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have a 2 year old Furuno 588 hooked to an Airmar tr260 transducer. It works fine as long as the gain setting is on fishing or cruising. When I switch the gain to manual it does not react at all . I can turn the knob in either direction and the gain remains exactly the same. There is not really a 10 position rotation at all . It just turns around more than full circle. Is there something I am doing wrong or is the board defective?

I don't know about that. Maybe for sailfish, because there are plenty of those in the 50 to 80 pound range. As for marlin, the smallest one I caught there was 420 pounds. Not your regular fly fishing target. Besides, it takes at least a few miles of trolling before you find one and there are days that you don't find any. Also marlin is strictly protected in Costa Rica waters and the people I fish with over there ,see them as part of their heritage and often frown at targeting them.

A few months ago I decided to completely redo the canvas and frame on my Starcraft Islander. After some looking around I visited a canvas maker in Webster,NY, but the reception was less than welcoming and it seemed that the owner really did not want my business. So I continued my search for a canvas maker. Silver Fox and Tom from Eastfork Marina both from Sandy Creek mentioned a newcomer in town by the name of Reese. They told me that she had returned from Florida where she had for years been a canvas repair, upholsterer and sail maker. I decided to give her a try. She directed me to a frame maker who works out of Youngstown,NY , who made me a new stainless steel frame for less than a third of the price that the Webster guy had offered,partly because I drove to his place instead of having to come out to Sandy Creek. He made the frame on the spot , while I waited. I drove back home with a new frame and a very satisfied feeling. Then she made me all new canvas. So now my 1989 Islander looks real nice again. Thank you Reese and John. If you are looking for canvas or frame repair, just send me a pm or open question on the board and I will gladly give you their number.

I've been in similar and worse. I learned that in that sort of waves downriggers will not get you much fish and you already found out what trouble dipsy divers cause. The trick is finding a way that neutralizes the movement of the boat so the lures run steady. That can be done using one weighted line out back that is at least 300 feet long. copper or leadcore or weighted steel is all fine. If you want more than one line out, you can put 200 feet of leadcore on a downrigger and run the rigger at 40 or 50 feet down. The idea in each case is that the curve in your line will absorb the boat movement and give a more natural presentation. On the other hand, no fish is worth drowning for.

This summer I slipped my boat in Sandy creek near Lake Ontario. This boat has always been on a trailer and I did not really consider growth and scum. Before too long I will have to pull the boat and I am painfully aware that my nice white boat bottom is no longer white. I have to clean the stuff off the hull to get it nice and white again and then I will have to put some type of bottom paint on it so I will not have the same problem next year. Now this hull is aluminum, but it is covered with the original factory paint. So what material should I use to clean it up with and what type of paint can I use as a bottom paint? Thank you.

I was walking my golden retrievers this morning along a creek at a place where they love to jump in and swim around. The creek cleared up again after yesterdays rain. I threw a ball in the water for them to chase and as they jumped in and swam, two very large shadows moved under water swam away upstream. I walked a bit upstream and saw them again. Two large kings about a mile and a half away from the lake in the creek. I did what I already thought about. I started planning a trip to Costa Rica in the end of October to chase the 40 pound mahi mahi and the large yellow fin tuna for maybe ten days.

We got out around 7 o'clock, went out to 250 feet and slowed down to search mode, going around 7 or 8 mph . At 300 feet we dropped the X4 and found the thermocline at 120 with hardly any current. So we trolled out farther and as we moved farther north the thermocline came up gradually until at around 430 feet it was at 65 with a strong north going current which with a decent southern wind was to be expected. On the way there we hit a nice pod of cohos and caught and released 5, while the rigger that was parked at 115 got one decent laker and a roughly 20 pounder king. We circled around that area a bit and then went farther north where we found a nice scum line over about about 460/480. This produced about 8 nice steelhead which we caught and succesfully released (no floaters). We stayed there and got another nice king. The original plan was to move to the 27 or 28 line looking for stable water, but because of what we found we never went beyond the 25 line. All in all, no great monster fish, but a busy and satisfying morning.

130?

I'll take them for $120

I don't really know what sites he is on

The other day I visited Rodhog and he told me that he is selling his boat. I was flabbergasted. We were standing right next to this extremely well kept baby of his and he told me that he had originally thought of maybe getting a slip this year, but seeing that it is the middle of August and his boat had not been in the water yet even after putting fresh bottom paint on it, he and his wife decided that the boat no longer is what they really want. It is a 2004 and standing next to it, it looks like a 2025. Extremely well kept and not a spec of dirt or dust on it. He advertised it on a few boards and had the usual flood of scammers and low ballers contact him. It made him very wary. Anybody who knows Rodhog knows that he is a very straight shooter. He wants somewhere around $45000 which makes it practically a give away. Any charter captain who wants a dream boat for his business should jump on this. He has not advertised the boat on this website yet, but since it is shown elsewhere he may not have to. The boat sits on the trailer next to his house.

The meat thing is a bit tricky. Lately I have had good results with very thin long strips stuck on the hook of tournament flies. It seems to work best just before sunrise when the fly/strip is behind a large reflective whitish flasher on a dipsy a bit above the thermocline

There is another thing. That is the remote control cables. Because the outboard/kicker sits behind the transom, there is a problem with the cables being squeezed between the outboard and the transom and the cables get bent up at he outboard connection. The traditional solution -a full circle loop in the cable- does not help enough. What does help is making sure that the kicker, when raised, is above the transom and instead of the circle loop in the cables,they should be tied along the top of the transom until about 2or 3 feet away from the kicker at which point they should veer toward the kicker with enough spare cable so they up going straight toward the kicker with room to maneuver. That way, they will not get squashed when the kicker is raised.

The production date is either heat pressed into the side of the battery or it has a sticker with that date. The sticker thing is a bit tricky ,because it can also mean the last date that the battery was charged. The heat pressed number is the date when the battery was made.