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. Wow - what a nice, new look to the forum !!! :thumbup: :thumbup: Please see below instructions manuals from my GPS and VHF radio -- before I blow some transistor somewhere by reversing connections, anybody know if "+" goes to "Data In" or what? http://www.forumpictureprocessor....

Tom - I got a "page not found" when I tried to SEARCH on "karstranger". O

therwise navigation has been ok. I will see if this message sends ok. I will try posting a picture.

KR

A big part of trolling is how deep do you want your presentation. Water speed determines the depth a lure runs at. If you use gps speed as your guide, you will need to constantly adjust for current to hit your depth, which is going to usually be just a guess. RPMs work just as well. Thanks grim ree...

So Karst, what was the final answer from all the advice you got about trolling? :thumbup: Well JF, I guess I will just let youall more experienced anglers duke it out for a while longer, as you can see there is not :smt014 too much concensus as of yet... My take-aways so far are this: 1) Troll over...

Monday morning, Dec. 10. 8:45 and still a little foggy. Ventured out of Steinhatchee with some some frozen sardines and squid, and a couple of trolling lures to try to do our best to reduce the grouper population by a little. No grouper for us this day, but we did catch a cooler full of black sea ba...

Thanks . I went to Wilson's earlier this afternoon. Nice, well stocked place, good selelction on the Mann Stretch+ lures - a nice lady and her daughter running the store. Didn't have any of those roller rod tips however. I may have to look up the rod at Penn and order it that way.

5 mph should be 5 mph. It is surface speed. If you are traveling with current you use less throttle to maintain 5 mph. If you travel against current you use more throttle to maintain 5 mph. 5 mph is 5 mph regardless of the resistance of the water. I guess I don't understand :hammer: . Isn't my conc...

Can someone point me at a decent place I can get a reel worked on and also I need some replacement rod tips, etc. Preferably in Perry, but Live Oak or Branford would be ok too? Thanks.

4-6 mph depending on the current. Remember, if the current is against you at 2 mph, and your GPS says 5, the lure is running at 7mph in the water. This past Monday, we trolled a lot of miles in 30 ft. of water (about 20 mi. East out of Steinhatchee), but didn't get the first hit while trolling. We ...

Tom Keels wrote: Stretch 25's, 30's and Rapala CD14's are the baits of choice.

Thanks for the info, Tom. About what lb. test of leader and how much leader length would you run on these? We were going to try Steinhatchee Reef, first. Don't know if any grouper are holding there, but hope to find out.

If you ain't never bouncing off the bottom once in a while you don't have the plug in the zone. I have not had much luck trolling out of Steinhatchee but then I have been staying near the surface. What type of lure do you troll with that you can "bounce off the bottom one in a while" and ...

Sounds like you have taken good care of that generator. 1) why are you not keeping it for that NEXT hurricane? 2) and, more important, how long does it run on that 5 gallon tank?

Darn! :hammer: -- with the cold snap, I just built a doghouse for this crew of bumbling idiots. Oh well, thanks :thumbup: :thumbup: for offering this free in the forum, I hope someone can use it. http://www.forumpictureprocessor.com/pictureprocessor/images/2007-09%20Office%20-%20Scalloping%20034.jpg

Thanks :thumbup: I remember those converter boxes now that you remind me. I am not so good with a soldering iron :hammer: , so I was trying to avoid putting the FM type plug on it if someone told me it was not worth it. Now to the fun stuff of cutting a hole in the dashboard for mounting that FM rad...

Before I cut off this nice VHF connector and try it on an FM radio, can anybody offer an opinion if it will perform decently for FM? A friend gave me the VHF antenna and I would like to hook it up to the FM/CD on my river boat.