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Been using this on e and the dog

https://www.tickedoff.com/

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Awww sorry I would have stopped you if you had told me. After all friends don't let friends drive chevys. Very nice truck though.

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Hey Art...I thought you guys down south caught the cats by noodling ?

I'm running out of fingers. after grabbing a few snapping turtles you start to miss being able to hold a beer. lol

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I thought re powering my Sprint 225 carb wouldn't save that much gas. WRONG

 

Have a 200 Pro Craft with a 200 merc opti can't burn $60 and get freaked out at how little oil it uses.

I guess I should clarify the bass boat gets about 10 hours a year run time, The jet drive boat gets 20 hours a year and the big boat gets about 30 hours a year. The balance of fishing is on the 10ft pelican. Now if I had only one boat the payback would be really fast.

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So whats the rule of thumb? Or is there one? Things start to turn on at 50 degrees? because I tried for some cats last WE in severn and nothing was biting it was around 47.....

I start fishing when the water hits 50 for cats. They are sluggish and have just started to disperse from their winter holes. Catfish are in the winter pattern meaning they are sluggish and in large schools in deep holes and current breaks. If you find the winter spots you can clean out an area of decent cats so as a rule I leave them alone. After 50F they start to move back to their summer patterns areas until 60F then they spawn. They shut down for the spawn but reemerge hungry for the late spring bing. This continues as the water warms up they feed more often. By 70F they are on humps and ambush points and feed 24/7 with weather and water levels driving feeding. The bait you use depends on what you are fishing for but remember a catfish over 7 lbs is top of the food chain eating mainly other fish rather than scavenging from the bottom. I use fresh pork liver or fresh squid for quanity of fish but cut bait for size.

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Put a rubber snake in the place they are trying to rebuild. it has a good chance of discouraging them from rebuilding.

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Yup my current ranger is a 1992 3bseries and its a tank was running 2 ft chop at 58mph no problems . At this point the ranger i want is 100k. Decided on the bass cat the smaller ranger limited to 150hp not emough speed for tournys got beat constantly to my marks last year. The catnwith a 200 and.tourny load will turn.74 mph puts.me.in ball park of where i need to be and with 43 gallon fuel tank give me the range on great lakes

Nope good call I think. I have a GTX150 with 28 gallon tank, wide open it is at 55 mph and sucking 9/10 gallon a minute. I would repower but the cost of repowering is not worth the fuel it would save. Besides being a classic it seems a crime to put a modern motor onit.

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I am a firm believer in spending the money for quality tools and the right tool for the job. I restore old motorcycles and cars as a hobby but have a better shop than alot of seasoned mechanics.

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I have a 28 year old Ranger and it is still a solid boat. I will say decide after you have ridden in the boat. I have ridden in a few different brands and some of them really stink in the chop. The G2 motor is a motor my mechanic says is amazing and a big step up in the Evinrude line.

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Depends on what the tork is. Most likely they are cheap. I use a 1/2 800 ft lb unit that was around 200 dollars. An 8 gallon compressor is not reallybig enough for running air tools effectively.

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Very nice thanks for sharing your trip.

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Follow the link here it gives a nice picture of the hook ups for all charging and battery hook ups

http://www.batterytender.com/connecting-chargers

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On the big boats we have what we call a scupper drain or two. They are strainers set in the floor of the boat that are just 90ed to the outside on the back of the boat above the waterline. They keep water above the deck from filling the bilge when as you said backing down but they are also for hosing off the deck without putting fish slime and other organics in the bilge. After the day is done we put the boat on an angle and then break out the mop and bucket. The boats have an onboard raw water hose that we then hose down the deck with and the boat doesnt stick on the next trip.

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Looks like you need a pilots licence to run that toon Brian. Thanks for the video can you do one on your fishing machine sometime please.

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The unit can be sold with and without a transducer just make sure the one you are getting for the price has all of the pieces you need.

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Do you have 2 batteries in series 24 volt or two batteries parallel 12 volts? Is the charger made to charge two separate batteries or just one?

Here is a very good site that has pretty pictures on various hook ups ad why you do it.

http://www.batterytender.com/connecting-chargers

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Good deal it is never to late to mend fences.

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I was lucky enough to have a great teacher in HVAC who was old school and didn't teach you how to fix a specific unit rather what electricity did when it worked correctly. I thank him for this talent as well as teaching how to read a schematic. My first Bike was a Triumph with lucas electrics or better know as Lucas "prince of darkness". As a hobby My brother and I restore 70s and 80s motorcycles and cars. Which involved either mice chewed shorts to what the heck did someone else do to this thing.. After making a few wiring harness for boats, motorcycles and a car or two the short answer Dan is NO.

Thanks for the offer

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I run a motor guide with a hand fob and foot pedal. I have the foot pedal up front to use while I am fishing and anchor lock. The hand fob is for the person in the rear of the boat to use when I am distracted. It works out well I could lose the foot pedal easily and just use 2 fobs.

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You have a load on the battery somewhere. You need to remove power consumers one at a time with an amp meter in line to see which circuit is draining the battery. Have the batteries load tested to make sure they hold a charge and that the charge is not just a surface charge. Any auto place should be able to provide this service if they sell batteries. Measuring voltage is not a good test for this type of trouble shooting.

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Your boat built in tank is always vented there is not a way to close it. So if your boat is indoors before then you switch to a portable tank leaving it vented should not have a worse gas smell. I have two 14 gal tanks built in my Ranger on a GT150 I like having my gas split into two tanks I will never be farther away from the ramp using the one tank than the full one to get back on.

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At this time the OP has requested this topic to be closed. Thank you all for your input.

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Very nice quite the species count to boot. Thank you for sharing.

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Thanks for the boring video.lol

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Thanks for the video Mike looking great.

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