fishinwrench

He's fine! Doing great! Just a little upset about where the country is heading. What I don't understand is how anybody can know where it's headed. Did anyone know, 5 years ago, we'd be where we are now? Dissatisfaction is, I believe, a perception flaw. I once was severely heart broken and thought the rest of my life was going to be a storm of misery. But I wouldn't go back to where I was before that for a million bucks.

It is currently open for political discussion. 😅

I have one going into the oven very soon. Should be ready by mid-September. 4600.00 with controls and a 2 year full warranty. Installation/rigging on a toon = +350.00 (may work a trade for what is currently on there).

Dude, where have you been, and why? Doing ok?

Yep that's what I expected to find, but it was gone when I went out to see. We had lots of them around the house when I was a kid, but I haven't seen one for many years. I don't have garter snakes here either, and they were thick everywhere when I was a youngster. Around our place it's pretty much all black snakes, ringnecks, copperheads. With the occasional speckled King snake and hog nose. Had a rather large, fat, solid gray snake get away from me earlier this spring. Not sure what he/she was. Looked like a Boa to be honest.....and a neighbor had a couple of those at one time so it's a definite possibility.

Just for the sake of knowing that all is as it should be...... Drain the fuel tank, kill weeds with what is in there, and refuel with fresh 87% (no additives whatsoever). Drain the vapor separator, change the fuel filter, and pump a quart of fresh fuel through the VS, then put the plug back in, clean/dry up the mess of fuel you just made, and prime until the VS is full again. Hook up a voltmeter and fire it up on the hose. Make sure the charging system is doing its job, and that the battery isn't on its last leg. Pay attention to the alternator mounts and compressor belt tensioner.....if anything is shaking around or rattling then deal with it. (Common issue on the ProXS and Opti's). If all seems good, then refresh the water pump,change the gear lube, install fresh spark plugs.....and take it to the lake.

Sugarbritches had a run-in with what she described as a 2' long bright green snake with a yellow belly, hanging out in the watermelon vines. It was gone by the time I got out there. Other than a Vine snake I can't think of what else it could have been. Never seen one of those here before.

I'm sure you help out plenty. As I've said before, I routinely put you all through alot of crap. If I wasn't able to be helpful occasionally you'd have booted me out long ago. 😊

Sounds like a Pomme de terre/ Smithville / Jacomo boat. Pretty common. If you want my personal feelings about it I can go off into a rant about how rediculous it is to buy a boat with a 225 on it to fish farm ponds. But hey, some guys have plenty of money and want a big stable boat with plenty of storage to fish out of. And it's hard to find a big boat without a big motor. If you put any faith at all in Mercury's ProXS technology and design then there shouldn't be any problem with it. The motor was designed to operate efficiently at all RPM ranges, right? Carbon buildup shouldn't be an issue, and if I was buying a lower unit used then THAT would be the one I would want. The belief that 2-strokes are designed to be run wide open all the time is BS, and always has been. If you like it then buy it. The odds that it will chuck a rod out the side of it, puke a compressor, or alternator, are no greater than any of it's brothers and sisters. The only thing it may suffer slightly from is aged fuel. Hopefully the owner didn't keep the gas tank full of 3 month old gas all the time.

So.....why haven't they used this concept in deep diving crankbaits ? If they could just inject a fish fart into a crankbait maybe they could reduce bouyancy and hold their depth better.

That whole process never made any sense to me. How can something under water immediately take in extra air? Or does it take the air in as soon as you lift it out of the water. If the fish isn't lifted out of the water then does that keep the bladder from ingesting air? How are saltwater fish caught 60+ feet deep not affected in the same way?

No, they are getting into fly fishing. That looks like a great hook for Clousers. Odd sizes too (#5?) Heck yeah!

Moisture in the switch is making a half-assed contact. Shoot some WD-40 in the switch, or blow the switch out with compressed air. Bottom line: you've got a cheap (non- Marine rated) switch.

I hear this exact sentiment repeated 40-50 times every year. I don't understand why everyone thinks that to enjoy a good day of fishing you must launch at one end of the lake.....and run to the other. Just admit it.....you aren't wanting to FISH, you are wanting to boat ride/sight-see, and call it "fishing". There are 7-9 launch sites on Lake O where you can have a perfectly good day fishing, even on a holiday weekend, and not feel like a wine cork in a washing machine.

I pushed for something along those lines, specifically for random people renting boats and PWC's, and stopped getting invited to MDA meetings and functions over it.

There are alot of full on serious crashes that you never hear about. The news outlets never talk about the ones where no BUI/BWI arrests were made. I promise you there are lots and lots of them. Honestly, more sober people crash than do the ones that are drunk. I think they want you to think that unless someone involved is drunk then you can't get killed or seriously injured. That isn't the case at all. Typically nobody gets arrested or in any kind of trouble after a boating accident.....unless somebody had a beer.

All of the AIA, Joe Bass, Solo Pro, Bassin Bob, ect. tournament guys read this forum religiously, but you'll seldom see one post or respond to anything here. I never could understand why, but it's just a thing. They will all immediately blow up a Facebook group post though.....so maybe join a bass fishing group and ask there. 👍

I heard the 2 choppers go over, I figured it was a bad one.

Did your regulators have these type connectors, or plain bullet connectors?

Definitely worry ! Don't ignore or dismiss any possibility until you (or someone) tests and confirms otherwise.

Happens all the time. The leading cause is from running a battery that is beginning to fail. Or from someone momentarily hooking up a battery backwards. Mercury has changed the design of the regulators and superceded the part # over a dozen times, and still hasn't gotten it right. Yours is from about 3 upgrades ago. The most recent upgrade has a fuse link that is supposed to protect the regulator, but if the fuse blows you have no way of knowing unless you constantly monitor your voltmeter. You need to visually inspect the stator and have it tested for output, and have it tested for a short to ground. If it checks/tests good then inspect and repair any melted/overheated wires, add fresh regulators, and then retest the charging system and tach. Probably a good time to get a new battery.....unless you just recently did.

Not really, but you can protect your investment. It's called "insurance".

I haven't. What's the correlation there?

The only reason for all this secrecy has to be patent protection. It's like they want people to know they aren't out of the game.....but they are afraid to give out too many details just yet.

I originally thought it would be a rotax engine with a prop (inboard shaft design to eliminate a gearset), but someone in another "news release" made a comment about the near total elimination of a fire hazard. You can't shove ANY fuel combustion engine down into a confined area and claim "fire hazard elimination". So now, yeah I'm thinking electric. And No I do not think it will be a jet pump design....but jet may be an option. I think phase 1 will be prop driven. Possibly turbine style.