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Yes you do. There is another thing that you will have to get used to. After making sure that the primer ball is hard, you have to just start the engine without trying to choke or raising the little gas handle,because that will flood the engine. Only after the engine has started can you raise the RPMs to warm up the engine. It is just something you get used to.

I also bought a Suzuki and I am very happy with it. This was after a Tohatsu 9.8. The quality of Suzuki and Tohatsu is much the same. Tohatsu is a lot cheaper, but you shoud be aware that if you buy the tiller version it will not have the ability to run a steering shaft. (it does not have the pipe that it would go through.) The Suzuki I bought is an extra long shaft with tilt and trim. It runs clean and very quiet. I fiddled around with Tailfin and similar wireless speed/steering setups but I was less than happy with it, mainly because it has very little finesse. At one point I tried to combine a trollmaster with a tailfin. which did not solve the steering roughness one bit. So after a few thousand dollars of trying to go the cheap way to get wireless speed and steering control I did the smart thing. A Garmin auto pilot. It cost me about 3K but I love it. Now the kicker/auto pilot has freed me from the wheel! No more one person having to be on the wheel . Speed and direction hanging from my neck and just pointing it at a direction and pushing a button and it all happens in a graceful way. I have both the troll master master and the tailfin in my shed and they will be up for sale soon..

Happy new year to you as well. With a strong wind from here or there the lake level is higher or lower because the water gets pushed around.

Since this is deep winter with very little fishing in the near future and cabin fever political quarrels at the verge of exploding from the fingers of opinionated and bored members, I thought of an interesting subject to opinionate about. GUNS!!! Which ones have you used and did you like or dislike. I will start by saying that the only hunting I have ever done was for the prey that shoots back and maybe a rabbit or two. Starting with pistols, I have only owned a few and used one government issue. They are an Austrian made Parabellum (1936) which because of previous ownership left a very bad taste in my mouth and because of that I had it destroyed. A 9 millimeter FN pistol with a large handle and very little kickback. It would fit my hand and I could easily shoot it with one hand. As for guns. I started out with a Czech made Mauser carabine they are extremely precise, quite heavy and nowadays the ammunition is hard to get. Then the Uzi . There are songs written about them, but I think that the people writing those songs did not have to use them. They sometimes would start firing on their own. Then the FN (comparable to the M14) good but heavy. Then the AK47 ( it will protest and groan and it is heavy, but it will get you there) Next the M16 light weight and the first gun designed with battlefield psychology in mind. It will cause terrible wounds but does leaves the victim alive for a while. And then the Galil. A mix between the M16 and the AK47. The only hunting gun I ever fired was a 1926 twin barrel 12 gauge savage. How about you?

Thank you!

At least politicians should have to take an oath to never lie to the public . It might make a difference Your point is well taken.

Can you send me a PM with additional information, like the price and when you will remove the transducer from your boat /

It occurs to me that certain publications get paid by certain people to print certain things. Maybe we have to look into changing the first amendment so lying is no longer protected, fantasy must be marked as such and bending the truth must be clearly marked. It would be nice to allow politicians to only speak the truth and every lie would cost them a few 1000 dollars to go into a fund for victims of their lies. That would shorten the gravy train. Oh well, on a cold winter's day like this , one can dream.

Great! I hope they will all go there and leave Sandy alone,then everybody will be happy

I mostly fish Lake Ontario In depths of 40 to 200 feet down and sometimes but rarely at 450 feet down I currently use a Furuno 587 with a TM260 transducer and a Garmin UHD 64CV with a GT24UHD-TM Transducer. I am not really happy with this setup. There just seem to be too many monitors on the dashboard and the Furuno does not "talk" to the Garmin which has the GPS. While the Garmin has too small a screen. So I want to clean up the dash and have only one Fishfinder/GPS Monitor with a 1KW transducer with chirp capability, while not interfering with the fish hawk down temp and speed gauge which uses 70kh. I am thinking a 10 or 12 inch touch screen monitor ,probably but not definitely a Garmin because the auto pilot and the GPS are also Garmin but I get mixed up with all the different products on the market. I want my transducer to be high end, but I don't need a hookup to radar (I have no radar) or other super fancy equipment. I have a budget of give or take $2000. What would you good people suggest?

You are right and wrong at the same time. The lake effect snow that is created by Lake Erie and Lake Ontario does not change anything. That is where you are right. The Lake effect snow created by Lake Huron that travels through the air toward Erie and Ontario does make a difference. As for your second argument. That is true for the submerged ice and not for the ice that is above the surface of the water, like the visible parts of icebergs and of course all the ice that is on top of dry land masses like Iceland Greenland and Ant-Artica So yes, sea levels will rise.

The water level in Lake Erie has very little if anything to do with how much water they let out into the St Lawrence. It has to do with how much water comes down from the upper lakes. It takes a long time for water to travel from Lake Superior to Lake Erie. So even if there is a very heavy snow pack in the North this year it will take a long time to reach lake Erie. More than a year. In this case, however, climate change is our friend. The lakes are still quite warm for the time of year and lake effect snow promises to be quite substantial because of it. Also because the upper lakes will take longer to get a serious amount of ice cover, which would limit lake effect snow. Already we saw that there are lake snow connections that are coming in from the northern lakes and dump very substantial amounts of water from above in and around both Lake Erie and Lake Ontario. This dramatically shortens the travel time that the water would normally take to reach the lower lakes and it increases the overall amount. Anyway there is little to nothing we can do about this in the short run.

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I am looking for the triangular aluminum piece that goes on the bow tip of a 1989 Starcraft Islander 221V. If you have one or know of an Islander rotting away somewhere that might have it Can you contact me? Thank you.