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Ray I'll get right on it after I get all the ice an snow off my roof.

Must be you bought a Honda.

Hoping that's an inside joke. If not there is no room for that kind of reply here.

BoatLIFE: Life Caulk, or a good grade of silicon. But 1st choice is Life Caulk. Hope that helps you.

Cottage Inn. If your around Fair Haven or Port Bay.

Nisson, smaller Mercs and a few others are as Sponge said above made by Tohatsu. They are an excellent motor and one of the oldest outboard manufactures in the world. Ray I'll keep my eyes open for something used in that range for ya. i have a couple older 9.8's 2 stroke's here but I wouldn't feel comfortable selling for what your going to use it for. Don't discount onlineoutboards I have heard good things about them and the pricing is reasonable.

Slider: It's a safe deal. But remember what Chad & Moto said above. Don't give any info on a simple e-mail message. It'll come back to burn ya. A good friend of mine got caught up that way with scamers.

Just read this. But Squirrel's way is the way to go. All the rubber and tape is no substitute for a solid mount that metal to metal can do when you lock them down.

A 47 will hold 1000' with no problem, with no backing. 57's no problem at all. For the wire I liked the 57 expect the drag's on the older one's. A bit bigger reel but it made up for it in spool capacity as well as the larger handle and gear ratio.

Not going to happen for the rest of this administration. Hopefully after the 1st of next year thing's will change some.

Drag's on the original AccuDepths sucked in plain terms. Gear ratio is great tho for wire set-up's. I haven't used the Plus's yet. So i have no idea if they corrected it or not.

Mike Ck your pm's.

I would say with the new breed of spoons. Stinger NBK. Old breed: September Spoon that a good friend of ours out this way came up with years back. NK 28 plain Blk. White green glow with a strip of pink along the factory tape. Been a main stay for alot of year's especially deeper, but usually good where ever you run it. Forgot one: The Aug. spoon is the same but with a silver cup. Thank Jim Well's (Orange Peel) for that one.

Mike: Is this a test. You kn the difference, you were around back then. A lot of people mistake them for Ling or Dog Fish. http://www.seagrant.wisc.edu/greatlakesfish/burbot.html

Back in the 70's on Oneida when they were plentiful. They were all over the ice. They were considered trash fish by most. It was a waist of a good eating fish as well as a resource. We kept all of our's that we wanted and put the rest back thru the hole, tried to inform others around us to put them back as well if they weren't going to keep them. Most were fishing walleye riggs on bottom. Pimple or jig dressed with spikes or a small buckeye and the burbot came right along with the eye's. Table fare: Can't beet em. Very similar to cod.

Mike & Frank are great people and the best there was at prop's. Hand's down. Was sorry to see it when they sold out. If Mike get's back in it let me kn. Alot of brass & nibrows around that need his expertise.

Al: What Alan said is the way to do it unless you pull the lower and pull the carrier. Then you can use a bit more heat. I don't kn how bad yours is bent but make sure to pull the prop and put a wet rag as Al stated around the prop shaft right tight to the seals, and try to straiten out a small portion at a time. Work your way from the bottom up

Umm I don't think so less your 7' tall. Sold and rigged a lot of em and no complaints. Ask Billy what he thinks of his. 26 and 28 are basically the same cockpit. Freeboard and area.

315-483-8567 Bill or Joan.

I have not installed one or serviced any yet, but the reviews I have read are mostly positive.

Don't forget that if your watching speed as well. With the probe down in the ice water and your main rigg's 20 or so ft above it. you very well might not be running them at the speed you think you are. Down currents are strange at times. As in down current sheers etc. Many times I've seen a westerly current down to X amount of ft. Drop the probe down 20 or so in the ice and it's exactly the opposite Best to ck down speed at different depths from time to time to see what's going on. I'll usually find 48 to 52 for king's and ck. speed to start and setup there, but use the probe after with a spoon up and down to see whats going on down below. No set rules. A lot of times knowing your speed in your spread is more important than temp. esp. with kings.

Posted this on another tread, but it's room for thought as well as promoting LOU. I don't think I can make it out there. But why not get some simple name tag's on your coat or shirt with LOU and your user name on them so some of you that have never met in person can figure out who's who. Maybe just Lake Ontario United or LOU on them. Just a suggestion. Don't shoot the messenger. Coure if Ray wasn't in FL. He'd want you to walk around with either a pink ribbon tied round your head or camo thongs.

30# Big Game

Big Game hands down. 15# till the fleas show-up. Then 30# on the rigger rod's after.

As Bill and Mower said above. As long as you have a water separator filter on it, ( if you don't put one on. It's a good investment) and replace it before you start it up, and check and replace it a few times after, you should have no problems especially if you had a stabilizer in it. If you have a filter on it the only problems you might encounter is the old fuel that was setting in the carb for that long varnishing. After you have run it awhile and if it seems ok add some fresh fuel and, or octane booster to it to get what's in there back up. On another note: If it hasn't been run in a year or so pull the coil wire & ground it and, or disable the ignition system, and turn the engine over until you have oil pressure before you fire it up. I am assuming this is an I/O. But the same will hold true with an O/B depending on what it is.