Interesting takes and stories here. When I retire I plan on selling everything and living on a boat. That is it. An American Tug to do the ICW and head over to the bahamas for a couple of weeks then back again.
THE BRINE IS A MUST DO! I did some salmon and didnt brine it first. all the white (good fat) came out of the fish and it was pretty dry. I will always brine it from now on. This is a great website:
http://www.smoking-meat.com/
I have a 7'+ Browning Medium to Medium Heavy rod just laying around. Would this be an ok rod to use for a copper setup? I would just need to buy a large enough Linecounter reel for it then
I think that any American company that moves overseas should not be allowed to sell their product in the us period. I also that we should all buy american made products to the best extent possible
So to look at a combo setup which size reel are we talking the 300 class or 400 class reels for a 400 copper. Also what weight copper and what brand of copper is everyone using?
i did the same thing. When I bought my boat it had rite locks on them. I could tell they were not going to hold up to a dipsey setup on lake o. They were pretty beat up as well. Took them off and replaced with Bert's over the old tire lock holes.
I will be following this topic as I plan on pulling the trigger on the base combo FF/GPS soon. Not the chirp model though, the standard models are $100 off right now. Will suit my needs predominatly on my local lake which averages 35 feet deep