Kevin Skovenski

Madison, WI, United States

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13 Nov 12:01

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Brian Barde Barde Rods have arrived!

Hey community, had to share my recent delivery from our own communities Brian Barde. He made me two spinning rods, they both resemble the Favorite BLat sick stick. I feel the GRB closely resembles the sick stick with the “MH” feel and action with just the right amount of ehhhh. The Bushido is a little on the lighter size. I feel it’s going to be great for smaller lighter baits like Crappie and Walleye. Saturday I hope to get on the water and do some testing with a variety of baits. If you have any bait suggestions before Saturday let me know. I’ll give them a try.

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12 Nov 19:38

Hey Tron, are you fishing a tournament series?

12 Nov 19:37

Nice work Randy!

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11 Nov 20:20

Tell you what, this is by far my favorite app! Real family atmosphere on here, I’d be excited to get to know and fish with everyone single one of you on here. Brian’s honesty in his videos on here sells me. As for all the fishing info and videos out there in the world, the videos and info on here are my “confidence baits” if that makes sense. We are truly a community and I love and appreciate it and all of you!

Yeah I don’t have much confidence in their calendar.

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That sounds fun! Last lake I fished was a natural lake and just a bowl. Fished the steeper part of the drop offs. Not much luck. Trying to graph around to find that structure.

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Commented on Buying a Used Boat

10 Nov 19:18

So I bought a used boat a couple years ago and have it all fixed up. Last thing I would like to do for next season is re-power. It’s a 2004 Crestliner Sportfish 18.5’ with a Mercury 125 2 stroke. Top speed is about 35-40mph. My wants are to increase top end speed to 55-60 while maintaining fuel efficiency. Also to have a 4 stroke. With your experience do you feel 150 will do the trick or go up to 175? Max hp for the boat is 200.

10 Nov 10:29

So this is a natural lake, just a big bowl down to 65ft. I didn’t have a lot of time to graph, but the time I did I concentrated in the 15-25ft range where ledges are the steepest. Didn’t see any structure or activity. Anywhere there were still good green weeds typically in the 8-10ft range held a lot of suspending and bottom fish. That’s where I spent the majority of my time. But as luck would have it…I towed a boat in that had engine issues. The dock they wanted to go to was in the narrow river channel where the natural lake drains to the next lake. There was soooo much bait in that channel it was insane. I could see fish activity eating the baitfish as I was towing these guys in. Sad to say I didn’t get to fish that channel. It was getting dark and I still had a 20minute run to my dock. Next time…