HB2

And NEVER use ethanol fuel in older outboard motors . EVER . 

So my neighbor is a Rochester city officer . She is on the front lines with the face shield and  night stick pushing back "peacefull protesters" . She tells my wife the other night she had a commercial fireworks go off a few feet from her and has powder burns , has things thrown at her , people screaming in her face calling her everything in the book . Her eyes burn from pepper spray they have to use .  She has been out there since the beginning of all this .And it has been he'll.  

I tell my wife we  have to do something for her . We get her a 12 pack of local craft brew , my wife bakes her something and we go over this morning . Bang on the door and her family is there . I say we want  you to have this for all the BS crap you have been taking and we support you and are gratefull for you, appreciate you , and keep your head up . 

She breaks down in my wife's arms. Wasn't expecting that  .Said it is tough because they revive  no support from the Mayor ,etc . Occasionally people thank them . 

She feels torn between her young family and kids and her brothers and sisters on the force who are exhausted . 

So if you know someone and love someone , even if you don't , let them know . Tell them we are out here and appreciate what they are doing . And  to  keep their head up . They need to hear it . As I found out today . 

We use to go next weekend annually with the boys for years . 

We have run into some bad weather / wind/ rain. Woke up one morning to skim ice in the puddles . 

So we moved it up to 3rd weekend in Aug  because THEY are turning into geriatrics. 

But the pike fishing was way better later and we still did a lot of bass . I would take the boat only for comfort and safety in the wind 

I love to fish for pike up there casting #5 Mepps or spinner baits over submerged weed beds and jig for bass on weed edges and drop offs  . 

Bass first light , drift over weed beds for  pike mid day . WIRE LEADER !! 

HAVE FUN ! 

Good breakfast at Blue moon or Lumberjack . But you should know that . 

Days like that make you appreciate the good ones 

It use to bother me bad but I learned its part of it . 

A lot of tackle shops made a butt load of Money off me after days like today .:-)

If it has the same ignition system as mine and a lot of others I know had  similar problems , i would say it is that . 

Those motors are notorious for that . My guess , the spark box . 

A 96 is not that old if it doesn't  have a lot of hrs on it .

I screwed around with mine for a long time and then sold it . 

Might not be a bad investment to bring it to someone who knows . 

First time out in a while 

Put out  4 flashers . 

Started in 40 and worked out  to 140 

One hit 55 down . First skunk of the year. 

Rough seas , so we called it at 8 

Was a good year . 

Pulling the big boat tommorow . 

Then it's Small Boatin`!!

I find the early morning hrs before dawn are best . 

You just have to be careful in th dark because it is easy to  get disoriented

A company or individual that can make a mold for a modified bait head  And produce the product . 

I'm thinking it's injection molded plastic of some sort . 

Thanks 

Silver bullet  with or without red head 

Glow  green florescent with or without ladders back 

Pearl w / black dots . 

#3 and #4 

I had a watermelon one last year that was good also when Sun came up 

Got to love that !!! 

I  could buy the best golf clubs made and  Tiger woods could beat me with  bat and a shovel . 

I have learned my rods ,reels , ,baits ,boats etc are tools to catch fish.  

And cheap tools in a master craftsmans hands will have better results than the best stuff with someone that does not know what they are doing . 

I wanted to build a 10 ft skein rod . Priced it and it was like 190$ went to Dicks  and got a Wright Magill for 50$ and it's perfect . 

And here comes the big BUT.... 

If I had all the time and money in the world , I would give all my rods away and build all new. That would amount to probably 50 rods . 

If that motor has 3 carbs like my old 55 Johnson it could be a few issues 

The rich / lean screws are in to far and it won't switch over from the adjustable low speed to the non adjustable high speed.  Or clogged jets . 

Mightily be running on one cylinder because of  a carburetor

Bad coil.  or spark amplifier . 

But if it was,running good  before you got new gas , I would say fuel or carbs . 

But what do I know ? 

You may not get exactly what you want . 

I have spent a lot of time and money on some Duds . 

I have built about 40 rods in my lifetime 

Many 35 years ago . You could not get good light line steelhead drift rods . 

Now you can get anything you want . 

I keep saying I'm going to do another but I go to the store and can get a decent rod for 1/4 of the price . 

For bass / pike the rods of today are far superior to what use to be .The rod we spent 75$ for back then  We can buy for 20$  

Fly rods have come light years.  you can get a good rod for 100$ 

I feel I'm a good  enough fisherman that I don't need the best . 

In fact I get a lot of satisfaction catching fish on a rod I got off the sale rack for 9$ . 

But I had fun building and still using some . 

My buddy blew a tire and side swiped a telephone pole on the way back from the mountains and totaled his boat . 

So we are looking for a 16 to 18 ft aluminum project  boat only as he has a motor and trailer . 

He doesn't have a lot of Money  to spend . 

THANKS ! 

I use 11" paddles on my riggers and 8 " spin Dr and pro trolls on my dipsys . 

They both work equally well . 

Fresh back from 4 days at my happy place in the mountains . Great weather but it rained hard twice . Fishing was good but not great.  Nice bass but only a few pike . 3  And 4 " Senco style black and green pumpkin were good but a 4 " 

Hula grub was,best . 

Pike took #5 mepps  gold or black fury black bucktail . 

We ate well and drank a lot of beer . Good times,with my bestus friends .

On the way home my friend had a,blow out on his  trailer on a curve and side swiped a telephone pole with the boat and totaled it,. I saw it in my rear view,mirror and it could have been real bad . 

So we,are looking for an older aluminium 16 to 18  ft project boat  only . 

10 minutes ago, hookedupf7 said:

HB 2 you are the one that keeps talking about Gary d rig? You are a prick 😄😄 . I looked high and low for what a Gary d rig was. Guess what . I still don’t know . 😄😄

No need to  get nasty about it . 

You will know pretty soon . Hopefully by spring . 

I know I'm and A... hole . I'm actually kind of proud of it . 

Who wants to  know what my best was? 

I have had water get into 3 Min Kota motors . I fixed one myself , the other I brought to South bay which cost me 175$ and did the same thing 2 month later , so I fixed that my self . 

Not hard to fix . 

Pull the prop and carefully take out the 2 long bolts . 

Pull the case apart and if it has water . Spray with WD  And PB blaster . And blow out with compressed air blow gun 

 Check the brushes . You can get rebuild kit on line . 

I put some silicone on the O ring before I put it back together . 

Works great . 

It's a very common problem . 

I believe to many guys get bogged down in the details of this and fishing in general . 

When I concentrated on fishing instead of everything else , I started doing way better  in all types of fishing . 

Any one out in fish land have any particulars about this ? 

My goal is to by next spring have a high quality version  available to you guys and maybe make a few bucks to justify my fishing addiction in my retirement . 

My vision is to change what we use to catch these fish . Or more importantly to me , to change the game . Kind of like NK and Pirates did . 

I came up with something that really works and hope to have it available to

help put more fish in the boat for you all. 

I would think you guys would appreciate that . 

Is Heavy Power Pro better ? 

Like 400# test .

Maybe not prone to kinks . 

3 dipsys                             50$ 

6 ball bearing swivels          8$

3 flashers ( 2 the exact same white pro troll .)                                    40$

3 of my rigs                priceless

2 snubers                      8$

And 50$ worth of wire  going in the trash. The second Time it happened I said no more but I reconsidered. Then it happened again . So I'm.throwing it out so I won't be tempted . 

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