fishinwrench

Parents are so awesome these days ! Back when I was a pup nobody cared how miserable, scared, or in danger I was.

I'm not satisfied because NOW I have to remember that this particular one is a deformed POS when it shows up in the Buy/Sell/Trade in a year or so. I've been looking to pick up a decent used one of those for quite awhile.

Yeah if you gut hook a fish that just means you pretty much suck at this C&R thing, and you should prolly remove your jersey, sell your glitter-rig and go back to bank fishin' and eating everything you catch until you get it right.

If it was a Pelican or some Wal-mart canoe....sure. That's a frikkin' OT! There is a reason why we buy reputable brands of gear. After all the research and thought that Ollie invested before he bought.... I'm not satisfied.

I'd throw a fit ! Old Town shouldn't be letting those go to market.

Funny! A Siamese cat showed up here yesterday. I don't allow cats to hang out here because I'm afraid they'll get in my customers boats, so I sent Orion out to deal with it.... That turned out to be a bad move cuz ol'puss didn't run away like he was supposed to, stood his ground and I had to go drag Orion away before he got his face ripped off.

Awe, Ronnie ! Ya gotta have the rod in the pic! I still like fly rod/fish pics. I like them way better than underwater fish shots.

No prob. I find it hard to believe that none of the shops down there will slip you in for a quickie cable swap. Peckerheads!

More dang baloney! Good job, buddy.

I haven't kept up on this, but not that many years ago there were only 3 companies making batteries, regardless of the many different names and colors of stickers on them.

I'm not sure where you call home but if you dropped it off here (Gravois Mills) in the next 48 hours I could have it done before Friday.

Almost.... When running voltage should be 12.8-14v, and shouldn't ever go over 14.5. If you are only showing low-mid-12's while running then the battery may be getting tired, or it could be low on water. If voltage ever drops into the -10v range while cranking or operating the tilt/trim then it is probably time to buy a fresh battery.

You can't just swap to a long drive shaft without changing out the exhaust housing. I do have a 20" exhaust housing. Also have a good powerhead and complete (NLA from Merc) ignition and fuel system. Holler if interested. 573-569-5406

3 years ago I could have put you on more buffalo than you could dream of, but I think the bowfishers have almost cleaned them out. The huge numbers seem to be gone now.

Sweet offer, but I gotta pass on the city overnighter. Especially THAT city. Atlanta is the only city that I can say I truly enjoy visiting. I'd love to partake in some of your gravel bar coo-zines sometime tho.

It was in the Optima battery thread.

Storm Chug bug is a walking fool. Just use a loop knot.

Hate to keep repeating this, but jumper cables really shouldn't be used with outboards. Or in any boats bilge area. Move a battery over if you have to but don't use jumper cables. (I just typed an essay on loosing ground connections, in another recent thread)

Looks yummy ! How do you pronounce "Szechuan" ? Is that a brand name, or a type of sauce?

If you have a voltmeter on your dash you can monitor battery condition and charging system, but what to look for depends alot on what motor you're running. Generaly, when you are cranking the motor to start, voltage should not fall into the 10v range or below. When you are running, voltage should show 13v or above....but not over 14.5. When you operate the trim you should see voltage dip down but quickly recover back to where it was. Analog dash meters aren't all that accurate as far as "true voltage" but if you always keep an eye on it and are used to how it acts then you can detect when things aren't as they should be.

Sounds like it's time for fresh control cables. Shouldn't take anyone "weeks" to replace them, just a couple hours at most, depending on what kinda boat it is.

The ignition system: Loss of 12v ground while the engine is running will fry the diodes in 40-225 hp Mercury switch boxes and 25-225 hp Johnson Evinrude power packs in a heartbeat. It doesn't have to be a broken circuit, just a momentary dip in voltage less than 10.5v will overheat the diodes and/or capacitors inside the switch box, not because of the low voltage (pressure) but from the lack of a strong grounding circuit. If when the diode leads melt they happen to melt into the ground lead inside the switch box/power pack then it will also take out the stator. When you hear someone say "it started running like crap and as we were limping back it just died and wouldn't restart".... That is usually what happened. The charging system: A stator has two separate sets of coil windings, one powers the ignition system and the other is either rectified and/or regulated and recharges the battery at either 16 or 40 amps after each starting cycle and also each time you touch the tilt/trim switch. As soon as the regulator senses the battery has returned to full charge then it directs all charging voltage to ground to prevent over boiling the battery. A battery that is failing will never actually reach full charge but the stator and VR do not know that, all it knows is that the battery will not accept the charge so it just switches stator voltage to ground and only attempts to recharge when you either first start the motor or hit the trim switch (dips in voltage are what trigger the diodes there). After awhile of running like that one of two things happen...either the low battery voltage causes heat in the two yellow VR wires and causes them to melt into a ground (can cause an actual fire), or the battery gets so low that it momentarily reverses polarity causing the dreaded loss of ground which takes out the VR and the charge coil winding side of the stator. Whew! Now aren't you sorry you asked?

Fried Wild Turkey tastes like fried baloney, only tougher.

After a long hard day at work we lit a bon-fire and roasted some hotdogs, had pasta salad and tater chips. For dessert: Better than sex cake. It freakin' ROCKED ! But now I can't go to bed until the fire burns down (we got a little carried away). Always fear a late night gust of wind causing 500k worth of boats burning up.

Every day about 3:15pm in every town in the state someone should call the law and report that they think there is a vehicle on school property with a gun in it....Because quite likely there is. Eventually maybe they'll tire of the bullshit.