slabseeker

So sorry Phil, it is tough. I know exactly what you mean about not knowing if you want to go through that again. We have enjoyed watching him on One Cast & seeing him at the resort for all these years. My wife had commented about how sad it will be when he is gone. Our grand dog would sit in front of our tv & watch him when he was on One Cast. Remember the good times. He is up there chasing otters.

I will offer my review: We pulled the trigger on the Eagle Eye 9 back before Christmas. On sale at Academy for $799. I'm pretty impressed actually. Easy to install and use. I won't be trolling around in open water targeting fish like people do with LS, but I really like it for locating structure, especially shallow, without having to go over the top of it. We can easily tell how far away it is and in what depth. You can see if there are fish on or around it. 90% time we anchor & cast jig & float for crappie. I really like it so far. I try not to just sit and stare at it but it is hard not to. This past Sat. we were catching crappie on structure sitting about 30 ft. away. I saw a fish swimming off to the side of the stumps. I cast to it & caught a nice 14 in. white bass. Pretty cool. I agree with what Bill Babler said in another post... It can eliminate water which amounts to time. Our most precious commodity.

Every spring I look forward to warmer weather, fishing, & Cardinals spring training. Kind of hard to get excited about the latter when Lars Nootbaar is your most famous player. Have to give them a chance I guess. As is tradition, I will go fishing tomorrow, find a nice quiet cove, toss out a minnow & bobber, eat a bologna sandwich, & listen to the game on the radio.

Good point. Or in the case of the Winona cop who told me as he was writing me a ticket on Hwy. 60, at least a half mile before entering the reduced speed zone.

Ozark Media Co on YouTube has some good NuCanoe videos. Not sure if you have seen them or not.

I loved the Jan. 24 One Cast. "It's sleeting, we've had 3 or 4 inches of snow, the wind is blowing, I can't see. I'm the only one on the lake believe it or not." Kudos for getting out there. The white bite was good.

Awesome will definitely check it out. Back in the day our ABC station was KAIT Jonesboro I enjoyed watching Outdoors in the Delta, as well as Ozark Outdoors with Crowbar and Jason.

I can relate. My longtime coworker retired & moved up to the Big Smoke (as he calls it) up by St. Louis. He complained that he couldn't find the brand of corn bread we use to make our award-winning Mexican cornbread. I purchased five boxes, boxed them up to ship them USPS 170 miles due north to him. They went to Cape, then to St. Louis, then to Georgia, Alabama, then to parts unknown. I requested tracking for it. Six months later I received an email stating they could not locate the package & the tracking had expired. I remember thinking what if this had been something important.

Good information Bill. I can definitely see where that might be the case. In my experience we pretty well have just fished structure that we knew. Sometimes we catch em sometimes we don't. I've never been one for trolling or fishing open water much but can see where that might be something to consider.

Kudos. Nice to hear these days. It is interesting to hear how often fish are suspended in open water. Water looks nice & calm too. Thanks for sharing.

Well I carefully sprayed the parts cleaner, blew it dry, the sprayed on the silicone lubricant. When I went to hook the battery back up it tries to start without turning the key. Have to leave the battery disconnected. Never seen this before.

Good to know, hope that works on mine. The battery voltage is 12.4

I did re-read the posts and noted this. The starter is only a year & half old so I hope it's not #2. I will try option 3 first seems like the easiest. And check the battery connections. Thanks Wrench

Before asking Wrench for help I searched for a similar post....I am having the same issue with the starter on my 2000 25 hp Mercury/Tracker. I was wondering what lube did you use and did you remove the starter or just spray it on while on the motor?

Good point. I would have no problem sitting out on the farm if there were no boats. I did see a nice buck following a couple of does along the bank.