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If you don't know how to repair your own reels you can send it to the BPS reel service outfit in Springfield. If you do, you can call the BPS reel repair line and get the parts department. There's some pretty friendly folks there that can help you whether you have the reel schematic or not. BTW, I was a BPS doubter but their reels appear to holding up alot better than in many years past so long as you're not fishing 100 + days a year with them.

Technically, the amount of stress an engine transmits to the transom when trailering is nothing compared to the amount of stress it transmits into the transom when you're bounding across an average busy lake on a weekend. Realistically speaking, if the transom can't take the bumps it's going to see from an engine going down the road, how in the world will it survive cutting across 1-2 foot waves?

You need a job that pays really well but also allows you lots of time off. I still haven't found that job yet.

Properly tuned lunker lures can't be beat.

As I look back over my post, I realize that the dry run may not be if the boat is too tippy. ;D

This question has been brought up before on this board. All shorter Vhulls are susceptable to being tippy if one or two anglers began fishing off of raised casting decks. The best suggestion is to put a couple of temporary platforms on the boat and take it to the nearest water and do a dry run with you and another person to see if it's stabil at rest.

I'd say if one of the circuit breakers doesn't reset it's a bad circuit breaker.

I don't lose many but I did happen to lose an orginal Wiggle wart last season. Those things are too precious to not have a lure retriever along. I'm gonna have to get one this year.

Those Rat-L-Trap rings arent' that hard. Here's how I do it. Using your fingernail, open the ring up just enough to start threading the old hook off, before you push the old hook too far, start threading the new hook on right behind it. Now, work the new hook on around the ring, it will push the old hook along as it goes. Bingo, the old hook comes off and you're done. I just redid hooks a couple weeks ago on a bunch of lures. This method worked better than the split ring pliers I had.

Finding lures can be fun. Finding a whole tackle box is better. I once found an old two tray Old Pal tackle box stuck in the mud along the bank on a small pond once. I managed to pull about 3 antique lures out of the thing that were worth saving, everything else was ruined. It was still quite a treat.

I doubt it. You can often negotiate those items into the final sale price.

Your only choice on the top will be to wet sand it down. It's not unusual for any re-gel job to eventually flake off, it's not a permanent solution by any means because the sun just eats away at it everytime it's out on the water or uncovered. I've done a couple refinish jobs on boat top caps and you usually get around 4-5 years out of it. As for the hull. If you're down to the flake, wet sanding isn't going to help anything. At this point you can either look at a new gel job or consider painting. Either way will require the boat to come off the trailer.

I just got back from Wally world. Nothing out of the ordinary other than no under the counter fishing reels other than a couple they're trying to close out on. Otherwise, the fishing section seems the same with a few items here and there with red tags on them.

Since I bought my motor used and didn't get an owners manual with it I'd have to say not quite.

Which is weird because they basically run the FLW tourney trail. You'd think they'd use that as a vehicle to move sales in the stores. Was in my Walmart last weekend and no big red tag sales going on, though I noticed there are practically NO higher quality reels left behind the counter, only the cheaper stuff that's blister packed on the racks. Normally this is the time of year they'd be stocking stuff up for the spring fishing season.

I believe those were made by bottomline. The pixel count on those things was terrible. I had a friend that had one. They were barely good enough to show bottom depth. His broke and it was still fairly new.

I suppose I could go along and help you map it. I'll throw a variety of lures and check out the bottom depth while you write everything down. Yeah, that sounds like that'll work out real good. BTW, what lakes are those?

Some of my most memorable battles over the years turned out to be nothing more than a one pound, fairly flattish rock hooked in a strategic place.

Best buy has had numerous class action suits filed against them over the years for their "inattentiveness" at getting BBY backed rebates back to customers. I was one of them. It was only a $10 rebate on an internal CD writer but when you start adding 10 + 10 + 10 +.......etc it starts to add up. I've found CompUSA has one of the best rebate policies. Keep copies of everything. If the rebate doesn't come in the advertised time, they refund the money in the store.

What type of boat is it? Just how much of the floor is soft? If it's just a spot or two the sections can be cut out and replaced and then carpeted over, if you're talking about the entire floor being soft you've got a fairly big job. Here's a place that can give you an idea on floor repair and replacement. http://www.capndsboatshed.com/partfloorrepl.htm Getting someone to do it is feasible though it won't be in-expensive. As for boat carpeting, Cabela's, BPS, West Marine are just a few that carry boat carpet. Outdoor carpet sold at Lowes or Home Depot isn't as nice as marine carpeting. It doesn't hold up as well and is non-hook friendly. (They tend to snag hooks often)

I always store the reels with the drags completely relieved of pressure. Any reel I sell goes out like that to the customer. Some have become confused and thought there was something wrong with the reel because the spool didn't turn when they turned the handle. When I told them what was up they also didn't realize that about the drag setting when a reel is stored.

They be expensive.

He's about big enough to make one decent boot out of.

;D

Just some insider info on the consumer electronics business. Whether you're dealing with some internet seller all the way up to purchasing something on sale at Best Buy, it's all the same. These companies are making virtually nothing on the sale. You're essentially purchasing this stuff (camera's, computers, Plasma TV's, etc. ) at nearly cost. The retailer makes up the difference by trying to sell you all those add ons, (memory cards, attachments, PSP service plans, software upgrades, etc.) without selling those, they're selling at a loss. In fact, MANY OF THESE RETAILERS, WHETHER INTERNET BASED OR BRICK AND MORTAR BASED USE ADD ONS AS A MEANS OF BASING WHETHER AN EMPLOYEE GETS HOURS TO WORK. In other words, it's no longer enough to be an employee who offers friendly, knowledgable service that brings people back in to buy more, unless you sell enough add-ons, you, the sales employee, may or may not get enough work hours next week to live on. That's how life in the consumer electronics fast lane works these days.