the most important thing is fishing lakes that have good populations of 2 + pound fish. Second most important thing is to have good Electronics, and use them! Garmin livescope has really helped me Target the biggest fish in an area. YouTube
For three years a heart condition and my wife's failing health kept us from using the pontoon. We fished the slips as she could but very few two pounders are caught in the slips at Joe Pool Lake. Now that it has been almost a year since my wife died I am starting to fish with the pontoon again. First I had get it upgraded with some of the newer electronics and fishing gear. But after a three year absence I need to relearn everything over again.
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I just upgraded my trolling motor to the 36 V, 112# MinnKota Ultrex. have it on my pontoon now and love it. I ordered the Live Scope with a Garmin echoMap Plus 93 sv. Now I am impatiently waiting for it to be delivered. I am going to do the mobile setup with it so I can use it on the front of my pontoon and on the slips when the weather is too tough to go onto the lake. That will certainly add a new dimension to slip fishing, being able to see which slip has brush and fish.
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