fishinwrench

I dig it ! Congrats. That's a good boat that will hold its value well. What did you give for it ?

Ok I will. No more business talk for me until Thursday. 😎

Thanks for the report. The river should be loaded with fish but I know that quite a few got skewered a week or two ago, and it's likely that even more have been stabbed since then. We are gonna give it a shot, will probably just hit a few key areas to get a feel for it and if it sucks we will form a new plan. The Osage fork is close, free of giggers, and definately on our radar. 😀

It carboned up and broke a ring. No biggie. Heck yeah I'm interested in the motor for sure.

You're a spin fisher, you should be hammering them already. Hop in the back of Oldplugs Targa, that peckerwood has been out tearing them up every evening! Bigguns too!

Is that a little 165? I might be. I know a bunch of Crappie guys that would love that boat. Trolling motor is on the wrong side....What knucklehead did that? 😁Definitely interested in the motor and controls. Why don't we just freshen up the motor, then you can sell it and not take a loss? It doesn't cost that much to bring a 2-4 cylinder motor back to life.

I haven't forgotten ya. I'll holler after I confirm some movement into the fly zone. Usually doesn't get "worth the drive" until after the first good cool rain. I'd hate for ya to drive over, cast your arm off, and not get a single take. It happens. Chasing whites is like that, you either tear 'em up....or you get skunked. Seldom is it just "satisfactory".

I'm sure he was just rippin' me. 😉 Bad transoms and blown "RPM Modulators" are a deal breaker, I won't even make an offer on that one.

I like finding boats that are still structurally sound but otherwise a bit rough (blown engines, ect.). Amazing deals can be made and I truly love fixing them back up to "better than new" condition. I have a 1989 Champion w/Merc XR2 that is my next project. She's gonna be sweet, and I already have 2 guys tapping their feet with cash in hand if I decide to sell it. I'll probably keep it awhile though. If I told you how little $ I have invested in it you'd be speechless.

Was one leg noticably wetter than the other? Being a little damp when you take them off is just a fact of life, all breathable waders transfer a bit of moisture through them after they are broke-in good. Standing in fast heavy water vs. standing in slow/still water will make a noticable difference. My favorite pair has a right leg seep below the knee but I just put up with it, it's not enough to throw me into hypothermic shock or anything. I don't even notice it until I take them off, and the damp spot drys out in 15 minutes. They say that if you spray them down with alcohol that the leaky spot will be easy to find because it will be the last spot to dry. Makes sense but I've never tried it.

Nothing is truly worth what we have to pay for it, we take it in the rear from all angles. At least with a boat we get to be happy for awhile. Shiney vehicles don't really make me happy. College tuition doesn't make me happy. My wife's shoes and other assorted clothing that she can only wear ONCE, for fear that someone might notice she has worn it before, doesn't make me happy. Insurance and taxes fail to make me smile inside. Mortgage payment has no orgasmic effect on me whatsoever Boats make me Happy! 😀

When Chuck was a baby he crapped his father's pants.

South fork, Middle Fork, and Elk fork all came together near a little crossroads known as Florida, Mo. and form(ed) Salt River. Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) squirted out of his mothers koochy there.

Jesus walked on water, but Chuck can swim through land. 😀

I don't mess with AC. The last time I did I welded the washer to the dryer. The electrician said, "You only did one thing wrong..... you touched it in the first place". Overheating in a circuit is usually caused from a bad connection. Call the best electrician you can afford, and do it immediately if not sooner.

How long will that 60 4-stroke run on 20 gal.of fuel ? That fuel will be old and nasty before you burn it all up, unless you do alot of running around.

I know one thing.....I sure miss the rivers that MT flooded. The stretch of the Salt from Florida down 6-8 miles (old Joanna bridge) was awesome. Many good memories from before I was old enough to fish it alone. The old boys that ran that river were bad to the bone! Chuck Norris is a pansy compared to what I remember of those guys.

I'll be switching into White Pride mode after the Fall BBBash is over with. Worked out great last year, the timing was perfect. I was still catching Whites and baby stripers at Christmas time.

Mercury started that 6000 BS not because that's a healthy WOT RPM but because their engines lack the low end grunt for a good hole shot with a steeper prop. Your Merc outboard might have a sluggish hole shot BUT it will live longer if WOT RPM is 5300-5500 6k is hard on reeds (they heat up and have no way to cool back off) and detonation and overrun becomes increasingly more likely after you exceed 5300. Just the sound of an outboard running 6k+ should tell you that it is wound up way too tight.

It always had it's quirks. Back in the early '80's when it was what I consider its prime there were only 3 baits we needed. A jig-n-pig or a shad colored Culprit worm, a Rattle Trap, and a Spinnerbait..... but if the Spinnerbait didn't have copper blades you'd cut your number of bites in half. We were very consistent Spring thru Fall doing nothing else. I had to move out of state for work for a couple years and when I came back it was as if all the fish in the lake had vanished. We worked hard at it but we just weren't catching them and neither was anyone else. I left that miserable mudhole for LO and never looked back.

We have that here but it is infected with the presence of a certain ding-a-ling neighbor that is always "seeing things" and is the "victim" of almost weekly break-ins and thefts. In the last year he has had someone ransack his house and steal prescription meds, has seen a pair of guys sitting on his back porch that vanished into thin air when he went to grab his gun, has had the fuel siphoned from his truck at least 3 times and then someone supposedly drilled a hole in his fuel tank another time. He has seen multiple cougars in the neighborhood, and is always seeing copperheads and rattlesnakes. Has seen ghosts, and once carried on a 20 minute conversation with Jesus. The rest of us here......we never see anything exciting. 🤔

Probably not. Add floatant if you wanna fish it dry for very long. I always have a split shot above it so I wouldn't know.

I wouldn't change props then.

They listed the creek as "smallmouth water" (which it may have been at one time) so several guys fished it and found it littered with bones and dead pig carcasses. The person responsible for that was a prominent county figure in Fulton so no action was taken. Pissed a bunch of people off.

If your top end RPM is still 5000+ then you can help by moving some weight forward. Otherwise, dropping down a pitch on the prop is all you can do to help it.