Rizzo

so what did you do?

I used to fish our cottage lake with texas rigged (weightless) rubber worm and I caught a ton that way. Then 2 years ago I took some kid out on the lake and he fished a senko wacky. Even though I caught a good amount he outfished me significantly. Apparently an old dog can learn a new trick. I switched the next day and have never gone back. Originally I did use an o ring, but personally I don't find that they help. Without them, you lose baits as they get torn up. With them, you sometimes set a hook and just get your ring back (if the fish has only part of the bait in its mouth you can pull the ring right off the bait and its gone). I have caught pike on them as well as bass (and the occasional bite off unfortunately)

thanks. I had not seen those ads. Also...I don't care. As long as the ads aren't offensive I am in favour of free speech

I am not here that often but I haven't seen any. What have you seen?

nice to see

that looks like "sailor's warning" to me...crappy weather on the way.

gotcha

bingo (except I don't know what a trolly jack is!). I lower the tongue as low as it will go, put the stands behind the back tires, crank the tongue back up. Once I am cranked as high as it will go I stick a log (on end) under the tongue. This doesn't get my wheels in the air but the axle stands are definitely taking a lot of the weight. I then back off the tongue jack a little bit so that the log has the weight on it not the tongue jack.

drunk or crazy....probably a little of both

run stabilized fuel through motor have fuel filled right to the top so no condensation happens change lower oil and seals change upper oil change oil filter pull plugs, spray fogging oil in, crank with battery for a sec take weight off tires with axle stands put motor in down position pull the batteries and store them indoors pull boat drain plug and have boat on slight angle so any water that gets in can drain tarp boat up at the side of the house and hope for the best (I leave motor "untarped" so no condensation forms) ...this has been working for me!

If I lived nearby I would let you park at my place......for $40😁

for real? That is insane

..or at least anyone in the prizes should have some of their fish randomly tested

if it is not live release they should be cutting these fish open all the time! Took the guy seconds to track down those weights.

wow those are some serious weights. Would it normally be a live release tourney...but they cut them open because they were suspicious?

but it ain't good. One thing I don't understand is why you have to enter the CCA amount into the tester before testing the battery. If anyone knows the answer for this I would love to hear it

rats....you can read into that however you want

Awesome! Glad it worked out so well. It sounds like a trip of a lifetime

Yes that will be the moment of truth. I have now bumped it up from trickle charge to 6 amp charge. Plan to do that for a couple hours as apparently that overcharging will help equalize it

so after 11 hours I tested it and it had gone from bad battery to weak (10.6 volts showing), this morning (at the 19 hour mark) it is now showing good battery (13.4 volts)! The interesting thing is when I tested it the first couple times the battery tester got hot. Even smoked the first time. Now that that battery seems to be recovering the tester did not get hot while charging

Been charging 6 hours on trickle...bubbles getting a bit more frequent maybe this will work

this charger only has manual (did I mention it was old?). I have left the caps off so I can see what is going on (yes...I am being safe). But right now it is probably just still water in there anyways hasn't formed acid yet possibly! Seeing the odd bubble come up every 10 seconds or so. It has been on trickle for 2 hours approx.

the charger is old. I read on line to charge it on trickle for 12 hours. If there are bubbles coming up after 12 hours the battery can be salvaged, if no bubbles then the battery is toast

got me a tester...said battery is bad. Popped the caps....ya she was dry not sure how much water was in there. Added some De-ionized water and now charging again. Might have wasted 6 bucks on the water but want to see if it can recover. Other than that, buy new battery and make sure to check it once in a while for water levels!

time to buy a batter tester I think!