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That makes sense to me, especially if your not a local and dont fish every week to keep in sync with your equipment!!
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Hey Todd thanks for that bit of info. Will have to keep that in mind as I have a week & 1/2 till I get up there!!. Thanks again PAP.
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Holy F'un fishing 305 gallons thats over a $Grand to cap her off . Thats way out of my budget!! But getting back to Fishnut's question, I have a 22ft cuddy and I used a 20" shaft 15hp Evinrude 2 stroke and that worked flawlessly for me. I mounted it to my swim platform using a bracket I made from the numbers given by Adventure Marine Brackets. I added 2 more support brackets from another boat I had bought for the motor and lower unit. Since last year my older Evinrude crapped out on me. I purchased a 2014 15hp 4 stroke electric start Merc. So I knew it had a pretty good charge rate for my batteries. I haven't used it yet to actually see how well or not so well it performs on the job. All I know is its so quiet I don't know if it's running or not. I do know that the prop is much bigger than the Evinrude. So I'm hoping it's much better than my old Evinrude. Which I have no doubt it will be. In 4 weeks I will have the merc. paid off just in fuel costs for a weeks worth of fishing using the kicker vs the main. You won't be sorry you did put a kicker on.. At first getting all the goodies together you might second guess yourself but at the end of the day you still have 3/4 tank of fuel on the main and a gallon left in the 3 gallon can you will be very satisfied!!!. Just some food for thought.
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Just now, TrophySeeker said:
What is meant by "Not to A!!" I'm not familiar with that term.
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I forgot shabby. I fixed it sorry for the short term dilemma.
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No better proof than that!!! Now that pic at Memorial Day or the 4th of July would be a kick ass pic. Not that it’s not now!!!
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Wow that motor is sweet!! I remember my first trip to Canada I had a old Elgin?? “Spelling” it had a round fuel cell on the top of the motor and it was a single cylinder, which vibrates so bad you couldn’t put a tackle box anywhere other than the floor or that’s where it ended up!!LOL the good OL’ Days!! Thanks for sharing.
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5 hours ago, wallaholic said:
SPOONS, just riggers couldn't run anything else plus we didn't have to.
Awesome job!!! Congrats 2 more weeks till I get there hopefully all stays status quo.
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They do nice work for sure!!
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It seems like everything comes together at 2800 rpm 23-25 mph trimed to the best it can be with just a slight bob at the bow. My Sea Ray had a 305 and I put a 350 in it and geared the lower unit to the hp and torque curve of what the cam and other goodies that come into play. I was rather pleased with the fuel to mileage I was getting, until the trolling came into play. That blew me away as to how much the old girl really took a liking to OPEC. So I made a decision to add a kicker and again I was blown away that I could troll for 8hrs on 3 gallons of fuel. So now the V8 gets used for to and fro, and I can go for days with out refueling. The only cost for me to adding a kicker was the Steer arm and the kicker straps to attach the arm. I made my I/O bracket, the quick disconnect is simple a air hose fitting. I’ve never looked back since I’ve gone to a kicker. I know I’m a little off direct subject, but I beat the $500.00 costs to a weeks worth of fishing. PAP.
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Just remember after the release let’s go they need to be sturdy enough to handle a fish until the rod is removed and your in control. I realize your thinking about take them down. Just a FYI as what they will endure when used for there purpose.
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3 hours ago, NymphO said:
One of many from this past week on Oneida. Solid paint job and I can't tell u how much I love the "patriot". Thanks !!
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That's awesome NymphO, thats a slob for Oneida and very respectful eye anywhere!! Gongrats on the eye using a Hooked lure!! Great people to deal with and nice paint jobs for most any kind of Lures.. We are going to swim some gear in 2 weeks. We haven't opened up our Dexter camp yet. Life is 2 nutty for any get away time, thats all going to change!! Great job!!! PAP
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6 hours ago, muskiedreams said:
For some who call themselves anglers or fishermen, spawning season IS bass season.
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Hang in there I bought a pile of scorpion spoons, they should be in the mailbox any day now!!!Pap.
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Why can’t you get in contact with Hooked Lures and get one made?? That guy/gal can duplicate anything and today’s clear coats are 10 times harder than they were back then. Look up Hooked Lures. He has posts and is on Facebook. I’ve used his services and they are a excellent group of folks to deal with. PAP.
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22 hours ago, lost a lure said:
How do you know the fishhawk is correct?
I had my brother sit on the swim platform after we deployed the rigger weight, he held onto the 100ft surveying tape and I dove down till my hand hit the weights, that’s where I quit pulling the tape. Swam back to the surface to see my brother holding the tape at 65’ Same as the rigger.
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The static electric comes from the plug wire not the plugs, if your spark plug wire is actually wire instead of the carbon type which I doubt a company would do this knowing the finicky electronics that are on board any more are very sensitive to such. The voltage spikes are when your unit is sending over 15.9 volts to the battery for some odd reason. The units have a protective mode in them and that is to shut down before unit is messed up from high voltage. Maybe the voltage is unregulated to a dangerous to electronics but not to a battery, which can handle 16 volts for a short time before becoming a (cooked) battery. Hope this helps.??
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20 hours ago, pap said:
Just forget about what the rigger #'s say go by the probe if your running a hawk that goes by a pressure switch that's pretty much spot on. Do like the above post says Mark 100ft off pull cable to your100' mark, if your 20'off take a paint can mark 20' of cable. Reel in cable in to the painted mark set to 0 and with 20' of cable take that spray paint mark down to the 100' mark see what rigger reads now, keep marking till you read 100 on counter and at 100' mark. As you get closer to reading 100' on cable and counter, you might have to split the difference with the cable to read 100 on rigger. Hope this helps, and you can make sence of my way of thinking. LOL
Hmmm I must speak a different languages. Carry on guys I'm out
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If you go out to the last red & green bouy in BRB, work your way over towards the north shore head towards the Perch River gotta stay away from shore pretty good and stay away from the mud flat soon you'll see a Weeping Willow tree from the tree to the bridge you should hammer the snot out of them if it's still the way it used to be. No one ventures up there got to watch your depth in that area up to the tree then just stay in the channel. If not that adventurous, stay in muskellounge bay lots of pick handles other area has trophy size pike.
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Just forget about what the rigger #'s say go by the probe if your running a hawk that goes by a pressure switch that's pretty much spot on. Do like the above post says Mark 100ft off pull cable to your100' mark, if your 20'off take a paint can mark 20' of cable. Reel in cable in to the painted mark set to 0 and with 20' of cable take that spray paint mark down to the 100' mark see what rigger reads now, keep marking till you read 100 on counter and at 100' mark. As you get closer to reading 100' on cable and counter, you might have to split the difference with the cable to read 100 on rigger. Hope this helps, and you can make sence of my way of thinking. LOL
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1 minute ago, Fishnut said:
Sounds like you have too much wire on your spools. If your riggers are designed for 150’ of wire and you out 250’ of wire on them the counters will no longer be accurate. Your balls will be deeper than the counter says.
Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario UnitedMan your quick buddy!!! I was just ready to hit send when I saw a notification, read yours pretty much word for word so just hit delete!! LOL. Speaking from experience your 100% right.!!!!
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The lower unit is the big $$ cost if you can’t do it yourself, I got it down to 30mins off just saying 45mins on sometimes they like to give you a little shyt, going on. The water pump I put a new one on, if they ran dry for a little time they heat the body up, then the stainless steel cup the impeller spins in isn’t directly centered and eats impellers, so I just put a new whole unit on. Like mentioned above most is labor same as the auto industry, if the “BooK” says it should take 2 hrs and the job only took 45mins, guess how much labor you’ll pay?? I’ll leave it at that!!!
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LOL, like posted above I thought mother nature had it in for me. So I said I'm not making any plans ahead of time or mentioning I'm going north, so she doesn't have any time to brew up a blow for 3 days straight. That doesn't work either. My uncle goes up and tells me they had beautiful weather all the time. I go up to be greeted by 4fters out of the North. Hmm, watching our local weather and making plans from that doesn't work either because once you get beyond Syracuse it's a whole different world!!!. I can't use my luck either, because if it weren't bad luck I wouldn't have any. (That's not true) but it sounds good. At least I'm not alone.