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Very true, but I can't help laughing at all the "stoopid".

No, I mean the kind I design and build myself because it gives me exactly what I want.

Now I'm really starting to feel stupid. I mean why do I have all these level wind oufits designed for small lake trouting, big water trouting and of course steelies (that's a trout). Not to mention numerous casting outfits designed specifically for walleye. Oh and my favourite perch outfit on the big lakes, you guessed it......baitcaster. Guess I'll have to convert to bass fishing.

Prediction: Plenty of bass will still be on thier nests come opening day. That'll lead to more losses of bass young than OOS pictures posted in April.

It's gonna be the reel on my new musky stick Garry, opted for it over the Abu Garcia. It should last a lifetime considering the luck I have catching, hell even casting it will likely sideline it for the summer......bzzzzzzzzzzz *damn, bird's nest*

LOL.....maybe when I stops twitch'n.

Oh don't even get me going on the Calcutta. I gets all twitchy and starts to drool when I bring mine out to play. Shiny things!

Well seeings how I'm a "sucker" for "overated" fancy shmancy shiny things I allowed myself to be lured in by fancy "marketing" and today became the owner of this funny looking reel. TICA Caiman GT 200 Given my fondness for things "overated" I still think it beats out spinning as the reel for the job.

All true, I know. But todays package arrived intact and with no extra fees.

3 Yep, I've been heard to say "here, hold my beer....." more than a few times.

There is no one reel type that can do it all. Baitcasters are definitely required to cover some forms of angling and I don't mean just trolling. Limiting yourself to only spinning reels will definitely cause times of aggravation and frustration and likely lost fish. But hey thats just open minded thinking.

I did have forward and reverse and was able to run up to full throttle as long as I accelerated slowly, otherwise it would slip out of gear. Once I got it apart and looked it over you'd be hard pressed to see that the clutch dog was worn out, the engaging teeth were ever so slightly worn, hard to believe it could be so much of an issue. Clutch dog is a cheap fix and from what I understand they typically fail while the gears will remain intact. Anyway changing the clutch dog immediately solved the slipping out of gear. Keep in mind though that I could engage the gears even with a worn dog and when it slipped out of gear you felt it! I was able to attain the needed parts here in Hamitlon at Bay City Marine.

I changed the clutch dog on my 25 Johnson Seahorse (1975), piece of cake if your mechanically inclinded. Make sure to get an extra detent spring (I wrecked one reassembling) and new seals and you might as well change the impeller while your at it.

I've performed the following method a number of times, including a dog's paw once. To remove fish hooks when impaled past the barb, follow these steps: Press firmly on the eye of the hook. At the same time use a cloth, string, or some type of wrap that can be wrapped around the curved portion of the hook. While pressing on the eye, pull with one quick motion on the attached cloth. This is virtually painless. Irrigate the wound and bandage. Like so........ Perhaps not a good method though if you think major arteries, veins or tendons may be involved.

Canadian Tire has an assortment of sizes available.

Then I'd say your trouble is the connection between the motor and the shift lever.

Touche.

Hmmmm, might have to change the handle to Hometownman, would you like me to look after it. Sorry I have no further advise.

Beautiful, definitely deserving of framing. I'm thinking 10 x 16.

Looks good to me.

SALMON SLIME ! ....Is that not liking cursing the boat to a musky guy.

Good job she's so cute or I'd be all over you 'bout the vertical hold.

I can relate too Cliff, was only a few years back that I watche my ole girl pull out of the driveway with Gerritt. Don't worry bout your boat though I'll make sure Wayne takes good care of her, hell I may even get to ride in her. All the best in finding her replacement. Well apparently I'll be seeing the boat shortly. Wayne just called and wants to come by the house for a dos and don'ts lesson.

Take a bow Gerritt, just don't let it go to your head.

Could we be the generation that runs out of fish? June 06, 2009 Johann Hari / The Independent In the babbling Babel of 24/7 news - where elections, bailouts and beheadings blur into one long shriek - the slow-motion stories that will define our age are often lost. An extraordinary documentary released next week, The End of the Line, forces us to stop, and see. Its story is stark. In my parents' lifetime, we have killed 90 per cent of the world's fish. In my lifetime, we will finish off the rest - unless we change our ways, fast. We are on course to be the people who wiped fish from the earth. The story begins in the sleepy Canadian resort of Newfoundland. It was the global capital of cod, a fishing town where the scaly creatures of the sea were so abundant they could be caught with your hands. But in the 1980s, something strange happened. The catches started to wane. The fish grew smaller. And then, in 1991, they disappeared. It turned out the cod had been hoovered out of the sea at such a rapid rate that they couldn't reproduce themselves. But the postscript is spookier still. The Canadian government banned any attempts at fishing there, on the assumption that the few remaining fish would slowly repopulate the waters. But 15 years on, they haven't. The population was so destroyed that it could never recover. A growing number of scientists are warning that we could all be living in Newfoundland soon. Professor Boris Worm of Dalhousie University published a detailed study in the prestigious peer-reviewed journal Nature saying that at the current rate, all global fish populations will have collapsed by 2048. He says: "This isn't some horror scenario, it's a real possibility. It's not rocket science if we're depleting species after species. It's a finite resource. We'll reach a point where we run out." The species in the frontline is bluefin tuna, the pinnacle of the evolutionary chain for fish. This little creature can swim at 50mph, and accelerate faster than the swishest sports car. It has even developed warm blood. Yet every year, a third of the remaining population is ripped from the seas and slapped onto our plates. Soon, it will be gone. All over the world, from the Bay of Bengal to Lake Victoria to the shores of South America, I have heard fishermen say their catches are shrinking, in size and in number. Industrial-scale fishing only began in the 1950s. By the standards of the news cycle, this is slow - but by the standards of the planet or of settled fishing communities, this is a click of the fingers. The effects of the new industrial fishing are uniform. Professor Ransom Myers found that whenever the vast industrial trawlers are sent in, it takes just 15 years to reduce the fish population to a 10 per cent shadow of its former self. This process of trawlering is an oceanic weapon of mass destruction, ripping up everything in its path. Charles Clover, who wrote the book on which the documentary is based, has a good analogy for it. Imagine a band of hunters stringing a mile of net between two massive all-terrain vehicles and dragging it at speed across the plains of Africa. Imagine it scooping up everything in its way: lions and cheetahs and hippos and wild dogs. The net has a massive metal roller attached to its leading edge, smashing down every tree that gets in its way. And in the end, when the hunters open up the net, they pick out the choicest creatures and dump the squashed remains in the sun as carrion for the vultures. But we need fish. Our brains don't form properly without their fatty Omega-3 acids. So why do our governments allow this process of destruction to continue? Why do they actively encourage it, with $14 billion of subsidies for fishermen to keep on trawling every year? A small number of people are making a lot of short-term profit out of this destruction - and they are using this cash to ensure they can carry on hunting, down to the last fish. In 1992, an attempt to get the bluefin tuna listed as an endangered species was scuppered by the US and Japanese governments at the urging of the tuna lobby - who happen to give large campaign donations to all parties. A similar corruption has eaten into European politics. Add to this the fact that fishermen are a determined and demanding constituency with an equally short-term agenda. They demand the maximum quotas today - even if that means no quotas tomorrow. Our societies are structured to put these short-term cries for money for a few ahead of the long-term needs of us all. A small determined group with hard cash almost always beats a diffuse group with good intentions - until they get angry and fight back. Yet today, ordinary people in rich countries are being insulated from the fish crisis. As we exhaust our own fish stocks, our corporations are sailing out across the world to steal them from the poor. Today, there are armadas of industrial European and American fishing boats across the coast of West Africa, leaving the small fishermen who live on its coasts to starve. Professor Daniel Pauly says: "It is like a hole burning through paper. As the hole expands, the edge is where the fisheries concentrate, until there is nowhere left to go." We are not only stealing fish from Africans; we are stealing them from future generations. In the age of limits, we are hitting up against the capacity of the planet to provide for us - yet we are reacting with blank denial. This story is unfolding, in one form or another, in the rainforests, the air, and in the planet's climate itself. It has left us at a strange crossroads. We will either be a despised generation who left behind a depleted husk-planet - or a heroic generation who, at five minutes to ecological midnight, turned back to the light. With fish, the solution is even simpler and more straightforward than with the other ecological crises ensnaring us. The scientific experts say we need to follow two steps. First, expand the 0.6 per cent of the area of the world's oceans in which fishing is banned to 30 per cent. In these protected areas, fish can slowly recover. Second, in the remaining 70 per cent, impose strict quotas on fishermen and police it properly, as they do in Alaska, New Zealand and Iceland. The cost of this program? $14 billlion a year - precisely the sum we currently spend on subsidizing fishermen. At no extra cost, we could turn them from the rapists of the oceans into their guardians. Yet The End of the Line has one flaw - and it is one that riddles current environmental thought. It presents us with a great earth-altering crisis, and then says our primary response should be to change our own personal consumption habits. It urges people not to buy from Nobu, which shamefully still sells bluefin tuna, and to ask if the fish we buy is sustainably produced. It's like the end of An Inconvenient Truth, where the primary response Al Gore presses on us is to shop green and change our lightblubs. Of course this is valuable - but it is only an anemic and minor first step. It is rather like, in 1937, reacting to the rise of Nazism by urging people to make sure that they personally weren't killing any Jews or gays or Jehovah's Witnesses, or buying from any Nazi-owned companies. We needed collective action that would stop other people from killing these minorities - just as today we need collective action that prevents anyone from irreparably trashing the means of life. At the moment, many good people get anxious about environmental issues, and hear the message that The Response is to scrub their own lifestyle clean. Yet individual voluntary action by a minority of nice people will not save the bluefin tuna, never mind the ecosystem. But if all these honourable people act together - by volunteering for, and donating to, organizations like Greenpeace, Friends of the Earth and Plane Stupid - they can change the law, so everybody will be required to change their behaviour, not just a benevolent 10 per cent. It was just such determined minorities armed with the facts that spurred the fights against slavery, colonialism and fascism. When you respond as a consumer, you are weak; when you respond as a citizen, you are strong. The voice of millions of people can drown out the concentrated power of the fishing industry - and all the other industries with a vested interest in trashing our planet - but not with the swipe of a credit card. The alternative to collective action today is catastrophe tomorrow. As Charles Clover explains: "When the human population comes under pressure on land because of global warming, when we are running out of ways to feed ourselves, we [will] have just squandered one of the greatest resources on the planet - wild fish." The epitaph for the human species would turn out to have been scripted by Douglas Adams: so long, and thanks for all the fish.