fishinwrench

Outstanding man! How about a SBS on that fly someday?

I, for one, really appreciate you calling them guns instead of 'Weapons". I'm so sick of that word I could puke in the lap of the next person I hear say it.

Look like a match?

I figured that Dutch had ya covered. Before ya go ebaying lemme see what I have in the depthfinder bone pile.

Did you try re-booting the unit? Every LCR I have ever owned kinda looses it's mind periodically (usually after getting in extreme shallow water where the return signal doubles, triples, and quadruples confusing the unit). Turn the unit on and put the transducer in the palm of your hand....if you can feel it "ticking" and the ticking maintains a rhythm it is probably not a failed transducer.

It's hideous ..... I love it!

Score!

Hell, couple years ago a guy lost his WHOLE darn LIFE over a bag of spoonbill eggs. Seized his truck, his bass boat, sentenced him to 5 years, and fined him 10k. Ain't no recovering from that.....Life is over.

337 ?!!!!! Sonuva B ! Yeah, some truck and boat seizing and jail time has gotta follow that. That has to be a felony, right?

It's a Lowe 1232 (12 long, 32"hull, 46"beam) Hauls in a truck bed.

I was a bit confused last night when I saw that the CFS below Tunnel was drastically greater than the CFS above. I was like ...Wait a minute. How does that work? And then it dawned on me that you'd have water going over the spillway and down the waste ditch PLUS whatever they were pushing through the tube. I bet the bite at HHT was out of this world. Might still be.

Anything oil-based that makes a slick on the surface has no merit IMO and its use should generate the same frowns as you'd get by slinging a cupful of gas on the water. Whatever it is that's in Berkeley power worms has been proven beyond a shadow of doubt to make bass hold on longer....For whatever that's worth. But even though I know that I'm still a Culprit/Zoom buyer. I kinda think that bass/sunfish/crappie/trout/walleye rely on their olfactory senses more for homing and navigation than they do during the actual act of eating. But simple reasoning should suggest that a whiff of something they associate with "food" when they are moving in on your lure SHOULD help seal the deal.

I'll make you a fair deal on "Stump Jumper"

I've seen the slipping Gator mount issue on the older models quite a bit. If the impact slide is overtightened and you hit something causing it to slip anyway then the bushings (which are a soft aluminum), and the stainless lock washers have to be replaced. They have eliminated the bushings on later models and I think they just made the inner slide wider for a tighter fit which has probably ended that little glitch forever.

So, can we deduct from this that the days of the big stores pushing out the little stores have come to an end? That's good, right?

LOL Yep I know of the Tobins. Legendary tomato and watermelon growers. And the whites still pile up in the back end of Proctor creek after a good rain.

Ah, a J road boy! My G/F's kids ride that bus Lots of funky news coming out of Stover lately. The people of that town deserve a freakin break! Seems to me that the county just wants to sieze the whole township for some reason. Sad.

550-600.00 ballpark

Plenty of concrete construction and rock laying career ops here in the LO area if you're interested. The seawall crews are going full tilt with the low lake level and all.

Right on! If you're in the mood to take on another one I have a Lowe 180 that I'd just as soon sell cheap NOW as/is than to finish it out. I had planned to have it done before it got cold....but you know how that goes. This one will make a sweet catfish drifter....eventually.

They'll tell you.

6ga./50amp breaker will be fine, and that TM should do "ok" for positioning and moving around in "toon'able" conditions. No sense in maxing out the TM since no matter how much thrust you have you still won't be fishing ENJOYABLY in a toon during a windstorm. If you're dead set on using anchormates then a grapple anchor is out of the question, your stuck with mushroom or tri-fluted designs.... without chains. Neither are gonna hold very well in wind or boat wakes unless you let out enough line so they can dig in good, and sadly most anchormates don't hold enough line to do that in water deeper than 8-10ft. If that's good enough for your intended use then your in good shape. You won't want to paint the rails cuz they'll just look like hell after a few outings, but the panels can be dressed up real nice with any automotive or marine spray paint and maybe some decal highlights/trim. As always the quality of the finish is in the surface prep. Keep the paint as thin as possible on any surface that is prone to flex. Lots of ideas for livewells but before I go any further I'm gonna piss in your cheerios just a bit. I wouldn't dump too much time/money/effort into anything that's gonna be supported by the pill shaped Tracker buggy toons with welded braces.....they just don't hold up well compared to "U" shaped toons on Lowe, Landau, SC, type toons, which are what I specifically look for when restoring a pontoon. The little livewell is what came standard....because that's about all the frame is designed to support (in addition to the passenger load. You slap a 30 gal. Livewell on it and it might swamp the first time you stab a wave. Anyone that has ever stabbed a big wave in a toon knows how quick water pressure can rip the whole craft to pieces. I see it all the time. My recommendation for the B-buggy restoration is to keep everything (furniture, batteries, motor, fuel tank, ect.) as light as possible so she floats like a cork. It just isn't a good foundation to be loading up with heavy duty accessories and extra power on.

Do you know how to tell if someone has ever won a respectable sized bass tournament within 5 minutes of meeting them? It's the same way you find out if they are (or ever were) a guide....

I'd do a few like that and a few with more bulk/mass, then let the fish do the choosing. I'm afraid your gonna get alot of suck&blow bites if fished on the bottom. Some extra bulk might seal the deal. Matter of fact I'm 99.9% sure of it.

There's plenty of blown ones out there that can be bought right and repaired.... in the end you'll have a better outboard at a better price than buying someones used "runs good" motor. That "still under warranty" thing you are looking for with the 11,12,13 models is just money pissed away unless you are going to resell immediately.