fishinwrench

What's the budget ?

Adjustable Idle Air jets are a japanese concept that, to me, is ignorant design. Basic carburetor design is that the Venturi is your "air jet". Why anyone would design a carburetor such that instead of metering FUEL you are metering the amount of air pressure passing over the emulsion tube.....is beyond my comprehension. Nevertheless it does seem to work IF all the other functions of engine operation are doing THEIR job. But....and this is a huge BUT..... If someone in this motors past life FORCED those idle air screws too tightly closed, and deformed the opening that the needle seats against... .then that carb body is JUNK, and you'll never get it to idle properly. Just something to consider.

Well the Yamaha HPDI wouldn't respond to a cylinder drop test across all 6 cylinders if it was idling on only 4 cylinders, now would it ? And I promise you that it does indeed respond. Mr. Carson is pretty brilliant with intake designs (I guess) but this isn't the first time that his "theories" and quotes have been flawed. Notice that he said "I think".... more than once. If what he says (thinks) were true then the HPDI would be the spark plug fouling-est outboard ever developed. You can't just kill the spark to a cylinder, idle 1/4 mile+ and still expect that cylinder to respond when it's time for a hole shot. Doing so to 2 cylinders would just make it that much more unreliable. He's mistaken. You can do that and get away with it for a few seconds, but not for several minutes. The inline Merc 4 cylinder he spoke of does likewise, even though they are allegedly "designed" to only meter enough fuel/oil during idle on the lower 2 cylinders for lubrication, but not enough for combustion.... Combustion and ignition of those bottom cylinders DOES occur. If you don't believe me then pull those two spark plug leads off and see how she idles. (Lope-Lope-Lope-- Blahh 😅) A lot gets printed in manuals and taught to students about outboard motor operating systems that simply isn't entirely true, even at factory training facilities. This is why EXPERIENCE often trumps that fancy piece of paper they call "Certification". Welcome to my life! Now you know why I'm often such a cynical jackass. 😅

That's a handsome Stimi 👍

Alrighty then. Well it still idles like crap, so..... Compression/fuel/ignition Pick whichever system you believe is most likely to be the problem....and start over. 😏

Can you adjust your over-engineered "throttle valve switch" on the fly? In other words....Does adjusting it as the motor is idling smooth out the idle any ? It does have adjustable idle mixture jets, does it not? If so I think they are set too rich.

Fuel quality is good (fresh and with no additives)? Does that motor have a throttle position sensor ?

There's currently a wall of ice between us and the fish. Therefore we exist in different dimensions.

Her? Don't tell me that gender identity has backflowed into the Bible. Man was created in God's image.....so if it's accurate then God is a man (a He)! And don't you dare start with that Mother Nature BS because there's no mention of Her, or the Easter Bunny, or Father Time, in the Bible. Aristotle lacked the clout, so she didn't make the cut. 😅

I bought an inflatable once and had my ex-father inlaw make a lightweight camo-canvas cover for it. I used it for jumping across deep pools while wade fishing smallish streams. It worked ok. Helped me get from spot to spot, and even though I wasn't at all "careful".... I never poked a hole in it. Portage's were a breeze, and it was nice to be able to take a cooler and several rods along. I had alot of fun in that thing now that I think about it. 👍 Had way more fun in that little raft than I did with that confounded rowable fishing pontoon that I spent a literal fortune on. I hate those stupidass things!

Not sure. Green bass just don't seem to like White bass very well. Whites and gar will occupy the same areas alot, and I've caught Walleye and Catfish in with the Whites more than once, so I don't think it's the Whites that are the ones being racist......for a change. 🙄 Imagine that! 😏

Yeah, Jan.-Feb. sucks for sure. March is a gamble too, really. I have access to a trailer in the town of Okeechobee, the guy practically begs me to go down and stay in it, but you know how it is....kid in school, projects to do here when it's not 10°below, blah blah blah. And then there's that godawful drive. 🙄

My first impression is that it is too rich. Either the float levels are too high, idle mixture screws are set too rich, carb synchronization is off, or it is drawing excess fuel in from somewhere (fuel pump vacuum line? Or an intake recirculation hose is plugged up and raw fuel is puddling up in the crankcase).

Well you know what they say...... "You can take the boy out of Missouri, but you can never take the Missouri out of the boy". I spent 14 years trying to be happy elsewhere but it never lasted more than a few months. Georgia was nice. If I had to choose another state that would be it.

Actually yes they did. Caught several nice ones from the bluff at Millstone, and a few others elsewhere. Was headed back to the Coffman ramp when they hit the iceberg hovering just under the surface. They had traveled the same path earlier and all was clear, but I guess the Berg was drifting towards the dam. They found it on the trip back.

When I put together my current fly-fishing rig... I painted up the motor cowling and console real nice, and I vowed to take my time, pay more attention to wild casts with Clousers and big articulated streamers, and try not to destroy all the pretty work I had done. That lasted about a half of a day. 🙄 😂

It has frozen thicker than this, but I didn't keep a record of how long it took to open back up. Once it starts thawing it goes pretty quick. After the last big freeze, as it was thawing, a couple of guys hit a big sheet of slightly submerged ice and busted their lower unit. I replaced the lower unit and everything else seemed fine.....but then 2 weeks later the crankshaft broke and toasted the powerhead (most likely a result of the impact). Twas a costly day of fishin'. 😏

Methamphetamine! It's how $#!t gets done these days. 😅

I've shoveled 4 times from house to shop...and shop to truck, and I refuse to do it again. We're getting close to 12" total, with drifts to 20"....and it's still coming down. I'm sick of it. 😵

Well they aren't that expensive, buy a few and try them. I buy the 10 or 12 footers....and trim to suit me. They are density compensated, so trimming doesn't effect the angle/attitude that they fall.

Sink too slow? I think you're confused. 3.5, 5.6, or 7 IPS If that ain't fast enough then you might as well grab your baitcaster and a handful of casting weights. That 7 IPS will scrub the bottom of a fast and partially flooded run in 8-10 foot of heavily rolling water. And I catch White bass out of 12 FOW in the lake using the 5.6 IPS

I trim all of my sink tips down to 10ft. or less, and actually have come to prefer Rio sinking leaders. Some guys whine about the "hinge effect" of them.....but I don't have any problems with them at all. You just have to alter your stroke a bit.....Cast it like you do a Clouser (in an oval path) instead of trying to cast it like a dry fly 🙄

👍 A pair of local boys made a half dozen holes as close as they dared to a spring inflow, only over 4-6 foot of water.....And they filled a bucket with 9-10" crappie between 9:am and Noon. They said "the holes are still open....go get ya some". 😊 Tempting 🤔

No I haven't. Anytime I want to fish a sink tip for trout I reach for the 6wt. 7wt. would be better, but I don't trout fish with my 7 or 8wt. rods. I've tried a variety of lines and sinking leaders on a 5wt. and for me they either don't get down quickly enough.....or they are too heavy to quickly pickup and cast. I mean, I can do it, but not nearly as efficiently. I hate missing a good shot because I couldn't get control of my crap before we drifted past it too far. I guess if you're standing in one spot at a trout park all day.....then it wouldn't matter, but that's just not my gig.

Unless you wanna huck giant streamers to big browns then a 9' 6wt. is perfect IMO. You can pull it off with a 5wt. but 5wt. sink tip lines are a joke. Sinking or sink-tip lines don't become useful until you get to 6wt and above.