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Just like my TIG pedal.... needs a good hit from time to time!

Wife figured out where to park her car yet??

Not sure Chris, a lot of the fact for many is just because you get a tag doesn't mean you'll find Bullwinkle to fill it. Last year was the first in about 6 that they got a bull tag, other years they had cow only and that's 5 guys in camp putting in for the draw. So the years they had cow tags they saw a bull or two each year that they couldn't shoot and last year the weather was so bad they came home empty handed again with the inability to go too far from camp and only seeing Cows. So I guess with the chances now 512 to 1 that they'd even get a Bull tag they're packing it in... and will probably go to Quebec and hunt there. Quebec will love the $ input. Also note... the airplane CANNOT be used to spot or hunt Moose, it's only the transportation to camp.

Well I just saw the trickle down effect myself 10 minutes ago. One of my long time customers just called me up and said "sell my airplane, as I can't justify it anymore". He's only real "justification" was using it in the fall to access his moose camp, that he and his father built back in 1976, almost into Lady Evelyn / Smoothwater Park. He just told me he needs the airplane for about 2 or 3 days to clean out camp and shut it down and then it's available to anyone willing to buy it. The Temagami district they hunt and apply for tags in just went from 109 tags available to only 14 ! Odds of getting a tag use to be 1 in 40 for Bulls and 1 in 20 for Cows... it's now about 1 in 512 and 1 in 102!

Well get a bucket over that beauty Lew.. as it will be frozen as winter returns tonight!

Thanks Roger! Been a long three weeks.. her days consist of 14 hours in bed and 10 on the couch.. repeat. Even skipped going to card making at the cancer centre this afternoon, which really tells us things are the greatest as she's never missed a Wednesday afternoon of card making. MRI on her head / brain at Sunnybrook on Friday and sees her Oncologist next Tuesday to discuss the drug she's on. Then see's her radiation Oncologist (for her head) 2 weeks from today to go over the MRI and learn that hopefully everything is remaining stable up stairs.

SPIFFY!! His frame is sitting on the original vinyl floor John.

But does the flag stay where you leave it for "tomorrow", at this time of year?

Rule number one .. NEVER.. disconnect the brake line unless you absolutely have to and know how to bleed them. It's not as easy as an old pre ABS vehicle was...

Remember, just because a bit of water won't drain out... doesn't mean a bunch of water won't squirt in from displacement loads. Boat is designed to take the load (water pressure) against the hull, not be filled with water.... but if you want to see how that seat brace separates from the hull... We're talking an open floored tinny here... throw it in the lake, put some weight in it and sit and fish while you circle the leaking rivets with a sharpie marker. At the end of a long day throwing baits, take her home and reset the rivets that you marked. Repeat next weekend until you get them all, or you can just reset every rivet in the boat in an hour with the right tools. When I bought the place up North it came with an early '60s Reynolds 12'r. It would have 3" of water in it by the time our daughter came back from work at Temagami Shores (gone for 7 hours). We put it on it's side against a tree, daughter inside with the bucking bar and me on the rivet setter. That was 10 years ago this June... it can now sit in the water for a month with ZERO water intrusion.

Nothing worse than a vegetarian off her meds!

Two pool chlorine buckets, drill a hole through each side.. 15 feet of rope, with each end through a hole and knotted. Then about 3 feet from bucket a knot to make a "Y". Throw one over each front cleat on the boat and bob's your uncle. Slows you down, helps with boat control and you can store stuff in them when not in use. Make a good bailing bucket and with the rope already on them you can simply throw it over to get water to wash down the floor.

Provided the acid was at least above the plates, you should have charged it first.. and then topped it to the rings when fully charged

You'll be glad you have a "primer bulb" the day your lift pump float switch calls it a day.... so that you can get home. Don't ask how I know this.. No need to use it any other time, but when your fuel module (that is mounted under the covers below the water line) has no fuel in it, that pump bulb will get you home 5 squeezes at a time! It can't hurt the operation of the engine with the pump just sucking fuel through the bulb and the worst you can do (at least on a Verado) is overfill the canister and get an alarm on your Smart gauges. Verado has a water separator that holds about a litre of water if need be and then another fine filter on the HP line. The 9.9 Pro Kicker has a simple fuel filter and no water separator. Generally shouldn't be an issue if your big engine has one... as it should have sucked the water out of the tank on the way to your fishing spot! OP's original question... if the boat wasn't supplied with a kicker outlet, cut the hose to the main engine, put a T in it and feed the kicker. There's no rocket science needed, unless you want a water separator as Dave and Bill have shown.

Sounded like it was a tank on the ground somewhere... if you don't have to leave the water body to "transfer" the fish, that's another story!

Shayne is correct, per the regs it's illegal to leave any water body with live fish unless you have a licence to do so. But no different than every bass tournament I suspect, where the MNR looks the other way.

You'd think they'd show a little more concern in the city they're based out of !

Probably a few decks, boat houses and garages as well !

14 hour days in the hangar is usually a fair sign that it's Spring around here...

Charger.. what's a charger for a starting battery.. oh the motor! My boat batteries never come out... they get the charger slapped on them when I bring the boat out for the last time after Musky (and usually get a green light that they're fully charged). I hit them one more time in say February and then again before she hits the water any day now. All leaving a trickle charger on a battery day in day out does is sulphate it or boil it dry. On board charger is for the electric trolling motor.. nothing else and if you're running older batteries you'd better keep a good eye on yours, as once they don't like coming up to full charge the on board won't shut off (green light) it will keep charging and boil them dry.

What ^ he said. The Verado's battery is supposed to be dedicated to the motor and if you run it down below about 11.2 volts the computer will not attempt to start it (and you're not supposed to boost it). One of the (many) things I had to correct on my boats prewire in 2007 ...as they had the auto bilge pump and a lot of other things hooked to the main battery. All "drain" items are supposed to be on the kicker / accessory battery (that gets recharged through an isolator off the big motor, or the kicker). I have two 1080MCA AGM's in mine, that I made Lund pay for, and if they're good to go again this summer will be their 8th season, so I'm looking at $700 in the near future I bet.

"For years" is the key part of Sinkers post... which may equal the fact he has the old PT that was done with Arsenic. It didn't react with metals and why all the old deck brackets were simply galvinized. Now with the new PT.. since 2004... you have to use Stainless brackets and special screws or they will quickly deteriorate. Foam weather strip tape on the stringers Mike to isolate them and the correct "deck" screws and it will last the rest of your life. I wouldn't be redoing it...

That's one way to "close out" the ice fishing season!