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And here's the finished reel seat and butt cap on the rod. Transparent as per the customer's request.

Three months untouched, over 2500 pics of what I call weekend warriors on their quads and dirt bikes in an area that is posted, NO ATV'S OR OHV'S. Aside from a few whitetail pics, a skunk and people being stupid in front of my camera It did capture a couple of the most beautiful wild horses I've seen there.

+1 for aikmans hes super honest, to a point that I brought a motor that was not repairable and he didn’t even charge me for the work.

son of a gun...with a bit more googling and downloading the manual I somehow fixed it. Involved disconnecting the power source for 30 seconds and manually rotating the prop. It was a magnet problem according to the symptoms I was having. Who knew there were magnets in there (other than CrowMan apparently!)

Not sure if that model Motorguide has one...but there is a reed switch (operated by a magnet) that powers up the motor. It's a safety, so the motor won't accidentally power up in the stowed position. It should be under the cover of the steering head. Check to see if you're getting power across it. My TM had the same problem...wouldn't power up...bad reed switch was the culprit. If that doesn't do it...I highly recommend Aikman's.

Very nice fit and finish Chris. Art

The camera got the curiosity of some moose, Brown color phase (not quite cinnamon) of a two year old black bear and some respectable whitetail bucks. The camera took 3159 pics, about three thousand of them were cattle such as the east end of the west bound one at the end. Hope you all enjoy.

Missed the ones of the bear.

Well we had to cancel our hunting trip in the Rockies due to Grizzly activity. Unfortunate for the bears due to our dry year there were no berries for them to feed on to fatten up which are very important for their winter hibernation, not a berry anywhere. There was a recent report of a male grizzly laying claim to a big bull elk a hunter had shot before the hunter even got to it. I don't know of course if it was on your news channels in Ontario and beyond that about three weeks ago a couple and their dog were killed by by a grizzly not far from here. Fish and Wildlife responded of course as well as RCMP and other detachments (GPS emergency signal). They did shoot a female grizzly in the area that was showing aggressive behavior towards them and they reported that she was very thin. I have lot's of other places to hunt where there are no bears. To me personally, the grizzly's health and survival is much more important. If I don't succeed in harvesting anything I can go to my local butcher, bears don't have that luxury. They're just doing the best they can with what they have.

I've been having trouble putting this together as my computer isn't cooperating. Leaving out whole sentences and won't let me edit. I don't want anyone to get the impression that I am in favor of the bear taking these people and their dogs life regardless of the circumstances. I couldn't be sadder about it. All I can say is they were very sadly in the wrong place at the wrong time.

Fired up, but big bucks haven’t started chasing my doe herd yet. I have one younger buck that’s got a cool rack. There is a huge bodied 11 point that I’ve been seeing from a distance the last couple years, or on a camera. But I’ve never got him in bow range. This property is bow only, no gun seasons and I tend to try for a bigger buck as I buy an extra tag for the unit. In general rifle season I will shoot the first deer I see that’s not a doe/fawn pair. 82a for rifle so we always have doe tags and I’m a card carrying member of the spoon and crockpot club during rifle.

Getting fired up for deer hunting, anyone else? Trying to catch one of these two slipping this year