Professional tournament anglers, weekend warriors, and recreational fishermen all have one thing in common; they all want to catch more fish. No matter if it’s largemouth bass, smallmouth, stripers, white bass, trout, walleye, salmon, tarpon, redfish, or bream. If it swims, anglers will fish for it; however, not everyone has time to study lake maps or find out where the fish are biting before heading out fishing. In today’s world more and more anglers are getting fishing information on the web. Unfortunately, fishing reports are dated and limited in beneficial information. What caught them last week probably will not catch them this week. The real key to using the internet for getting fishing information is to have a dependable source of information. That’s where ProPatterns, a web based database comes in. ProPatterns is a community of anglers that not only fish for bass, but every species of fish that swim. What makes ProPatterns different from other social angling network is the ability to share personal fishing information with other members or record them for personal use later. Unlike fishing reports, ProPatterns database has in-depth information on lure color, water temperature, air temperature, water clarity, time, date, and other essential information. It’s designed to allow anglers to form patterns or starting points on ponds, rivers, lakes, reservoirs, inshore saltwater, flats, or offshore saltwater they will be fishing.
Data shows that the average boater keeps their boat for four years before selling it. In today’s economy more boaters are keeping their boats longer and putting off purchasing new boats. This leads to boaters owning their boats longer and boat seats being exposed to the elements causing damage requiring repairs or replacing seats. You’re boat seats will last three years unless left outside exposed to Mother Nature where they last for one season or your first boating trip of the year- Murphy’s Law on boat seats. Sooner or later your boat seats will need to be replaced. The only question is do you really want to try and fix them or purchase new ones to replace them. In most situations, the cost to fix or reupholster your boat seats is nearly the same as buying new ones.
Basically, boat owners have three options on fixing their damaged or worn out boat seats. The first is to purchase a repair kit and try to fix it yourself. While this may be an alternative, it’s not a good one if you plan on reselling the boat. The directions on the label make it seem like an easy task and you can repair holes, rips, tears, or burns. In reality, it takes a professional upholster to use the kit correctly. Another problem with a repair kit is matching the color of the seat. No matter how good you are at mixing the colors, it’s never going to match perfect. Plus that hole, rip, tear, or burn spot will always stick out where you fix it or be susceptible to damaging again. Repair kits should be used only as a temporary fix until a better option is found.
Lake Sidney Lanier, the final frontier. This is the voyage of SeeTheLake.net to seek out new life, new schools of fish, to boldly go where no angler has gone before and mark way points and video miles and miles of shoreline. This cutting edge multi-media technology is allowing anglers to find new honey holes without leaving their homes or boats. Captain’s log star date 1085.25. We have traveled into uncharted waters where other anglers are sure to follow. While other ships have traveled here before, only primitive paper maps were available to navigate from on Lake Sidney Lanier. As we venture into the uncharted waters, we are learning more and more about this lake, it structure, and the bass that inhabit these waters. Captain’s log star date 1050.79. The multi-media mapping of Lake Sidney Lanier by SeeTheLake.net includes 45-second high quality digital video footage and numerous waypoints established when the lake level was 20-foot below conservation pool. This gives anglers a comprehensive view of what is under the water surface at conservation pool. It has over 800 miles of shoreline and islands, 7,000 45-second high quality digital video footage with updated GPS coordinates every second, 320,000 GPS waypoints, and the ability to freeze frame on over 19 million video pictures.
It’s killing you! The hot summer sun is burning down the back of your neck, frying your face and ears. You have tried to apply suntan lotion ever now and then, but it just runs off you like beads of sweat. If there was only a way to stay cool, protect your skin from harmful ultraviolet radiation, and keep that sharp dressed look? Thanks to Buff’s there is now. Buff has just released their new line of High UV Protection Buff headwear. UV Buff line of headwear is made from stretchy, seamless CoolMax Extreme fabric that can protect anglers against 95-percent of harmful Ultraviolet radiation, and will absorb the sun’s glare. Not only will it protect you from the harmful UV rays, but help reduce skin temperature and lower heart rate. UV Buff headwear will also decrease engine noise and is wind resistant. As for keeping your swagger, High UV Protection Buff headwear comes in a number of stylish, designer patterns that will complement any angler’s attitude.
UV Buff headwear is made with seamless CoolMax Extreme fabric with a special 4-channel fiber that forms a transport system pulling moisture away from the skin to the outer layers of the fabric. After pulling the moisture away it will dry quicker than any other fabric and thermo-regulate the body. CoolMax has been proven to reduce the skin temperature, lower heart rates, and meets the highest ADVANSA standard for performance certification. For UV protection, the High UV Protection Buff headwear blocks out more than 95% of ultraviolet radiation from direct sunlight. Sunburn is the burning of your skin due to overexposure of ultraviolet radiation. Reducing ultraviolet radiation will reduce the chances of squamous cell carcinoma skin cancer after repeated exposure to the ultraviolet rays. Another advantage of wearing High UV Buff is Polygiene technology meaning that they are cleaner and will not smell repulsive after a day on the lake.
Uh-huh life’s like this. Uh-huh that’s the way it is for Chris Hines. Hines’ life once was uncomplicated. He had a good paying job. No problems. Life was easy. Then life went and got complicated. Hines lost his right hand just above his wrist in a job related accident when a machine malfunctioned. Twenty-one reconstruction surgeries failed to attach his hand back to his arm. That same company fired him a short time later. For two months, Hines sat around. Life was like this…complicated. That’s the way it was.
I can’t get no, satisfaction, I can’t get no satisfaction, and I tried and I tried but I can’t get no satisfaction with store bought lures. Hey, hey, hey…store bought lures just don’t seem to catch as many fish as ones that I have altered with. It doesn’t matter what species of fish it is; it’s just so rewarding knowing that I just caught a fish with something I helped make.
Hand crafting lures goes way back to the beginning when man built their first lure. Maybe they added a feather or shinny stone to a bone to attract or entice a fish to catch them. The great thing now is anglers can purchase holographic tape and craft products from fishing tackle retailers, lure building supply companies, or from individual companies like WTP Inc. (www.wtp-inc.com) who offer a wide selection of products for hand crafting lures. WTP Inc. owner, Ron Warczynski, loves to see the final results of lures when anglers enhance them with holographic tape products. “There are so many different things you can do with the tape products; there are endless ways of using it to change a lure, planner board, flashers, dodgers, spoons, blades, and the list goes on and on,” Warczynski, “it’s only limited to the imagination of whoever is using it and the self satisfaction is immeasurable.”
I can’t get no, satisfaction, I can’t get no satisfaction, and I tried and I tried but I can’t get no satisfaction with store bought lures. Hey, hey, hey…store bought lures just don’t seem to catch as many fish as ones that I have altered with. It doesn’t matter what species of fish it is; it’s just so rewarding knowing that I just caught a fish with something I helped make.