fishinwrench

I actually have no idea, I've never fished up in the river....but always wanted to.

#1 in this diagram

On a carb motor, yeah. Pressure can build up enough to blow the needles off the seats. But not likely with a EFI system that's designed for higher fuel pressure.

"Making oil" as it is called, is a pretty common ailment with 4-strokes. Obviously either water, raw fuel, or both is entering the crankcase and floating the oil level up. Determining where it's coming from is the first step. Remove the two screws holding the fuel pickup pump to the block but leave the other two that hold the fuel pump components together in place. Then while squeezing the primer bulb tightly look for any fuel exiting the vacuum side of the fuel pump (Careful...don't let it squirt you in the face). Report back with your findings and we'll take it to the next step.

I haven't wet a line on Pomme in almost a decade, but I'd bet it's a darn tough bite right now. I bet if you headed way up the Pomme arm until the boat hit bottom, then wade up another mile or so you'd find a decent bite.

Close enough ?

Whew! Dodged a bullet there. Thankfully I haven't shopped at TW !

Hoses are a hell of a lot easier to fish thru the gunnels than a set of cables, that's for sure. And hyd. systems are the bees knees on pontoons. Hoses are hoses though, and seals are seals... and they will require replacement (just like cables) in about the same amount of time.

I'm just "old school". I can tell a lot about the outboard and how it is running by feeling it through the rigid cables, so for me it us just a confidence thing. Hydraulic systems are almost like remote control to me, I don't feel connected to the outboard.

I'm not a big fan of hydraulic steering on bassboats unless the outboard is as big and heavy as a refrigerator making dual cable steering feel clumsy. The other extra "pressure" they are referring to is the twisting pressure on the mount which could cause one edge of the mounting bracket to sink into a soft transom and bust or pull out the opposite mounting bolts on a hard turn. You don't have that with dual cable steering because the motor is not pushing/pulling against the opposite corner of the mount during a turn, it is pushing against the helm (through the cables). To understand in a different scenario consider where the most pressure is on a hydraulic tilt/trim system vs. raising the motor manually.

Only us Cool Southerners call it a Wooly Booger. It's actually a Wooly Bugger. But that, like so many other flyfishing terms, sounds ghey.

I rigged up a cool water sprinkler in my little miniature bluegill pond during the hottest days of Summer once, and the fish hated it. You could throw a live grasshopper in there and they wouldn't even touch it. Any other time a hopper or caterpillar wouldn't last 5 seconds.

There ya have it.

Sweet ! That appears to be a smallish body of water too. Congrats!

I wonder how long it would have taken that 'sippi flathead to get all the remnants of that chunk of rubber out of his system ?

Yup, and oldly enough I'm OK with that.

Yeah me too. It's a natural progression, and there are growing numbers of guys out there on every river that haven't gotten to where you are yet. Knowing of a certain stretch that serves as a good SAFE "testing ground" and using that stretch to learn you & your new boats limits is the smart way to do it IMO, but very few think like that.

Priced as so to keep out the rif-raf.

That sounds absurd, but before I call BS I gotta tell ya that a group of guys I know are catching all their cats out of 5-8' now. They are even finding fish (big ones) on hooks that weren't baited. They claim that the blues are cruising the flat and eating anything that moves or glitters. If they bait them they catch more gar than cats. Makes me wanna go hit the flats with the fly rod !

I think the TX abbreviation (to mean "Tournament") started with the first 16' Bass Tracker boat designed with dual aerated livewells and a kill switch. Somehow that abbreviation just stuck among the bass crowd and since most couldn't spell to begin with, nobody ever questioned it Anywho, I'm probably gonna visit the little ditch in the next couple days, so if ya want I'll post up a "TR" that includes an update on the snot situation.

That sounds pretty extreme, but leads me to wonder what all those ZM's are eating to sustain themselves while their incredible numbers continue to increase on that ultra-clear body of water? How bad are they in other lakes close to Winnebago? Same/better/worse ?

Nice ! Smallies in that size range are strong fighters that usually know a trick or two. What fly was it that tripped his trigger ?

Absolutely. Please do !

Indian build little fire.... Looks like they poop small too

I'm gonna threaten to crash this party, when is it goin'down ? An early September Tx on Truman ? Yikes! You're either a badass, going merely for show-up points, or a glutton for punishment. About 11am the first day you'll be wishing you were drifting/dragging a paddlecraft on the LN.