176champion

1989 Champion F&S 17'6" with 135 merc..Bought it a year ago and been working on it...The front seats and backs have since been removed..

Happy Fathers Day to all the Fathers out there...May God Bless You All...

Nice trip Bill!! and you found my spot darn it...lol....j/k

I have an old mr champ spoon and a johnson sprite thats rusted somewhat from my saltwater days..

Hardships..What i had posted was just an example or tip of iceberg as they say ....i deleted it by the way...I'll just say Happy fishing and may GOD Bless you all...

Yea!! your right Champ....so on that note im out of here... Have a Nice day

I was tired yesterday and I'm tired again today....so I'm retired

I only paid 1300 for my boat, motor, and trailer and i paid cash....so i guess i get to bitch then...lol

Pffffffttt...i could not afford to buy hooks right now let alone one of these....and i'm talking the cheap hooks...lol

I don't believe the jet spoons are made anymore...at least can't find them on google....you can find some on ebay though...

but with an 11 year old on his first full blown night trip we stayed close That is priceless right there...Your son will remember this for a long time..

I tend to stay off the water during weekend's.....Was out Thursday afternoon, mainly working some bug's out of my boat and the tubers and skiers where out. When we left Shell knob boat ramp at 6 pm 4 more of them recreational boats where coming in to launch...did manage a couple of dinks, they hit the lure right after lure hit the water.

Um yesterday??? i found it Thursday afternoon....lmao

Daughter was down at Cape Fair last weekend and said there was a bunch of dead fish floating around boat ramp she thought they may have been catfish...

At first i thought i found a whole rod and reel as i pulled up about 40 foot of line before line broke.

I found this lure floating just under the surface yesterday and it had a whole bunch of line on it, pulled on line till it broke. This was near big M at the mouth of one of the coves, maybe it was one of Quillbacks that he lost...lol

I put my running lights above the rub rail ....... the red lights seem easier on the yes to me

The camera in my phone makes them look brighter than they are...did 2 boats for about 30 bucks total.

I just got done the inside of my Champion for lights...i have 2 48 watt leds flood lights also but only mounting one, they are like 4,000 lumens each...black lights are next...lol

Nice Champ!! sounds like a good day... Im going to try to get out Thursday and Friday...may go to Big M and put in....be first time out to fish this year... Son went out yesterday to run a prop he bought he was the one that had the bad wheel bearing on the trailer that he was fixing there at Shell Knob ramp in the upper part...he didnt have a very good time...lol...he said water traffic was bad also.

Son was out around Shell Knob and water temp's there he said was 80 degrees.

I have set idle back down to 1000 on the muffs...I have had this boat for a year and it sat for 2 years prior the oil injection has been eliminated so I mix my oil in gas.....for a 135 it runs strong on my little champion ......I'm thinking with all that seafoam it leaned out or it actually cleaned something out...lol....but being a mechanic I'm always tinkering which can be good and bad...lol...oh my holeshot is a little over 2 seconds.

I'm an old mechanic by trade in which im skeptical about anything like seafoam and such, i do run quickleen and quickcare in my 1995 merc. I have heard that doing what i did cleans stuff out ......seeing is believing and curiosity got the best if me...So i had a can of seafoam laying around that someone gave me and had nothing better to do so i gave it a whirl. Motor use to idle at 1,000 rpm on muffs and when done was idling at 1300-1400 rpm on muff's....never saw no black stuff come out or nothing.......the way we use to decarbon motors of old was to dump water down the intake on a running motor and the steam effect would knock some of the carbon loose in the cylinders....im not a true believer in additives but sometimes you just have to try stuff. Now for fresh gas, when i lived in Florida i work for a City and when we got a load of gas i would talk to the driver sometimes.....found out that before gas is put in the tanker to be delivered they check octane of the gas, if octane is low they purge the gas with methane to get the octane up so that it can leave the port and be delivered....so now how long does that methane stay in that gas and how long has that gas been sitting in storage tank before it gets put into an tanker and delivered...now we have ethanol added to gas to help with octane and we all know ethanol is alcohol and evaporates pretty quickly, so after several transfer's from one container to another container how much of that ethanol dissipates out of the gas and just how fresh is that gas...

Good idea i have several 1 once lead weights...

Here is what i used.....1 can of seafoam to 1 gallon of mixed gas ran it for 10 minutes on muffs let it sit for 30 minutes and start back up did this a series of times till 1 gallon of gas was gone....gained 300 rpm on idle side...my outboard has carburetors...