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John told me that Jordan is more than carrying his own weight now..and can't wait till he is old enough to fish against him! :) John B Article by Kellen Ellis: The Skeeter Boats and Aim Marine pro-staffers, John and Jordan Kerr won the Anglers of the Year title for the season, capping off a dominate season in NBW. They needed only a 19th place or better finish to secure the title. John's season has been as equally impressive as what Mike has done lately. With one Angler of the Year title...

need help, kids did something with the manual. This inflatable has 5 floor boards with the two ribs on the side. For life of me I cant figure how to get together. any help appreciated....

As I review the last few days of posts here, it is really terrific to see the friendly exchange of information and news in this group without the surly and vulgar insults that you-know-who routinely posts. Let's hope the old Irish blessing, something about "wind in your sails..." keeps him out to sea for a long time....

I would appreciate some suggestions for a drop shot hook. I have not found one that I really like. TIA. Jack...

Having been through most of the Internet this afternoon (even Italy / France Spain/ Finland and Canada... apart form eBay, I can't find a source of charts for a Garmin 180. Obviously, since Garmin gave up on supporting any of their marine products 5 years ago there seems to be a massive demand for Micro G-Charts (and less so G-Charts.) I assume that they run on earlier PC architecture. Does anyone know where to get these charts from? If not, Has anybody tried to / knows how to :- - "Read" one...

When I was a kid in the late Sixties and my family was just getting into boating, "cathedral" hulls were all the rage. In case anybody doesn't know what I'm talking about, that's the term for that pseudo-trimaran hull design like the boat the father character drove in the TV show "Flipper." That particular boat was a 22-foot Thunderbird Iroquis. Thunderbird, the precursor to Formula, was one of the biggest users of the design. Both Johnson and Evinrude sold cathedral-hull boats...

Our local water district is finally getting around to addressing mussels even though they were discovered months ago in a nearby reservoir (San Justo in No Cal, which was closed almost immediately). One of the options under consideration is to completely shut down all boating. I have purchased season passes for my boat for years in this county and I'm not about to let them shut everything down. We already went through this with MTBE. Just curious as to what others are seeing. Inspections I can...

Our local water district is finally getting around to addressing mussels even though they were discovered months ago in a nearby reservoir (San Justo in No Cal, which was closed almost immediately). One of the options under consideration is to completely shut down all boating. I have purchased season passes for my boat for years in this county and I'm not about to let them shut everything down. We already went through this with MTBE. Just curious as to what others are seeing. Inspections I can...

Be advised that if you are going to use your Master/OUPV ticket, meaning take out someone for hire, you must have a Transportation Worker Identification Credential, or TWIC, which is somehow going to keep our country safer. I just picked mine up yesterday and their machine spent a half hour trying to recognize my fingerprint. I was told that we should wait until sometime in June when new software will supposedly fix this. I was also told that there will be no enforcement of the TWIC requirement...

The animal rights nuts have won in Switzerland - to protect fish there you must kill every one you catch. "And anglers in the country will have to demonstrate their expertise by taking a course on humane methods of catching fish, under new legislation outlined by the Bundesrat - the Swiss Federal Parliament. The new legislation states that fish caught should be killed immediately following their capture, with a sharp blow to the head from a blunt instrument. Under the new regulations, the use...

The Priest and the Rabbi A priest and a rabbi were sitting next to each other in an airplane. After a while, the priest turned to the rabbi and asked, 'Is it still a requirement of your faith that you not eat pork?' The rabbi responded, 'Yes, that is still one of our laws.' The priest then asked, 'Have you ever eaten pork?' To which the rabbi replied, 'Yes, on one occasion I did succumb to temptation and tasted a ham sandwich.' The priest nodded in understanding and went on with his reading. A...

Hello all, This news story was in my local newspaper the other day(Baton Rouge, Louisiana). When I read the short story on the front page, and saw the number of fish, I thought this must be a typo. After I read the full story inside the newspaper, and found out the number of fish was no typo, I could hardly believe it was true, since I have chartered with this Captain before. Apart from the Captain, what I really find troubling is the attitude of these 18 fishing individuals from Georgia, I...

Antero Reservoir Closed To Boaters Denver Water Concerned About Spread Of Zebra Mussels Deb Stanley, 7NEWS Producer Denver Water has temporarily closed Antero Reservoir because of the concern over zebra mussels. Zebra Mussels are an agGressive, non-native pest. They were detected at Pueblo Reservoir. According to Denver Water, zebra mussels can clog pipes, valves, gates and any water-related equipment or surface. They can ruin boats by jamming equipment and causing motor damage, and they destroy...

St Croix rods IMO seem to do a better job of labeling rods than anybody else. Believe it or not Bass Pros label is probably second, except they only list power, and not speed on most of their rods. I've been pretty disappointed in the accuracy of some of the other high price rods out there, particularly in their light and medium light rods. Even a light action rod that is labeled extra fast should not bend 1/2 way down to the butt before it starts to load up. That's a moderate speed rod, not a...

I fish a small 7 arce pond 98% of the time, I've always like Terminator Spinnerbaits in the 1/8 oz. Tiny T model, I like it that a 3-4 pound fish does not destroy it or that I need to retune it. The last 2 I've bought both had the whole swivel & blade come off, I don't think I'm ruff on them, I place them in a binder when not in use. Anybody else been having problems with these Tint T's? I use 6 pound line and only replace them when I hang one up in a tree or give them to a kid who's been...

As Rich said, stripers don't build beds. They swim upstream, the female squirts out the eggs in current and the male fertilizes them as they float along. That is why stripers can't spawn in most reservoirs - they need many miles of flowing water for their eggs to hatch before they settle to the bottom and die from being covered by silt. I have heard it takes about 100 miles of flowing water for the eggs to hatch. Ronnie fishing.guide@about.com http://fishing.about....

Heyo, I'm _very_ new to bass fishing (fishing in general, as well), but I've been going out about every other week with my father-in-law for about a month. Just yesterday morning we were in his canoe on Dorena Resevoir (Western Oregon) in a few shallow channels where the water is coming over the grassy flats (1-4 feet of water), we were there from 5:30 to 9 but couldn't get any bass to bite. I know they were there because we kept spooking them! We'd come into one of the little channels rather...

I am finesse fishing around lots of structure in low-vis water with 4" Fluttercraft worms. The best setup so far that I have found is a med-med/hvy spinning rod 6.5-7feet. 15 pound Power Pro (4lb dia.) with a direct tied (uni-uni) 5 foot leader of 10-12lb fluorocarbon. I then use a tungsten 1/8oz bullet and small bead with a #1 Owner 'rig-n-hook'. Sometimes I will peg the weight and bead up 18" but most times I peg the weight only about 3" up. Sometimes I d-shot these worms...

All tests were done with Berkely & Trilene lines so other brands may vary slightly. So far I am up to test 5 and they are putting the Trilene Knot up against the Palomar. Both are 100% line strength with mono and flourocarbon. with their knot testing machine the lines broke before the knots broke or slipped. The Palomar shows in their tests as the clear winner though as it held better with braid. That does not mirror my own experience, but its hard to argue when you look at their testing...

Hi, I have a boat in a marina, and decided to try an experiment to see if it would attract fish. I submerged a platform about 3-4 feet deep, it's about as wide as the slip, and about 8 feet front to back. So even though I'm in about 30 feet of water, I still have a shallow area at the front of my slip. I put some containers full of mud/sand from the river on the platform to grow water plants in. I didn't think of all this until the end of last summer, but during the winter it did attract...