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  1. greenhornet73
    Same here! Thanks for all the responses and troubleshooting help.
  2. greenhornet73
    You got that right!
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    Nice job getting to them early. I did the opposite and put in at 10:30 and couldn’t maintain enough boat control to give myself even a decent chance to connect with a fish. It was just enough of a NE blow to spin me around if I took my hand off the wheel. Glad to hear you’re still on them.
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    Just got home from a 3 hour troll and the oil level is still perfect. Easy fix with a replaced thermostat.
  5. greenhornet73
    Nice one! The wind really put on a show yesterday afternoon.
  6. greenhornet73
    So fun, I hope I can find some again on Monday
  7. greenhornet73
    My uploads have been doing that too lately. For some reason if I screenshot the same picture and send it again it will upload fine.
  8. greenhornet73
    Maybe his thumb likes to photo bomb like mine.
  9. greenhornet73
    I hope the wind cooperates for you guys. I’m heading back out Monday, let us know how you do!
  10. greenhornet73
    I can’t stress enough to occasionally jerk the rod or give it a steady pull then drop back motion during mid-troll. You’ll grab those followers that otherwise may not strike a steadily moving lure. I learned this trolling spinnerbaits and bucktails for pike and muskies in Ottawa.
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    I ran a third quart of oil through the crankcase today to make sure all of the gas/oil mixture was out and filled it with good oil. Fired it up and ran it for 10 minutes on almost half throttle with muffs on. Checked the oil after and was perfectly clean and level didn’t change. I’ll run it on the lake this weekend but for now it seems replacing the thermostat did the trick. Thanks everyone for all the input. If anything changes over the weekend I will post it to help anyone in the future with the same problem.
  12. greenhornet73
    I replaced the thermostat and changed the oil twice. Will fill again tonight and run it and post what I find.
  13. greenhornet73
    Seriously, makes my transom look like a car top boat!
  14. greenhornet73
    I’ve been experimenting with different setups each time out and have caught fish each time. So far it is one rod that takes the most hits on each trip. One day it was a planer board flat line with crank bait, next time was a 1 color with a spoon, and last time out was the downrigger but over deeper water which makes sense. The one constant is that I have been running every line on one side of the boat instead of spreading them over a larger area.
  15. greenhornet73
    I really hope not
  16. greenhornet73
    It is not an EFI model
  17. greenhornet73
    I’m going to talk to the marina where I bought it used last spring and see what they say. I trailered it all last season and didn’t have a problem so something has happened this spring. If the thermostat doesn’t do it then I’ll bring it in for service.
  18. greenhornet73
    Interesting conversation in there that is very pertinent to my situation. I trailer long distances with the motor down and also only troll with it at fairly low speeds. It doesn’t have a lot of hours on it and I can’t imagine it could have a cracked head gasket or anything serious like that so soon. I’m going to change the oil and thermostat this week and disconnect the fuel line when I trailer it on my next trip out and keep an eye on the oil while I’m out there. Thanks guys for all the possible factors that might be causing this.
  19. greenhornet73
    Yeah, last night I thought condensation because it was milky but the level wasn’t much higher. Today it poured out when I pulled the dipstick after running it over an hour on the lake. It was running fine but wanted to keep an eye on it. Definitely smells like gas in there.
  20. greenhornet73
    Yep, that’s exactly what I plan on doing. Really hope that’s all it was.
  21. greenhornet73
    When I pulled the dipstick the oil started running out meaning it was collecting water so I shut it down. Looking it up online it appears this is typical for a failed thermostat that is stuck open.
  22. greenhornet73
    I have had bad luck with PLine fluoro as well and only use Seaguar and Yozuri for leaders, same for saltwater.
  23. greenhornet73
    The thermostat was open when I pulled it out this morning before starting so I suspect it is stuck open. It “made oil” during this mornings trip so I shut it down and ran my main instead.
  24. greenhornet73
    The wind forecast was correct today and I finally got out again. Started at 8am and fished shallow inside the chocolate water and out to the midline with no hits for 1.5 hrs. Decided to slide out deeper for kings and saw a good mark at 35’ so I worked that area for rest of the morning. My downrigger with the MVP of the day purple clown took all the fish but 1 that came unbuttoned on a planer board with 1 color and UV Die Hard. Landed 3 browns and 1 screamer 29’ down over 44fow. There was a pod of 6 or 7 and thankfully I didn’t double up because it took 20 minutes to land it on my med light action rod and 12# leader. Went about 15# and 31”. What a blast watching it do acrobatics 150’ behind the boat after it peeled over 100’ of line out on the strike. The Coast Guard went out on a call but went out of viewing distance, not sure what the situation was but couldn’t pick up anything on my radio besides the weather. Great day on the water, didn’t even pay attention to the rain.
  25. greenhornet73
    Thanks, good to know. I’ll check it tomorrow.
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