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stinger

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    Binghamton,NY
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    Fishing & Hunting
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    Li'L Buddy

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  1. Try the spray white lithium grease. It should last longer.
  2. Try Budge Industries, boat covers. The better 1200 denier cover is pretty good. Like any cover you'll have to properly support it for snow load.
  3. Hi Joe. Welcome to LOU. You will probably get better help with more views in the "This Old Boat" in the section of LOU. Good luck with your repair.
  4. Think twice about momentary switches. When you start fishing the 70' to 120' depths it will be frustrating holding the switch down setting a line or retrieving the ball to reset a line. Manual switch is good, the clutch is your friend.
  5. Most of the Big Jon's operate like that. I've been doing it for over 30 years. Just be sure that you have the clutch set to just hold the rigger ball while trolling so if the ball comes all the way up before you stop it the cable doesn't snap .
  6. My vote goes to Torpedo trolling wire 19-strand. May cost a little more but well worth it.
  7. Many of the church folks miss these shows because of the day and or hours.
  8. Good idea. The dielectric grease will keep the contacts from corroding yet will not affect the electrical continuity of the circuits. Keep protective caps on exposed plugs/sockets so dust & dirt don't stick to the grease.
  9. I have a Mercury 115hp four stroke that I bought new in 2002 and a Merc 9.9 four stroke kicker new in 2006. I've been using regular 87 octane ethanol gas ever since I owned these engines without any problems. I use marine version stabile at every time I fuel up and double it on my last fishing trip of the season before winter storage. There is usually anywhere from 10 to 20 gallons of fuel in the tank over the winter. My boat has a 48 gallon plastic translucent fuel tank. In the spring when I bring the boat out of storage and before I fire up the engines I siphon out about gallon of fuel from the bottom of the tank into a clear or glass bottle to check for any deposits, water or gunk. The results are very little foreign substances in the bottom of the tank. Using muffs the engines fire right up. I don't have any science or big words that I can't spell behind this post. Just results that I have experienced the last twenty one years with these two engines.
  10. Great video. Gets the blood pumping on these cold January days waiting for spring.
  11. If you want to play with a DIY project this winter try this if your boat doesn't have a foam filled hull liner. Get a piece of PVC pipe that is big enough diameter for your existing transducer will fit in. Cut one end of the pipe the same angle as your hull and mount the transducer in it so that it shoots straight down without hitting the hull when the pipe is mounted in the hull. Silicone the pipe to the hull. Fill the pipe with water when you are ready to try it out. If you like the results then you are good to go otherwise move on to some other setup. I did this with a 19' fiberglass runabout back in the 90's when I fished Oneida Lake and it worked just fine. I mounted it half way between the bow & transom because back them we would drift for walleye and the boat would drift perpendicular to the line of drift. Any fish marks were pretty much under the boat as we drifted along jigging or dragging nightwalkers. This setup also held bottom as we were on plane tooling along to our fishing spots.
  12. I have a new in the box Furuno 520 IHD, P79 Plastic In- Hull Transducer for sale if you are interested.
  13. I have to agree. DEC did a good job of reducing the lamprey population on Cayuga. Hopefully Seneca will follow suit. It took a couple years to get the lampricide treatment and stream conditions to match on Cayuga. Once the treatment is successful it takes out four years of the larvae stage. For those that weren't around during those days lamprey attachments were not only on the rigger balls, many times they were also on the boat transom.
  14. Arima Sea Ranger 19HT . (18'11")
  15.  Just read up on your post about lead-core.Fishing news is scarce  this time of year. Things have been crazy for me. Did not fish much. I got four ambulance rides to the hospital with heart problems.  had a triple bypass that didn't go well.  Luckily [if you want to call it that]  Im a disabled vet otherwise I would be buried in Hospital bills.   Hopefully I will be squared away for next year...   My only project has been a electric winch on the boat trailer.   My fishing partner is in his 80s now.He cant help much with loading process.  You have been fishing alone for awhile I will probably be doing the same.  Last spring copper and orange were the colors for atlantics on the s end of Cayuga.  About all the fish info Ive got.  If im healthy next year I plan on joining the Thursday night lake league on Cayuga.

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      stinger

      Gee Stan that sound terrible. I’m sorry to hear about your health issues. That’s a bummer. I also am a disabled Vet but am plenty mobile right now. Agent Orange is starting to creep up on me. Dealing with hypothyroidism but that’s being contorted with meds. Hope that it stays that way. I’m waiting for the Syracuse Vet Hospital to arrange a appointment with a Hematologist here in Binghamton (Broome Oncology). My white blood count has been below normal a couple years and it just took a nose dive so the blood lab took my samples Thursday. The doctor hear said “ be sure you don’t cut yourself until we find out what is going on”. Ha ha, he doesn’t know what happens on the boat.

      Anyway. My last trip was Saturday. It was a great day fishing took nine rainbows, seven legal, two short. A few lake trout also. Deepest set was 60'. Most everything was caught between 35'-60'. Have to put the boat away now. I’ll probably fall into a minor state of depression for the next five months.    Only got one legal salmon this year. I’m losing my touch but the rainbows were willing to play. The pic is of the two I kept Saturday and released the rest.

      Hope you mend up real good this winter so you can get back to your normal fishing schedule next season.

      Rainbow Trout.jpg

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