MrGiggles

Fished Lake of the Woods with my Grandpa, uncles, and cousins when I was 12. It was March, weather was decent but they still had 3-4 feet of ice. Jigged up a lot of nice walleyes. Used a swedish pimple with a minnow head, and another dead stick rod. Caught some nice jumbo perch, and a bonus tulibee. I came back red as a Tomato, sunburn from the sun's reflection on the ice and snow.

Think if the prop was turned in a solid like a wood screw. The distance it would move in one revolution is the pitch. The higher the number, the lower the RPMs. There is more to it than I know, diameter usually decreases with an increase in pitch, so that 13x19 is likely a much "bigger" prop.

Just a tree fiddy SBC aren't they? Pretty solid.

It's worth noting, the RTV that stinks to high heaven like vinegar, is corrosive with aluminum. I don't know if blue is that way or not. Can't way whether or not you will have a problem, but that is what the pedants on internet forums say.

From what I have seen it is mostly shallow water there by 13. Not sure how good the fishing is there. I have only ever been around the Fairfield/Osage Bluff area. I'd start looking in Timber by the river channels. Cedar trees are always worth a dip, even if they are not that deep. This time of year they can be almost anywhere.

3 medium spinning, 1 crappie, 1 jig rod (ned/crawler), and 1 multipurpose with metered braid, can be used for trolling, spoons, whatever. 2 medium casting with line counters. One has lead core. 1 other medium casting. Also has metered braid for trolling. I'd carry more rods if I had one of the nice center rod boxes. 6 is pretty much all that will fit in my side box. I have 5 Plano trays, one with crappie jigs, one cranks, one jerkbaits, one with junk, and one with spoons, jigging raps, whatever. I also have an empty Plano bag with soft plastics, line, and other junk in it. I really only use crappie jigs, cranks, and ned/jig and crawler.

I'm guess that since it also holds the battery, it's the various brightness and color settings for the illuminated reticle. I've seen similar on red dots.

Of all the weekends to have motor trouble. This looks like fun, and I'm not even a bass fisher. Definitely in for the next, if there is one.

I just registered an outboard from there. We filled out a 1957, and I made sure to get the previous registration documents to back up all of the info. They took it without a hitch, had a title a week later. I may do it more in the future, seems like anything with titles here is automatically worth double. Can run over to Arkansas or Kansas and get them cheaper.

Snap weights are just an egg weight with a planer board snap on them, you clip them on the line ahead of the bait.

I used Thill Pro and these. I like the latter better but I can't remember why, been a while since I used them. https://www.lurenet.com/thill-gold-medal-supreme-stealth

Interested as well. Tried them all and have yet to find one that doesn't become an aggravation in spinning rods with small guides.

I use it. I usually run about 60-75ft to stay close to the bottom in <20ft. I use a longer leader too, 20-30 feet. I really don't like it that much. It's like fishing with steel cable, but it works. Snap weights are a little handier, but I don't use them all that often either. Most of the time I'm trolling over shallower water for walleyes. I don't even bother with a lure retriever anymore. I'd say 3 times out of 4 a snag will free if you turn around and go the other direction. My opinion would probably change if I used more $8 Rogues and Wally Divers though.

Works slick on aluminum too.

The flu vaccine is what, 50% effective on a good year? And the flu has been around for centuries. That's what concerns me the most. Covid isn't going away any time soon, a vaccine isn't going to be a cure-all. Getting a lot of Americans on board with vaccines is a challenge in itself nowadays.

The Amish (or Mennonites) that I've seen at Stockton drive trucks worth 10x what mine is, and spend half the time talking on their smart phones.

Do you fish jigging raps vertical or cast them? I clip the front hook off and don't lose as many, that is when I don't forget to open the bail and send them flying into the sunset.

One caught in Caplinger a few years ago, it was posted here if I'm not mistaken, and I saw a Facebook post from someone that said they caught one in Stockton. Take that for what it's worth though. Probably not enough in there to justify fishing them, but they're in there.

Don't think there's any way to get a compression number through the computer. Misfires and cylinder contribution, probably.

Crazy. I have the exact same boat with a DT75 Suzuki on it. Didn't think I'd ever see another of that combo. The boats an 84-85? Motor is likely a little newer, somewhere around 89 or so? Does the Zuke run?

Ordered and didn't end up needing, retailer won't take it back because of the virus. It's new and unopened. This is what the Helix 5/7 SI models come with, may work with others. $150 shipped or $140 picked up, OBO.

Only got 8 tenths here in Collins.

Crank pulling is hot right now for crappie. Doesn't seem to matter much where you go, but the mouths of coves are a good place to start.

24 inches, pulling crankbaits. Only been after them for 3 years.

That stinks. The last nail in the coffin for 2 strokes, but things change I guess. Wonder what Project Ghost is?