Fishing Rhino

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Is it possible to remove the eye for the tie downs? If you can, it may be possible to bend them away from the bracket. You'll need to run that by someone with the "know how" to find out if it can be done. The eye will need to be bent where it is exposed, behind the plate, not the shafts that pass through the transom.. Another possibility may be to use an eye bolt in place of one of the bolts that mounts the power poles on each side. No other modifications needed. Be sure to get the eye bolt in stainless steel. I'd prefer the eye bolts on the bracket.

Here's a suggestion. If you have enough threads to get another bolt to screw into the hole, using a drill press, drill a hole down the center of that bolt. Use a drill the size you will need for the tool you are using. Then screw the bolt in, and use it as a pilot to drill through the broken bolt along the center line.

If you do the epoxy thing, grease the threads on the bolt, leaving only the end clean. Spray some cleaning solvent such as acetone into the hole with the broken bolt, just to be sure the end of the broken bolt is clean. Remember, when you have a drop of epoxy on the bolt end, it will spread. Use a very small drop on the end of the bolt, Thread it carefully into the hole. As soon as you feel the slightest resistance, stop. It would be a good idea to drill a depression that is centered into the end of the bolt. That will keep the epoxy away from the edges. Good luck. It's going to be a tricky job.

Once, in the meaty part of my hand where the palm and thumb meet.

38 - 41 degrees.

The Rainbow Trout are biting. The bass are not. At least that's how it was today.

You should be ok. The sooner the better, but if you have waxed your painted trailer, it certainly shouldn't cause any damage. If the salt is just a dry film, it cannot do much. The problem is when it stays wet/damp, then it can damage any bare metal. Get to it as quickly as you can, but don't fret if it takes a few days.

Hmmmm, you're good. I cannot for the life of me, tell if a smallmouth is single or married.

Here's hoping for a successful surgery, and a speedy, uneventful recovery.

Whew, I won't have to worry about you topping me again this year. I was quite inflated when I caught a six pound smallmouth, 'til you punctured my balloon with a 6.5 smallie. If I recall correctly, they were both caught on the same day.

FIA, as in Formula One? If so, they did not mandate the use of the HANS device until 2003. CART was the first to mandate its use for the 2001 season. It's difficult to compare an F1 or an Indy "car" to a cup car. I'm guessing, but I would think it's easier to build crushable, deformable sections into a car that weighs 1367 pounds than in a vehicle that weighs 3400 pounds. The engine in an F1 is behind the driver, so that provides a nice cushion between the nose of the car and the driver that can be used to incorporate energy absorbing design features. With a cup car, it has to be fabricated to keep the engine from being pushed into the driver's compartment. Compared to an F1, it has relatively little space for energy absorption. They are two really different animals. Drivers in stock cars are rarely hurt when they get slammed in the rear, or spin and crash into a wall backwards. The F1 cars have their space in the front, Sprint Cup cars in the rear. Maybe NASCAR should have 'em race backwards.

Earnhardt should not have died in that crash. The problem was that his seat belt tore, and he was not restrained within the driver's compartment. The anchor mounts on the floor behind the seat had a serious flaw. The piece through which the seat belt passes should swivel on the mounting bolt. This allows it to line up with the belt. His was tightened down rock solid, which placed most of the stress along one edge of the belt, rather than distributing it evenly. It's like duct tape. If you pull at the edge, it tears like tissue paper. If you pull evenly, it's darn near indestructible. There was also a problem with the Simpson mounting hardware. The pieces are stamped which produces a ridge on the back side of the stamping. That ridge should be eased by chamfering, but they were not, so the forces pulled the belt against that ridge which also contributed to the catastrophic failure. The same thing happened to one of my customers on a quarter mile track, for the very same reasons. He's a big guy, but the seat belt parted at relatively low speed coming off the turn when he went into the wall. His seat belt parted, but he was lucky, if it's possible to be lucky in a crash like that. He slid beneath the wheel and shattered one of his ankles, but at least he survived. This was in the summer of 2001, six months after Earnhardt's crash. They sued Simpson and won. The defense had one of the Unsers , I think it was Bobby and a couple of other experts go to Hutch's race shop and examine the car. No doubt they were looking for any flaw in the chassis that could absolve Simpson. They were impressed by the quality of the work and the design of the chassis.

Tomorrow's the day. Grampa and I are trying Mashpee/Wakeby, and possibly Santuit. Grampa told me he fished MW once before, but it was a long time ago.

Yes they did. The biggest problem was finding a cobbler with the latest sole technology. I have very tender feet.

If I had a battery that was connected to other batteries go bad, I'd replace the entire set. While not about batteries, when I was a young fellow I used to do all the work on my car. The exhaust systems were the worst. I'd replace a muffler. Then in a few months the tailpipe would let go, then the pipe into the muffler would let go. It was nearly impossible to separate the components without damaging the connections of the good part. I finally got smart and replaced everything behind the pipe that bolted to the exhaust manifold when one part rusted or rotted out. Batteries are similar. Replace one of a set, and when another starts to go bad it can damage the one you installed a month or a year earlier. Go to a battery store like Interstate. I've had nothing but good experiences dealing with them. They won't try to sell you something you don't need, and they will test your batteries at no charge. And their prices are competitive with discount parts stores. I've found their prices to be twenty dollars or so less than BPS for the same battery in the 120 to 140 dollar price range. The actual condition of a battery can only be determined by a series of tests. Voltage check, specific gravity of the electrolyte in each cell, and a load test will tell if it's time to replace the battery.

I had to take a nap after just reading the "punchlist" of the to dos.

Sounds somewhat like a mackerel rig with only one bait with a tube worm. When I lived on Cape Cod we used them to catch tinker mackerel as bait for stripers. The ones we used had a silver spoon with a hook instead of a bank sinker. The plastic tubes were various colors, red, yellow, green, etc.

I use it in conjunction with Navplanner2. Once the program is downloaded into the Navplanner2, you can click on the Google Earth icon and it will open in a split screen. On the left half is the map, and the satellite view on the right half. As you move the map around, zoom in or pan out the satellite image mimics what you've done on the lake map.

Try 1200+ miles each way, with a boat in tow. Speaking from experience, we are not strangers, but we are a strange bunch. This will be my fourth, and every one of them has been a blast. I'm outta here on April 25th, just after midnight, and hope to be on Pickwick the next afternoon.

Be honest, you'd find it hard to put down your Ron Popeil Pocket Fisherman

LOL. When I initially read the title, I thought it said Radisson Canoe - New Sponsors. Since it's above the waterline, use some bathroom grade silicone, maybe called tub and shower. I'd replace those rusted machine screws with stainless steel screws, nuts and washers if you can find the washers. Depending on how many you need, it may be cheaper to buy a box of them.

Excellent. I'll have to remember that.

They'd have more shots like that if they played like most of us hackers. Then again, they wouldn't be pros on television if they played like the rest of us duffers.

I use leaders with braid. The prime reason being that braid is very fragile when fished in the rocks. It doesn't take much to part the line when it goes over or around a rock. The leader keeps the braid away from the rocks in most cases. Which leads me to this tidbit. A very effective cutter for braid is the tin cutter on dental floss spools. It parts as easily and cleanly as dental floss. In vegetation braid is like a scythe. If a big fish makes a loop through the pads, mono or fluoro for that matter can get wrapped around the stems. Braid just mows 'em down. Not good for the lily pads but a blessing when you hook a nice one. Braid also transmits every little tick to the pole. Fluoro, while not as "stretchy" as mono doesn't transmit the message on the business end of the line as well as braid.