never realized I was so low tech. Best for me has always been the clear polish. The only lake I fish anymore is wall to wall docks, have my goods days & not so good skipping jigs behind them so they can take a beating. Honestly don't know if the chipping makes a diff...

milehi

Thanks guys. I have found for me powder coat chips like anything else. I am totally stuck in my ways, use only brown or purple, will see if testors make those colors. Thanks again

milehi

Been making my own jigs for close to 40 years and have yet to find a clear that doesn't chip, is there such a thing? Always buy unpainted heads cause the painted seem to chip just as quick or quicker, Use fingernail polish for color. any thoughs? Thanks

milehi

Thank you Mark

milehi

lure parts online.

milehi

thanks guys, have tried both those but have a blunt nose rather than the tapered of the toras which is where you get the erratic swimming action. lindy made them forever but I guess no more

milehi

can you get them anymore?

milehi

Thanks for the info. I'm ay 5200 feet, ran a 4blade 23 on the 150 I had before, was great. Have a 4 blade 20 gonna try next

milehi

I just put a remanufactured 115 merc on my 18' champ, runs great but way to many rpms'. Has a 3 blade 19 pitch on it, any thoughts. btw, am at altitude

milehi

too much! way to go

milehi

had a buddy fall in a few years ago, 42 degree water, scared the hell out of me. bps make a more than adequate one, spring loaded so it stays out of the water, think around 80

milehi

Looking for a used 90/115 merc in socal, 2 stroke ok

milehi

milehi

I'm with robb all the way

milehi

one thing to check is the oil line that runs from the oil reservoir on the engine to what I believe is the oil pump, came off on my '96 150, running straight gas, fried it.I guess it's not uncommon for it to happen, people get rid of the reservoir & mix their gas.Thought mine would run forever

milehi

is silver lake the one damaged by mt st Helens? was stan fagerstroms home lake?

milehi

my beef is fish handling. jerking them in the boat & letting them flop around the carpet while the angler does his dance or whatever. I always go back to the slime coat issue which they brought up in the article. there are always going to be tournys & tv shows, commodity, not treasure

milehi

in the latest bass times there's and article called ins and outs of fish care. In the first part, called fish handling, which describes to a T everything the pros, in tournys or tv shows, do as wrong, yet other than mlf, no one seems to care. to bad the fish have turned into a commodity instead of s...

milehi

jay poore ok?

milehi

looking for an older model st. Croix avid avc710mhf rod, love them, can't find anything new I like

milehi

Personally not happy they got rid of shelly sanders

milehi

I'm old & not real tech savy, where online have you seen pork? looked on ebay, didn't really see anything. thanks

milehi

that cooch is pretty sharp. been using a keeper like on a blade on the frogs for a few years now which helps flipping but skipping dock they eventually just split open in front & were gone. still nothing like it as a cold water trailer, trying to buy every jar I can get my hands on.

milehi

right colors I'll take em. got lots of brown so junebug, purple, blue what I'm looking for. might ask you to open one & small, I'll pay for it

milehi

complained like crazy last few years about the quality control but will miss these bad once I run out. Buying every #11 I can find, hope the curing process is still good. People who have never used pork have no idea the effect it will have on cold water jig fishermen, nothing better

milehi

best cold water trailer ever made, buying up what I can find.

milehi

lure parts online or barlows

milehi

way back in the 70s used to fish a really small, clean pond in Oregon that was at the base of a hill where the dump was. there was an old 32 ford in it, you could watch smallmouth come out of it and nail a grub or whatever. small fish but pretty cool

milehi

actually took smallies out of here twice back in the early 80s' with F&G ok, used their trailer to transport them

milehi

thanks so much for the info. harvesting by the fishermen has been a topic for a long time but with so few of us & most who don't get up that it has never happened. Reason I posted was local fish committee, none of whom fish, kicked around a more aggressive harvest which will never happen, thanks...

milehi

MGJR. habitat pretty broad. lots of grass, rock, deep water & wall to wall docks. panfish, sculpin,carp, dads, freshwater shrimp & silversides in hiwater years, largemouth. very little fishing pressure, spring to fall. I'm the only one that fishes year round

milehi

The lake I fish, a private 700 acre mountain beauty, has had an abundance of pound or less smallies, better ones also but the little ones have been hard to stay away from. Seems like the last few winters, which is when I fish for them most, the numbers have been down, size up, so wondering if they t...

milehi

will smallmouth numbers in an unpressured lake take care of their own business the way panfish seem to or will the numbers keep going

milehi

been using those jigs for many years now, along with a silver buddy the best cold water baits there are. used bucktail & other material jigs with an uncle josh u2 split tail eel since before electricity so started using the punisher that way. my catch rate went way up once I started fishing them...

milehi

you could be right, but definitely not the way I read it

milehi

great altheles for sure, but after reading that all pro leagues charge the department of defense to use military personal at their events I personally will pass. 2.8 million in the last 4 years

milehi

good luck to you, went through this a couple of times, no fun. hope all turns out well for you & all

milehi

I like it, thanks

milehi

never heard of pre made cuts, interested

milehi

thanks guys, have tried all of those except a fluke. anything bladed fouls, thrown toads, ribbets, floating worms, nothing. have an old aquaview I'm .thinking of breaking out to see what gives thanks again

milehi

lots of milfoil has grown in my lake in the past 10 years & I find it hard to get bit in it Frogged it, flipped it, punched it, just so hard to get a bite, any suggestions? Doesn"t really mat up, mostly sub surface, 0k when mixed with the pond grass, just not by itself

milehi

swinging these fish in, wacking them against the consoles, letting em flop around around on the carpet can't help. what ever happened to the slime coat issue? major league fishing land practices should be a given

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