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    (Re listing this boat that I had on here last year.. Can no longer be water tested as the controls have been removed as it was "sold" last year, and when everything was off the boat, the buyer changed his mind.. All else is as stated in the original listing.... bob 18 foot Starcraft boat & Trailer $400 Its got leaves and some junk in it from sitting all summer.. Needs a cleanup etc.. Seats as you can see are about done... Thats being said, the hull is in great shape, floor was replaced a few years ago and is solid.. Boat doesn't leak, and i have had it out in massive churning whitecaps more than once and stayed dry... has brand new Teleflex steering cable installed in july, and never used after.. Put brand new tires on the trailer at the same time, parked it, and they have never even seen the road... this was a Runabout, and a few years ago, I opened up the foredeck, [ nicely done, NOT hacked] framed it, and had big plans of putting a casting deck on her, but never got around to it, just used it as is.. Transom wood is original, and is mostly hard, but there are a few soft spots.. However, several years ago the old man that owned it had it reinforced with new plywood on the outside, in the motor well, and all the seams were glassed, and a transom saver was installed.. It is VERY solid, NO issues, no flexing, and will last as long as the boat does... i know guys freak out unless the transom just had a $1500 rebuild, but this boat has been in some nasty rough water, and the transom is fine as is, and for it to flex, the entire back 1/3 of the boat would need to be ripped off.. We can take it for a test ride, no problem.. Motors come off, as does the color FF... I will consider selling the boat with the VERY good condition 100 HP Johnson for $1200, but as of right now I would prefer keeping it.. This boat would be fine with a 60 or 70 anyway... Trailer, is SOLID lights work, brand new tires, good winch, good jack, great rollers.. You don't even need to dunk the trailer.. I launch by cranking the winch handle backwards, and the boat slides off without even wetting the hubs.. anyway, there it is.. Not many 18 foot boats around with good trailers, for $400... All I am doing really is covering the cost of the new tires, and teleflex steering..... As I said, we can bring it to the river, and give it a water test,, pics to follow..., bob
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    I NEVER ever at any time, anywhere, see any fishermen on a boat wearing flotation.. Nice fishing vests they make these days that are light ,comfortable and will keep you alive... Being a good swimmer means little if you are 3 miles out without any boats around, and it means nothing at all if its April or early May and the water is 42 degrees... I swim like a cinder block, and wear my flotation jacket no matter where I am in a boat , even fishing for sunnies in 6 feet of water on a flat calm day in 75 degree water... i am so surprised to see so many otherwise smart fishermen never wear flotation even when alons in rough water.. I owe it to my family to come back home after a day on the water... Once you get used to it , you don't even notice you have one on.. A LOT more fishermen should wear a jacket... Just too many things can go wrong.. Half submerged logs full of spikes, rocks, /// A bellows goes out, thru hull breaks, hose breaks etc, and you sink , even in a ""safe"" boat with "level flotation"... Guys drown every year in well made, modern "safe " boats when something fails... Life vest should be worn not stowed in the cuddy... In any case, God rest his soul...bob
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    Value of 1977 Johnson 100 HP OB ? Join Date: Sep 2002 Location: Candor NY Posts: 252 Trader Rating: 0 value of a 1977 100 hp OB I am going to post a 1977 100 hp Johnson OB for sale locally here in NY state.. I really don't know its true value at all. Its pretty clean, not heavily used, fresh water use only, has new impeller, comes with power tilt, controls etc, runs clean and strong, and is really ready to go . I see none of these or similar OB's this age on ebay anymore, and know the age will perhaps scare most buyers off, and many will buy a newer motor with more use at triple the price because of the year... I have always loved OMC OB's from the 70's, have had several and they were always bulletproof, never an issue.. Any ideas for a realistic sale price on this???... Don't want to get knocked on the head too hard, and want to be fair.. I was thinking maybe $850 firm, including a water test if needed, or is that not a realistic expectation because of the age??.. any help would be appreciated..., btw, NOT trying to sell here yet, just getting ideas on value for when I do sell it .. bob
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    Should be a 10 fish limit on any one species, and maybe a 25 limit mixed bag.. 25 Perch , Sunfish, Crappie,, Rock Bass, White Perch White Bass etc is really plenty for anyone.. If you really need more than 25 panfish a day, you might want to rethink your dietary habits... i love panfish, and even 10 fish total bag would suffice for me personally, but thats still low.. I feel the 25 limit on mixed species is the way to go.. Just too many very good, very efficient anglers with a lot of leisure time and simply incredible space age equipment [GoPro Underwater video] these days... Its getting to the point that the fish just don't have a chance to get old and big... bob
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    Problem is, everyone culls the biggest and best.. When that happens you are eliminating the big breeders.. Its just human nature I guess.. I noticed the same thing years ago with Crappies in some lakes... Today some lakes with a lot of crappies, are loaded with 5-6 inchers, and very few keeper size.. Thick shouldered 12 inchers???.. good luck, in much of NY state these days.. They get taken and eaten every spring, as soon as they reach 9 inches.. Last time I went Crappie fishing this spring a 9 incher was hard to come by.. Same thing could happen to perch,, Just so many people after them these days.. bob
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    Several times to skaneatles past few months.. last trip mid last week was not great, maybe a total of 8 keeper fish .. Some nice size perch up to about 12 inches, couple nice size rockies, a massive sunny, and a short LMB... Several toss back perch .. Wind was brutal, due south and I was at the north end.. Just raging whitecaps until noon... By then the bite was totally dead... Skinny has been ok for me this summer, not great numbers but many nice fish, and they are really sweet eating compared to other lakes.. Personally, I have no need to limit out on panfish.. If I get say 10 nice size mixed panfish, its a good trip for me.. That will last me a week...bob
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    I love perch as much as anyone, but I don't understand this hard headed preoccupation with the perch fishing at Seneca, and guys beating the water to death trying for them.. So many other lakes with good perch fishing, as well as big fat sunnies,rock bass, Crappies, bullheads etc.. Jeez, if you fish owasco or skaneateles, in 20-25 FOW with just worms, you should have no trouble finding a few dozen mixed panfish, including lots of perch of really decent size.. Yes you don't see the 2 pounders you do in seneca sometimes, but to me there is nothing wrong with foot long perch with nice thick shoulders, along with bull bluegills and pumpkinseeds.. I catch a lot of very nice panfish these days, and no longer bother with Seneca, and beating myself up trying to scare up a few big perch.. the other lakes are giving up plenty.. No, not the Seneca giants, but still great fishing. I guess I never found the need to catch 25 2 pound perch every time I fished.. 8 or 10 decent size perch and some big sunnies are more than enough for my needs...I guess i am just getting old, but when fishing becomes too much like hunting, i simply switch to easier prey... bob
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    A "hot" primary fishery???. Probably not.. However, sunnies perch, bullheads, pickerel, LMB, Rock bass don't inhabit 150 foot depths suspended mid lake over 300, and the lake has good fishing for those species at various places.. The walleyes will do ok there if they aren't descended upon by hordes of meat hungry anglers... They will provide a secondary or tertiary fishery for those in the know that find the spots, patterns, techniques... I'll most likely never fish for them there, but some will, and probably in years to come, some will do ok with them.. Will it replace Oneida in the hearts and minds of walleye freaks???.. er umm, no... bob
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    Why not??.. The lake has changed a LOT from years ago.. its a lot less clear, there are weeds everywhere, where there were none at one time, and the lake is stiff with small perch and other panfish in the shallow areas for the walleyes to eat.. the entire south end of the lake is a big fairly shallow submerged weedbed, with a lot of cover for young Walleye and their prey.. walleyes don't need alewives to eat.. they eat crayfish, bugs, worms, crayfish, small catfish, perch, sculpins, madtoms. shiners . just about anything.. I doubt there will be many 15 pounders in a lake like skinny, probably more like what i am used t catching in the susquehanna river, where a five pounder is a big fish, and 15 to 19 inch fish are the norm... bob
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    Skinny is fast becoming a Eutrophic lake as are the other Finger Lakes.. Thats a natural course for small lakes, but should never have happened with huge deep lakes like the fingers.. That is the price that has been paid for choking these lakes with mcMansions, "getaways", Farms and vineyards.. All that stuff has to go somewhere, and in the fingers, it goes directly into the lake.. Until this year it had been many years since i fished Skinny, and I was shocked.. Character of the lake has changed immensely... Clarity not even close to what I remember, weeds everywhere... its a shame, but in reality we all did it.. Now that my "the sky is falling" rant is over , let me add, i think the Walleyes were always in skaneateles in small numbers.. i have heard about them for many years. I don't think its a bad thing.. i just think the lake is changing and becoming more hospitable to Walleye reproduction... Same thing with sunfish.. They are everywhere in skaneatles these days, and sadly a lot of them are on the smaller side[some big ones too] Something has made the lake more hospitable to them, as years ago they were not there in the numbers we see today.. The Finger Lakes are changing, like it or not.. There will always be fish, but who knows what the balance of species will be??? bob
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    I understand your point of view, but the sheer numbers of Cormorants will put a severe crimp in all fishing on these lakes,, The ONLY thing that will stop a fish from getting eaten is size.. 150 FOW is nothing to a Cormorant.. It won't hurt the trout/salmon trolling for the next few years, I agree, but remember without stocked Salmonids, these lakes would not have many in them.. Cormorants are notorious for loving stockie size trout.. Its a LOT more efficient for them to grab a 9-10 inch trout, than it is to grab a 4 inch Sawbelly or Goby.. Never think they can't decimate these big lakes.. they have decimated entire coastal fisheries in the northeast, and those fish migrate, away from the damn cormorants.. However when they are juveniles, in shallower water, Cormorants eat dozens a day, ...each.. They have wiped out the winter flounder in many NE states, a species that for many years had no limit, no closed season.. Now you can take 2.. Cormorants wiped them out.... They can and do destroy fish populations in widespread areas, and the Finger Lakes and Great lakes are not immune.. The flocks I witnessed on the south end of Cayuga were massive.. Hundreds and hundreds of them, all over the place, acres of them in places. I was sick when I saw the numbers, unlike anything I have ever witnessed... They don't eat grass as we all know, they eat fish, lots of fish, and man, there are a LOT of birds out there right now...bob
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    They feed and travel in flocks.. BIG flocks.. If you see singles, you are lucky. When you see flocks, the fishing goes south FAST.. They eat an average of a pound of fish a day, each bird.. When you see thousands,.. well just use your imagination as to the damage they can do to ANY body of water in a year,, They destroy fishing, period... Here's a good read... bob http://www.startribune.com/cormorants-actually-are-a-problem/133719513/
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    Just what these lakes needed.. Another monstrous stress factor to layer on top of a bunch of other stress factors that have been increasing in frequency over the past decade.. Cormorants can decimate healthy fish populations in short order... Salmonids are NOT immune.. Although a 5 pound trout isn't in danger, dozens of 10 inch ones a day are, EVERY day.. Cormorants eat a LOT. They usually dive 50 feet or less, but have been recorded diving over 200 feet, so there is nothing that swims thats safe from these SOB's... Maybe next we'll be lucky enough to get Walking Catfish, Asian Carp, and Snakeheads to go along with all the other good stuff thats gotten into in the Finger lakes... bob
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    Cormorants on cayuga Has anyone noticed they are there by the THOUSANDS???.. I knew they were around, but the south end of the lake was infested with them, from Treman to Myers and beyond.. big flocks everywhere, diving, resting, flying.. Great,... with all the problems on these lakes, this is just what we needed,.,, I hope they eat billions of gobies, and choke as they are doing it.. Cormorants in the numbers I observed is a very bad thing.. They decimate fish populations in pretty short order... bob
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    actually, I am pretty impressed by this little lake.. We caught this one, and at least 3 or 4 others were caught within that day alongside the sunfish in pretty shallow water.. There might be a lot more of them there than people realize.. Gonna try for them in a few weeks after the water cools down.. There was a fresh dead one as well, possible one that was caught and released and didn't make it.. bob
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    Rainbow Well, it IS a rainbow, just not a big Finger Lakes one.. But its still a rainbow, still a holdover, and it might just as well have been a 10 pounder, to my grandson that caught it in a little local park lake.. Yeah, its only maybe 13- 14 inches, but it was a monster compared to the Pumpkinseeds we were mostly catching.. It made this good looking young mans day.. His name is Landon, and he LOVES fishing with papa, and loves to eat everything he catches... I have to hide to release the 4 inch sunnies and perch we catch along with the keepers.. He wants to keep them to eat, but I suppose thats what 4 year olds do.. My favorite fishing partner!... oh yeah his pal Lulu the cat approves as well... bob
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    sold...
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    sold to Sammy Dog
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    Yes boat is registered until 2020. I used it several times this year, but find I use my 14 footer a lot more these days...I just don't need the boat any longer.. bob
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    Candor ny
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    btw, the Garmin color FF comes off... Goes on my smaller boat... bob
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    as stated, its a dated design, but with a paintbrush and a little imagination, it could be a very good fishing platform she is still solid and stable.. Served me well for years.. Pics are from today, I am just to lazy to reset the date on the old camera... bob
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    I will try and get a few pics up his week.. its a cool old boat and the design is dated, but it fishes really well for a 15 footer...Acts bigger than it is.. Very wide and stable... bob
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    2 HP Johnson outboard $100 70's.. starts and runs perfectly... Tank on top... Brand new water pump, points cleaned and adjusted, carb dis assembled, cleaned, Starts quick and runs great!,. Cosmetically pretty good shape.. Choke lever is missing, but choke works fine , I just stuck a piece of wire where the handle was.. This motor saved my ass in cayuga yesterday when my main engine quit.. I actually planed a 14 footer a few years ago with this, sitting midship.. Good little motor, but these are kind of noisy little things, no neutral or reverse, and they start in gear, but thats how they made these small motors years ago.. Its been very reliable, always ran great, just don't need it anymore... Come take it away for $100... bob
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    Interesting 15 foot boat and trailer $100 Its an old 1970 boat built by a long gone company called CMF, out of the carolinas.. It is a 15 foot glass side console patterened after a Boston Whaler or a Mckee.. Deep wide old scholl fiberglass skiff .Really wide flat floor, and a LOT of room.. She could use some paint and such, but the floor and transom are good, and it might make a very good boat for trolling with 2 guys.. Lots of space aboard this thing.. It had a low cut self bailing transom decades ago, and used a short shaft motor at one time, but someone built the transom up with STEEL!!, to cover the cutout, and it has used a long shaft for a long time. I would not have used steel, but its very solid, and was well done. . i had a 30 HP on it and it was fine for years, but its more suited to a 35 or 40.. Boat could use a little TLC, its a little dirty from hard fishing use,, but its solid, and really is a great wide open design for fishing the Fingers which is what i have used it for for a long time.. It actually still has the old style dual push pull cable steering, which works fine.. Comes with an old but VERY good, VERY solid trailer.. They don't build them like this anymore. Solid NO RUST heavy built steel frame,, good rollers, good EZ Glides, good lights. good side rollers, good winch.. NO issues at all, launches and retrieves the boat beautifully.. I usually fish alone, and launch and retrieve very quickly and easily by myself and I am in my mid 60's.., . I think I had this registered as a home built.. I do not have a current reg for it.. The tires have been badly dry rotted for 10 years, but have tubes in them , and i have taken this boat everywhere with the as is with never an issue, and never even have to put air in them,, Still, It DOES need tires.. I used this boat on cayuga, 8/21/17, motor died, and its time to move on... $100 takes the boat and trailer.. ... bob
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