Bass Blaster. Story about thieves stealing lower units on LOZ

[Quillback]

Makes you wonder who the thieves sell them to. 

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, 96 CHAMP said:

Wrench, what do you expect out of the crappie this spring, haven't been down crappie fishing in a couple of years, need to put some in the skillet and in freezer this year.

I haven't even tried to catch any yet, still have some in the freezer from last Fall.   I expect they will be up on the bank and easy pickin's here in a week or three.

[fishinwrench]

2 hours ago, bobby b. said:

One can buy a locking bolt (like the vehicle locking lug nuts) for the Yamaha 4 strokes.  Like the lug nuts you replace one of the existing bolts.  I got one after hearing about lower unit thiefs on this forum.

Actually it has been decided that is a bad idea.   If all bolts except one are removed and the gearcase drops off at speed it can flip the boat.   Nobody can be trusted to inspect their gearcase bolts everytime they use their boat.   

Just removing one bolt will set up a vibration that will loosen all of them.  The bolt under the trim tab (often left off by shadetree types) is THE most important bolt there is, because without it the others will not stay tight.  

[Old plug]

3 hours ago, 96 CHAMP said:

Wrench, what do you expect out of the crappie this spring, haven't been down crappie fishing in a couple of years, need to put some in the skillet and in freezer this year.

I have  not been ut on the lake yet myself.  The shoulder is being hard to rehab. I think it will be a just dandy season if I can gage buy what I am doing on locale docks. My own dock was just chicked full of juveniles for awhile until the cold weather came back.  the other day. Thay are still there but deeper and  reluctntvto hit a jig. In a group of 20  I was only getting 1 or 2 keepers Those being males jiust being legal size.  I seen Gulls circeling and diving over the channel off my dock this afternoon. I would  about bet the large crappoe are layong out there on the channel and coming up n th afternoon to feed on the shad. Often means its a good time to catch them on  a jig under a cork out over deep just a few feet deep. At any rate it means thing are about to happen wth just a few warm days.

 

[96 CHAMP]

30 minutes ago, Old plug said:

I have  not been ut on the lake yet myself.  The shoulder is being hard to rehab. I think it will be a just dandy season if I can gage buy what I am doing on locale docks. My own dock was just chicked full of juveniles for awhile until the cold weather came back.  the other day. Thay are still there but deeper and  reluctntvto hit a jig. In a group of 20  I was only getting 1 or 2 keepers Those being males jiust being legal size.  I seen Gulls circeling and diving over the channel off my dock this afternoon. I would  about bet the large crappoe are layong out there on the channel and coming up n th afternoon to feed on the shad. Often means its a good time to catch them on  a jig under a cork out over deep just a few feet deep. At any rate it means thing are about to happen wth just a few warm days.

 

Thanks guys, looking forward to it

[WeekendWarrior]

I have been checking for them every day or so to see if up on banks and up this way they are not on banks. Had one day a couple weeks ago that I caught some keepers on the bank in a couple laydowns and then couple days later they were gone. 

[Old plug]

 

I bet that will return late next week if we get the predicted weather. All my fishing has been deeper with them coming up in the afternoon about 2 pm. inside tge stalls. those gulls made me a bit excited. Have cuaght a lot of large crappie tipped pff of there holding areas by gulls.