youp50

Seriously? I drove 40 miles sent you one free. You were to send me something in a box, a swap. You offered to send shipping and that never showed.

Sorry OP this is not a Lake O but a Superior place to fish. There are some spots with an eagle's nest in sight of the shoreline. I always start trolling shallow, inside planers in 3 fow or so. A fish that shallow is there to eat. This particular day and nest was the first day the female was off the nest, only one limb above, but off. The mate was a hundred yards away, sitting between a turkey vulture and the nest. The vulrture was sitting with its wings cocked forward. I expect he was thinking eaglet of the day. I set my drags light enough to hold the in lines and the clicker is on. We love hearing the reel sing on a hit. I was fishing a larger jointed Rap, rainbow trout was the color. I turned to the bow to instruct the pilot where to go and ask her what kind of sandwiches she had packed, and the reel screamed like I have never heard prior. We had found a few absolute jumbo kings earlier, wife had a mid 20s, a real beast of a spring king in Superior. I had lost another. I knew we had another chance at one heading for some deeper water. I turned expecting to see it clearing the surface. Up there the kings in shallow come out like summer rainbows. And there was my inline 20 feet off the water and gaining elevation with every wing beat. The fight was interesting, she would not let go. After circling the boat, ever smaller, I was able to get a hand on her. I always have heavy leather gloves on board, they are to rip as much tackle as possible from poorly marked Native gill nets, normally just the rigger ball. They came in handy to keep my skin intact. Still, the beak pinched plenty hard through the gloves and Carhart canvas, no blood though. either one of us. We were able to free her from the hook and turn her loose. Between the screaming, the mate worrying us, the biting and the wing beats, I am pretty sure she thought we were going to eat her. Close to a six foot wingspan, Bird of a lifetime. Never took a pic, too much going on, not sure how many laws I was violating, and if questioned now, its just a tale. Feds aren't my favorite people. The few I met seem to have no sense of humor.

If I was interested in doing this, One needs to manufacture the parts needed, taking into account the behavior of wire line. I do not see a way to have an inline planer release. Its not all that difficult to point the rod at the board and swing the board in when close enough. Holding the board tight at the rear or front and rear does not mitigate the extreme disappointment of a fish of a lifetime running towards the boat prior to getting the board off. (It still stings). Back to the wire; The front connection should be a very tight snatch hook pulley design. It does not have to turn, just keep the wire on a inch or better radius. Those small white nylon pulleys are all over the place. I havent thought much how to undo it, but you better make it fast and easy. The back would need to be a piece of SS tubing bent and split. Fill it with a rugged rtv and fasten to a spring loaded clamp. That holds the board from slipping. Who knows, maybe I will make one and come out there and run it. The come out there and fishing has a better chance of happening than building a Rube Goldberg release. V1.0

Amazon has tie rod ends for mowers less than 10. A piece of threaded rod and a couple of jam nuts from your hardware store. Connect them at the front of the motors. Drill holes if you have to. We did my brothers boat at less than 20 bucks. Its at least as user friendly as my ez steer. (I have a stern drive, ez steer is the option)

Those are cool as can be. Exceptionally rare? Females only? I think I would have to kill and mount one of those.

I know its Lake Ontario..... I have a 27 inch buck mounted from a Lake Superior trib. It was beautiful from the stream, not so from the taxidermist. Lesson to be learned take lots of pics for the artist to try to replicate. I was fishing a two month long derby, weigh a fish a week. No frozen fish and no upgrades, weigh your fish and that's it for the week. (FWIW I placed second) I had the fish mounted as a memento; not for the size or beauty but for my personal feelings as I was fighting it. It was a time of low flow and fish were hard to come by. All I thought about was "I can't lose the fish, I need it for the week's weight" The more I pondered it, the more I realized I do not fish for personal gain, but for personal enjoyment. Its the last derby I ever fished. I am perfectly fine with competitors that have a need to fish in derbies. Not for me, if a fish is lost at the net it doesn't matter to me. As stated before, why you mount a fish is a matter of personal preference.

A few years back there was a scare in Michigan's food pantries about donated venison containing lead. The Health Department tested a large sample and found no lead. I process my own venison. If its blood shot, its trimmed and discarded. If there is any lead, it will be in the blood shot meat, pitch it. If you take your deer to a commercial cutter, all bets are off. I know of several that will see you get your deer back, but the grinder..... it is not cleaned between deer.

Back to the OP. Some years ago, it was common for retailers to deeply discount ML supplies after the seasons were closed. I bought a bunch of Barnes TMZ 250 gr bullets. They came with a supplied yellow sabot. Barnes was changing to a crush rib sabot and a call to them got a bunch of the smooth yellow sabots delivered to the armory. I have found that knurling the bullet increases accuracy. I run it out of a Savage 10ML with a load of mixed smokeless powder. I do not recall the MV, but it is much faster than one can achieve with anything other than Blackhorn, and it surpasses that. The bullet is major overkill on a whitetail, but then how dead is too dead? I typically shoot through the ribs and find an exit hole. No birds going to eat that bullet and I don't eat the ribs I would never pay 1.25 or more for a bullet/sabot like current prices are. Some I paid 3 for a buck and some were 4 for a buck. I expect I have a lifetime supply of them. Fun shooting finds me using 250 gr .452 pistol bullets or 300 gr .458 rifle bullets.