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seems like people are fishing elsewhere

now you are just making me feel bad for my passengers in my single console bass boat 🤣

Bugs here stayed close to the water and didn’t fly high. Different story in the Bush or near the beach. The black flies are hatched and chewing. Luckily so were the Laketrout. Had 3 in 3 casts at one point. Caught a bunch more too. Panoptix putting on a clinic. Didnt even have to get up with the Sun. They ate all afternoon. thanks for the recap

I used to do this with a leatherman, before I had splitting pliers. I stopped after stabbing myself multiple times lol

If we didn’t have a relatively wet end to April our rivers would have been friggin completely dry at this point.

Split ring pliers

yup, as far as I know its got good pike and bass fishing, as does most of the area.

Lol I’d think that the guys putting them in planes need them to run pretty consistently

dont underestimate the "chinese" batteries. Because guess what...all lithium batteries are made in china. The best you can get is "assembled in USA" whatever the hell that means. My father is actively involved in lithium mining and processing. Currently there are no lithium battery manufacturers for these types of batteries anywhere in the world but china. I needed new batteries for the boat last year and heavily considered going lithium but decided it was still too early. Ive been hearing a lot of terrible stories to be honest so far about their longevity and reliability, not to mention the astronomical prices for "high quality ones" I decided to let the pros and those with deeper pockets do their 10 year test run before I took the plunge. So far we havent seen anyone use a lithium battery in a boat for more than 5 years. Whereas i know the AGM's in my boat have a 4 year full replacement warranty and will likely last upwards of 7 years or even beyond. The weight savings for my boat had me really really considering it though because a boat like mine is super impacted by weight distribution and total. Heck i changed trolling motors this year and lost 2mph off of my top end! Could you imagine I cut 150lbs from my boat? im not pooping on lithiums i just really had a lot of things to consider. If im fishing from a toon though, im going for it, the weight savings are so astronomically more important.

Yup, Dakota lithium’s

Weve caught a few (shellcrackers as they call them in the south) down in South Carolina. My buddy dave ended up hooking into a 3 1/2lber and he said it was one of the craziest fights of his life. It fought like a sunny but was a big saucer. wild

And buying a boat should feel much like buying a house, when you see it you simply know it’s the one from the get go, If you are humming and hawing...go find a different boat

Lol dog for the wife...ya ok, that’s why my current dog cash, was originally my ex girlfriends lol

Why is it that shore fisherman spend their lives casting as far as they can out into the water while guys in boats love to cast towards shore?

Phhh found a boat with a yammy at a price that isn’t way too astronomically high...you won the lottery pal. enjoy your summer fishing it, and next year at this time you can commence dreaming about your next 19 foot boat, and so on lol

i think port hope wanted to mainly get through the complete gonshow that is ontario trout opener.

I’ll tell you right now, the noise surrounding the lockdown has died totally down aside from the weirdos at “no more lockdowns” there’s no way dougie or any of his crew are going to make noise at this point. They are going to let these next what 13? Days pass and point to the fact that once again (as we already knew) tight lockdowns are extremely effective at reducing case and hospitalization numbers. In two weeks my assumption is that we will probably be a lot closer to 1000 cases per day with no doubt a decline in the volume in the ICU’s to be on topic, this petition is a month late and won’t have any impact on the current lockdown we are in. You’d have to be crazy to think that anyone involved with the decision to close local boat ramps is going to do a total 180 on the subject. As with most things it’s easier to just shut it totally down then try and police who’s going fishing vs who’s going fishing with their buddies from 5 different households etc. Or who’s going “fishing” but actually going to have a boat party and get drunk with some girls on their dad’s cabin cruiser. the entire premise that “carrying a fishing rod and having a fishing license” is grounds for you to go boating is hilarious. Funny how easy carrying a fishing pole and having a fishing license turns into what I described above. once again and I will reiterate. If you want to go fishing, it’s easily done. Those that care enough to go have been and will continue to be out on the water and laying into some fish.

operationally I dont think it would make financial sense for golf courses to operate at 1/4 capacity. fishing however is on your own dime. By the way, fishing isnt illegal right now, its just hard to find a launch thats open. As usual, people would rather complain then actually put the effort in to make it happen. Typically these same people are the ones that are only complaining because they cant go fishing with all of their buddies. Ive been out fishing, and many people I know have as well.

Follow the money lol theres only two weeks left, they aren’t going to change course over 14 days.

Too far south still! when the males are still clinging to the beds it’s nearly every cast. I’ve been a part of a quadruple header with the three of us in the boat. One guy was still getting his fish netted while I cast and hooked another one. it literally changes the next day, but when the weather and stars align its happened.

Youve clearly never fished Georgian bay on an early opener year lol ive seen 15 lbs caught at the same time

Extremely generous of you cliff! If I can’t get it running myself I will definitely make the trip! I have a trip into the Bush planned at the end of the month so I gotta get this thing running smoothly by then so that it doesn’t strand me somewhere in the middle of bloody nowhere.

If this all goes horribly and I’m stuck without a working carb for this motor, I can assure you I will be reaching out to someone and begging them to let me bring them the carb to them to get it put together correctly. im probably most nervous about adjusting the float’s level. There’s instructions but they aren’t exactly clear what you are actually supposed to do aside from ensure that the base of the float should be 23-25mm away from the top of the carburetor body flange...great except I have no idea what the carburetor body flange is lol and I hope you are correct about that needle valve o ring being included, part of me feels like it may not be because I am ordering everything as parts rather than as a “rebuild kit” heck I couldn’t even find the part number for a new gasket to attach the carb to the intake manifold.

I ended up buying a totally new float and needle valve, plus a new bowl gasket. I am slightly concerned that there’s no sleeve listed on the parts diagram for the needle valve. I’m hoping it comes with it! going to give this a shot! Wish me luck! thanks everyone that provided their two cents. Any more tips on how to do this work are certainly appreciated

Hey Fish, So i did some more digging and cross referenced the Vin# to determine the year. I believe that it is actually a 1992 Suzuki DT15c The Vin# is 01502-232014 I pull that up on boats.net and I get the carb assembly code - 13200-89E10 Low and behold all of the associated parts appear to be in stock except for the entire assembly. This is back to the original problem that I was having not being able to find any replacements for that exact assembly. So I guess I ask, is it really that difficult to change the float and needle valve? There was a reference to a sleeve, would that not be fitted into the assembly itself. Let me know what you guys think. Maybe someone knows a guy that could either A show me how to do the swap/B is willing to rebuild the carb if i get the parts for it. I have no idea how to disassemble/reassemble the thing to that extent but am willing to try if thats what it takes.