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Definitely makes it get down. I've been using it in deeper water 10 + FT. At the price you cant get hurt. A big advantage is you can pop it in and out. The extra skin on the 250 has held it in well and I see nose reason to glue them. I have yet to lose one out of the slot One was 10g and the other i have is 11g

Solid dude. Fast shipping and good communication

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6 of one 1/2 dozen of the other. I have enjoyed my lexa but I love shimano's. XH guide select "a" with a Lexa 400 is my 250 rod. I would say its probably to stiff(XH) for the baits in question. Flip a coin if you have to but both reels are good choices I think. Fish the crap out of which ever one you get and then decide where to go from there. Curado will run you about $60 to $70 bucks more but will keep good resale value down the road. Curado=$210 ish and a Lexa 300=$140 ish. While one might stretch a budget a bit more neither are life changing financial deciscions. Me personally, I prefer the faster ratios. Just what I like

Rest assured Randleman has been swimbaited. Theirs alot of farm ponds around randleman that have some pigs in them all courtesy of Randleman resivoir. I would say raped and pillaged is a fair assessment. All that aside, its still got some good fish, and a fun place to fish. Louder baits seemed to do better for me.

The bigger fish tend to stay a little deeper here. Trout shad and bass color baits work well(hardgill ANYTIME). Don't be afraid to throw a 250 here, they still get bit. Like anywhere else finding the big fish is the hrd part. Night fishing is good all year. Their was recently a 10.9lb caught at night. Hit me up when you get here and I'd be more than happy to take you out.

The frame incorporates the existing ribs. They are cracked but are still bearing on the entire length of the hull. The extra cross members you see front to back bear on the existing ribs. Foam is good idea. One i'll probably use but I don't see any benefit of epoxy. Its not glued in and a good closed cell foam should be more than enough structure. Latex is just a insulator

That sucks about your boat. This is my 4th week since I've been without fishing. The longest since I've been a boat owner ad I'm going crazy. You may be able to adapt what I'm doing to an extent to minimize the flexing your having Aluminum just acts so much different than steel when welding. Temp is critical and it conducts and dissipates heat so fast I struggle. It takes more skill in my opinion. I generally use a spool gun (MIG) for aluminum, but I still don't have faith in it structurally in an application like a boat with so much flexing. I;m not saying aluminum boats are bad. I love mine. I'm just not set up, nor practiced enough to weld it consistently. These are a few pics of the frame I made to essentially replace all the structure in the front of the boat. I built it out of 1.5 and 1 inch square 16 ga tubing. I would have used thinner if it was available but my supplier doesn't carry 18ga. All in all I'm adding less than 200 lbs with the entire mod. Its painted with 2 different colors of paint. just using up old stuff sitting around. In the pics its up side down for paint and all the white stuff you see is Dynaflex 230. Just a latex caulk for exterior use thats flexible. The only reason for it is to separate the steel and aluminum. It acts as a spacer so the two different metals dont conduct across each other.From what I understand, when they touch it can cause the aluminum to pit. Basically like a sacrificial anode on your outboard. I have an idea but I don't fully understand it myself. Simple enough to use a little caution. When my wife gets back I'll put the frame in the boat and give a little more info on the design and build.

Just thought I'd post some info on my current boat repair. I've had a crack in the bottom for some time(its not floating, just very slowly sinking). my home lake is a little over 32000 acres and heavily developed. Ribbed aluminum boats and big rough water does not mix I've found. The past 4 years it has been on said water an average of 2 days a week and has taken quite the beating. I decided it was time to get her patched up and ready to sell this spring and move onto a new boat. I knew it was goint to take some work but I didn't realize how bad things were until I got going. I has hoping to pull the floor out. weld the crack and be done. I had hoped of redoing the front deck and adding a little storage, fish out of it the rest of the winter and send her to a good home this spring. After drilling some rivets and pulling the floor I found that every single rib was broken in at least 3 places. Some ribs had been welded by the previous owner and simply cracked on each side of the weld. Ive been fishing out of a hull with almost no support. Ignorance is bliss. Not only were the ribs cracked but every single support for the entire front deck was rattled loose. The rivets were just keeping the supports in place enough to keep the hull from caving in. I pulled most of them out by hand. After much head scratching and over complicating I decided on a fix. I don't like working with aluminum. Its expensive, hard for me to work with and I wanted something that didn't work-harden as easily. I decided on thin wall steel tubing. I'll be posting some pics of the fabrication. Id also like to say this is just what I came up with. Their is many many different ways to make this repair. I tried to keep cost down and make fabrication as user friendly as possible. Putting this out there in case somebody is in the same "boat" I was in and looking for a reasonable fix. Update to follow soon.

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I have been fishing a Lexa 400 for a few months. I really like it and I'm sure the 300's are great too but I still have some shimanos and tit for tat they have the edge on smoothness. They just feel more durable. Not knocking lexas and I plan on ordering another 400 HS. To me I dont think you could go wrong with either, lexa or just about anything shimano in the $200 range.

Double overhand to spool(living on the edge, I know) and a improved albright for the topshot. Just remeber if yo cant tie a knot, tie ALOT.

I feel like I've stayed out of this as long as I can. The whole "right customers" BS is about all I can take. I'm not on your list nor do I ever want to be. Apparently since I own a fish30acre bait it disqualifies me anyway. A business is not in business to make friends. If your not in business to make money your working for free . I pity all who have to tread lightly for fear of you "bumping" them off of your exclusive list. I however, do not. I think with this new thread, everyone has seen what type of person you are. All you have proven is you make a great bait, are completely inefficient in producing said bait, pre-sale baits with ridiculous wait times, have about as poor of a customer service department as you can imagine, and seem to have plenty of time to piss and moan over he said she said, "I've got screen shots from years ago" blabbidy blabbidy blah. I own a few 3:16 lures. All are well built and truth be told I would get a glide if I could(chances are I'll never see that pre-order in time)(Unless somebody important sees this,or someone in the know, in that case hook a brother up, promise it will be put to good use, AND I'm a pretty cool cat, that should count for something). I know when mickey says 2 to 3 weeks I can count on it being in the mailbox. I'd like to point out I'm sure you make an excellent bait Randall. You just handle conflict as a teenage pageant girl. I hope you get it back on track. And with your revolutionary patent and protecting it, wish you the best, hope you find MANY more people to presale baits to. You'll need those funds. Lawyers are very expensive. Good Luck This message brought to you by Miller Lite

Of those 2 I would go for the claw. If you could swing it, the new 175's have been a great bait for me. They can be had for very reasonable prices. For me the most versatile has been the 175. They are also very easy to tune if your looking to make it sink faster or super-slow sink but they work great out of the box. just my suggestion.

Great cat to deal with. Trade went smooth and fast shipping. Would have zero problems trade/buy/sell with Tim again.

Good fish! Cold weather moving in here. I'm ready to head to Florida this winter

Nice fish! Congrats on making it over the hump on the 250! It only gets better.