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welcome to the board. You might find that an introduction goes a long way to get people talking about places they fish. We do have a few rules one of them is being to specific on where to fish. We have found this to be frowned upon by members on the board. You can get the help you need by extending an invitation to hostfish or offer to supply food/drink/gas money if they host the trip.

Top loader for me also. I had a front loader but their dirty little secret is they mold if you keep the door closed. I now have the samsung toploader that works great and is also a direct drive so no belts to worry about.

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If you are using amsoil or an oil that is formulated as 100:1 you are safe. Personally I mix at 80:1 using amsoil in some high performance motors and never had an oil related failure.

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Best of the day to you Paul I hope you have a great time.

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The market is about to be flooded with boats the fall is typically not the best time to sell to maximize the profit. On the same not the spring is not the time to replace the boat either. Best of luck on the sale. The perfect storm is buy in the fall then sell yours in the spring if it is possible,

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I know gas is up in some places but we went from 3.65 to 3.51 locally. I bought a 100 gallons for the boat.

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I use them in place of spinnerbaits sometimes. They have there uses and in some areas they haven't been seen by the fish ad nauseum. Having a perch pattern and a white in the box can save the day.

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Glad you all had a good time Brian.

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Glad to hear sometimes all it takes is a ten minute break and a calmer mind finds the answer.

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Good heart on yaa Mike you can beat it. Thanks for sharing the photos and the update on your life.

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I think we all have the same ratio of idiots ours gun ratio is much higher than in Canada. If we look at the number of total murders in the same study we would see the numbers are about even.

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I don't buy into the mindset that guns are evil....I have had guns all my life and so far to this date they have never hurt anyone. In fact I can guarantee until a gun is interacted on by a human it will rust back into a pile of scrap metal and not hurt anyone. Blaming guns is like saying spoons make people fat. I can go thru any house and show you 100 ways to kill someone with legal products laying around. Blame what it really is PEOPLE who are to stupid to own a gun.

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Down imaging needs to be on the back of the boat in the water shooting thru the hull gives poor returns. The puck board is the way to go.

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nice job me friend.

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Separate the plug and read the pins with a voltmeter on the output side of the vehicle to see if it is the trailer wiring or the truck feeding wrong signals. Then read the trailer from circuit to circuit then to ground. You will need a schematic and know how to isolate the circuits. The problem with the brakes is they were energised either from a power to power short (rare but since you said they were locked up they were receiving close to full voltage ) or the truck was sending voltage when it should not have.

Hope this helps

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Looks like a great trip for an adventure. Sorry the lake was not better as a fishing destination. Now post the GPS cord. so no one else makes the same "mistake" lol.

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Lets keep this factual and light hearted I would like to keep this open for awhile.

Thanks

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Good to hear Dan no more "batwings" from the heat.

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John you can get a pitch gauge from most auto parts places. You can also contact Mercury to order the bolt. I will make an assumption here and since it is a high stress bolt it needs to be higher grade bolt like a grade 8. Since the cost of the pitch gauge to find a grade 8 bolt you will be cheaper getting the bolt from a Mercury dealer.

Best to you

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Good job lew hope the rest of the trip is as productive.

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We are past the sealed border part of history we are in a world economy now. The value of money is what its perceived value is it is what another country decides what it is worth compared to what it is decided on in the country of origin. The US dollar is worth the price it cost to print it. That is it's value in material. The value is in what it will buy on the world market. In Canada in past it was worth 1.20 or as little as .90 cents depending on how strong the economy is. Outside investing brings the world in to drive up the material value of the Canadian dollar. If the world loses faith on the monetary value of the currency then it becomes devalued and does not purchase as much goods as its face value.

Picture being on a small island and the currency was shells. With the shells you can buy things from the other people there. Now eventually you all will decide one shell is worth 1 medium fish and everyone will use that as a base. Now a man shows up from another island and wants to buy fish using coconuts. No one on your island knows what a coconut is so it is decided it is worth 2 shells or 2 fish it has just devalued the shell by 50% until everyone on the island decided that one coconut is worth 2 shells. As trading goes on your island was valued as the total number of shells it had now with two items that have a perceived value so the gross value of the island economy has increased.

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fill the unused holes with marine tex it will keep moisture out.

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excellent job o and by the way T.J. was once again out fished by the female population at J.J.

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Nice report Mike thanks for taking all of the time to share your adventure with us.

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I have doubled up often when fishing rivers for smallmouths. The first fish hits and as it gets near the boat it is shadowed by one or two others. As you lift them up to boat them the other fish would slam it. I actually was on Pond X in Virginia and was trolling a rattle trap behind the boat. At level 2 on the trolling motor I cruised the shore and received 1 fish for the trouble. I turned around and trolled back at the same track and speed and lifted the rod to surface the lure to check for weeds and bang fish on. I continued this every 30 yards and pulled 5 more fish off the shore. It reminded me that triggers are just as important as what lure you use while fishing.

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