Terry

why do men have a man cave why do men have motorbikes and cars that can break the national speed limit in first gear.......I could go on but it's a bass boat I have a fishing boat old full windshield..just a regular boat and a 90hp on it and a kicker motor and I go faster then he does with his bass boat with a 115 of course he needs to break the 50mph.... if not paint it pink and put stick-on flowers on it and leave it at home one week a month for the Menzies ....LOL but that's just my opinion

looks like a good time damn post office keeps loosing my invites LOL

yeah but they said they tried different trim settings he is not answering all the questions but from what I read into it the bow of thew boat is not getting out of the water enough only a small area at the back of the boat should be touching the water.....you should only see water pushing away from the boat at the back of the boat at the right trim setting as you lower the trim and the front of the boat comes down you see the water being pushed out at the side of the boat , trim down more and you see it going more and more forward..slowing the boat down with the drag from the water and I am thinking that is your problem your jack plate needs adjusting and I think you need a prop that has more lift a good marina will let you try out props till you get the right one at Top Gun Marina I bought a used SS prop and kept exchanging it till I got one that worked the best a high five was the ticket for me I don't think you need a smaller pitch on the prop because you got up on plane easily..

yeah I was in the boat when it did it...fast boat for a small motor

http://www.mnr.gov.on.ca/en/Business/LetsFish/Publication/STEL02_163615.html

yeah but when the prop is slipping...sucking air, shouldn't the rpm go up around maximum ... when you have rooster tail do you have bow porpoising does it take a long time to get up on plane.. if you have too big of a prop it should be slow on getting up an plane

yeah well as long as they don't start dumping their garbage in the ocean we should be fine

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yeah, I saw that after the fact....still it seems to be the earth friendly way to do it...

when you say you can't trim all the way up are you saying you can't raise it high enough to get a big rooster tail a 115 on that boat which I think is 16... 16' 3" or around there you should be doing 52 to 56 mph at 5500rpm when the trim is down and you look at the back of the boat where does the center of the prop line up with the bottom of the hull maybe the motor engine is too low

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i think you are looking at it the wrong way the company that claimed salvage rights goes and gets it at their own cost and they employ people to tear it apart and recycle the metal, and that is a win win situation no heavy oil spreading all over the ocean no rotting shell sitting at the bottom of the ocean I see no down side to them towing it back for salvage

I went to put the boat in for the first time this year it id not run battery problem I think my good battery is on my skidoo trailer oh well it means I burnt no gas, so I can burn twice as much next trip...LOL

yeah but why build big guns if you don't get to use them.... I find it stupid for them to sink it and after a company says they will salvage it .... ah the military might

that is an interesting read I didn't see how long the the radio fish were followed or what the size of the average fish was it does show that with extreme care fish do have a great chance at surviving...and when you consider the natural mortality rate is 16 to 18 %......and that's muskie that have not been caught 0% is just unbelievable..but nice to see it was not I that said 15%, I just used the number stated and did the math I don't really think that way, I just used extreme statements to make a point and get some people to realize that . doing something self-serving, that has no ill affects to your livelihood really has nothing to do with being a conservationist it just makes you part of the ME generation . and that was my point that as we raise the length longer and longer people who would like to eat a muskie have less options a 30 inch makes more sense to eat but the basic right to eat a fish has been taken way, in favor a sport ...which countries and fringe groups like P3TA have jumped all over as a reason to ban fishing altogether...that is why some countries have gone to catch and kill only....they don't mind you playing with your food...but making fish suffer for fun only is cruel..their words not mine

show me a study that shows 1% you just made this stuff up and you say to me "Guess you shouldn't comment on things you know nothing about..." LOOK WHO IS CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK show me your study that state 1 %..... come on don't be shy but lets just say you are right 1 % .... would he get 100 fish;; so he killed 1 fish the average guy..does he get one muskie a year so 1 fish 100% mortality ..both killed 1 fish well that's a tie no one wins but if a gill is ripped , that he has not control ..if a fish gets away..he didn't carefully cut the hooks out and baby that fish ..it will die ... sorry you statement that you just made up doesn't hold water..... and I stand by my statement that the right to keep fish for the table should never be removed... trophy muskellunge. Average annual mortality rate in trophy muskellunge populations ranged from 16% to 26%, which corresponds to maximum ages of 26 to 16 years, respectively. • Data from the Cleithrum Project indicate that, over the past 16 years, maximum age of trophy muskellunge may have decreased two years (23 to 21), reflecting an increase in annual mortality rate from 18% to 20%. • If annual mortality rate of record-sized muskellunge 25 to 30 years old were increased by 2%, it would be necessary to double recruitment to compensate for this change. • Harvest reduction and catch-and-release procedures, which reduce mortality, are an easier and more cost-effective way of maintaining and restoring trophy muskellunge populations than trying to supplement recruitment by stocking. If the mortality rate of large muskellunge 21 to 23 years old can be decreased by only 2% (20% to 18%), this is comparable to increasing their initial recruitment by approximately 70%. How exactly is it making people suffer,or change their lives my point was if you like to eat muskie or any other fish and they put a ban on keeping them it can, it will affect their lives..surely you can see that..for some people fish in the bucket is money in the bank and they fish to help put food on the table,,there for it affects their life...this person has to change his life in some small ways to be a good conservationist..... you understand... and then you have a muskie guide...if they make it c/r only... he has more fish to catch he has happier customers , he has more money in his bank.. this guy has to do nothing to be a good conservationist....it puts money in his bank it's a self-serving act...and it is pretty easy to say lets make these great changers when it does not adversely affect you if he said lets quit fishing muskie to help protect this great fish..then he is hurting his bottom line and you can respect that...if he said lets have a 5 year clsed season on muskie fishing then he's a conservationist but his statements are self-serving wallet building propaganda

well first it should start on the 4th of May then people could walk around and say "May the 4th be with you" fighting the evil gas empire and all that jedi power would help the movement for sure but a stated, it has never worked before

I guess the next time I want gas I should get it a week in advance.....just in case .and I buy the lunch at Micy Dee the day before..cause you never know no the service is while you wait, it always has been, so up till now there was no reason to get the license weeks in advance.. why should we expect less

thats' good info and make sense too maybe for those zones an earlier bass season isn't too bad

I know lot of people who were denied on-line because of postal code problem... I think the company doing it should be liable for not issuing you a license ..if you can't fish for a weekend trip you paid for..they should be on the hook for your lose.....

fair I don't know honest you bet how many muskie does an average meat hunter catch n a year..I thought saying 2 muskie caught was stretching it a bit and how many has he been responsible for at 15% mortality...... fair don't know but I think anyone in the know anyone really into fishing should know you should never take eating out of the equation ...the P3TA nuts just love that..it's one thing to kill your food but hurting killing just for sport..they eat that up even the in-fishermen knew that there should always be a regulation to kill for the table .....

I would never eat a muskie but I do know people who would and they are only a fish if you want to look at it in dollars then bass should be c/r before and above muskie..far more money generated from bass the fishing industry of today was built on bass tourneys....god don't eat a bass we need big ones

yeah but the average guy that would want to eat a muskie would catch one or 2 a year... dead this year from eating 2 how many would you catch a year, lots of guys claim over 100 and the guys that guide who boat hundreds a year..15%.. you do that math oh and make the check out to cash thanks

I will bet my pay check, that someone who just want to have a meal of muskie and not for the sport of catching as many as possible, they will kill far less then you..you can argue c/r all you want but every study states the there is a mortality rate when fish are caught and released.....lots of people fish for a meal they catch there fish and go home, they don't say let just get one for for a photo one more for a paying customer .. it's easy to say c/r for muskie because it doesn't affect your fishing or your pocket book...sure be a good conservationist and don't eat muskie, easy for you but you are asking people to suffer or change their lives, if there are not many big ones then you should do your part and refrain from fishing for them.. yes lets take the high road and ban fishing for them completely..be a good citizen a good conservationist . it's easy to say let do something when it doesn't affect you...isn't it

So why would you have c/r and why would Eating a muskie is not a valid argument, I don't put one fish above another, why would you see fit to make this what seems to be very bias statement have you every tasted muskie hello it's a fish