swimbaitrookie

Very nice replica!

Duuuude..... You killed it!

Yeah but the tracking is a bit hazardous...

And watch out when trying to ship a rod. What should have been a simple $50 transaction to ship an 8' tube took three trips to the post office and a formal complaint to get them to back down from trying to charge me $250.

Choked! Great fish.

I used my SI when paddle powered with no problems. SI seems to work best at 2-3 mph which was easily attained. Whenever I wanted to check out a spot, I'd set the unit to SI and scan, mark spots I want to check then go back over with down scan and normal sonar. I have a motorguide on my yak now that I'm in AZ and have fewer access points to launch from but that hasn't changed how I use my sonar to locate structure features, cover or fish. Just like everything in fishing or life in general, there's multiple opinions on how to skin a cat. No offense meant to cats...

Having started bass fishing with a Humminbird Super Sixty flasher mounted on my 1956 Alumacraft with 18lb thrust trolling motor, I can honestly say I wish I'd had this stuff back then!

That part is accurate but when you are wanting to run multiple screens like GPS + down scan + sonar, or down scan + SI, the more screen you have the easier it is to decipher what you're seeing. It's all about how much you're willing to invest both in money and time to learn to interpret the graphs.

Well done sir!

I use a Garmin 73 SV ram mounted on the left side, transducer on a YakAtack switchblade on the right gear track. Jackson Coosa HD. Not running livescope or panoptix, yet but thinking about it but just having the high grade mapping capability with sonar and side-imaging is a huge benefit. Recommendation: get as large a screen size as your budget and space will allow. I went from a lowrance 5" to the Garmin 7 and will jump to the 9 soon.

Killing it!!!

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Rock Lobstah!

I had a lake back home that had an entire section of a breakline covered in downed trees / wood piles. A Yunique Scout on a 8/0 beast hook or the G2 on a 10/0 beast was my go to. I'd swim it over the tops of the limbs, just ticking the cover on the first couple of casts to see if one would rise out of the cover to eat. But the majority of success came when fishing the bait deep in the cover, lift and fall like a Texas rig. If the bait got caught on a limb but I could pop it off - 9 times out of 10 it'd get hammered on the fall.

Nice one!

I'm not sure you could change it out without messing up the wire. I expected it to be more free floating but I think the weight being rigid with the rig helps make it more snag resistant. And I'll be testing mine out with some knockoff tks and cheaper baits at first!

This has been going on as long as tournaments have been around. Dude in Texas got famous over it. Sadly he's not the only one, just one to get caught. https://armchairanglers.wordpress.com/2010/04/13/from-holy-roller-to-convicted-felon-a-bass-fishermans-fall-from-grace-part-1/

I've been using these https://carolinafishingtackle.com/collections/split-rings-2/products/decoy-gp-ring-split-ring?variant=8141372227674

Great catch! Maybe that fish is proof that bass aren't as smart as we think they are?