Willy-C

I hearya.....Good luck and post up when you get some ready...

Kevin get me a piece of 11 gauge aluminum and ill make you the special ones like I did for waterwolf.

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Do you have pix of what they look like?

Not a bad idea to use small styrofoam beads  (shipping packing) in the handle so you can go back and get it. They don't add much to the weight of the net and are a chap insurance policy.....

Thanx for the good tip..!!

Like others have said, TIG welded is best...if it doesn't look like a bad area,if you can do without that rivet have it just welded in

A bad area would be were two pieces of alum are overlapped with a gasket in between (ie: keel) in close proximity to the crack, the gasket material will cook and contaminate the weld adding more leaks...

That's pretty good service Jobsite, can't knock it

I have an new 8hp Merc(tohatsu)......it works great too

all day on 2 gals of fuel.......the only thing I regret is not getting the optional charging circuit 

on the second day of chugging with all the electronics,  I sometimes need to fire up the 150hp generator (Yammy)

3M........Home Depot......they carry it in 2" & 4".......Great stuff

http://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-4-in-x-15-ft-Step-and-Ladder-Tread-Tape-7636NA/100211722

......... Slow picking last weekend all over the lake, think it had to do with full moon......

x2.....

Nope, we got towed back to the little salmon by boat usa towing. Luckily I signed up for that last year.

How much time did it take for them to show up......I also signed up for BoatUS unlimited towing but have never used it yet (knocking on wood)

We heard someone on channel 69 looking for a tow 1/2 mile out of Mexico Point but were too far east (above Pulaski) with a full spread of drowning tackle

I've had three different boats....all with cannon swivels under the cannon d-riggers

worth every penny when things get tense OTW

We fished from the Mexico launch to the plant: 7-30 fow. Didn't move one rod. Stopped to untangle a snag...wrapped the prop. And got towed in.

Was that you on Sun am offering the $100 for a 1/2 mile tow to the launch??

Steering works! like a charm, the only downside to my setup is rattling:) will have to figure something out to remedy that. Also the 6HP single cylinder motor i got(NEW - trolled with it first time) , is a pain in the butt. Starts and works fine etc... but it is noisy and vibrates. Trolling with my 2stroke 50hp Mercury was much more pleasurable.

I used electrical tape wrapped around the mounting studs, let it crush in between to become a cushion

Friday pm we got one laker, and a laker and smallie on Sat near Catfish.....Nada today till 11am from Mexico to Salmon River, then pulled them and headed home

I'll bite.....

Last August I went to Lake O for the first time.......three of us in my boat and we did pretty well except for every stinking fish on the end of whatever I was holding on to either broke off or just got off......  ..nothing but limp poles

They started calling me "Weenie-C" cuz of the hat I bought at a local tackle shop

One the last day the other two guys said "You need to get something in this boat so we can go home"......my reply "The only thing I need is a pix of us sitting on the transom with the rods out, We'll pull them right at high noon then get outta here" 

Well we got the pix, four rods in the lake, three of us were pulling rods and the very last rod was thumping and I got my king (IIRC 18 lbs)

the time stamp on the pix of us sitting was 8-26-2012 11:57am

the time stamp with me holding this king was 826-2012 12:03 pm

It was a classic, last day, last minute with the last rod in the water

Funny thing is, my boat is packed and ready to pull out of NH at 5am for round two......It's gonna be a great weekend

Wave Hi to the little grady if you see us out of Mexico Point

Willy-C (formerly Big-Weenie-C)

Nice Lund SSS......I wish I had the choice to put mine inside the splashwell but I have two seats in the way and my kicker is mounted on an adjustable Garelick mount.....So I have to stretch out over the back.....

Thanx Fishy....You guys are a wealth of great info

Great tip Sk8man, are lead sinkers banned on Lake O like here in NH..??

Kuba,

materials scrounged and engineered by the seat-o-the-pants university

main engine mount was a piece of flat bar stainless steel cut and welded with two 3/8-16 hex bolts welded for the steering rod to connect ......drilled, bolted and nutted  thru the engine cowling (twenty year old motor- no warranty issues) 

the kicker (brand new last year) has no holes where the bracket is,  just two SS hose clamps......that bracket was made with a piece of thick SS sheet metal (maybe 10ga) also with two 3/8-16 hex bolts to form the other place to connect rod...... it was tricky to get the bends right but works great

if I was to do it again I would change the wing nuts to using air quick-connects (same type on air hoses)......seems they would be easier to connect and swivel

the hitch pin works great but have since added a flat tang on the larger tube near the holes where they connect to help line the holes up (using pinky finger) when hanging over the back

We are staying at Stix's Motel and launching out of Mexico Point

We'll keep an eye out for you, Good Luck......Can't wait to say....."FISH-ON"

Like Lund SSS I made my own steering rod with 2 pieces of aluminum tubing (one smaller to slide in the other) and a hitch pin to connect/release

The hitch pin allows for a quick get away if conditions get hairy without completely removing the rod while hanging over the back

Like you Kuba, I had trouble using the kicker while trolling....If I was just using the kicker for just emer power then it would steer OK if it was 1/3 throttle or more......as soon as the throttle was down I had no steering using the main motor.......so a steering rod was just the ticket

Yep, We'll be there this weekend.

Me and my crew also......

Great report Byoung62......Looking forward to the weekend too

O?.........Ooops, I see you're in Canada......water freezes in colder temps up there....  ....(Celsius  )

Good Luck

Kuba,

I always change my L/U oil in the fall when I'm winterizing......because gravity will let any contaminates settle over the winter and collect internally in the housing, and if there's any water intrusion you'll see it before freezing temps damage it from expansion...... if you spot  issues you won't be pressured to fix it in the spring, you could work on it during the winter months 

I should buy them just for the name......

Pete,

from the initial power up.....push "menu"......then "enter"......then toggle the up down to reach desired contrast level

what you can't see is the "screen" command is at the top of the menu screen, that is the adjustment for the contrast

I had the same problem with my backup X125, I thought it was junk until I figured it out