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I know that Ballzdeep6126 is not a copycat

Is this still available?

That's a great  boat, congrats!

But here is a word of caution. These boats were specced out for 70hp 2 stroke outboards which weigh about 250 pounds. The engine that you just got is a 90 horse 4stroke that weighs 350 pounds and it has a lot more power. I would be vary weary to put that much weight and power on this rig. It probably is way more than the Coast Guard would consider safe.

I used them to couple outboard to outboard. They are great. They are not made for I/Os

Is this the Panther?

The actuator is quite strong so increased weight of the kicker will not influence the actuator speed.

You got me thinking about solving the actuator speed problem and I think I came up with a solution. I will extend  the contact point of the steering bar farther away from the kicker by a few inches. This will cause the actuator to have to travel farther to make the kicker move and thereby make the kicker turn slower. I'll try to make it a bit clearer by using this example.

If you draw a circle with a 3 inch radius you will have c=2Pir=2Pi3=roughly 19 divide this by half and the distance the actuator has to travel from far right to far left is 9.5 inch. If you draw a circle with a 5 inch radius you have:

c=2Pir=2Pi5=31.5. divide this by half and the travel distance is now almost 16 inches. This will make the distance that the actuator has to travel 3 times as much and it will slow the turning speed down very much.

I'll go make this adjustment to my kicker as soon as I can get it from under the snow.

Interesting,

Why is it impossible to find any info about this anywhere else?

I have a feeling that there is very incomplete and interest group produced information here.

I would like to know exactly how much radioactive material there is in this water. If it is water that was used to produce steam or if it is part of a cooling reservoir that is present in every atomic reactor  in case of overheating.  Water will only become radioactive if there is a leak in the reactor and the water is used to keep the temperature down. There were no radioactive leaks in this reactor although there were some mechanical problems that ,if left unattended might have caused trouble.

I'm all for crying wolf, if there is a wolf around, but the wolf here seems to be conjured.

I have a tailfin kicker setup and I am not sure what to think about it. It is mounted on a 9.8 horse Tohatsu and that caused some trouble because the tailfin relies on the tube that is on the front of most outboards for the actuator to go through. But it is absent on the Tohatsu. It is solved by buying a little setup that replaces this tube. The rest is easily installed. It is nice to have the remote switch and a wired switch. There is a direct connection to the battery with an on and off switch. that means that turning off the engine switch does not turn off the tailfin.  I find the speed of the actuator very high and I tried to make it go as slow as possible because while trolling you usually want to make very small corrections. Because of the high reaction speed I ended up oversteering and having to correct and then correcting the correction. I only used it once on the lake so maybe there is a learning curve. My overal opinion is that the tailfin is more for bassfishing than it is for trolling. It cost me a thousand dollars but I'm not sure that it was well spent. Having used an EZsteer system for years, I am not at all sure that this is an improvement.

59 minutes ago, cyclops2 said:

I almost forgot all the meat hunters in my Clayton area.  The 5 gallon fill the pails people. Neighbor extra restaurant sales. Different religious farmers with buckets. Tourists 

 

Oh well.  I limited to 5 fish. No big breeders. 8 to 12 " only.

 

My areacrashed right after central sewage system removed all sewage from upriver areas  There are no weed beds anywhere now.

 

Oh well.

No more "brown trout"?

When ice fishing puts a big dent in the overall stock, it shows a few years later.

Yes. She signed 6486, but remember, it is only a moratorium, not a ban.

Before too long we will find out what the stronger force is, big money or the citizens will.

I suspect that we will not hear from this bill for a long time and when we have almost forgotten we will find out that it has been attached to another bill and passed in the middle of the night when nobody was looking..

It is a 19 footer just like mine.  It probably has the 140 mercruiser in it. It's a nice package.

You may want to look into koosa board That is proven and available

Please stop showing your phone numbers. It is just another tidbit of information that somebody somewhere will gather and in the end use to scam you.

Use private messaging.

On 2/19/2023 at 7:24 AM, sherman brown said:

I found that the lightest rubberbands I could buy at wall mart office supply or any other store was still hard to break.  then I found Omish outfitters rubber bands on the fishusa.com site and in some bait shops along Lake Erie. they make 2 weights of them the heavy and the lite. I believe there are other brands on the market but I order a lot of my still from fish USA so I just ordered from them.

Leave them out in the sun a while, they'l snap real easy afterwards.

I always used to think that the farther forward and the higher would be the best thing to do. (masts). The bad part is that when something goes wrong, the lines may end up under your boat with all the trouble that it may cause. I do not see anything wrong with the pulleys on the top. I made one small edition to the tow lines. Drlfc's son calls it an "Old Man"s Rope". This is a rope with a bayonet hook that goes around the tow line and then to the side of the boat where it is tied up roughly at the back of the front seats, or just in front of them, It makes it a lot easier to pull the lines in instead of trying to get them with a pole hook. Wherever you make your  connection, front or center, make sure that the tow line does not go on or under your dipsy rods.  I bet there are a few sad stories about rods that got caught and went into the lake. I myself got crazy lucky. when one of my rods got pulled out. It went under and in pure frustration I jerked up my downrigger rod and miraculously the line caught the dipsy rod and I could bring it back on the boat. I have used lanyards on the dipsy rods ever since.

It depends on how high your boat is on the water. An aluminum boat is light and high on the water so you might end up going way too fast with the wind in your back. A fiberglass boat lays deeper in the water and is held back by the water. That said, I usually try to ride the trough which is on an angle to the wind. It makes for less banging and the wind direction is not as crucial. But it all depends on how much wind and how high the waves are. I wish there was a golden rule, that would make it easier.

Somebody mentioned way points and I do have a bit of a problem with that, because way points are static LAND marks, but if there is wind there usually is a current as well, which moves at let's say one mile per hour, the fish move right along with that current and one hour from now they will probably be about a mile away from your waypoint.

I drove by there today and the place being surrounded by houses that people  and probably also dogs live in makes it a hard target for thieving. I think I will give him a call and ask him to get some info on the board.

Are we talking about Sandy near Kent and Hilton or the one on the east end?

I would be interested, But before that, I would like to know what the chances are of having my gear stolen there. I heard some horror stories.

In short, how is the security setup over there?

12 hours ago, orangediablo said:

 

Why not?  They make decent fire starters.

 

Another option is using it as a flame source next to a pound or two of tannerite and water bottle of gasoline :).  Right after it rains of course.....for obvious reasons

What boy scout troop were you in? A burning cigarette with unlit matches at the end and some straw to camouflage and ignite it will do the exact same thing and allow you to get far away before the party starts. You see, the boy scout troop that I was in is called IDF

I added some pics and a dolphin video to the first post

I was staying  in Santa Teresa which is a popular surfing spot , but it is hard to reach ( Cesna flight and unpaved roads) The place where I fished from is called Mal Pais. Probably the only charter that is on the net over there is "Jason tours" When you see his website it seems like a big operation, but it is a one man operation. He is a very good and pleasant person who speaks good English.

As for Santa Teresa , it is a dusty little town where the beach crowd of young ladies, who seem to compete in how scantily dressed they can get, are very well represented..

If you want to go there you should count on renting a 4 wheel drive vehicle. US dollars are accepted in every place.

This question has come up before. Sometimes the local volunteer fire department will take them to use for training purposes. I usually save them for the fourth of July, but you also can just ignite them in a place where they will not case alarm. Do not throw them in a campfire.

On December 27 , our 43th wedding anniversary, my wife Debra passed away after fighting brain cancer for over three years. On January 24th the flags at the medical center and the River Campus of the University of Rochester will be flown at half staff in her honor.

I lost a loving wife and the University lost a beloved and treasured dean. She left us too early.