porkpie

Your a bass guy aren’t you? Do it do it do it do it ??

Don’t bother with 211 either. Another Cage dive bomb.

I don’t vary much from shimano or Daiwa when it comes to reels. I’ve owned most other brands over the years and been disappointed by a number of them. I don’t buy quantum stuff. I had a couple of iron horse casting reels years ago and both failed on me. Fixed at aikmans and sold them. Your mileage may vary. I’ve been pretty happy even with the cheap shimano siennas that I use ice fishing and on my kids rods. They hold up pretty well for a $50 reel. Have a couple cheaper Daiwa spinning reels and they seem to keep on ticking as well. A Stradic is a pretty nice reel!

A Japanese company that is one of the largest manufacturers of outboard motors in the world.

I don’t consider that particularly high hours.

Jingle jangle.... hair elastics if it bugs ya! I keep a big pack of them on the boat from dollarama, comes in handy for lots of things including rod ties! I’ve always put the rods in below the reel.

Haven’t you rebuilt your boat entirely to your own specs LOL... I’ll re-phrase it. I’ve never met a less than handy legend boat owner that was truly happy.

I’ve never met a legend owner that was truly satisfied. Most often you can find a similarly equipped boat from one of the better brands for a similar price.

Congrats, but be careful it’s addictive. I’ve been dragging my boat down 2 plus hours each way every week for a few years now the fishing has been so good.

They are spiny water fleas. They haven’t been much of an issue this year because the waters been cold. By now they are usually a problem. They stick to braid like snot to a doorknob. You’ve been given good advice. They still stick to 30lb big game a bit, but not bad and easy to remove. The are a non issue with wire divers. Flea flicker hasn’t been available for several years now. I still have a bulk spool of 20lb.

That’s a deal. I did the same thing for my trailer brakes this year as well. They needed servicing badly and I couldn’t be bothered to muck with them. My local shop did the service and changed my oil (oil bath hubs) for $110 tax in, and no swearing on my part. I’ll be having them change out my bearings next year as well. OP, failed bearings can cause damage to the axle stubs. I had an old duck boat trailer that when the bearing went, I had to use a torch to remove the races, and had to sand the stub down to get the new one on. Predictably the bearings failed pretty often on the one side of that old rig. The upside was that I am now an expert in emergency roadside bearing changes. That said, if this is a heavy often used boat, I would have your axle checked by a pro shop to see if there has been damage. It didn’t matter to me for a duck boat that I used 3 months of the year, but for my year round use fishin boat I couldn’t deal with regular failures.

Im a troller, I’m at the back of the boat 80% of the time.

I’d give it a go!! Just bring your longest rod and some heavy slip sinker rigs so you can really bomb it out there. Erie is full of fish, it certainly can’t hurt to try!

Looks like fun! I’ll be in South Bay area for a week starting next Saturday. Can’t wait!!

Good score, my buddy has had the little chief for 20 years, still works good!

Facebook groups have slowed down forum participation for sure, but most of the Facebook sites are full of nonsense. Spot blowing has been going on since the dawn of time. In early 2000’s there was a steelhead magazine that blew up south shore Erie and Ontario fishing that was relatively unknown at the time. What can you do. New people is good, but if they just want location info, they have no plans to stick around. I never give location info other than to the occasional member through PM. Why would I give that up to this unknown quantity and his friends. No thanks. I am am always happy to discuss what works for me as far as techniques though, no real harm there! I’m not about to roast anyone though, you can always choose not to respond to spot hunters!

Ron Bankes marine in Port Rowan. Not cheap but they have been building and repairing boats for a long time.

It doesn’t taste too bad, I had to give it a try. I can’t say I’d ever buy another one though. I have no idea as to the health factor. We do home made burgers. Just meat, eggs, worstershire sauce and garlic powder. No filler. I no longer buy frozen burgers. The closest to that is we will sometimes freeze the fresh Costco 100 percent beef burgers for convenience, and use those if short on time.

Things have changed Dave. I’ve fished north and south shore Erie for many years. Spent a fair bit of time steelheading on the south side in the glory days. It’s always been a remarkable fishery, with some lean years here and there for both pickerel and steelhead. I’m not sure when your last trip to Erie was, but it’s gone from good fishing, to holy crap I can’t believe it! As I said, the good old days for walleye are right now for anyone wanting to get out there. 60 fish days are common place if you follow the fish and know what your doing. You should hitch up that boat!

It’s been that way consisntely for a number of years now. These are the good old days for Erie, for sheer numbers anyway!

Congrats to your son, that’s pretty awesome! Make sure he takes you out for dinner!!

There’s not much I can add to this, so as the kids say...... WORD!

I have found spot lock works best if I ease up to the location and don’t use it until I’ve slowed down, it makes the whole spot lock thing less violent. Have your batteries tested and replace the battery in your remote: I’ve occasionally had the head wrap thing but the other items you mention would cause me to be concerned. I have had intermittent performance issues with my motor if the battery is near dead in the remote. If that fails, take it to aikmans sports in Mississauga, they are a Minkota repair facility.

I know walleye guys that have 6 special mates filled with multiples of custom painted cranks. A couple boxes deeps, couple boxes mids and shad baits, couple boxes of shallows. Each box maybe a couple grand all in? I have a fair Arsenal of tackle including some custom stuff, and more tied up in rods and reels than I want to admit. But theirs no way I’m stepping over the edge into that abyss. The minute tournament is mentioned, guys go off the deep end. Mega imaging, huge screens, boxes of tackle that would make a small independent shop jealous, trolling motors worth more than a used car. They need something to spend money on, and guys are gadget crazy to begin with. I don’t mind it, your going to have some sort of hobby and may as well keep the fishing industry healthy! But anyone that thinks they need these ultra lifelike lures and all the other stuff that comes with it in order to catch fish, bass, musky, pickerel or otherwise is fooling themselves so they can really sell it to the better half! Some of it for sure makes it easier by a landslide, gps, gps trolling motors.... I’m like an addict for that stuff, I literally need it now and get pissed off if I have malfunctions lol. You can’t take it with you!

Good that your happy with it! They seem like a really nice motor! I was pretty happy with the Honda outboard I had, I don’t think you can go wrong!