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  1. fishinwrench
    Easiest thing in the world. Once you have stuck some sheets of craft foam together and cut out your rectangles you can whip them up in about 5 minutes. No painting, and extremely durable.
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    Heck yeah, but it adds quite a bit of weight that can slow you down. Plus side is that weight added to the hull adds more stability when your drifting and fishing.
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    After years of sanding cork and carrying on I fell in love with these made from laminated craft foam. They cast great, do a big authoritive POP, and in the right hands can make as much racket as a buzzbait. Just forget it's a popper and start speed-stripping it like a big streamer, the flat face and cinched down waist causes some really cool things to happen. Make them as big as you can cast, the bigger the better.
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    Beats me, aluminum is as fine as it gets for river fishing. Light enough to drag it if needed, and tough enough to take being dragged. Some might make the argument that glass glides over the rocks better but every glass Jon I've seen has some pretty wicked gouges on the hull. Easier to fix if they bust through I guess.
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    Don't know if it happens where you fish but on the upper ends of Lake O we have a big Drake hatch in late August-mid-September, and when that happens you can have a heck of a day catching channel cat on the fly. Pretty much any nymph with long rubber legs that has a seductive sink to it. Look for the husks and fish the areas where the most husks are at.
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    Some fools dream of happiness, blissfulness, togetherness. Some fools fool themselves I guess, but they ain't fooling me. I know it isn't true, I know it isn't true. Love is just a lie, made to make you blue. Ya can't mistake THAT one !
  7. fishinwrench
    Weird Al would be proud. Now you're messin' witha.....a thumb with a stiiiiitch! Now you're messin' witha Thumb stitch. 🔱
  8. fishinwrench
    You're alot more positive about the future than I am.
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    Right. And be sure you get the latest version (most recently superceded part#) from Mercury, or else you'll just end up with another one that sleeps and poops alot.
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    Here's the old barnacle that caused all the turmoil. Left the factory in May of 2014
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    IMO 3 years is pushing it. I should also add that I have never seen battery failure cause damage on 6, 9, or 16 amp charging systems. Only the outboards with 40-50amp regulated systems. So your little Merc is safe I think.
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    Well the speedo hole is too big for a voltmeter, but yeah speedo's are more worthless than anything, and needlessly taking up console space.
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    She's pretty !!!
  14. fishinwrench
    Sugarbritches and I are gonna escape to Pomme for a day or two here before long I think. How about a couples derby? She found some little cabin around Pittsburgh she wants to stay in. Mine doesn't fish but she'll weigh and/or measure, take pics, and wouldn't cheat or lie even at gunpoint.
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    Good! Because us outboard techs have kids to put through college.
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    Saw one turn up in a seign from a minnow farm upstream of Bagnell dam. To think of how it could have gotten there is a mind blower.
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    Yep, and I have to completely close the window down to get rid of it.
  18. fishinwrench
    Absolutely! If yours doesn't have one, or a place to mount one on the console, then I'd recommend ditching the useless Trim Guage, or equally useless Water Pressure guage, and putting a Voltmeter in its place. All charging system catastrophe's can be detected if the captain keeps an eye on that Voltmeter. Most sonar units will display voltage also if you choose to display it on your overlay data.
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    Actually yeah, it happens alot. They always call back 20-30 minutes later and claim to have dropped the call, but I know they hang up just so they can have a moment to regain their composure.
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    Just a little reminder of what can happen when you try to get one more trip out of a failing battery. The battery would start the motor just fine, but would never reach full charge and stay there. Overheated the voltage regulators, stator got hot and swelled up....trashing the flywheel, and in turn demolished the trigger. 100.00 for a battery could have saved the guy $2716.31 So divide some of that time you spend staring at the tach....and use it to keep an eye on that Voltmeter !
  21. fishinwrench
    The sod farms close to the GP power lines in North Georgia were the best dove hunting I ever experienced. They roost on the power lines and feed in the fields which have irrigation ponds everywhere. Only place I've ever seen dove tornados. Once you figure out a good place to stand you can easily limit out in 10 minutes. In the '80's the Georgia Power property was all open to the public...and there was ALOT of it, not sure if that is still the case.
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    I haven't seen any floaters up here. The upper G got a tremendous flush today. I expect a crest of over 661 tonite and water way up in the grass tomorrow, once all the water makes its way down. Nice cool rain too. Once things settle down a bit the bite should be fantastic. Grab your frogs!
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    The awesomeness of the Beatles always escaped me. I just never "got it". Kinda like the "brilliance" of Andy Kaufman. Never could stand Rodney Dangerfield either. How any of the above became famous is beyond me.
  24. fishinwrench
    I've been through the dessert on a horse with no mane.
  25. fishinwrench
    Hmm, thinking it's highly unlikely that a single sensor function circuit is protected by its own fuse.
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