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Reel Overtime  - It sounds as though you have some good things to start with....the main problem however may be the fact that you are looking at your boat and equipment through the eyes of a sportfisherman (which is understandable) and herein lies a major problem. When you make the decision to charter your boat and equipment become much like any other business tools (e.g. drills, sanders, compressors, office furniture etc) Like it or not when you make the decision to let strangers board your boat and use your equipment  and pay money to do so to a large degree you are surrendering your control over how it is used (or abused). A lot of times these are folks who have had little to no experience fishing let alone with your particular equipment You have little control over alcohol use in some ways as sometimes customers arrive half wasted or may have been drinking or doing drugs to some undetermined degree  and you have responsibility for those peoples and the others aboard in terms of safety and you may be the one to clean up the puke on your freshly cleaned floor resulting from their poor judgement. You may have to deal with kids totally tuned out to listening to you or your instructions regardless of their importance to you and parents too embarrassed or else unable to properly control them. Folks may say "oops" after they drop your $200 rod and reel in the water in 100 ft of water. You may have folks cancel out at the last minute (perhaps not caring if they forfeit part of their money) when you are waiting at the dock all ready to go fishing. The most critical thing is the major thing that can affect your business and you have absolutely NO control over....the weather. In this climate many fishing days have to be scrapped because of it and that can be money down the drain....if you are totally dependent on that income as your full time job  for your subsistence you are screwed. I think you will see if you look into things carefully that there aren't many FULLTME charter guys operating and some may be doing it part-time just for the tax write-offs to maintain their :habit"[emoji38] There are much easier ways to make money than the long hours and expenses connected with having your own charter business. There are some really great Laoek O charter guys on this site and I hope they pipe in here too.

If you go with electronic box ignition, be sure it's a potted unit. I'm sure being an alternator guy you know what that means. I can't say anything bad about the box ignition, except for what you already mentioned about failure. You need a spare unit to be safe. My old ford has the ignition control module and when it craps out, it's in the middle of a busy intersection full of impatient rush hour traffic. Not cool! Not to mention making me look like a fool when trying to push a 1 ton truck off the road, and some some dumb bastard yells " Ya know ya gotta put gas in that thing idiot![emoji34][emoji32] So I carry a spare unit and bungee cord the Damn thing to the inner fender cause it craps out often like that. Can't beat the old stuff.. points, condenser, for being able to mcgiver the thing to work. Still even a coil can fail. Just had one do that yesterday. My 1966 cub cadet original Kohler coil just cost me 80 dollars. Damn inflation! Would have cost probably 5 bucks or less in 1966.

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Don't worry Brian! This statement t should make you feel better.
"If there's good news in this saga, it’s that it's a huge water body," D'Amato said. "I can't imagine a tangible environmental impact coming out of this."
It's all good if you can't touch it. "Tangible" ...get it?
Anyway, they said that they disinfected the turds and man hole covers! Hmmm...always wondered what the strong smell of chlorine was coming from the last few years...now I know.

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"City it's"..good one. Well they need a king and queen of "City It's"...so. Funny how they think upstate needs the city and we need them to run the state.
Again, the King let millions of federal dollars sit on the table that could have benefited the ocean fishery down there, but held to the whining of the elitist downstate crying about having to buy a marine fishing license. Every state in the North East has a marine fishing license except NY.
So how do the downstate drama queens get their new marine facilities and park maintenance and other enhancements? With your NY Conservation fund...that's how. Millions went there from upstate license sales and other funding in upstate, that could have been funded federally from all the excise tax that you and I and all of America paid at 10% on all the fishing and bow hunting tackle sold country wide.
A marine license would have qualified the state for substantial federal matched cash from these excise taxes. That federal money would have put quite a few million dollars less stress on the Conservation fund.
King Cuomo let it get away on the backs of upstater's again...we need this how? At least if ever we upstater's want to go fish the marine waters it's a free license! Every body, even the non New Yorkers, ..wow! Imagine that! Of course King Cuomo would never mix federal matched money and state money in the same fund anyway. I'm sure there's no sense of management to put the money in the right place to do ALL OF NY "STATE" any good.
I learned a long time ago about being self sufficient and not expect everything to come on the backs of others. When I was young my dad said I think I'm going to go look at a boat for us to fish in. "You wanna come along"?
I said "SURE"! What kind of boat?
He said " It's a used row boat"
After a 20 minute ride in his pickup we pulled up in front of the farm that has the boat.
It's out back behind the barn the owner said. We get out there, and I'm thinking, wow this boat is really ugly, not very attractive at all. None the less, my dad kept looking it over and came over to me and said, "You like this boat"? Well, not wanting to make my dad waste his time on this trip "I said sure Dad..."
He said "You want to fish with me in this boat"? "I said Yeah Dad..." He said "Ok well, the price is right". Paid the man his cash and said "let's go put it on the truck."
Must be I had a look of dismay on my face, and obviously my enthusiasm was a little faint. "He said what's wrong?"
I said "Well it looks really rough dad. You think it will float even?"
He reminded me that I agreed that we could fish in this boat. Then he went to his tool box and rummaged around in there until he handed me something.
He said "This is sandpaper".
Lesson learned. Rubs me the wrong way to try to ride on the backs of others to this day. [emoji38]

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My measurement gives me some walking excerize. A big field and a laser distance finder. Stick a post in the ground at 100 feet, walk to it, go around, and return, walk to it, go around, and return, walk to it, go around, and return. Now how many feet do I reel up?
Crude, but the most accurate you can get. Don't rely on the counter on your reel, it won't even be close.

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Frigging ground hawg...he ain't my rodent! Only thing about this I can say is the thruway closed to trucks means the mail I'm carrying might have bills in it you won't see for a couple days in Rochester and Syracuse. However...I think there might be some Sports Illustrated swimsuit editions in there...sorry!

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I would hope that the GLFC would still be able to handle lamprey. Here's an example of too much overlap of too many agencies (GLRI) doing the same thing under the EPA. Good thing we can still do funding on a voluntary donation basis to the GLFC...unlike the overlapping EPA. Let's hope that the gutting is done with a scalpel and not a 12 inch Cimeter.

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I launch a 19' at the Fort, no real problems other than falling off the end of the ramp with the trailer, be careful with that. All my launches have been on the North ramp, would guess 20 or so in the last few years. 

Use the south launch, it's much better. I believe they are both getting some work done to improve for this year so we will see


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Skipper, what's wrong with the Fort Niagara launch? I've never been, but would like to make the trip someday.

I run mainly spoons, and fish the marks on the graph, bait and fish. You can try flasher fly presentaions as well, but if the fish aren't jumping on them i stick with the less than mag spoon size. Depending on water temps, you will find fish in different depths, sometimes along the drop off, sometimes they orient on the shelf near the red can. The red can is the outer marker for the bar and is situated near the drop off. You often find a concentration of boats moving east to west and back there going along the drop. Just fit in and move with them, it's really popular there at times, so good to have a few pairs of eyes watching for traffic. Launches are many but the closest is Fort Niagara, not the best. Next would be Wilson Harbor and the public launch at Tuscarora State park. It's about 10 miles west to the Red Can., but you can set up about 7 miles off four mile creek and troll west to the can. You will find fish along the way, mix of coho and kings and lots of lakers.
Current is a player in the area of the can and out deeper of the drop so if you can employ down speed it will be a great asset. I would use some lead core or copper as these produce better sometimes especially in mid morning and day when the many boats have the fish negative. Speeds are similar to your fishing in Michigan. May is good timing and this year should be good with the Niagara flow being warmer due to low ice cover on Erie and no threat of the ice boom releasing ice and junk into the Niagara Bar area. Still be vigilant though, as there has been some rogue trees, dock parts, etc. floating under the surface at times. Hope this helps! Others will add to this that frequently fish the bar more than I do.
Mark

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I'm starting to see something interesting via this Trump Effect, perhaps unintentional perhaps not. Where it looks like gaps are emerging, people or even businesses are coming forward to fill them. It's happening via Silicon Valley and Planned Parenthood, Golisano and the downtown arts center, numerous other examples. Regardless of your politics, it's changing the way business gets done. 
 
On one hand, this Is good to see, as it puts the financial onus on the supporters themselves and encourages stakeholders to get involved. On the other hand, we are a leader in caring for those who can't care for themselves. This could change. There's not as much vested interest and too much abuse of the system to encourage general support.

Oklahoma City, warm sun, unloading the truck and chewing a hickory stick. Now 70 lbs and there is a Great Dane mixed in...a bulldane! 4 years old!
Enjoying the bed at home, resting up for the next road trip.



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I think I'll go my earlier comments as far as the original question. The answer to Paul's question is basicallyy the comparison is like apples to baseballs[emoji38] Fish diagonals across  from upstream to downstream...where the fish tend to be lying facing upstream.

Better be casting across the stream or you might be fishing on land, trees, brush, etc...Casting down stream or upstream is relative to mainly casting across stream.

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When I was 16 years old, I was at the end of the muscle car Era and fit right into the the 20 something year olds getting rid of their gas guzzling fast cars and getting family man grocery getters. I also had a plethora of those cars at my fingertips due to my dad's IH dealership. A lot of those guys were trading for the new Scout models that transition from street burners to the sporty 4×4 that had family capacity and some appeal of ruggedness.
So first I had a 69 Plymouth Roadrunner in 1972, 440 magnum 4 speed, Vitamin C and black. Paid 1600.00 for it. For me it was bad news, and scary fast. Too loud, and rough riding. Lots of noise tickets and improper start (tire slipping on letting out the competition clutch) tickets No good for city work, great for girls, until the ride started. Then they wanted out mostly!
Sold it 1600 dollars....today would have been 20 times that. Kid I sold it to burned the hood from carb backfire due to the huge overlap of the race cam. Then cracked it up on a barrier later.
1600 and added a few hundred more and fell into a 70 Chevelle SS convertible with 396 4 speed. All stock white and black stripes. Muncie shifter was trouble. Locked all the time in 2nd gear. Had to carry crow bar for it and get filthy.
Decided I liked the new Scout 2 and it had its own source of get up and go with the big 345 V8. Ordered a new one when I was a senior in high school. Came decked out with everything and a 4 speed. Posi on both ends and had fun with 4x4 clubs in college. Decided to make it my new hot rod. International yeah right?...well it came out pretty good after a few teardowns. We went to sand drags, hill climbs, and ice races, mud drags.. had a blast! The 345 was a real sleeper. With the same firing order as a Chevy V8..18436572.. it sounded like a big block. Lots of second looks by tech inspectors at the races with a few test runs. Swore I was running experimental class in a modified class. Funny to see the odd looks as they saw the old truck engine in there. International valve covers still on it instead of the imagined chevy. The list of mods wasn't very long on parts, but the heads were worked over extensive by Dons porting service in Albany. That engine really came to life and still runs today. The body of the old 74 Scout is very rough, but I still have it and all the body parts ready for my time and ambition to come together and get it out again.
Wish I had all the cars from back in that Era of the mid sixties to early 70's! Last fast car I really liked was a new 1979 Z28. Last year of the 350 lm1 and a close ratio 4 speed. The car was pretty quick even though it was low compression and hampered by smog junk. Fun to drive with the right tires on it. I ran Good Year Eagles on it and it was like it was on rails. Ah, but remenisc thoughts for now, hot rods traded places with large diesels and 18 tires now. However, there still remains 3 project vehicles in the garage. One is a Ford 1 ton 4x4 waiting for its 351 to come out and grow into a 408 windsor.
Another is a 1968 Buick Riviera GS. Needs a little elbow grease, and the 430 rebuilt. That will be a nice ride!
And of course the old Scout! My first brand new vehicle owned! I'm still a motor head for the old stuff. The new stuff just amazes me with output, but that's about it. I'm not much of a computer nerd for tweaking power curve programs...give me wrenches and busted knuckles!

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Thank you guys for all the info and stuff. Skipper I will spin the motor over and pull the pan, oh another interesting point of this motor is the dipstick is below the header like manifolds on this engine. My Sea Ray has a little indent in the exhauste manifold where the stick is above the manifold? I pulled it out and it not cut off the line and the checkered part are on the stick. One thing for sure its a early style motor. I've been around the dirt track racing scene since I was a kid. My uncle and cousins have taken the 320 modified and the 358 modified track championships, at Mokatech speed way which is closed for years now. Joe my cousin won the 358 mod. Class at 5 mile point raceway, I don't know for sure at Big Diamond speed way, so this is pretty cool find!!

Don't take it all apart Pap! Just the pan. Find casting numbers. The 302 has a specific number on the crank. The 350 block is used on many CID engines. The 302 is essentially a destroked 327...same 350 block. The crank will have the absolute info embossed. As I mentioned before the DZ designated identity, but it might be a specific casting code number. Ignition parts can be interchangeable and it's matter of choice to aftermarket a dual point setup in many forms. Bosch or Mallory, etc. I have Mallory YL dual point on most of my hot rods. The double pump holley electric choke is not specifically part of that engine or era. It is low torque, high rpm, not generally a great marine combo. Definitely find the crank casting# and put it on here. If it was in a Z28 it might have the DZ in the block code I think?

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Pap, you sure it has a 3 inch stroke? The block hasn't been decked, over 30 thousands, not a high compression dome piston, it could be 302, if it was apart and you could tell. Crank has a casting number if I am correct it has a letter designation on it maybe a DZ?
350 has a 3.48 stroke, but those other factors are an influence on an external measure of stroke. Maybe it came in the needle nose cigarette style speedster that Baja made? It's very rare engine but no way to tell externally for certain by measure. Hope it is the unicorn for ya!

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That is truly encouraging:yes:

No cookie? Well at least my shiny side is still up...not for some truckers though...

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Trolling the highways in PA and W Va. Tomorrow night. Will check back on follow up....Scott, save me a cookie! Chocolate chip, peanut butter! OK! Thanks for posting!
Mark

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Glad ya got some of that low blood count fixed up with |oung man high test os terone stuff....long as it didn't come from San Francisco.
Good thing ya kept the boat, wife gonna get tired of you burning a path around the bedroom after her!

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http://www.pestsmart.org.au/carp-herpes-faq/
 
Carp Herpes.  This website say it only kills carp.  Introduce it to the waterway and let it take them out. 

Exactly, and this is why we need the business man to know the difference. Some others need to understand nothing is free. If government supplied it, the sheeple paid for it.
Too many managers of too many departments and there comes a point where the sheeple get nothing back. I hate being "fleeced"... the exposure is imanent! The swamp contains many rotten stumps.

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