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Check the tires, fill the EZ Lube hubs with new grease. Grease both motors, change the water/fuel separator, that's about it. Spring has been good so far.

Since I filled my turkey tag yesterday, today was my day to pull the boat out and give it the once over. New air in the tires, check. Motor turned over just like always, check. No signs of critters. Hookup the batteries to top-up the charge. Bit of tidying up and check the trailer lights and the one side won't light (Insert Grinch joke here). Looks like it is just the bulbs so off to CT to get new ones. Fourteen bucks later and we're road legal again. This now brings the total money I've spent on replacing broken items on this used boat I bought from a member here 10 years ago to..... $27. But if we figure I bought 2 pairs of bulbs when I only needed one, we can round down to $20. The trailer winch strap busted (in may driveway) about 5-6 years ago. Nothing on this boat has given me a moment's grief and while I'd love to upsize a bit I don't think I could give this one up. Tight lines... after we get my brother a turkey.

Oh yeah their screeches can go right through you. Then when Auzzie feels safe and calm, he can sit nice and still on your shoulder, snuggle up to your cheek and coo like a dove in your ear. Look out though, if something scares him that ear he was cooing in will be ringing for a week. LOL Dan.. Sorry guy this is a thread about our dogs. Here's a picture right after I told Stax we had his boys removed. I think he was a bit upset with me?

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Nice! I’m casting for pike from our dock tonight, but whities sound funerer .

Whities open here next week my friend. No ice here. LOL

This is a pic of Maggie smiling. People ask us what breed she is and my reply is always... part Pyrenees, part Lab and part Piranha! HH

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You guys are making me sad, something on my 06 seemingly breaks every trip I take lol my spring routine is simply blowing out the engine fogger letting the motor run for a bit to clean it out and then putting new plugs in, checking my tire pressure everything else was done back in the fall. I did an electronics overhaul this winter but that was finished in February, but I have some tweaking to do, small gremlins with my trolling motor transducer not appearing on my marine network. ive been out twice this year, I’ve had to completely replace my drain plug, one of my taillights literally vanished somewhere between Virginia and New York Replaced all of those and noticed that left rear corner marker is toast, not to mention my trailer brakes need a total clean out and bleed, maybe more…and then noticed my bunks need replacing. I mean it’s all minor stuff at the end of the day, as long as the hull and more importantly the outboard are singing, I don’t complain! Saturday was a gem

Hey Dan, we had two cockatiels that lived well into their twenty's. They would start singing as soon as they heard Mom get up in the morning and at certain songs on the radio. The rest of the time they would just scream, drove me nuts.

You did really well with that boat Rob. I will be getting the green machine prepred for next weeks opener. New 50 ah battery is already on charge,new motor just needs ft extension on the wires to reach the battery to balance out the craft. Finder chip swapped from the ice machine to the large tv screen one. Might need some new air in the tires as well. Maybe hit the car wash and give it a shine. LOL

Tungsten is 1.7 times more dense than lead, and it's also harder. It's all about the feel in bottom contact presentations...with a good rod you can tell if the bottom is mud, sand, gravel or rock. Being smaller for the same weight it also gets less hang ups, and it gets to the bottom quicker. Its not only open water...in the ice fishing world, tungsten jigs are all you'll see some guys using. Can you fish without it, and just use lead or brass...yes...but you know what we're like..every bit of an advantage helps, or at least in your head it does..and fishing is 90% confidence.

Roloff was in just before him, poor dog is very much the n his last legs though.