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Great subject. When I had a trophy boat I had a 115 honda on it. Probably to heavy of a motor for the boat but as you say get a couple heavy guys in the back and it would submerge the scuppers.I had the rubber flaps. I ended up replaceing the flap scuppers with a new style scupper. They were a tube with a checkball in it . Sealed real tight when they submerged. I dont remember where I got them . You also have to keep an eye on them making sure you keep seaweed ,leaves and other kinds of junk out of them. But they did the job. If I remember right I think I had to drill the scupper holes out larger....

https://ssl10.securedata.net/gapen/tackle3.html They would definately save a lot of messing around. A couple good linecounter tekota reels and med rods . I bet it would be fun. Drop em down and go.

Back in the mid 70's when I was stationed in Biloxi Mississippi. We rented a boat and fished the back bay. There was a sewage treatment plant there and well you can imagine back then how the water quality was.We anchored in the discharge and my buddy goes to cast and the rod flies right out of his hand. It was a new rod and he decided to go in after it the water was only a little over waist deep. After about a half hour of feeling the bottom with his feet he decided it was gone. I pulled the anchor and the rod was caught on the anchor line. Those Kentuckey boys are tough.

Ive never heard of anyone having much trouble with them. They are real snotty. Thats some good advice on the 4 stroke kicker.

Chinook I was thinking more like a one day get together thing.Take out some members that dont have boats.Bring your own crew whatever. But are interested in big lake fishing. Im not a charter guy . Ive never been to port bay[.Habinero haven] I hear good things about it. I hear its not to crowded.Maybe no ones interested. We could also do a derby for biggest fish during the summer derby.That is a great idea.Put it together and count me in.

Sounds like a good idea. Taking it one step further .How about a LOU member fishing derby?Just a one day thing.For bragging rights. It would be nice to come up with a format where we didnt have to keep fish.Set it up Billie V.

balls, thought long and hard about ridgeback rattlers though.Ive got about 10 cannonballs to lose . Before I buy anything else.

If you take a sutton spoon and bend it lenghtways,right down the middle you can run them faster.But you can never get them to runslower again. At least I cant. Straighten out the nose on a optimiser and increase the bend in the cup and you can slow them right down. If anyone has had much luck tuning metal dodgers I would like to hear it.Some of mine swim horizontal and I cant figure out why.Some of the same dodgers same colors catch fish . Put the same out on the other side and they dont. Its something the fish see and I dont.

I run that blue high on bright sunny days in clear water. The Little boy blue fly that got mentioned a lot on the old board got me thinking I should run more blue stuff. The brn. we got in the red cross derby came on a little boy blue fly.Go figure that out. You could be right on the split ring stuff also I never gave it much thought.I dont really like to mess with something thats working.

Probably because they dont come with them.They are all R&R's . They swim ok without them. In the right hand colum 3rd one down is the ole grape dot watermellon. Killer spoon. Ray I know your not to far off. I read one of your posts last yr. You said you were running 2.6 . That was my target speed also. Ive found that when you are really rockin and rolling up there say threes and up you just cant get your speed right. Its optimiser time. Ive caught fish up to 4mph on optimisers. Very speed tolerent.I just ordered some more . black n purple and silver ,copper, black. As far as the line color goes I know guys that run that high visibility green and catch just as many fish as everyone else.I have not had good luck with the florocarbon line ,but others have.

Ive been running a little red deep and didnt realize it.I didnt put up any pictures of chewed up red hook spoons.But I have caught fish on most all of these.

Ive ran some of the weenie stuff in the finger lakes. I got it to late for the big pond. Great stuff, great colors,well made. They also catch fish..

Ive got a couple and they work great for planerboard fishing as mentioned above . They are a big pain to let the line out during flea season.

This is a great subject LL. Several Yrs ago I was fishing Keuka Lake. Marking all kinds of stuff but just could not get my regular stuff to go.There was another boat working the same area knocking the snot out of em. I finally tried him on the radio and he said "Try some red" I did and I finally ended up catching fish,they were deep like 100 down. I have never been back to Keuka ,I just thought it was a Keuka thing. I never run red deep its always been a rainbow ,brn trout spring color.Something to run high Ill have to give red another chance down deep.Im suprised you didnt get many responces to your original post. I lost both my red vampires last yr.About 5 min. apart. I still have not found replacements.

Mikejonestkd... Your pretty smart to.

L&M we will have to get together sometime.Teach these wippersnappers how to fish.I am going to really try to bring my camera today.I don't have nearly enough logging pictures.If so Ill post some up tonight. Thats why I don't do the Pro Am thing.It takes to much time and every time I make plans something comes up. Ive been married to the same women 35yrs and fri. night she has the car packed and away we go to the lake,2 hr drive. When I hit camp[Hughes] Im not going anywhere else.

Real Deal I got my info. from a group of oldtimers in the mid west. Off a tractor board set up kinda like this fishing board.So far they have been right.I still add kerosene when its really cold.But if good ole NYS ever caught you doing it there would be a big fine. [road tax] They forget who pays the bills and dont really care if your running or not ,they just want money.... NYS DOT only whorehouse in the country that doesn't show a profit...

Logger, truck driver, mechanic,boss,employee,timber buyer,lumber trader,mess with a little land,4 tractor trailers,2 dozers,5 loaders,sawmill and pallet mfg.trailer park,Lots going on all the time. Last several months Ive been cutting for a rubber tired skidder to get in shape for the wire rods,Im 52 and I dont really have to do it. But something about breaking into a sweat when its 10 below out . My best man is 70 retired and came back after 2 weeks. After going 100% for all those years he said he couldnt even get a good nites sleep.Tomorrow Im starting a piece of timber at the Binghamton Country Club. Big wood,big crash when they come down ,I cant wait.If your in the area stop in .Im the one with the grey beard.Working Saturdays too because its fun.....

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You and your damm shortcuts.Now Im going to miss my hair appointment. And I need a new pair of shoes!

Guys last name wasn't Kennedy was it?

Who is the submarine commander?

Hey, you wanna drop in for a cold one?

It seems Ive got to stick my nose in most every topic. During this cold snap Ive been adding gasoline to my diesel fuel. have had no jelling problems. Just been dumping as much in as if I was adding additives . Its a whole lot cheaper. As far as the gasoline goes I used to know some guys that haul it and it went in whatever tank needed it the most.I try to buy the cheapest. My snowplow sat all summer and started this winter no problems.I left it with 1/2 tank. Im probably turning into a crotchety oldtimer that I used to hate but I seem to learn from life experiences.The sky is not falling.If its a nice warm sunfilled summerday and Im smoking a cigarette when my boat tank melts down,well Ive had a good life. "ethanol, smethenol" dump in a little 2 stroke oil and go.Im going to.

IMO outboards are the only way to go. The new 4 strokes sip fuel. Drop em down level and they are winterized. I really cant recomend any brand of boat in the range you want but if you had the time it would probably be worth your trip to go down to Long Island and go from dealer to dealer. If you go out the N fork you could easily find 200 boats for sale.All shapes and sizes. All saltwater boats so I personally would not buy one how ever it would give you a good idea of what you want to look for.To bad the NYC boatshow is over lots of great rides there.They are all big bucks new. and still high used. http://www.boattest.com/oem/general-inf ... =933&lp_id If you want to be a lake pimp this would be my choice.