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I only have 1 rod & reel in my hands at a time.

Is it true that Florida Bull Sharks voted Kayakers " top snack food ". ?

Most Yankee states, chumming IS TOTALLY ILLEGAL. Who obays any laws anymore ? Raising feed plots of favorite deer or bear food is also illegal. It is legally called " baiting ". Funny how we have the guts to call either "hunting " or " fishing ".

Lately all have been small. After the can opener let them out.

I use a lot of pre snelled hooks with bait for kids & those new to fishing. So a permanent improved Trilene knot to a ring is simple. Then I just do a simple loop thru the ring with a pre Snelled hook & I am done. I make up different sized hooks with 12" of braid with a simple loop on the end. Make a fold of the bitter end. Then just pull the end of the loop thru itself. I find that is all that is needed for up to a 10 pound fish & a correct drag setting for beginners on 4# test line. If it breaks off ? We all brag about the HUGE fish that got away. I take them out to see the number of things that can happen. No rip their lips off or dislocate the jaws are done. The 2 new Penn ultralight spinning reels & 7' ultra light rods will provide great runs with small fish.

Great news Street gas is going down. Perfect timing to Not run any of the tank into the engine. Marine gas should be coming down also. Under $ 2..in several states............Cheapest & SAFEST ??? Drain & replace ALL OF IT... Tank lines & filters ALso disconnect the fuel line to the LOWEST carb 90 % of it will drain out........... DONE. ..........With no risk. I would still do the SEAFOAM 10 minute idle runs to clean up any dried out gasoline in the carbs. I hate this Russian Roulette.

Thanks Way2slo. Rich

I could use a twisted wire type of saltwater 3 way or a swivel. Just have always used rings Will stay with them

I use them as a 3 way & a coupling between braid & mono lines. The 4# braid does keep squeezing the mono leaders until the mono is too weak to land fish. The braid is the Boa Constrictor. The poor mono keeps getting squeezed a little smaller after each yank on the lines. The smooth rings stop that problem completely.

We are keeping everything. So how do we reduce the risk of a lean cylinder ? .... Easiest way is to run from a new tank & lines with double the NORMAL amount of SEAFOAM in the first tankfull . ............. Start the engine at...... idle .......WITH THE ENGINE BACKED INTO LAKE WATER AT A RAMP. .......... ONLY with the motor in deep ENOUGH WATER. NO FRIGGIN garden hose crap that falls off or slide down while you HAD TO leave it running.............TOO MUCH DANGER on the garden hose. Ramp launch ONLY. Right way to use SEAFOAM is to pour it into the EMPTY tank FIRSTt. Then add oil then gasoline last. That gives a very even mixing. In the water at the ramp. Start & let it idle for about 10 minutes.......There is NO REAL heat in the cylinders. Should not cause any problem. At 10 minutes. Stop the engine & go home. Let that SEAFOAM do what it does for about 2 days. Not critical. Back to the ramp...........Run another 10 minutes. Couple of days to let SEAFOAM work again. Post back or P M me ......................By this time the SEAFOAM ....should have softened & moved the crud & water out of the engine. AT that time we move up the neutral speeds to be sure the SEAFOAM ....IS... cleaning the high speed system out. It has been a long time since I did this kind of trying to save a engine. We do the same 2 different 10 minutes of running at a faster speed. We are really using the SEAFOAM as a VERY SLOW CARBURATOR CLEANER. Waytoslow what do you think about a 1 eyed Cyclops cleaning all the filters pump & carbs ?? Does he have a operating VARIABLE AUTOMATIC OILER to contend with ? Any precautions for his engine ?

Way 2 slow I think a sale is in order. To cut down operating expenses. What is your take ? Ghost How do you feel about going with a smaller engine & boat to keep operating & repair costs lower. The trade off is your, we assume very good motor & boat for a different boat with problems that could need money. I have a 16' Lowe Aluminum with a 9.9 hp Evinrude that I fish 12 hours a day. 6 gallons of 2 stroke a week. Also a 2002 Chaparral 18.5' bow rider with a 305 Mercruiser 220 hp carb. I have emptied the 38 gallons in a day. It only runs when daughter & son in law spend 4 days. Has 200 hours on the clock.

Could not find them . I am getting nowhere on these. Thanks for any places. Rich

I started VERY young on all engines. But I now have a fantastic engine mechanic doing & checking all the engines needs. I described a intermittent starting problem on the Mercruiser V 8 220 hp carbed engine.......Thinks 3 seconds & says it is the main connector plug pin at the rear of the engine. The MALE SPLIT PIN. We go to the boat. He checks the start erratic condition. Opens the connector. Takes his pocket knife blade. Spreads the male pin a tiny bit. Been perfect for 2 years. He stops what he is doing on a Sunday to help me. $ 100 was a bargin. I had to force him to take it. There are 2 types of people in marine repairs. He is 77 also . I pick us old guys. He is just as good on computers also.

Well I have never had the DIGGING IN ever since I was 12 until now at 77. I DO make sure that ALL lines COMING OFF A coiled spool DO NOT start making more & more tighter coils. If the coils start forming above the LAYING FLAT ON A FLOOR ?? I FLIP THE SPOOL OVER ON THE FLOOR ....AFTER rotating the spool to remove the twists. Start winding again. That stops coils from forming off a new spool of line. I USE A LOT OF PINCHED FINGER PRESSURE ON THE LINE as it is wound on the reel. Every 6 rotations of the bail....I I completely release finger pressure To ALLOW THE TWISTS that can form between my pinching fingers & the reel. That works for me on all sizes of spinning reels & all types of lines. From 2# test to 60 # 40 year old Ande pink mono. Bait caster could be setting the line wraps TOO FRIGGIN CLOSE. Especially if the line is NOT WOUND UNDER A LOT OF PRESSURE Remember...........Dacron & modern Braid has NO STRETCH. NEW OR OLD. But the single strand MONOs can get stretchy. Baitcaster MAY NEED TO FINGER PRESSURE THE LINE COMING IN to keep it tight enough for all wraps ON ALL LAYERS. 40 to 80 pound monos can get loose if you catch several small lazy fish in a row.........Now a sharp hard hook set will keep digging in. UNTIL you do a REWINDING TIGHTLY. I can get some time occupying wind knots with lures too light for the wind on 4# & 2 pound. I am stupid & cast too much into the wind. Rare wind knot if I cast with the wind.

Winter means ice to me................plastic grubs or minnows dipped in tuna fish oil.

Many rebuilders only screw up your carb or give you a rebuilt one. Do nothing but sell rebuilts. Had enough of that crap in the 1950s. Cars, boats or airplanes.

How can any line BURROW if it is NOT BEING rewound, by hand ????? The constant Criscross of any reel prevents that. I use 4 pound set very high on drag. Never a digin. I use very light lures. We need some line rewinding basics taught to some people

Feels great to be accepted by strangers.

I have no cameras or cellphone cameras. So everyone HAS to believe my honest weights. No scale either.

Same as a persons expectancy. Unknown. Varies with what you do & how you feed it.

A hungry fish EATS. Line or no line. Add in it is 1/2 the diameter. It cuts right thru MOST weeds when A fish hides in them. I am converting this spring to only braid on the TROLLING flyrod. Hook rate / percentage is too good to pass up.

A flyrod with worms / small spinner & worms is great with small kids or seniors with arthritis. They swing it out & swing them in. No casting is needed & the body count goes up. 15 minutes later They are experts. I ask them. As I keep attracting more fish to right in front of them Life is good.

If you read up on fresh water parasites in particular. You will find that all of them are NOT KILLED by cooking. So the correct way to kill ALL KNOWN parasites is to freeze the meat completely for at least 2 weeks. Even Sushi fish ARE BY LAW in NYC frozen for the same reason. The freezing at sea time counts. USA has some weird laws at times. But freezing & killing all nasty parasites is a wonderful law & needed............Fresh fish is a relative term. If you have ever looked a some cooked fish, you will see some long skinny brown round worms deep in the fillets. I now hold the defrosted fillets up to a bright light & remove them with tweezers. All protein. Look how they have affected me..............

Small 12 to 14 " Bluefish are O K.

I never do anything over my anchor position. Seems soo wrong. White toilet paper & brown bars floating around ? Morning coffee at home is perfect.