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I do the same with the swim noodles but I use a V shaped nail, like you would use to hold wire fence to a wooden structure. They are galvanized and about 3/4" they work sweet. I also cut the noodle at 12"s and use a 1/2" wooden dowel rod cut at 14"s and push it through the center of the noodle so about 1" sticks out then I load them up with spoons I can get 10 in a row with the 2 barbs into the noodle and 1 stiking out then load the opposite side. I have U shaped holders that take two screws to fasten them, 1 for each side of the noodle, and have them mounted in the cuddy. They stay in place nicely and I use the same type holders in the back of the boat, so all I have to do is grab a noodle with the colors I want to use and hang them where we can get them. I have them organized in color and size, the same with my worm harnesses, color and length the harnesses is where I use the V nails I use 3, 1 through the swivel and 1 in the center once I have it all wrapped up and 1 through the loop on the end to hold them tight on the noodle. I think the noodles work better than anything I ever tried and where can you find something that holds 20 spoons in 12"s and another good thing about the noodles is your lures dry, not in a box were they hold moisture and rust. Try it and see if you like it, one thing I noticed is the $1.00 noodles at the Dollar store don't hold up as good as the $3.00 ones do, get the ones that are smooth, like. The ones that feel ruff like, styrofoam don't work sa well, at least for me anyway, and for $3.00 you get 5 or 6 holders, they are usually 6 ft in length. Have fun and tight lines to all PAP.

I'd go on the charter just for an education personally!!! Oh buy the way excellent job!!!!

Excellent job guys, I know it's a grind to get to the lake, but LakeO is so worth the ride!!! I don't know of another lake in the country that has the (quality) of fish in it. Once I get my boat up there, I make the 4.5 hr. run Fri. Night and leave Sunday around 2 pm do the male thing SSS and hit the rack and then wish the week away so I can do it all over again. Glad to hear you had a blast along with some nice fish. Be safe and tight lines to all. PAP.

I personally believe that all the huge parking lots, take for instance by us which used to be a huge farm is now a Home Depot, Sams Club Mcy D's another words 75 Acres of land is all black top, and now some locals are having to drill there wells deeper. They claim its from the run off of the hard surface instead of the water seeping into the ground. I have a black top drive way and can say that it holds the heat a lot. On a warm day even after the sun goes down, 10:00 pm it's still warm.

Congrats to you and your youngster crew, man they laid the smack down on OL' Marble eye. Great to see the kids with a catch of a life time!!

Nice going Fishon, glad to see the kids taking a look at a very impressive walleye, all in all looks and sounds like you had a good trip!!

YOU KNOW, 2 or 3 years ago I did the bellows on my uncle's boat which I did about 3 years prier because he was complaining about water in the bilge area every time he pulled the plug, about a gallon or so comes out he claims. I did notice this weird star shaped mark in the shift cable bellow and couldn't place were I saw this before, and now that the above post mentions a screwdriver I now know the mark, it was a small Phillips screw driver. His boat sat what we call on line, over against a bank out of the way, where everyone is supposed to put their boat when not using it. The kicker to this story is, there was supposed to be a traveling mechanic who posted a card on just about everyone's door in the campground. I guess he was just trying to drum up some business, even left business cards in the office of the campground. Thanks for the above post were the screwdriver was mentioned, this all makes sence now after 3 years later, and no troubles since, and he's gone also, Bastard, PAP.

That sounds like a bellow come off if there was a hose clamp there, they are a bittch to do and a lot of guys think they got it on right, but not, if doing it yourself make sure no one is around that doesn't like the F word you will use it a few times with some blood shed, but it can be done I did all of mine and I have the early Alfa unit, with what you said 3" in dia. It sounds like the exhaust bellow come off. They kind of snap into place and they claim they want you to use a adhesive and a clamp to make sure they don't pop off, if the inner part of the bellow is installed to far onto the inner flange it will make the bellow to short out at the exhaust exit point might have to loosen the inner clamp and rotate the bellow and pull on it at the same time until you are up against the flange that holds the bellow onto the inner part, I leave the clamps a little loose till I have both on it will make a little dull pop sound when it is in place correctly. I don't use the adhesive but would recommend using it if its your first go around. Tighten up clamps if you arrange the clamps correctly you should be able to use a 1/4" drive with a long extension and a 5/16" socket or a long flat screwdriver. When finished raise and lower unit a few times to make sure all is well. Good luck PAP.

Great going Justin, within the next week or two we will be making the journey north, maybe we could make the trip down and go out with you. See what goes on first PAP.

Very nice FleetTracker, looks very organized and clean as a whistle, I realize when it's hot and heavy things get disarray, it's a lot of work but looks like you nailed it both with the boat and the eyes, best of luck to you till we meet which will be soon, I finished up hooking up my electronics to day and tomorrow it goes to get lettered up 1 WORM, and hopfully Brad has my light/ rocket bar finished then all I need to do is run my wires for my lights and RT81 north bound!!!! Your friend PAP.

From what JT has said and the one dark picture, is on reason I want Brad to make my light bar, I remember my cuisin and I trolling at night out of a 14 fter and litterly dragging lures over rocks and limiting out on walleye in a few hours and we never used to lock the motor in so it could glide over the rocks,most of the time we were in 5 ft of water and the inside lines were as shallow as we could get them. Also when the weeds start to grow over on the mud flat just inside the bay is another good place if the wind was coming out if the southwest most of the day or should I say at least till sundown, we caught a lot of eyes there also. The Black River is known to give up a few nice size eyes at night if you know the river, you don't need to troll all the way to the bridge but its a good idea to hug the outer bank through the turn and be sure to go under the willow tree, then follow the break on the right side going down till the 3 buoys where the island used to be. Now if you don't have 3 eyes over 18" head in there not going to play tonight!!!! This is my night plan for this year, but you guys that camp in the BRCG give this a try or anyone else. PAP.

I'm only going for the week end, going down to see how Justin's going about it and mayb take some of his otisco walleye back up to Dexter to finish out a fishing packed trip.

I am down to the finals guys, and yes Walleye Magic I will be bringing it to the camp, I don't think it will be this month anymore as I will be installing the new electronics and would like for my cousin to make me a light bar for overhead lights. I would like to have 2 floods shinning down in the boat and one on each side to shine out on our boards and 2 or 3 facing forward. I had a lot of good fishing shallow sticks at night, my cousin and I used to troll down the north shore and we would catch some big girls after dark, we found that bright nights the 3 night before and the 3 nights after a full moon really produce some nice eyes. FleetTracker I have fished of the old girl and everything works super, I'm very pleased with my kicker mounted to the swim platform, it nice to hop out there to raise it up to truck it up to the next spot and then simply drop her in and fire er up and start trolling again. All this stuff takes time and with me being not 100% and not supposed to lift anything over10#s makes for a slow go for me, but I can see the light at the end of the tunnel, it won't be long now. I want to say thanks for keeping me in mine that's nice of you guys, are you guys going down to Otisco in July, if so that will be a blast. Till we meet tight lines to you guys!!PAP.