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my limited research when looking for my own used outboard recently said that 110 is solid compression so 120 should be great. As mentioned you dont want variation because in my very limited knowledge, different compression means that your cylinders would be working at totally different air to fuel ratios and be combusting at different rates, Jeez i think on a non fuel injected engine this may even throw off timing (i might be talking out of my you know what?? which in my understanding can cause certain cylinders to start taking additional load and I imagine create even larger variances until your engine totally goes.

i love all of the sentiment about Lake O and the gongshow that it is...ive launched a grand total of one time on lake O and wouldnt you know it ive got a story to tell. Well 2 actually...first one was that i launched our boat no issues and then sure enough as I am about to pull away a guy visiting the park comes up and decides to park right infront of the ramp so that I cant turn into the parking area...so i nudge forward right up to him, he proceeds to move forward about 5 feet....this i a big big parking lot and there are cars parked all down a row right in front of him, but buddy decided that his parking spot was going to be in the way of the boat ramp. I now have to make a three point turn off of the ramp just to make the corner and theres no way for me to be able to turn into my parking spot with a straight trailer...i have to get out and deadlift the thing into place... Then on the way in on the same day we pull up and the scene is set...so stereotypical. Theres a 30 something year old young guy with his new to him 1995 20 foot bow rider that he clearly had purchased over the winter and was taking his young good looking wife, kid and dog out for its maiden voyage...he hops out of the boat and goes to get the truck while his wife holds the ropes...we were in no hurry she was fun to look at anyways... Buddy proceeds to back the trailer in but then backs it in so deep that his truck tires are in the water and his trailer is gone lol...he brings the boat forward and it nearly hits the back of the truck, then it gets wedged on the winch because its floating so high... Through all of this i notice his motor is still down and im gonna give him the benefit of the doubt...He hops in the truck and maneuvers it even deeper to get the boat unwedged then walks back...then hops back in the truck and sure enough he takes off...I start yelling STOPPPPP and they do not before dragging the bottom end of his motor up the boat ramp...he stops and realizes what hes done...we then pull our boat out as he is prepping everything for towing...and proceeds to leave without any tie down straps at all.

id still try any find a way to get a charger in the boat, even if it meant extending the cables so that you could mount it elsewhere... theres gotta be somewhere in your engine bay to slip it in. Then run your cables to the front? Thats what we did with the alumicraft, charger in the back and ran cables for the TM to the front compartment. A bank charger is literally one of the best friggin things a person can get for a boat...never having to carry car batteries in and out of the boat is maybe one of the best things ever.

same exact issue. Heres what I did. I drilled holes through that triangle aluminum in order to bolt a piece of 3/4 inch plywood down and bolted it from the bottom. I then simply took some metal to make L brackets that allowed me to mount the brackets to the side of the boat and back through the board. I attempted to paint the plywood black with plastidip but after 3 years it kinda rotted away and looked like crap. I decided last year to change it up. I went to Home Sense and bought two giant thick hard plastic cutting boards that i then cut to the same jig size. I then Stuck the two boards together with glue and rebolted everythign back together. The two black cutting boards ended up having less flex than the 3/4 inch plywood I used, plus they are weatherproof. I dont have a photo of the plastic set up, but it works perfectly and has for the past 5 years. *note because i used a quick release bracket for my minkotta I couldnt mount the trolling motor on an angle like I would have liked...but it wasnt a huge deal you can still sit on the casting deck comfortably.

when do we install the downriggers?

well...i hope shes attractive....

last year I was jiggin eyes and a boat near us saw us catch an eye and said "nice fish" we thanked him and he continued to tell us that the previous weekend he was in the same spot and hooked into an eye and that a big 20+ lb pike had t boned his walleye. My buddy dave then hooked into another small eye and buddy continued "ya i fought the thing for a minute before it finally let go at the side of the boat" SMASH!!!! the same damn pike t boned daves eye as buddy said the last word of his sentence. Dave began fighting it, brought it boat side and it let go... Dude in the other boat couldnt believe it lol five minutes later i hook into an eye and as im reaching down into the water to grab it SMASH the pike t boned by eye and took it back down to the bottom before letting it go. This pike had become trained to hit struggling walleye. We never did end up catching it, if i had landed the pike i probably would have had to given it a good talking to before sending her back home.

Such a difficult thing to answer when I have no idea what the battery compartment looks like in your boat. If you are installing a bank charger, consider mounting it to a piece of wood that you bracket to something vertical in the boat.

Baitcasters are much much better for cranking and retrieving style baits. there is no point in buying one though if you really feel like you are going to be uncofortable with it. Also if you are actually self declared “totally uncoordinated” then don’t bother. My dad tried and it’s just not for him either. also, experience tells me that higher end baitcasters are indeed easier to use and more forgiving/sensitive. Therefore a super cheap caster is gonna be a pain in the butt to deal with.

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a very good time to stock up on plastics...especially ones that never go "on sale" Jackall and megabass baits...nows the time to grab them.

still better than the sens, and definitely will be for the forseeable future

cant believe the crazy buggers up there arent out in their trucks perching on that lol highs in the 20's next week...its time!

sad to hear blizz...hopefully the boys get her a W tonight. She will be watching from the best seats in the house.

Sounds like almost everyone is having the exact same issue. Some people are saying its "thicker than Power Pro" and others are realizing the problem that they are getting 50lb braid. Throw it on a baitcaster it wont be so bad. I wouldnt use it in a spinning reel though. Considering braid lasts me at least 2 years at a time and i fish 300+ hours a year...I wont every switch off of suffix or PP.

wouldnt you still need to be carrying your outdoors card though? I 100% would be on board for being able to display my stuff on my phone. I never go in the boat without a lifeline.

does anyone here know why lesser dangerous criminals are not able to work back their debt to society like they are in the United Sates? I am just curious. You drive down through the states and you see chain gangs cleaning up garbage out of highway ditches etc? Why dont we have these same programs in canada...man the 401 could use a good cleaning. anyways...I think there is a line here that a large majority of people sit on where the death penalty is 100% ok. I think my opinion is that in instances of open obvious mass indiscriminate murder the person revokes their "life card" and we just eliminate these individuals from the gene pool to try save some money. The problem is still that at the end of the day, its a damn hard job for someone to do, and someone has to do it. The logistics are not necessarily easy for the people involved to cope with. Man oh man...that cop, what a brave brave brave guy he is. Incredible.

Marner got quoted when asked about 2013..."i turned the game off and went to the basement to play video games" lolllll

i would literally end it if I had to wait that long nick

i think its somewhat great that the guy didnt get his wish to die. He took an L in the end. I am sure that they have him in a nice padded room on suicide watch as well.

5 days out...i think were pooched, the main channels in PAB are still entirely locked up, never mind the back bays! supposed to be 25 degrees next week...but thats mid week not Tuesday.

This friggin spring has provided me with plenty im tired of working on the boat...as awesome as ive made it...ive gotten so desperate that ive just started organizing tackle...this ice can leave any day now...ugh

wish we had the same luck out there, seems like these fish are kissin bottom. Ill have to see if I get a chance to give it another crack Walleye and pike open so soon though!

If your batteries are right at the motor you dont have to worry much about your wire guage. I personally went total overkill as my boat was strung with 10 guage wire from the back to the front on a 24 v system. I am sure the previous owner didnt have any issues, but I didnt even want to ever have the possibility of that happening. Went to a card audio shop and bought some powersupply wire by the foot. The stuff is a copper aluminum mix so that it is much more maleable as well. long leads of light wire with the motor going full throttle through chop on a bad day could result in some heat building up in the line. You would hope you would simply blow your fuse...but why bother risking heat building up anywhere in a boat in order to save yourself $50 on some heavier guage wire. Plus at the end of the day, i didnt like how my boat was wired at all, so i redid it all properly. Made sure everything was water tight.

I think you are misinterpreting what I was referring to. News has come out that he may have been an INCEL. Ive heard that these posts may not have been real and the media has admitted that they were unable to verify the posts. No conspiracy about the event happening, his actual motive remains up in the air. Thats all I was commenting on.