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rolmops

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  1. Ah,yet another change of subject. Our own first lady is part of a class of people that does not really know how many of us have to get by and how many of us still lack the will or ability to pull ourselves up by the bootstraps.So in her own suburban way she tries too help. At the same time she wisely chose a non-confrontational cause.
  2. Wait I don't get it.Please explain to me what salt in a restaurant has to do with a supposed land grab ????? It seems that Glen Beck has yet again escaped from the loony bin to spout some more nonsense
  3. I have a Penn Sabre wireline rod with carboloid guides and 2 tip guides one a roller and the other a regular one. The roller is great for deep sea cod fishing (line at 90 to sometimes 60 degrees angle) while the other is used for everything else. Replacing the tip is simply a matter of heating up the metal (cigarette lighter) taking it off and putting some glue on the other tip and sliding it in place. It is easy and gives you both choices.
  4. Hello Mikell. You're not alone!
  5. When I went to school in Bath,Summerset,England. The great craze amongst us students was a powerful brew called Barley Wine. We spent as much time drinking it as we spent brewing it.
  6. If you go to the Interstate Battery store in Henrietta/Rochester,next to the Wallmart super center you will be able to buy "blemished" interstate batteries. These are new batteries with external blemishes which in no way interfere with their performance. Deep cycle,marine,cars,they've got them,all with the regular interstate warranty. I bought some marine batteries there for $35 a piece.That is half the price of the garbage that you can buy at Wallmart and they last 4 times as long. Before you go, give them a call to make sure that they have what you need in stock. This is definitely worth a trip to Henrietta. The address is :391 Clay road,Rochester,NY 14623. Phone 585-359-3155 good luck.
  7. I just looked at a big O surface water temperature map and there are spots that do 40 degrees and even a bit better. In front of Oklahoma beach the readings are 39.2. Just a little bit longer and I will be out there.
  8. I had the same rooster tail problem with my 575.A lot of noise has been made about this and Humminbird has come up with a rubber piece that fits in the space between the transducer and the part that is attached to the boat.They provide these for free.All you have to do is call their service department and they will send it to you.
  9. You can bring that a lot closer to our own Hudson Valley which was poisoned with PCBs to the point where there is a sharp increase in all sorts of cancer along the Hudson river. General Electric came, poisoned the land and abandoned it, leaving the local population to deal with the disastrous results of their presence. Most of our politicians are interested in re-election,not in our well being. Make sure that our politicians know that we will vote them out of office if they touch the lake.
  10. Why is that so amazing?? American companies own very many strategic assets in other countries.These companies are strong enough to change governments abroad. It is only to expected that foreign companies do the same here. The real question is not where the foreign company is based,it is who the real owners are.This may take you right back to American companies who figured out yet another way not to pay taxes.
  11. Today cabin fever got the better of me and I went outside and changed the bearings on my trailer. Are any of you guys without heated storage out there already to prepare things for spring?Or am I just a lone fool to start that early?
  12. I did some Pike fishing just south of Milliken Power station in Cayuga lake just on the edge of the current and I caught some nice ones in the mid thirty inch range although most were in the high twenties. One nasty surprise that was a lamprey on one of the pikes.that was the first time I ever saw one on a pike.
  13. The story is a bit more complicated and it has a lot to do with Europe. As longline mentioned,the males go to Europe and that is where the big trouble is. When the male eels are about to enter the European rivers they are at a development stage where they are called Glass Eels.They are about 80 to a hundred mm long and extremely popular as a gourmet food.So popular in fact that they are almost fished into extinction before they get very far inland.As a result very few males ever make it back to the Sargasso Sea.Lots of girls there,but no boys to play with.
  14. Bill,I have not yet come to the point where a picture is viable.All I have so far is a drawing and a pile of materials.Hopefully I will put it all together in the next few weeks,at which point pictures will be posted.
  15. I have been looking for parts and bits to build a planer board tower and my problem was mostly with the right reel to attach to the tower. A good person from East Rochester gave me his old Riviera manual downriggers and the reels are just ideal! If you consider building your own planer board tower,you must definitely look into getting those old Riviera reels. Rolmops.
  16. My 575 had the same problem.After the transducer was replaced it got to be a lot better,but the dual and triple beam transducers are very touchy and even the slightest bit of turbulence throws them off.
  17. There is a nesting pair very close to Rochester.Their eerie is just south of Empire Boulevard just on the east side of Irondequoit Creek near Ibay. They often cross Empire Boulevard with a fish in their claws.
  18. Signed as #556
  19. How high off the water should the planer mast be?
  20. My grand father was born on March 14th 1879........
  21. I am looking for an old Cannon mini-troll.The only parts that need to be good are the wheel,handle and break part because I intend to use it as a planer board line reel on a planer board mast that I am building. thank you, Cornelis
  22. As I type this I am looking at 4 healthy deer laying in my backyard in Brighton just off Elmwood Avenue.Whatever gets them out in the wild has not yet reached the suburbs. Me thinks that the first sightings of Coyote in our suburbs is not far off.They will probably bring rabies and attacks on pets,maybe even small children.Let's hope that Coyote hunting will be promoted before coyote poisoning is needed.
  23. What you say about ethanol not damaging fiberglass is true.the problem is with the glue that was used in older tanks,this glue dissolves .
  24. I like it from the horse's mouth,go to: http://www.garelick.com/files/12.185.pdf
  25. Today,the state of Michigan filed suit against the Corps of engineers in an effort to make the corps close a 5 mile stretch of the canal thereby completely disconnecting the Mississippi from the Great Lakes.
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