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Just an update.. Called all over the US, called locally in NY to boat and marine parts shops, .. I located 3... 2 were in the possession of price gouging SOB's.. They wanted $150 for a $30 plastic prop.. A third said they have it and would sell it at the correct price $30.. After 2 months and 8 calls, to them, they said they no longer had it.. Totally disgusted, I took a shot and decided to try a generic multi brand aluminum prop that had good pics from lots of angles on amazon.. Cost a whopping $15,, SHIPPED!,,, Perfect fit... Seems a lot of modern very small 2/3/4 hp outboards are using the same props shaft designs,,, The "help" I got from dealers was pretty bad, I suppose because it wasn't an expensive part.. My experiences with local marine dealers continues to be terrible, and I do better doing my own research, even though its badly flawed.... bob

I use either 1 oz or 1.5 oz white painted heads with white bodies, various jigging spoons etc. The tackle/lures etc are not my problem there... I just can't find marks, and really don't know where to look... I typically use that awful town launch in Scott, or the state launch at the north end... If you can PM me with some depths to check, or a few general locations I would appreciate it.. I have done well with jigs for lakers at Cayuga/Seneca/Keuka over the years, but simply can't find them on Skinny... bob

I have yet to catch a laker on skinny jigging myself... I had one good one on and lost it halfway up last fall, but thats been it... I stick to perch and bass there pretty much, as I don't troll. I can't say why, but I just don't mark any concentrations of fish there the way I do on Cayuga/Seneca/Keuka... Guys catch them there, but personally for the life of me, I just never mark a lot of fish on Skaneateles.. Guys catch lakers there while perch fishing all the time, even on worms, so its MY problem, not the lakes.. Haven't caught a Walleye there yet either.. Take the drive to Cayuga and jig there some early morning.. Its worth it when you hit them right. They are much bigger, and easier to find there... bob

Merc 2 HP prop??.... anyway, to all that responded, my thanks...I did locate one on my own , a NOS one at a very fair price.. $30 + 16$ shipping out on Long Island.. However the parts guy doesn't seem all that interested, saying he is very busy, doesn't have time to dig it out of "the boxes upstairs" etc.. I hate to keep calling, gonna try once more... I also located 2 others, but one was $138+, and the other was $125+ over 4 times the dealer price at the time the part was discontinued... I hate that crap... In any case, I think I have enough info... If I can't find a prop, I'll sell the motor as a parts unit for whatever I can get, and buy another tiny motor that still has parts availability... bob

er umm you may have just replaced a perfectly good lower unit... If you just found some metal flakes on the magnet, and had water in the oil, it might just have been a simple seal leak or even a cracked gasket on the filler or drain plug.. If the lower unit was quiet, with no grinding , howling noises, and shifted ok, it was probably just a bad seal. The magnets will always have some metal particles on them.. They are doing what they were designed to do. Your money of course, and your choice, but really why spend 4 times what you have to... It should have been looked at before being condemned as "bad"... Oil seals are a regular maintenance item, that will develop leaks from time . Simple fix for a marine mechanic.....

1996 Evinrude 2 HP.. Pretty simple right?... Totally and completely unavailable prop... They are obsolete, not available from OMC, and are not made aftermarket, and I tried every prop shop I could find on the net as well as every used outboard parts dealer... Basically they all told me to junk an otherwise perfect, lightly used little motor.. Its a polypropylene plastic prop, and not repairable.. Backed the damn prop into a stump, and broke a blade off. I might be able to adapt some other 2 or 3 blade little prop from another brand if I can match up shaft size, or possible adapt a prop from an electric trolling motor in some way... What I need is a dealer, or just local guy with a pile of small outboards, and piles of parts/ props etc... i would gladly pay a fair price if we can match something up... the motor is used as a backup on my stout little Grumman 4.4 side console with 30 HP Johnson... It moves the boat only 5-6 knots , but if the main OB craps out, its 5,000 times better than rowing 5 miles back to the ramp... Anyone out there that might be able to help out, or know someone with a pile of small old OB parts and pieces?... If not I can only sell it as a parts motor for $75 or something and buy another tiny little kicker thats not "obsolete".. NOT a fan of OMC since Bombardier bought them.... bob

Thanks.. I was going to launch at the south end of the lake most likely. Might change my plans in the am... bob

I pass Forest Fishery in Homer on the way, but am not sure if they still carry bait.. Their site no longer mentions it.. If not, are there any other local places to get a few dozen minnows?.. Taking my 7 YO grandson tp Skinny in my boat and have worms, but some live minnows will give him a better shot at something more sizeable than a rock bass, perch or pumpkinseed,,, bob

..Oh yeah forgot about tail or body hooked lakers.. a 7-8 pounder hooked in the tail can certainly spool someone with light tackle, its happened seveal times to me while jigging,, Thought I had a lake record fish, and it turned out to be an above average plain old laker, hooked in the tail or body.... bob

Could have been a sturgeon I suppose... More likely however- 1- Massive Carp in the 30-40 lb range.. They are tough fighters in the 10 pound range.. At 20+ pounds in deep water?... Near impossible for jigging tackle.. Best guess??.. Laker in the 35-40 inch 15-18 pound range.. They are out there... I have caught them in the10-11 pound range, and they don't come up off bottom easy in that weight range... a soild 15 pounder on jigging tackle could spool you or break the line depending on tackle and conditions Wild Card- BIG Drum[sheepshead] in the 20-30 lb range..... bob

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Been a very long time, but I can recall some nice panfish there... Took my son and my 7 YO grandson out for perch, panfish, Bass, etc.. I freely admit I don't know the lake, so we went with weed lines, points, shallow to deep transitions etc... No matter where we went or what we did, ALL our fish were really tiny,,, Biggest fish we caught was a perch maybe 10 inches, if you stretched him. Two tiny 6 inch bass rounded out the day, but were not targeting bass today to be fair.. I wanteed my grandson who LOVES to fish to have a blast with some nice big sunnies and perch. He caught a ton, but they were all 4- 5 inches. The Bluegills and Pumpkinseeds were all in splendid spawning colors, so were mature fish , but the average size was astoundingly small... Smallest perch and sunfish I have encountered since moving to the FL region 29 years ago... I fish Skaneteles often, and see some of our friends here complaining about the size of the panfish there... They are massive compared to what we caught at Waneta.. I suppose I might have done something wrong, or were there at the wrong time, but we did catch a lot of fish.. Just an astoundingly small average size in every place we fished on the lake... I fish with my grandson on Cayuta Lake, and at Park Station, two extremely hard fished small lakes, and have always caught better size fish at both places, and only fish them because they are close... I dunno, did I miss something in my thoughts that Waneta was a very productive lake with a lot of good size fish?, or am I just a bad fisherman? bob

Yes there was a guy netting sawbellies with one.. I didn't know that particular regulation, as I have never considered using one in fresh water, but would certainly have told him if I thought about it if I knew, for his own sake,... In a state park no less.. In NJ where I am originally from many years ago, those throw nets are everywhere, Most striper/weakfish/fluke /fisherman with boats use them constantly.. They catch Mossbunkers/ Menahaden a large oily Herring, and what are locally known as "peanut bunker" which are small ones, virtually indistinguishable from ort own freshwater Landlocked Alewives.. They are superalative bait in salt water. I have seen the cast nets in use so often in my time, I never even gave a thought that someone might be breaking state law by using one... bob

Not me personally.. However, I was camping with famiily close to Taughannock and visited the park friday and fished from shore with worms with my 7 YO grandson saturday... There were a LOT of fishermen, almost shoulder to shoulder in some places at the park.. The sawbellies are involved in their yearly spawn along the shoreline, and the fish have followed them in.. Saw lots of really nice salmon and some big lakers, caught on sawbellies suspended under slip bobbers..... This was mid afternoon, the fish seem to bite in small windows any time during the day with long lulls, from most of the conversations I had... Saturday at dawn it was madness.. People lined up shoulder to shoulder with sabiki rigs, tiny gold hooks, and even a guy with a cast net, all getting bait for the day... Its not a blitz, you see maybe 10 fish for 20 guys, so some go home without, but these are big fish from the shoreline,,, Saw NO dinks... I know its not for most members here, as this forum is mostly trollers, but it IS a viable alternative that gives shore bound anglers a real shot at a big trout or salmon... One guy launching his rig at the marina was going out to cast the shoreline with swim baits, and other casting type lues, and said he has done very well with that technique for the salmon when they are in tight to shore keying on sawbellies..... Saw no browns, no rainbows caught, in the 2 days just salmon and lakers... This action should wrap up within a few weeks... bob

No its still available,,, bob

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Sorry, no pics.. Camera down ... It looks well used, could use some paint... Some bite marks out of the cav plate where someone had badly installed a doel fin, or stingray type planing device.. Motor tracked straight and true always... Lookned us decent when cleaned up, not awful cosmetically, but not great either.... bob