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As far as I'm concerned seaguar is the best bet. I have landed many steely over 15lbs on 4lb seaguar after they ran me through all kinds of rocks and snags. Seguar line is just plain tough, I've been amazed at the abuse it can take and still hold up.

Just thought I would throw this out there and see if any was else had the same issue. Sunday I got out early and was the first one in the spot I wanted to fish. Then after a while these two bass boats motored up near me and drove all around me, fairly close, back and forth, and in front of and behind me at a good clip making a lot of racket looking for bait/ fish. Then after while the started fishing a just down the lake from me, no biggie. I land a fish they move closer to me, and they don't hook up and try the other side of me. I move a bit and land another fish or 2 and here they come again fishing right on top of me again. This went on for several hours, I wouldn't have sat there and delt with it if I wasn't in the tournament, but I was so I was about to give up my spot. It was unreal, these guys had absolutely no class, they couldn't find there own fish so they had to try to get in one the ones I had found. I'm sorry but I was raised with a heck of a lot more manners than these guys had.

I took some time off recently and have been doing pretty good one day we did 18 lakers, the next day i did 16 solo, then nothing, and then 6 or seven toaday. It seemed like they were acting different each day and were never quite in the same spot or hitting the exact presentation every day. But all in all I can't complain.

Two mouths and a lamprey to boot!!!! Broken back that healed weird???

I was caught these the other day one right after the other while trying to catch a few smallmouth, What are they?????? Thanks for the help guys? and great tutorial by the way>

Any one have the final run done of the board when it was all said and done??? I fished Friday through sunday and boated 2 on Friday with one 7lb+ brown and one dink, then during the tournament on Saturday we caught a ton of little browns and salmon, and Sunday we concentrated on jigging and caught 7 lakers with the biggest being 7lb-12oz. We didn't weigh it thinking that it would not stay on the board very long. So I'm just curious if it would have made it or not.

I do a lot of vertical jigging and last year I coluld always see me jig on the screen excxept for when I was fishing 120 fow or more and even then I still could keep a good eye on it as long as I could stay over top of it. But after re-carpeting my boat over the winter and re-doing a lot of the wirring I can't see my jig even in shallow water and calm conditions. Also I seem to be getting a lot more noise then I did last year. I pinched the transducer wire bad last year durring a tournament and damage it, but I spliced it back together that night and soldered and heat shrinked all the the individual wires, and it worked great after that. But this year I don't know if I lost some of the settings on the fishfinder or if that splice is giving out or what. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks guys a fishfinder is a great tool.......when it works!!

Hey I just re-carpeted my boat and replaced a bunch of missing rivets and it was a huge pain in the rear. I called around for quotes on the job before I started and was very surprised how much a person charges to replace all the carpet in a boat. So I thought it can't be that hard I try it myself. It was a nightmare, the worst part had to be trying to remove the deck to clean them up and re-carpet them. All the screws holding them down were self tapping screws and as soon as you hit em with the screw gun they would strip. Some I had to drill out, others I had to pry out with a pry bar. I also used the trowel on adhesive for most of it, but after I tried the 3M spray adhesive I'd never use the other stuff. The 3M adhesive had a much higher initial tack and seems to hold better. Also I learned that I should of used a carpet of the same thickness or thinner because just the slightly thicker/ nicer carpet made for some very tight fitting pieces and doors. Oh and I tried to go with all stainless with the new fasteners including the self tappers to re-attach the decks and that can add up in a hurry too. It would be nice if someone could post a picture of a finished boat done in vinyl. I don't think I would ever do mine again in carpet. The vinyl sure sounds like the way go. Good luck

Any recommendations on antenna's, my old one has a very short range. Its a 3 ft Shakespeare steel whip type.

I looked around for that unit and had no luck, could you point me in the right direction. What kind of price tag came with that unit?? Thanks again for the help.

Hey guys I'm still working on my boat and after a bunch of other projects I tried the marine radio and it was dead. Its fairly old and doesn't owe me anything, so I can't complain too much. What would be a good, fairly cheap replacement?? I only plan on using it on the fingers if that matters. Thanks for all the great info guys!

I 'm a newby a the carpet thing so I bought the adhesive that the store I bought the carpet recommended, a trowel on type of glue. It seems to working okay so far but the initial tack isn't that great. Have you been pretty happy with the spray adhesive?? How does it hold up once it gets wet a few times??

Hey Evil-I or anyone else for that matter, another carpet question: I have decided to take on the carpet myself and was wonderring how to lay the carpet over the hinges for the doors that I have to acccess dry storage and batterry boxes. The carpet I removed was right over top of the hinges, how do the hings still work freely, what the trick?? Thanks for the help guys

I'm doing some work on my boat and I removed some of the spray in foam from below the casting deck because was nasty looking. What product can I use to replace this foam?? Will regular great stuff spray foam get moldy???

I have a 16ft deep-V alumminum boat and I need to get the carept replaced. Is there anyone in the Ithaca area that does this type of work?? How much would something like this cost??

Thanks for all the help guys. I'm kinda snowed in right now so i might go out to the garage and start pulling up the castting deck and prepping things. Once I refill the old rivet holes with bolts or new rivets should I cover them with epoxy or that product from cabela's. Any preferrence?? Do they make large stainless or aluminum pop rivets?? I got some large aluminum ones but the largest I could find was 3/8, and they were too small I think I need 1/4. Thanks again fella's, I hope everyone is stayin' warm

and for a warranty would it mater that I'm not the original owner????

Would they replace rivets at the Auburn Bass Pro Shops???

I have a 94' Tracker that just last year was starting to loose some of the rivets on the bottom of the hull towards the bow. I tried to replace them with aluminum pop rivets of a similar size but they would only last one outing at the most. I ended up filling them with some good quality silicone for a temporary fix. What is the best way to solve this problem for good???

What card would give me the best detail of the finger lakes? Thanks for any help

I took advantage of the nice weather on tuesday, landed 1 laker around 6.5 to 7 lbs and had a lot of other fish interrested. The stiff south wind made it tough to stay on them though, If I could have stayed over them a bit longer I think I could of hooked few more. Saw pods of fish in 55 fow and lots in 74 to 85 fow on the southern edges of the points.