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Whether it is a year or a day old. There is no reason to laugh at someone else's hard luck. Instead of standing at the side, it would be more of a good thing to tell the launcher about this problem. It also shows poor design of the ramp when there is no bumper just before the end of the ramp
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You can use it all winter,just drain the block and manifold when you get out of the water. You cannot take it out on the water and then shut if off while running your kicker,because the water in the block may freeze. If you have a heat exchanger you can run the engine with anti-freeze in the block but you will have to drain the raw water side of the exchanger when you are done. You must trim the lower unit all the way down when draining. If you keep it up water may freeze in the lower exhaust housing which will crack the lower unit. Tell us if you catch a salmon in January!
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Meat rigs/cutbait:What's your take? (Discussion)
rolmops replied to Sk8man's topic in Tackle and Techniques
My all time favorite is live sawbelly with a small hook in the mouth into the upper jaw and a second hook(treble) not in the body but just behind the tail with a small rubber band just in front of the tail to keep the line in place. I troll it like a lure usually about 15 to 20 foot behind the ball and use the same setup for leadcore and troll/jigging (moving at troll speed and jigging at the same time using copper or malin stainless). Live bait can be trolled at almost any speed and it sends out wounded fish smell which a regular lure does not. With this setup I do the most succesful fishing. So how to get sawbellies in Lake Ontario? It is what most bait schools are made of just lower a line with a bunch of small hooks and drag it through a bait school. You'll end up with more sawbellies than you know what to do with. Besides, fresh ones do not fall apart. I find trolling/ jigging the most effective way to fish and also the most tiresome. It must be done with copper or stainless because you need weight and no stretch. I learned this way of fishing in Cape Cod Bay going after stripers. Next year I will try to do it with 5 ounce bucktails at 2/3 mph . 300 feet of stainless/malin will get you 40 foot down. This is supposed to mimick squid movement in a current. I tried it while going after lakers in Keuka and it is deadly -
Sure you can,but not from the same place. First you have to replace your or reattach your bellows ( I would go with replacing). Next you must take off your lower unit and take it apart to see whether the gears have rust on them and to replace the seals specially around the prop. When that is all done put the lower unit back on and use new fiberglass washers when you screw the ol plug screws back in. If that is above your DIY level,I would suggest you get in touch with a marine mechanic. Good luck.
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Reply to: see below flag [?] : miscategorized prohibited spam best of Posted: 2013-11-02, 9:10AM EDT 1976 Starcraft islander!!! This wakened only - $450 (Webster NY) Great boat fished with it all summer, I'm moving and no longer need it Need it gone Moving to Las Vegas It's a great fishing boat needs nothing except a new battery Comes with all the extras, life jackets, GPS, fish finder and down Riggers with 4 rods (no tackle) Please call or tex 585-545-5172 NO EMAILS!!! Won't respond and u won't get boat if so Thanks I just found that on Craigs list. If you take a good look at the pictures you will see that they are from 2 different boats
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It seems that a bunch of years ago there was a storage cave for LPG under Seneca Lake near Ithica that was closed. Now they want open another one in an abandonded salt mine 2 miles north of Watkins Glen and use it to store LPG,but as everybody knows,fracking in NY may be just around the corner. Fracking causes minor earthquakes which is not good when you store gas in a cave. Another reason for the protest is that it is very easy to store LNG instead of LPG and this would be nice for storing fracked gas. That makes it a target for the anti fracking crowd. In a nutshell: The people who stand to make money of it are pro and the people who live there and will see no financial benefits but bear the risk of accidents are anti.
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East end No Comm violations?
rolmops replied to Yankee Troller's topic in Tournament Talk, Shows, Events & Seminars
There is one thing about no communication that irks me. No communication with who? During the Oswego pro-am my wife went to visit my daughter whose due date was up. I did turn my phone off , but not happily so. It might be a good idea to be allowed to receive calls not in any way connected to fishing,position or competition. The above may very well have been the reason why somebody may or may not have broken the no communication rule. In my opinion, comparable circumstances should be legitimate exceptions to the no communication rules. -
It is a good feeling to have my electronics safely stacked in my basement. I don't know if the cold does anything to them,but if half an ounce of prevention can save me the $3000 replacement cost ,in the basement they go.
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So did you buy it??
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That sounds very impressive. I presume that the no communication concept is out the door
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That looks like a great birthday present that you gave yourself! About carp being a trash fish,it is in the eye of the beholder. Anybody with eastern european ancestry or chinese for that matter,will find that pickled or smoked carp was a big part of their grand parents diet. The pickling dissolved the small bones. I know some people with a pond in their backyard who will catch carp and put them in their pond feeding them corn for a week or 2. The mud taste is gone by then and they do taste just fine.
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I had some blocks done at Power Marine Services in Canandaigua and they did a fine job. Their Phone # 585-394 3590. But you being a mechanic, you probably know some good machine shops nearer to horse heads. If you want to do the rebuild yourself you should definitely buy the rings, pistons and whatever else you need online, it will save you about fifty percent. Also you may want to look for a rebuilt block that is ready to go and compare prices.
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The powers that be will have to prove that Lew 56 did. Lew56 does not have to prove that he did not.
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One Lane Bridge at Point Breeze Being Removed - See Photo!
rolmops replied to Captain's Cove's topic in Open Lake Discussion
You should have mentioned the lodgings as well. Few things are as nice as walking down to the dock from the cottage or coming back through the river towards the dock. -
Can it be early onset cabin fever?
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Thank you for your concern and Pop.Get better soon. I guess my main concern would not be my demise ,but I do worry about my wife getting ripped off if she has to face that situation unprepared
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I know ,this sounds like a strange subject for fishing,but I just had a near death experience (I am fine now) and it got me to think about my wife being stuck with all my gear and not knowing what to do with it. If she would have to sell boat and gear she would have no idea about its value. Did any of you good people have to face a similar experience and how did you solve the situation,or do you have any idea about how you would like to solve it? Thanks,Cornelis.
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If you want to use a macerator ,you will likely have to install it inside your waste water tank. That is to make sure that any paper and such will be ground up before it gets into a pipe where it might otherwise cause a blockage.
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The solution to most problems is to first go fishing
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Yes Nick won !!!
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Catching the blue gills requires that you get to your spot where the water is about 20 feet deep and the morning fog is rising off the water. That is when the fish feel safe enough to come to the surface where the bugs are struggling because of the relatively low surface pressure. This time it was a bit north of the state launch on the east side and on the east side of that long 28 foot hole. As for Zebco,mine is not pink. It is about 6 foot long with a #33 reel on it. I use either red cajun line (#10) or 4 pound test. These are great little rods for canoes and for fishing streams with heavy brush and overhanging branches, You can do great under hand casts while standing right under those low branches where a classical flyrod would be close to useless.
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I did not think anybody would be interested but just this morning on Honeoye I gave fly fishing my first try. I just used my canoe and a little zebco rod with 4 pound test with a fly on the business end All I had to do was find a place where the bluegills were feeding on the surface and cast my fly. That made for some 20 fish in about half an hour. One of them gave me a nice surprise. As I was reeling it in ,a pike grabbed it and started pulling the other way. It let go as soon as it saw the canoe,but it was a fun experience. The little blue gill had teeth marks all over it. I released all the fish. I love those little zebco rods, besides,I want to take a step up and be right there with Has Been who said in a previous post: "it 's a fly reel & that I don't want to step down a notch & start pinning".
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These sturgeon are not great fighters at all. I accidently caught a 3 footer about 2 years ago. It did not fight at all,I just sort of slowly dragged it to the boat and even next to the boat it still acted like a piece of dead wood.
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The electric motors are the exact same as high end electric window motors of german cars. There is a post on file somewhere in here describing how to make your own electric planer board retrieval setup.