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rolmops

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  1. Yes she did, and lo and behold, after 24 hours in the creek she is still afloat. It is the ugly little duckling with the nice and shiny white new kicker on its back. She is about 30 feet north of the East fork docks I will drive up every day for the next few weeks to double check on that fact
  2. Thank you very much for that gracious offer. If I need it , I will certainly get in touch with you. For now, I am still making sure that everything works as it is supposed to work. When the boat sits next to the house, I can always climb in and fix whatever needs adjustments, but now It will be forty some miles away so the old girl has to be in tip top shape before the move. But I think it may be today .
  3. I was going to drop her in today, but I decided to add a second bilge pump and while doing that it seemed wise to do an overall inspection. The result was that I changed the tilt and trim motor and rewired the original bilge pump. I hope to put her in the water tomorrow and bring her to her new home.
  4. So is Sandy the place where the wild things are? Does this hot tub require a dress code? Or none at all? Sounds like I will feel right at home.
  5. Thank you gentlemen.
  6. Tomorrow I will finally slip my boat in Sandy creek. I will be next to Eastfork Marina. Are there any tricky points or turns while going up Sandy from the public launch? Thank you for any information you can give.
  7. I bought this 3 years ago and it has been sitting in my basement ever since. It is the trailerable extra wide type. Original price is $200, so this is a deal. Pick up in Rochester or nearby. I will not ship.
  8. Not a single problem. The magic is in the metal plate that goes onto the carburetor instead of the one that is on it. It allows the carburetor to open and close without ever having to pull or push the mechanical remote control cables, but you can still use your regular remote instead of the wireless. Just remember to always turn off your garmin remote if you choose to use the old system, otherwise the garmin will go crazy trying to correct course or speed
  9. Ok What they say is that they do not want you to customize and if you do the warranty may be voided. I did not have to customize, because they sell all the parts needed for my Suzuki outboard.
  10. There must be a disconnect somewhere. I have a 40 auto pilot installed on a 9.9 Suzuki kicker that never had a tiller arm and I do have full warranty. Maybe an EZ-steer connection to the main engine or another connection to the main engine that also pushes the main , I/O or outboard voids the warranty. Again , talk to Yankee Troller. He is on the board and through Krenzer Marine he does a lot of work ,connected to all electronics on boats
  11. I have a garmin 40 auto pilot on my kicker and it is definitely not a tiller model kicker. You should get in touch with yankee troller. He has all the info you need
  12. Mmm I'm sure you could have sold them to some bass fisherman
  13. Coho is unpredictable and quite capable of cruising more than a few miles a day. But if you catch one, circle around where you caught it , because they seldom come alone.
  14. Just look at the positive side, During the week the weather will probably be nice,which will give us retired old folks plenty of time to fish and the weekend warriors have not chased the fish away
  15. The only way to go on this one is buying the original OMC one or if unavailable a sierra one. Anything else, specially on a such a crucial thing as turning the oil pump is asking for very expensive trouble.
  16. Let's hope you are wrong. In the meantime, water temperature off Oswego is 56 and the buoy north of Rochester is clocking in above 50 degrees
  17. It is starting to happen. The water temperature at the buoy off Oswego is reading over 53 degrees. From here on it is all up a bit every day.
  18. The next few days the wind will be out of the western quadrants. It will be blowing steady and at a good clip That would mean that given the warmer weather and sunshine, the surface water will get warmer and this warmer water will be pushed into the shore. It will push the cold water away back to where it belongs, deep down on the bottom of the lake or there abouts. Maybe finally there will be warmer water on the south shore and with it, fish May the Lady of the Lake bring abundance in our coolers.
  19. From your lips to Neptune's ears. And let's hope that the Lady of the Lake agrees with you!
  20. That tank looks like it has reached the end of its natural life. If the plastic window thingy is unreadable because of dirt and probably age, it is only a matter of (short) time that it will start cracking or sweating or leaking. Buying a new one for $20 is probably a smart thing to do.
  21. The simple and cheapest solution is making sure that you always top of your tank before boating. another solution is contacting the tank maker and ask him about it. You see without you mentioning what material, brand, built in or carry in your tank is, it is really hard to give advice.
  22. This season though , these 30 +inch Atlantics are a very welcome catch.Even in this cold water, their acrobatics lighten up my day. I must admit though that they do not taste very different from the ones at Wegmans.
  23. Finally had a chance to take my own boat out. The original plan was Sandy , but after reading the dismal reports I decided that I might just as well stay close to home. Going out , there were a few marks in the 50 to 60 foot area but no dice. The water at 20 feet down was 44 degrees , even the lakers sensed it was too cold. Between 70 and a hundred and twenty there was a debris field the like of which I have not seen before ,it was acre upon acre of whatever the Genesee had stocked up all winter just to make fishermen miserable. There were tons of gulls sitting on floating wood piles. They were probably not capable of flying after gorging on all these dead alewives. The one interesting thing that I had not seen before is that the dead alewives are of different year classes where before they all were the same size. We were skunked . Not even one bite.
  24. All across the water. We try wherever our finders show fish and the temperature is above 39 degrees. We do not usually target laketrout. although they too are found high up in the column whenever there is a bait pod.
  25. Is it just me or is everybody catching these unusual amounts of Coho salmon? In a week out of Olcott we only got one king, not a very big one at that, but cohos and atlantics are all over the place. What is different this year? Did somebody accidently stock cohos instead of kings , or did a coho stocking have an absolutely terrific survival rate? And never mind the amount of atlantics. We never got that many in one week. What''s going on?
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