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X10, a very good article, thanks for sharing

Who, in their right mind, would ever sign over a title or release control of property before a check clears? Just stay clear of the individual.

The Trick To Ice Fishing Billy and Jethro decide to go ice fishing. After arriving at the lake early in the morning, they cut two holes in the lake and drop their lines in the water. After fishing for a few hours, Billy has caught dozens of fish while Jethro hasn't even gotten a bite. Jethro asks, Billy, what's your secret? Billy answers, Mmu motta meep da mmrms mmrm. Jethro asks, What did you say? Billy answers, Mmu motta meep da mmrms mmrm. Jethro again asks, What? Billy spits into his hand and says, You gotta keep the worms warm!

I'm sorry, but I'm not an aficionado over lures. If it's on sale and looks good I'll try it; if it works, I'll buy more; if it doesn't work it ends up in the bottom of my tackle box to be cleaned out at years end. I stopped buying into the fishing sales hype years ago

Just looking at a parts diagram of the MotorGuide Tour Series and found there is one pop-rivet used to hold the control head onto the outer tube. Some time back I did have my TM serviced for a bent shaft; so if they drilled out the pop-rivet to change out both the inner and outer tubes... guess where half of that pop-rivet went???

I just discovered the purpose of the white nylon disk on the prop shaft of my MotorGuide is to protect the seals from fishing line; now why can't they do something like that for the big motors??

Trolling Motor Autopsy 09/01/2013 Preformed a forensic autopsy on my trolling motor’s power head today to see why it locked up on me. If you recall from my first post I hit a shoal which took off the underside of my lower unit, so I called BoatUS for a tow. To meet the towboat in deeper water I deployed my trolling motor to make my way towards the channel. As I made my way I was fighting a headwind so I decided to put the TM on high speed to make better headway; a few seconds later I hear a knock from the TM and I go dead in the water. When I pulled the TM I found I could not rotate the prop. I had the TM serviced at a local shop and asked them to save the parts for me so I could investigate what happened. The shop said it wasn’t worth digging into the power head to replace parts so they replaced the entire head. This gives me the opportunity to see for myself the undisturbed inside of the head. I carefully disassembled the head inspecting each piece as I proceeded. When I pulled the armature it became obvious a small piece of the lower expansion shaft of an aluminum pop-rivet had fallen down inside the TM’s tubing, following the wiring, and made its way into the motor. As the pop-rivet is aluminum it was not attracted to the motors magnets and was free to move about inside the motor. There’s no telling how long the pop-rivet was inside the motor, but on this day it made its way to the armature/magnet area and became wedged between the magnets and the armature plates with enough force to break many of the plates. A careful inspection of the motors parts shows that only the armature and some rubber O-rings need to be replaced. Learned Lesson: debris can find its way down a Trolling Motor tubes and into the motor housing. Corrective Step: Plug the TM’s outer (upper) tube with a wad of cotton and cap it with RTV caulking. Tight Lines All

It's the rear casing of your flasher, which should now just pull out of your dash. If it's a flux capacitor casing, sell the boat at once before both of you disappear, and you end up working as a ticket booth clerk at a drive-in movie showing the newest Roy Rogers film.

I'd be more than happy to take a Wounded Warrior fishing but don't know how to hook up with them or the program. Any suggestions?

NF, your family here, you don't leave family; just hang out and pass along a good joke now and then. I wish you all the best with your financial and physical issues, but mentally..... well???? ........... JK. You have my prayers for a brighter tomorrow my friend. Again, if you ever get up my way, my door is always open, and we'll get a line wet. Cheers, Eric

There are people that are so socially handicapped this is the only way they can get people to talk with them. Years ago I worked PT at a friends store; we had people come in and take up your time asking questions about products with no intention of buying anything. We had regulars do this so we passed them off to the younger sales staff as sales training on how to deal with shoppers.

I lost a crankbait last July while using a Quick-Snap. I made a long cast and for a second or two I was quite pleased watching it fly, until I realized my line was slack. When I reeled in the line the Quick-Snap was still there.

Picked up the boat yesterday, just 4 wks & 3 days to get the lower unit and prop replaced. Today I took it to Fusion Fiber Marine Inc.to have the hull checked out, we know it's scratched up but don't know if the trailer bunks are hiding any damage.

J, I don't kill the big engine while it's in gear either. When I pull into an area I'll idle in neutral while I get my act together before getting out of my seat, when I kill the engine I'll then shift into gear or raise the lower unit out of the water. Problem is, as hard as I try, from time to time I'll forget to do both; I just jump up to get on deck and that's bad in an area used by shore anglers. I don't need to pull the kill switch, the engine won't start in gear.

" 'NUDIST COLONY' 'Slow Down and Watch Out for Chicks!' " LOL, you know I'd slow down, in fact I'd probably park on the side of the road..........

We have a lot of shore anglers on the Mattawoman Creek as well; I know I picked up one of their rigs one day because the hook and sinker were still attached. Tip: When you stop your big motor, keep it in gear so the prop won't rotate. EDIT 08/27/13 21:29L My tip is misleading when I said "keep it in gear" After you stop your engine place it in gear to keep the prop from free spinning; OR, raise the lower unit out of the water so it won't snag on anything.

When was the last time you checked your main engine and trolling motor prop shafts for fishing line? And, how often do you check for line? Just got my TM back from the shop and it has fishing line on the prop shaft again; so far this year I've had line on my TM's shaft three times, early March, late May and now late August; and I'm talking about lots of line with each event. Last year I lost a lower unit seal to fishing line too. Do you guys have this problem in your waters?

There was a bit of confusion at the Sporting Goods store this morning. When I was ready to pay for my purchases of gun powder and bullets... the cashier said, "Strip down, facing me." Making a mental note to complain to the NRA about the gun control whackos running amok, I did just as she had instructed. When the hysterical shrieking and alarms finally subsided, I found out that she was referring to how I should place my credit card in the card-reader. I have been asked to shop elsewhere in the future. They need to make their instructions to us seniors a little clearer ! I STILL DON'T THINK I LOOKED THAT BAD.

No apology is necessary Paul, Family comes first and everyone respects that. If I haven't said it before, I'm sorry for you loss. I'll extend the same offer to anyone wanting to fish the Potomac when I get my boat back. Just shoot me a PM and we'll see what we can do. Weekdays during the summer are better because the weekend anglers, boaters, and jet-skiers are just plane rude around here; the boaters and jet-skiers should lighten up after school starts.

The ones I've hooked dive as well, until they get close to the boat, then they'll jump a bit or do a tail walk.

You're right; I tried some dock fishing at the park, but that sucks; they have areas of the dock marked off as "No Fishing beyond this point" and there are no boats around at all. I don't know how a bank angler manages with all the tree limbs and brush to contend with.

If you look at the map Wayne put up you'll see the structure I was looking to fish. The sad part is I had my eyes glued to the graph at the time of the impact; the problem is the transducer is in the rear of the boat just two feet before the lower unit so I had no warning at all.

AARP was never a problem, other than they don't have Boat Adjusters; they gave great service; they are the only one's to tell me what the lower unit estimate is.

Well, I did get a message yesterday reporting the gear casing came in and the prop should arrive today. I still have not received any word (estimate or status) on the trolling motor, or the estimate on the engine repairs. Just by the tone of the voice in the message I feel like we're imposing on the person and he has no time to make calls. Am I expecting too much here, I'm comparing this boat shop to my local shop and my car dealer.

A keen country lad applied for a salesman's job at a city department store. In fact it was the biggest store in the world - you could get anything there. The boss asked him, "Have you ever been a salesman before?" Yes, I was a salesman in the country" said the lad. The boss liked the cut of him and said, "You can start tomorrow and I'll come and see you when we close up." The day was long and arduous for the young man, but finally 5 o'clock came around. The boss duly fronted up and asked, "How many sales did you make today?" "One," said the young salesman. "Only one?" blurted the boss, "most of my staff make 20 or 30 sales a day. How much was the sale worth?" "Three hundred thousand dollars," said the young man. "How did you manage that?" asked the flabbergasted boss. "Well," said the salesman "this man came in and I sold him a small fish hook, then a medium hook and finally a really large hook. Then I sold him a small fishing line, a medium one and a huge big one. I asked him where he was going fishing and he said down the coast. I said he would probably need a boat, so I took him down to the boat department and sold him that twenty foot schooner with the twin engines. Then he said his Volkswagen probably wouldn't be able to pull it, so I took him to the car department and sold him the new Deluxe Cruiser." The boss took two steps back and asked in astonishment, "You sold all that to a guy who came in for a fish hook?" "No," answered the salesman "He came in to buy a box of Tampons for his wife and I said to him, 'Your weekend's shot, you may as well go fishing.'"