Bought a brand new 85 horse Suzuki outboard back in 1986 for 2,000 bucks and that was with rigging taxes and out the door...lol
My first real job at the city i retired from i went to work for them at a whooping 1.75 cents an hour as a mechanic back in 1974...How things have changed...
Well Stratos is all done closing shop end of this year and also heard Johnny bought legend boats here recently, https://www.bassmaster.com/gear/white-river-marine-group-buy-legend-boats
Yep they took it down to 906 last year and it stayed there for a long time it seemed..Big M courtesy Dock was almost over to the Big M marina if you remember...Maybe i won't get my feet wet now putting in.
I use swivel snaps and my spinning reels, seems to help with line twist and i do use mono. Also when i respool i lay the spool on the floor so that it unwinds counter clockwise.
Well if they are garbage then i would not want to spend the money on postage to send them to you, besides they smell really bad, something about garlic any way i'll just put them in the pile of garbage stuff i have...lol