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I thought that the walleyes in Owasco are stocked by a private group and not the DEC

There is an additional thing that you should find out about.Boats over 20 foot length have different safety regulations from those under 20 feet,also something to do with insurance.Surely some members on this board know the differences.

Take the 22.

I fish from a 19 footer with open bow . It is just not big enough to take the bigger waves that Lake Ontario throws at you.I always have to be very careful about when it is safe to go out with my little boat. The Islander with its closed bow and the extra 3 feet will give you a lot more stability and much more fishing time than the 19 footer.

Engine is a 1972 hydro/elect. shift. One fuel pump & I would recommend doing all three carbs at the same time.

I would add to that replacement of all the fuel lines in the engine area.They may still be the old alcohol sensitive material.

There is a small plate on the transom bracket with the model# and the serial # .Let me know what it is and I will tell you the the year.

Yes you can do it yourself.

If it takes that guy 4 to 5 hours to rebuilt a carburetor and a fuel pump,he must be taking a very long coffee break.

If something is wrong with the fuel pump you can buy a kit for around $20 online and for carburetor rebuild,you can get a carb kit for less than that.The fuel pump is very simple and the carburetor is a bit more involved because you need to make sure that all the small passages are open.

If you want a good mechanic ,your guy is Bill Mayer at Mayers marine(tel#323-1010) at the Irondeqoit Bay outlet. He will charge $40 an hour ,but he will do it in about one hour.He opens shop on April first.

The fish hawk people have a nice clear plastic cover for the X4 display screen. It is quite big and it will fit fish finders and the like. It is about $15.

Lately I worry a lot about loosing a fish along with 450 feet of copper because of poor choice in connecting the backing to the copper.

I wonder what you all use and what you think about ball bearing swivels with a haywire twist covered with electric heat shrink cover.

Thank you,Cornelis.

Great news.

Anybody entering the Pro-Ams this year had better get used to being defeated by the Spoonfed, its captain and crew!!

I launched out of the Gennie this week to check some stuff on my boat and made a run to ship builders and back.Both around the river outlet and the creek at ship builders I marked fish but there is a lot of trees and other half submerged stuff floating around where the clear water meets the colored water.

I have used my Penn Senators 112 and 113 with copper and single strand monel wire,mostly trolling/jigging for striped bass in Cape Cod Bay. It is just a matter of getting used to,but the level wind is a lot easier to work with.

It sounds like you must turn sensitivity down a bit. On my 575 which is fairly similar to your 565 I always start at default settings and play around a bit until there is a good reading.At higher speeds,when scouting out an area,I usually lower the sensitivity a bit in order to prevent information overload.It also works a bit better when you just use the 20 degree beam at higher trolling speed and only use the wider beam once you are slowed down.

Operating a hatchery could fail because a couple days the "volunteers" do not show up and everything worked and paid for would go down the drain.

That is true,but I would happily empty the garbage cans just so the professionals don't have to be bogged down by the daily nitty gritty and instead can concentrate their efforts on the highly sensitive work that they are capable of doing.

With all the budget cuts that are happening all over NY,I would like to help out and volunteer in a Hatchery or some other sports fishing related activity that is in danger of being cut out of the budget.

Does any of you good people know of a way to get in touch with any type of volunteering for the DEC?

I love my fish hawk X4,but there is a lot to be said for the Moor Sub troll with the coated cable. The X4 digital has a slight delay(I don't know why) transferring the info,while the Sub troll has a very clear analog display and with proper maintenance of the cable connections it is just as good as the X4. Last years amateur winner of the pro-ams used a subtroll.

The one you feel most comfortable with is the one you should buy.

Natural gas prices are lower now due to the nearby Marcellus play.

Do they make any boats than run on LNG?

Maybe ya could filler up at the Seneca salt plant?

See:

http://www.senecalake.org/uploads/Phil_Letter_to_DEC_012711_Salt_Storage.pdf

There is a lot of natural gas under Seneca lake. It is famous for "burping",but LPG is Liquid Petroleum Gas and you don't want that to leach into the lake.

Any engine that runs on gasoline can easily be converted to run on LPG.In Europe this is very popular because LPG costs about half of what gasoline costs.Around here it seems that LPG costs more per gallon than regular gasoline.

It seems like a good time to find at least one other partner to go fishing with. I used to drive from Rochester to Wilson and fish there.The overall fuel use is about 30 gallons per trip. Sharing this between 2 or 3 people makes it ok. Going out by myself becomes just too much.

I drove by the Genesee river dam in Letchworth State Park today and I have never seen it that high.Probably the other rivers are the same.My guess is that when the thaw sets in the lake level will go up a few feet.

Wow,you guys sound like all for government control like you have in socialist countries.It must be Obama's fault.

I am interested in being an observer.If interested pm me

Improbable though it sounds, Obama wanted to do away with the entire ethanol thing,because it is economically very unsound. During the vote last December about continued subsidies for the Ethanol industry,it was the mostly mid western republican corn producing farmers lobby that pushed it down our throats.

As of December 2010 it is no longer legal to sell ethanol free gasoline in NY state. The latest plan is to increase the percentage of ethanol in gasoline to 15%.

I have tried both the 8 pound Stinger pancakes and the 13 pound torpedoes (A-Tom-Mik).When going anywhere over 2 mph the torpedoes are a better solution.The torpedoes are much better streamlined in comparison to pancakes or balls.

Thanks to all you good people who organized the event.It was great to be able to meet and talk to people who share the same interest in the lake.

All in all a great event and well worth the drive to Lockport.

The Boatworks store in east syracuse recommended a product called Gluvit for some seal/rivet leaks.

I did and it worked on the Lilboat.

Its pretty easy to use too.

Good luck with your fix.

I did some reading on Gluvit and I like the idea. Can you please describe how you used it and what problems, if any, you had while applying it?

Thanks,Cornelis.