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average knowledge and skill????come on rod,who are you trying to kid!!!!hahhaha

big bill,check out lotsa website for info and registration for the class,also,take fishtails advice on being an observer for a tourny this summer.he asked me to a few years back and i learned a tremendous amount from fishing with him and also observing on other boats.its alot of fun and you also get to meet alot of other great fisherman.

hey skate,where do you find ugly stick trolling rods for 40 bucks?i would love to go with them,but i cant find them for less then 60 bucks.

i bought a couple of bass pro rigger rods,which are fairly light,that i used for riggers and running them off the boards for browns.very inexpensive.okuma magda 20 series reels are also inexpensive and hold up pretty good.

giz,those would be good for browns.set them up with some short cores.

anytime dan,we are on the water every weekend,give me a shout on the radio,im always willing to share info.

good point bazooka,we do that for our split shot rigs,use our mono rigger setups and just leader down.and yes,the 17's do take a few cranks to get them in,but not to terrible.

they should be line counters,so you know how far back you are.as far as reels we use daiwa 17's for the short cores,but you can go with 20 series reels.the okuma magdas 20 are fairly cheap and will be fine for browns.you have plenty of time till spring,keep an eye on the classifieds or maybe post in the classifieds that you are looking for reels.

that is how many are on the reel.so what we do is we will let out 1 color 100 ft,so if you run a 30 ft leader and 1 color is 30 ft then you would have about 40 ft of backing out.then we send out the 2 color 100 ft.do the same thing on the other side.depending on how many rods we can run,we will also run a mono rod with a split shot or two.

this past spring was our first time for browns,so im no expert,but will share what we did.we ran otter boats,so we had 2,1 color core and 2,2 color cores,so you have one for each side.we ran them on diawa 17 series line counters,but i think any 20 series reel would be fine, with 25 lb mono for backing and 30 ft of 12 lb mono for a leader.i will be dropping down to 12 lb backing for next year,as there wasnt enough backing with the 25 lb.i know some guys run as light as 8 lb,but i wasnt comfortable with going that light,as there are some kings and steelies in the mix.any light action rod will do,its best to have them all the same length,as it makes it easier to stack them in the trees.we ran spoons on one side and sticks on the other and also split the riggers one spoon and one stick.as the fish start to tell you what they want you can adjust your pattern accordingly.this was good for early spring when you will be fishing in less then 15 fow.once they start sliding out,you can go with 3,4,5 color cores or start running big jon mini discs to get down.have a good variety of spoon colors,as it seemed to change from day to day.

we use 30 lb 7 strand blood run on okuma 30 series reels.1000 feet with no backing and a 25 lb mono leader with no problems other than trying to get the bass fisherman who we bring out not to set the hook!!!!!even after telling them 10 times not to.

check with the town you are looking to buy land in.some towns do not allow camper trailers to be put on vacant land.i know mexico is one of the towns.

x2.what gill-t said.

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16 ft charter boat???????

where are you looking?

i had a 21 ft walkaround with a 8 hp 2-stroke and it pushed it just fine.4-strokes are nice though cause you can just tap into your on board tank.

ive stayed in the cabins at mikes this past season,cant beat the price!!!!!

hey tod,just like we talked about,,think some people just like to look at pics.

i lived in hopatcong for a while,i fish out of mexico and i am always willing to share info.as far as spoons,you should go back through the fishing reports from this past spring to get an idea,for us there wasnt one spoon that stuck out and this was my first year fishing browns,so i dont have years of experience to say,but we did well just about every day out.i can tell you that things change day to day,so what worked yesterday,didnt work today.try to have a good variety of colors.seemed like spoons would work in the morning and then sticks would take over in the afternoon and the next day it would be just the opposite.need to change things up quite a bit until you start hitting them and then you can start tuning your program.good luck and feel free to shoot me a pm anytime.

welcome aboard,make sure you have some spoons in your arsenal for browns.

rolmops is right.you should do some rewiring and have a battery just for starting your motor and then a deep cycle battery for riggers and trolling motor.if you use your trolling motor and riggers alot,depending on the size of your boat,you may even want to run 2 deep cycle batteries.

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