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  1. sherman brown
    just to add to your post. if you decide to go with a 4-blade prop it is recommended to drop 2" in pitch over a 3-blade prop. I highly recommend switching to a 4-blade for better everything, better handling in rough water or in turns, and better lift, the only downside is if you have a 3-blade of the right and the RPMs are right then going to a 4-blade might cost you 1 or 2 MPH at WOT. but in your case going to a 17p 4-blade prop should improve everything. and I will always use a high-five prop on any 8-cylinder Mercruiser that I get. now my son and I went together and bought a 26' Sylvan glass boat that has an elephant ear 16p prop that is on the boat. but if he will let me i still want to just try my 17p high-five prop just to see which one performs the best. and I don't know what motor you are running to get those numbers with a 19p aluminum prop. but he is running the 4.3 6-cylinder motor.
  2. sherman brown
    I have used my lithium power pack jump stater to power many cars in salvage yards to check electrical items before they are removed without ever having any problem. are you 100% sure you had the Perko switch set to the correct battery? or were you connecting the leads from the motor to the Perko switch? there is just no reason that the jump pack shouldn't have worked as long as the power was being directed to the trim motor. the packs i have always used had power to the cables as soon as the power was turned on, on the jump pack. if you hook to the hot cable that goes to a battery and hook the ground to any ground then try the 1 battery and if it doesn't work try switching to battery 2. we were up on Erie and the starter was reading cranking slow with my switch on both. I never thought about checking anything out I just had a new starter installed. but when I started the motor it hadn't helped anything. I switched to battery 1 and she cranked like crazy. then I switched to battery 2 and it wouldn't even turn the motor. my point being you should check each side separately and not both batteries at the same time
  3. sherman brown
    your speed isn't that bad but you need a lower pitch to improve hole shot. but most times going to a lower pitch might hurt your top end a little. but it's a fair trade-off to get a better hole shot and get your RPMs up a little. and just so you know going to a 4 blade should improve your hole shot. my boat started with a 19p 3 blade that struggled to get on plane. so I got on eBay and bought a 19p high five that jumped my boat up on plane. it was like I had bought a new boat. but my RPMs were low so I tried a 17p high five and everything was perfect. with the 19p it took forever to get up and now it starts getting up as soon as I hit the throttle.
  4. sherman brown
    on my 21' cobia I ended up with a 17p high five on it. but the same pitch in a 4-blade should work great for you. I would check on eBay for a used Revolution 4 blade 17p. what is the max RPMs for that motor? I would think around 4800 and if so you are running really low. how does it get on plane and what speed are you getting now?
  5. sherman brown
    my 2000 merc 9.9 4 stroke is to old for this to work on it. but from what i've heard and read these are great if you don't have hydralic steering. good luck to the buyer as this is a great deal on a stand alone auto pilot for your kicker motor.
  6. sherman brown
    I like using 1 bag on each side for better boat control. and the size of the bag is most dependent on how slow you will ever want to go. It's also better to error on the larger size. you may use a little more gas but you can always bump your speed up but you can't get it to run slower if your bags are too small. I ran 36" bags on my 21' Cobia glass boat with a 5.7 Vortec motor with 315 HP. but most of the time I trolled with the wind so I only had to bump it up very little. on calmer days I only used 1 bag.
  7. sherman brown
    I sent you a pm of what I use and where I bought it.
  8. sherman brown
    been there and done similar back in the 1st few years fishing Erie;s western basin out of a van and filleting our fish in the parking lot where we spent our nights.
  9. sherman brown
    many, many years ago I bought an LCX 38C HD fish finder/GPS combo unit that has been a great unit for all my fishing needs including Lake Erie. it was still working great so I really can't explain why I did it, but I just wanted to try a newer unit. I bought an HDS 9 GEN 3 which I haven't even used yet. I paid 860.00 for this unit with a 3-D structure scan box and transducer. but I kept looking at other used models. I ended up getting an HDS 12 LIVE or the carbon unit I just can't remember which unit I ended up buying, with the 3 in 1 transducer for 1090.00. if you want to check on these types of units just send me a message. they have many of the HDS 9 GEN 3 or you might find a good deal on a smaller live or carbon unit you want.
  10. sherman brown
    the ground can be attached to any source of ground. with the hot wire connected to the hot cable it should work great.
  11. sherman brown
    back in the day, I used them all at one time or another. My choice of them all would be these Penn riggers. I think they are the best manual rigger you can buy. you won't regret buying Peens.
  12. sherman brown
    Ethanol-free gas isn't around where I live so I always have used gas with ethanol in it in everything I have owned in my 45 or so years I've been boating and the only problem I've had was the old gas lines going bad. I haven't lost any of my outboards or Mercruiser motors that I've owned. I used the old Mercury 115 tower of power inline 6 for 25 years and it was still running until I bought a boat that had a 115 Johnson. up until my oldest son and I bought a used 26' Sylvan boat the only time I bought marina gas was while playing in the water. the only place we use the 26' boat is at Geneva Ohio fishing for walleye. now we dock the boat and use marina gas.
  13. sherman brown
    yeah, but what a way to go!!!!!!!!!!! you have some great-looking baits for Erie's central basin. I am a lover of anything that has purple on it. I started drift fishing in the western basin then switched to trolling until I had a chance to go out on a charter for 2 days on the central basin. the second day the caption had taught us enough to run 3 dipsy divers on each side. We used the deeper divers until we tried the lite bite slide divers. but we run them like the Dipsey divers with a 7' fluro leader and don't use the slide part. but the lite bite feature works awesome for us. GOOD LUCK WITH THOSE BEAUTIFUL PURPLE SPOONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  14. sherman brown
    I had never used the ones that were orange before. we bought a used boat and didn't get my 12# pancake weights loaded. there were a couple of this type of weight in 8# that we had to use. I didn't expect much from the 8# weights. but we started using them and to my huge surprise, they had much less blowback than I was getting with the flat 12# pancake weights. I ordered 2 10# weights but haven't used them yet. if you want the best weights I have used in my 45 years using riggers these 8# weights have worked great. if you start looking for these they are called DREDGE WEIGHTS. the 1 is marked 10# and should work better than the other weights shown. 2 of these shipped in a small box together by priority mail is pretty cheap as they charge by size and not weight up to 70#. i once shipped 64# of flat lead in the flat small box they furnish for less than 10.00.
  15. sherman brown
    hello Tom! you doing OK these days? no, not again. but they took all my spoons and even went so far as to take my HIGH FIVE prop off my boat and the marine radio out of it.
  16. sherman brown
    I would have had plenty of the scorpion spoon and galeforcetackle.com spoons that were faded or in the case of the stinger spoons, the paint just came off after catching a very few fish. and I had some old Gale Force spoons that Vicky gave me to try after I made my orders. but someone beat you to them. I had about 500 good spoons most of them had never been used and probably never would have. then I had maybe 200+ of the spoons that I never used. but some people I treated very good broke into my pole barn and took so much stuff including all my spoons. I won't even start listing all the stuff that was stolen.
  17. sherman brown
    if you are selling in lots now I would be interested in a lot of spoons with pink or purple on them. I am mostly interested in medium size but the large size will be OK. you can message me here with what you have or email me at [email protected]. if I buy I can pay with PayPal and send extra to cover fees or mail you a check.
  18. sherman brown
    I have the slow-speed reels and they work just fine for me. the only real advantage I see with the high-speed reels is bringing them in to check lines or change lures. with a fish on you reel it in at the fish's speed and not the reel speed. but for running wire out 300' or 350' they would be priceless for checking or changing lures. let me add I am a walleye fisherman. but for salmon making a run at the boat the high-speed is the only way to go.
  19. sherman brown
    the only thing I can add is to go with the wind whenever possible. I don't have or use a tolling motor. I used my main motor for years but finally got a 9.9 4-stroke kicker. either way going with the wind makes it so much easier to control the boat and speed. I probably troll with the wind 90% of the time. you won't run your trolling motor nearly as hard giving you more time on the water. the waves and wind do most of the work so you can get away with running the motor on a lower setting saving your battery.
  20. sherman brown
    I used boatus.com and designing my own boat name was so easy. they are easy to install on my boat that I had no trouble. if you go to the website and then go to graphics and you can check out how easy it is. and I'm sure if you contact them they can help design something for you. I got the name and my boat numbers from them. they also have a video on how to apply the graphics.
  21. sherman brown
    are these 1 or 2 piece rods?
  22. sherman brown
    hey, did you ever sell your boat? would you sell the boat and trailer without any of the fishing gear as i already have everything i need? i totaled my boat when i left my new top in the half standing position and backed it into the top of my overhead door on my pole barn. now i have all this gear but no boat. i have 2 Big Jon pro tournament riggers with sectioned boom that's been around for a few years but only used forb1 weekl on Erie, so they are still in almost new condition, i have a brand new vhf radio with built in GPS, i have a Lowrance HDS 12 live with the 3 in 1 transducer, or i also have a 3D structure scan with transducer, i have 8 Cannon ratcheting rod holders but would need to add tracks, i have 4 Okuma Coldwater 203 reels and rods i can use on one side and 4 Daiwa Sealine sg 17 lc3b reels and rods for the other side for running lite bite slide divers, i have 2 traxstech fixed rod holders thar are leaning out about 29 degrees that we use as dip net holders. i have 4 Okuma convector 20s with rods i use on my riggers. i have traxsteck pully retrievers on the rigger cables to bring the rigger weights to the boat for rigging, i have all types and size spoons and deep and shallow walleye bandits and a few custom bandit cranks along with other cranks to use on my riggers and i have been known to run the shallow cranks on one side ofthe boat with the lite bite divers. so as you can see i have no need for any gear except the bumpers would nice to have. if you still have the boat and if you would sell it without any of the gear except the bumnpers. WHAT WOULD BE YOUR BEST PRICE FOR THE BARE BOAT, TRAILER, AND BUMPERS. you can message me with your answer.
  23. sherman brown
    if you don't find what you want for the right price try galeforcetackle,com i don't know if they still have them but they did have blanks that need painting. you might also message vicki at ,<[email protected]> this was her email address a few years ago.
  24. sherman brown
    it depends on just how long you plan to keep the boat. usually an aluminum boat will last forever. i bought an old Cheokee 18' boat out of a field for 200.00. everything was rotted out including the tires. but the hull was as solid as a new boat. if it was me and i planned on keeping it for many years i would check with places like lowes and online for the new non-wood materials available today. they may cost more than plywood but plywood can get soft spots down the road from being exposed to small standind water areas that isn't noticeable but keeps the floor damp. but once the non-wood flool is installed you will never have to replace the floor again. you will have total piece of mind as long as you use the boat. plus the resale value will be higher with a floor that wont rot.
  25. sherman brown
    I use them on Erie for walleye. i set the lite bite as loose as it will go then set the rod tension tight enough so I'm not getting false releases. with the lite bite set extra loose, I get releases on just about all hits even from small white perch or larger yellow perch. i haven't had any problems with hookups with them set loose whatsoever. I switched to the lite bites a few years ago and would never think about switching back. I run 3 per side and 1 downrigger per side. but I don't use the slide feature on them. I just tie it to the front arm then tie a short piece of 65# braid to an o-ring then lace it through the little block in front of the lite bite arm then lace it through the lite bite arm. but I use a snubber that I tie onto the short piece of braid then tie on a good swivel then tie on a 7' fluro leader and tie another good swivel on the end of the leader and then attach my lure. if you don't use a snubber then there's no need for the short piece of braid, just use the leader for the whole thing. and some people don't use snubbers, but using braid line for my main line which is a must for tripping divers I feel better adding a snubber to give the fish a little flex when they start shaking and jerking their head.
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