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Good point pap. I meant ealier to suggest 27 group too. As well as the dual purpose cycle/start battery.Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Ok thanks, I got the 800 earlier in pm and now this one, and a name. Thanks! Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Two deep cycle group 24 is better than one, you can do one, but if you can afford the best AGM, that would be good for one. If you do 2 batteries you should put a battery switch in and isolate one from the other so you could dedicate one to the house load, and one to the starting chores. Always good to have a backup just in case. The Bigger AGM is probably enough for everything and way lighter than 2 group 24 batteries. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

I have the same issue with my lenses. I'm not the original owner of these 1116 models. I might try them for a set of new ones, just to see...what was the customer service number you guys called?Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

Exactly the thinking I had in puchasing the grizzly I have. I do have the 150 igloo and it's not a bad cooler if you don't beat it up, but that is some of its virtue in the rough use it gets in my boat. It wasn't expensive, so if it wrecks up, no big deal. It has gotten many battle scars, latches have broken off, dropped block ice in and cracked the liner, lid is warped a little from being used as a step or seat. It keeps a couple gallon jugs frozen long enough for day use to collect fish in and I don't care so much about its aesthetic value because it gets fishy and gurly. The fish stay cold for the day and that's good enough, even had fish over nite in it. Not bad...however the Ice I put in is recyclable in jugs of my freezer, I wouldn't buy ice everyday for it and have the ice I bought get fishy and gurly. So it's not for food, or for even processed fish.The grizzly keeps enough clean ice for days and days on end. If I want good ice for the fish cooler for a day, I go to the full grizzly with ice and scoop out enough to use for the day in the old igloo to keep bait, or fish cold for the day. Then I always have clean ice left in it for margaritas around the fire later, or martinis in case the sailors come by. It's like my personal ice vendor for a long weekend even if I don't keep food or drinks in it, it makes a good ice storage container that saves buying ice that melts away in a day. So the igloo has its place, and the grizzly has its virtues. What is strange is that I beat the hell out of the igloo in the boat, and the more robust grizzly sits pretty much idle with ice and food. Could be cause it's so dang heavy!..the igloo makes a good coffin box for a day, but wouldn't want to take it on an off the grid excursion by any means. Ice can be a very guarded commodity in an out camp situation that the igloo type would be no where up to that task. In the end, cost is not my first, in considering a cooler for what it should do. However, I did not buy the Yeti, because it is THE MOST expensive of the roto molded type coolers, no better than comparable of those type, so cost did have a second considering to choice of function. Take the best deal you can get on any of those roto molded type if you need it, and you won't be disappointed in most of their function. Company to consumer relationship is a big factor too, especially when forking out the big bucks for one. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

For my divers, 30 lb Fireline fused original. About the best with divers and non stretch. Ran it next to the 30 lb wire for the same troll and it was better than wire. Riggers, well good luck, but you only need a section long enough to fish your depths of normal vertical distance to the ball, so use heavy mono, 40, 50, maybe even 60. You can go back to braid for a backing. The fused original is slick and works fairly well, but nothing is perfectly clean with diver rigs. I've even gotten fleas on the treble hooks of spoons when it's thick. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app

If it goes into the bore easily, not like the others. Like you can tap it in with just a few easy raps, then it is too loose to have a good friction grip. You can rough the inside diameter of the hub bore with a prick punch and hammer. Go around the hub about 90 degrees and punch a divit in the metal. It will raise the metal around the small crater created by the punch. Then you can tap the buddy in and it should have a better grip. If it still falls out then try again with 6 or 8 evenly spaced punch divits. Install again. It should stay then. Sent from my SM-N900P using Lake Ontario United mobile app