jdmidwest

New problem, bought the 9.5 Evinrude and went thru it today. Removed the lower screw and water run out of it for a while before oil came out. Water in lower unit... Flushed and refilled. Checked prop and made sure no mono behind it. Popped the hood and started working. Kill switch wires all lacking insulation, added shrink tube to insulate. Spark plugs were black with oil, replaced. Cleaned carb and choke with carb cleaner. Replaced rinky dink pull cord with OEM pull cord. Greased all grease fittings to free up. Placed on boat and ready to go? Why was there water in the lower unit?

It has a cracked cylinder and water in one piston, no compression. I think the thing had only been running on one cylinder all along, it never came up to full power or idled. There was water coming out of the outlet the few times I had it running, but not much. This style of motor never shoots out a stream, but the water impellor was probably shot. The head was discolored and pink instead of white like the rest of the guts. I sold it to him for parts for $ 75. I have been watching on Ebay for other motors for parts, picked up a service manual on there. Would like to find a better source for parts. I would like to see some links to the tech sites on motor repairs, I am normally a do it yourself kind of guy. Took me a year to give up and take it to a professional.

Looks like it will be about $700 or more for repair. Found another one Evinrude 9.5 about same vintage, runs and alot less. CC, I pm'd last nite, did you get it? I did not know you could buy parts at NAPA, been stuck with local marine dealer. Charged me $9 for a spark plug last summer and I thought they must be something special. Found same plug at Wally for 2 something. I will take advice and change out impellor on this one before running just in case.

Took the motor into the shop to make it run. Bought it last spring and could never get it to run long. I had replaced plugs, fuel pump, carb kit, hoses, and fuel tank. Every time I would do something it would start and run, just not well and had probs idling. Last time it run was duck season in Nov. Took it into marine shop for them to figure out. Called today and said it had overheated and had water in one cylinder. Water pump was working while I was using it, must have happened with last owner. Anyhow, is an old motor like that worth anything for parts. Would it be worth a repair or should I just forget about it and move along. I know there are some on here that like working with the vintage stuff. Any thoughts? My only motors in the past were wooden paddles, never had a use for a motor boat where I go. Just been trying something different.

Just received a couple of more pics with the boat and fish. I was trying out the BPS lip gripper that I bought, worked great. Kept the hands and gloves dry and away from trebles.

Closed to floaters?? Is that a rule or a reccomendation? I would assume that float camps would be prohibited from launching but a personal boat should be able to launch a boat. That river never gets that bad that an experienced floater would get in trouble except at higher flood stages.

Good report, what kind of shape was the campground in? We are going up in 2 weeks to camp in loop 4.

After several years of low flows and minor floods, we need to be glad we are having a wet year. Alot of streams need the recharge. It will only help the fishing in the long run. Besides, smallies need attention too......

Whilst browsing another website, flyanglersonline.com, I noticed an article about fly hook standardization. The reader was confused about all of the fly hook sizes, styles, bends, and crooks. I have used for several years a number of hook charts that are available on www.killroys.com that cross reference the 5 major hook manufacturers and the model numbers of the hooks. The charts are at http://www.killroys.com/hooks/hookchrt.htm . I usually never fuss too much when a pattern calls out a certain model/manufacture of hook, I use whatever hook I have handy that matches best. Not having access to a local fly shop, I make do with what I have. I thought this may be of help to new fly tyers, it may keep you from having to go out and buy new hooks for a pattern you have found on the web. The site has loads of other info that may be of interest too.

You may need to contact to the manufacturer to see what they suggest for a repair material. I cracked a yak last summer and they sent me a repair material that looked like a piece of weedeater material. I had to use a pinpoint torch to melt the material into the yak and it made a sturdy repair. I had some doubts at first, but it has made it a year and is solid. They may have some of the same stuff. You have to be careful what you use on plastics, you may melt it with some resins. Other option is JB weld or another type of material that I use to repair plastic gas tanks on small engines.

Look for reports for Montauk also, river gauge shows it is still running high. It may be muddy also. There was alot of water that entered all of the systems last week and it will take some time for it to filter thru. It may be some time due to current ground saturation and rainfalls. You can still catch fish in murky water, you just have to adjust your techniques. Darker color flies, bigger flies, streamers. Look for seams where the fish will hang out to get away from current.

Thats it, no report??? One little fish? Surely if you fished that stretch of the river you have some story to tell.

Okay, if you are in a trout park, keep all you want, they don't survive long in the wild there anyway. Skin them and fillet them and fry in Cajun Fish Fry mix and they are pretty good. Peel the head off and gut, spray with butter pam, lemon pepper inside and out, grill over charcoal. Marinate in Italian dressing and grill or bake, filleted, skinned, or whole. Skin out whole, take off head and fins, coat liberally with Cajun seasoning, blacken in hot skillet with butter, outside is best because of smoke. Peel off skin and eat. Smoke on a smoker seasoned with lemon pepper, filleted, skinned whole, or skin on. Gut and leave whole, coat with flour and spice to taste, fry in butter in skillet, peel off skin and eat. Make trout almondine, good, but alot of trouble. If you catch them anywhere else, toss them back, they taste like trout......

I have not had much luck for the walleyes. The white bass should be doing great now in the area below 34 to the lake. Big flood last week and doubt if it has all run out yet. Check with river gauge or call someone locally to see if river is even navigable yet.

Yep, what I get for trying to plant some garden a little early.

Toss them back when you catch them and go to the store and buy some Tilapia fillets. Trout taste like trout, you can cook them many ways, but they will still be soft flesh. If you are used to firm flesh fish, you probably will not develop a taste for trout.

Everythings a washout over here. Local streams pulled alot of silt in and are still muddy and high. Cape Girardeau area still having flooding problems due to the Mississippi River being so high, lots of backwater. High winds this weekend kept me off the lakes Friday. Went out to the farm yesterday to see the flood damage there. A small creek that you can walk across swelled and rose 15 feet. 1/2 of the fencelines on a 300 acre farm gone. Road washout, treetops everywhere. We had several sleet/snow showers today along with a good gusty wind.

Campground Hosts are all different, most are as friendly as can be. I never really met any that I can remember at BSSP. One that does come to mind is an old fart from Sam A Baker. I arrived with my daughter on a Sat., Father's Day weekend for our annual outing to find the park filled. I went to the office and she said no vacancies and the office was closing. We made another round and found a couple breaking camp. The spot next to them was loud all night and they were leaving. The spot was paid up thru Sunday. The grumpy old man host came thru and we told him what was going on. While I was setting up camp, he came back and pulled the tag and informed me that I would have to go pay for the site. I asked him how I was supposed to do that as the office was closed, and questioned why the site had to be paid for twice. Come to find out the office was just closed for lunch and he thought I was trying to scam him. He was circling the site til I loaded up and drove back to the office. I had detoured to meet with some other friends and took a while to get there. When I arrived, he was waiting, and he questioned me as to what took so long. I complained to the park about him and have not seen him since. The rowdy bunch in the other site was no problem that night. They were up all Friday night, on a float trip all day Sat. They came back to camp and passed out early.

Thats odd, I have always noticed a Ranger drive thru after quiet hours on the weekends in most parks, even a deputy sheriff or two. I had a deputy escort me to the office to pay my tab on one occaision at BSSP. We had left to go to Springfield that afternoon and returned after the time the office had closed. There wasn't anyone in the shack. We originally intended to leave that day but stayed longer in town, so we extended our stay another night. We went back up to the site and was fixing supper when Barney came by. You would have thought I had just robbed the store or something. A little too Gung Ho for $8 and the shack was still closed, but the lodge was open. It was on the second time we had camped there, other places will let you pay the next day, the Ranger stops and collects on his morning rounds. Now days, I only get off on the weekends, I arrive at camp late on Friday night, sometimes after 10, make camp, then usually stay up later catching up with friends after. Saturdays we go to bed a little earlier. I usually tolerate a little more noise on Fridays, I was young once too. Usually there are a few drive thrus looking for troubles, at least there was last year. Maybe with gas so high there has been cutbacks.

Stocking of ponds with legal caught fish from other locations is a good practice. We have a pond on the farm that has been stocked with Bluegills and Channel Cats from the feed store and Largemouth Bass from creeks and other ponds. I was fishing it a few years back and caught a nice Crappie, 18". Then I caught another, and another till I release about 20 of them. Come to find out, a lady we used to let fish for the catfish had dumped 8 of the Crappie in a few years back. They really took hold and prospered. I read a while back that the MDC had a goal of adding x-amt of new fishable trout waters by some date. If it is a stream that has had trout in the past and still meets the habitat requirements to sustain a population, they may start stocking it again. As for stocking it yourself, the trout are a non-native fish to MO. and stocking it in a public stream may be a violation. Transporting trout from another location that you have legally caught would probably not survive the journey. Of course, if it were not for trains passing thru MO in early times stocking fish, we may not have even had a trout program or trout in streams.

Lead is selling for $1.20 lb. in its raw state. Probably had to ship it to China, melt it, form it, then ship it back. Diesel prices are higher than lead. Manufacturing costs.

Scour out the deeper holes and create new structures for the walleye to hang out in. Something has been missing the last few years and the biologist has been trying to figure it out. 11 pt has always been a great place to catch a nice walleye, then they crashed. I don't really know if it will help, but consistant flooding will help the stream return to normal patterns of 15-20 years ago. Fish will stay put and hold in breaks in the current or migrate around, probably upstream. Smaller ones will wash down. Some will die.

Back in the good ole days, you would see floods like this every other year. Not quite as big as this one, but ones that would go over the roads. It would move stuff around and change channels. The last 5 years, it has been really dry and no big floods. Fishing has not been as good as it used to be. And the walleye have all but disappeared in the past few years and this may help them.

Brian, I noticed that when I upload pics on dialup, it doesn't show them till you preview or post, and then they are there. I always shrink down to 640x480 before posting. Talk to Lilley and see what the problem is. It should definately help the river and the gravel bars that have been disappearing on it. It has been a while since the bridges were closed at Greer and 142. I know it needs it over here too, alot of streams were choked by trees that have caved in to the rivers and blocked the streams. I bet most have been straightened out or washed out with this one. Of course there may be some nasty log jams in bends now. The gauges around here ended up with around 12 inches in the 24 hour period.

What year is the motor, trailer, boat? Any better pics of motor or inside of boat?