fishinwrench

I keep hearing that the economy is in the dumps ..... but I sure can't tell it by looking around. When I go to town I only see fairly new cars/trucks, hell I can't even remember the last time I saw anyone driving an old rusty beater. Gas prices are high yet the roads are always busy as can be. All the shopping mart lots are full. The sky is full of jet trails as masses of folks travel abroad for both business and pleasure. Real estate folks are all driving new cars, sporting 70.00 haircuts, 150.00 shoes, and 60.00 fingernails...so apparently property sales are doing well. The bass fishermen are all towing fresh boats with sweet new trucks, throwing 30.00 wiggle warts and 50.00 jerkbaits. Restaurant and bar parking lots are full every night of the week. Lots of new Harleys on the road.....hell even the bikers are looking rather upper-crust. So I dunno, unless EVERYONE is operating via credit card (which might explain the ecessive Air Miles) I just find it hard to recognize this financial peril that everyone is supposedly experiencing...... except for Me! LOL

Y2K bug peach/orange #12

My high school vice P would have loved to carry a gun, and considering his personality and lack of a sense of humor I'm sure he would have been sticking it in our faces on a daily basis. He was a genuine jackass and considering that most of us had guns in our unlocked vehicles in the school parking lot it is a wonder that he never got shot. So faculty packing heat? Noway! I'll never be down with that, because alot of school personnel are closet psychopaths.

Supposed river veterans whining over a single portage that isn't even a reality yet. What a bunch of crybaby's. Sometimes carrying out your job can be a tad challenging, get over it! I wish to hell that I could call on the government and the COE to eliminate obstacles everytime a problem surfaced around here. 10 million+ for the COE to knock down a few high spots..... would it really cost more than that to load/unload the barges a few miles further downstream, just until it rained a bit ?

Now there's a situation where a shotgun in your hand trumps a 9mm in your pants.

Wheeeeew! It is gettn deep in here.

No, I don't "winterize" mine either. Just make sure when you pull it out at the ramp that you let the motor back down (vertical) to let all the water drain out. If you have a water pressure guage and,/or pitot type speedometer on the helm it's good to unhook the hose(s) behind the guage(s) and blow the water out of them. It's also a pretty good idea to splash a little RV anti-freeze into your livewell drains and leave the drain valves OPEN. And last but not least.... pull your bottom gearcase oil drain screw and get a small sample of the lube, if it is milky white or there is any signs of water go ahead and pull the vent plug and drain it completely until you can arrange to have the seals checked/replaced.

You don't get it, Joe..... I'm in the spirit world VanDammit !

It's a riddle, right? Beer bong/Beer thong

Huh? What's that about?

LOL, That wouldn't raise the Miss but a few inches for a few days. The banks of the Salt are unstable so a sudden dump would just result in all that water blowing out into bean fields. This has to be a joke, right? It would be cool to see LO and Truman sucked dry though.

I gotta disagree. The Hotspot mapping is so far off on LO, Truman, and Mark Twain that it's rediculis. The old yellow Structure Graphic paper maps are the most accurate that I have ever seen for these lakes, but even they suck in the upper creek arm areas and back 1/2 of all coves. There hasn't been THAT degree of contour and channel change due to erosion. Those contours on Hotpot are something that a 4 year old child could improve on. Not attempting to dog any products, I have just always wondered how/why they can get pretty close to accurate on midlake areas but just go completely off the charts on the upper ends.

And that has been an issue with lake mapping ever since the first topo-map was printed. Once you enter a max area depth of 15' maps do not show accurate structure or even an accurate shoreline contour or channel location. When you stop to realize that most fish are caught shallower than 15' it kinda makes you wonder if these maps are helping you or hurting you. What is the problem there anyway? If 20+ft areas are supposedly accurate (to a degree) then why are the shallower areas so far off? Is the mapping any more "correct" on any of these units than the paper maps are? There are tons of points, humps, ledges, and flats that do not show up on any map or mapping software I have ever seen, and many even show structure contours that are not even there.

4 dollar grubs.....40 dollar Wiggle warts....... 50 dollar jerkbaits......(and that's acceptable). That does it, my labor rate just went up an additional 20/hr. and I don't wanna hear no bitchin'.

Just throwing out options. If navigating tight turns and irregular courses weaving through boulders or deadfalls is a primary concern then a hull narrower than 52 would be a better choice I think. The advantage of a wider hull is a shallower draft and more stability (and space), the disadvantage is overall weight and less maneuverability. The best setup IMO should play to the strengths of the hull chosen.

That's good, cuz it could use a lot more friends!

The system check harness will have the tach sender circuit (gray) in the plug, so yeah it's plug and play. I have never seen a digital SC tach. I may have a used SC analog tach. If I still have it it is white with a black bezel.

It is a state of mind. A comfort zone that you fall into when you know in your gut that you're doing the right thing at the right time so all of your concentration can be applied to the act of carrying it through.

Right on! That makes the 4th report like that I've heard over the last three days. Seems to be alot of 10-11inchers dominating the brushpiles and outer edges of the docks FINALLY. Guess I need to go get a mess or two while the gettin' is easy. Think I'll try'em on the flyrod though.

No signs of any Whites or Hybrids I guess?

Were the spots full of worms?

I'm ready whenever you are. Are you sure you want it tiller? If your butt is further forward you'll get on plane quicker, run shallower, and see better.

Couldn't have been me, I don't even own a pair of high heels Tell me what you love the most about your 4S , maybe I'll change my mind.

Ahh, regulator fire! I love that. Lemme guess, the tach quit working a while before that, and you weren't in the habit of glancing at the voltmeter from time to time ?

LOL, Ok. Here's my top picks....It means nothing other than the fact that I have made friends with them all, approve of the design and never have to scratch my head wondering "WTF?", never feel compelled to throw things, and never have to study all night long just to make 40 bucks swapping out a sensor. Here we go; 9.5hp and under.... mid 80's to 1998 Yamaha 9.9-15hp... 1981 to 1992 J/E 20-35hp... 1981 to 2005 J/E 40hp... 1984 to 2005 J/E 45hp... 1986 to 1989 Merc (classic) 50hp... 1981 to 2005 J/E 70hp... 1984 to 2008 Yamaha 75hp... 2004 to 2007 Evin E-Tec 85hp... 1979 to 1995 J/E 90-115hp... 1995 to 2006 J/E (60° V4 eagle series) 150-175hp... 1991 to 2006 Evin (60° V6 eagle) 200hp... 1991 and up Merc 2.5 liter EFI I have yet to see a 4-Stroke in any hp range that I wanted to own. IMO the only good thing about a 4S outboard is that when they do run well they are quiet....that's it, everything else about them just sucks and they are a PIA to work on.