fishinwrench

I can see an angry brown taking a swat at that.

I've tried the furled chenille worms, and rabbit strip worm flys. Success was not there. There was a rubber band worm/leech fly that I messed with years ago that had promise, but I abandoned it for some reason that I'm sure I'd remember if I tried it again.

Nothing but leeches and other boring stuff from me until I can get out and put a few to the test. I'd like to find a good "worm" fly. Or something that can be worked right down in the log jams and root wads, for the times when Smallies won't come out and chase anything.

What's that thing with the zipper down the middle of it? Doesn't matter.....I ain't eating it.

Oh Yeah!!! I often wonder though why anyone bothers with making their own Baked Beans. Bush's nailed it, they can't get any better than that, and they are cheap.

EMM relay (27.00). It controls the high pressure fuel pump too. You probably got sold a fuel pump for no reason. Don't question it....just change that relay.

Here's the thing though.....in order to R&R an injector you have to re-flash the EMM. Has anyone tried flashing the EMM with the alleged "bad injector" still intact to see if the problem went away? It's very likely that the injector itself is fine.

Why Drum ? And why "poor man"? Shrimp isn't expensive.

When you go to a sketchy restaurant what's your default safe order ? Mine: Chicken fried steak. Nobody has yet to make CFS so nasty that I couldn't eat it. 😋 My wife used to go with a BLT until she got a purple tomato. Now she CFS's with me.

I'm sitting at Kitchen and Table with cash in hand. So hurry the hell up!

No there is always some BS wanna be food item that has some mystical prep-step, aside from it being FRESH, that supposedly makes it delicious. So if you don't like it, or refuse to eat it, then you "obviously" don't know how to cook it right. You know the deal. It either has to be soaked in warm 7up, or par boiled, or danced around naked with one hand on your ear and the other one doing counter-clockwise circles over your head while your body spins clockwise. And THIS turns it from cat food into a delicasy. Some things you look at and your first impression is....I ain't eating that. Carp, liver, gizzards, squirrel brains, and all sorts of stuff that people claim is delicious "if cooked right" will never touch my lips.

Always buy your Marine Battery's from the Marine dealer you like the best (and that likes YOU the best). Whatever it is that they sell....Use those. That way if there is a problem, the exchange experience will be pleasant. Plus, the more you show up in there the better your relationship will be on future boat/motor related deals.

You'll deliver it ? I'll start the bidding at 65.00

Has anyone ever been fined for that? Has anyone ever even had an authority look at their shoes? Felt boots are cheap now, and I still like them.

Naw I'm with a group of serious campfire chefs, it's gonna be gourmet all the way. No leather and felt laced flapjacks on that trip.

Agree with you on the liver. But I bet if I ground those boots up and made cinnamon/sugar pancakes out of them on a river bank you'd rave about it.

Sure! But not for normal maintenance things though.

The stupidest thing they ever did was put tiny little filters on the downstream end of the injectors. I mean seriously, if it's small enough to pass through the injectors then go ahead and let the engine eat it for Christ sake !!!! Those things go right in the trash at Sims Marine. 😎

Here's the Merc filter tools that you can't do without. All the other designs can be removed/installed with NORMAL tools.

Here we go again with the "cooked right" business I have some old wading boots that IF COOKED RIGHT would be pretty darn tasty.

Stripers are well known for fighting to their death. They don't overcome stress very well.

Yeah, like smacking your toe with a hammer in order to stop a headache. 😋

Jerk stripped across current it will move like a standard Deciever. Stripped through still or slow water it's just gonna tow through the water like a wad of grass. Where flys like standard Decievers shine is when you need to make LONG casts quickly to extremely active fish, like blitzing stripers that are in a mood to eat anything that moves..but you can't get very close to them without putting them down. Pointy nose flys cast really good, but unless you can quarter them across a decent flow they just don't have much action.

I did it back in the '90's for a bad case of tendonitis (fisherman's elbow) and I can't say that it did any good. The tendonitis healed on its own after about 7-8 months of suffering through it. For those that claim it "healed them" I'd wager that it's all in their head. Ailments like that have a way of healing themselves after time, and if someone gets "treated" in some way then they seem to like to praise the "treatment" they did, rather than accept the fact that the ailment would have gone away in the same amount of time if they had done no treatments of any kind.

I'm surprised at the injector failure, as I've not seen a single issue related to a bad injector. I've heard of some techs BLAMING a bad injector, but I question their diagnostics. So far all Etec running problems that have come in here have been related to bad, contaminated, or aged fuel. Except for one that had a broken ignition coil bracket causing a loss of ground to the coil. I can tell you that the upper motor mounts do NOT like saltwater. I have replaced 3 sets of those a few years after folks visited the coast. The mounts are housed and hold water, they need to design them to drain and dry out, or design them so that they can be flushed easier.