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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!

I rarely use the trolling motor on the front of my boat, but did put it into use earlier this summer. I noticed the battery (3 years old) really did not hold a charge well. I do tend to keep the battery charged (don't run it down much ...except this summer because it went dead quite fast). I will admit I have never once added distilled water. Since I plan to use the trolling motor a bit this fall, should I just go ahead and replace a 3 year old battery? Or if I add water (assuming it is low after 3 years?) could this salvage it. Since it only gets used maybe 4 or 5 times a year, the battery I purchased was a lower end one (Nautilus, Cdn Tire, size 27 with 90 amp hours) and cost around $175 I think.

that actually looks like a baby pike to me

both stories are great!

Interesting. I wouldn't say I "loath" bucktails...my first 2 muskies ever caught were on bucktails, but I also don't use them too much these days. Having said that, tomorrow is musky outing number 2,a bucktail may just get wet if I am in the mood

gorgeous!

well I got my season started. Went to Pigeon yesterday and boated 2 lost a 3rd. Nothing huge, but you don't want to start off too hot anyways. Decent day but still lots of room for improvement. Water in am was 69 by the afternoon was 71