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So how many miles is it from your stern to your bow? Is it one way traffic?

There is a current thread discussing transom replacement. The guy who started it is replacing the transom on his 22 foot outboard Islander , because he wants to put it up for sale.

These are the federal rules: The following vessels are not required to carry day signals, but must carry night signals when operating from sunset to sunrise: • Recreational boats less than 16 feet in length .Boats participating in organized events,such as races, regattas, or marine parades . • Open sailboats less than 26 feet in length that are not equipped with propulsion machinery . • Manually propelled boats .

Let us just hope that we never have to find out if they work when needed. I would much rather buy new ones every three years and replace them when their time comes. But I have seen them used once. The flare gun ones. It was pouring rain and the in the waves the hand held ones would have been invisible. That little episode ended in me towing in a 22 footer rag boat with a broken line that made it impossible to keep the sail up and a seriously upset and seasick wife on board. I believe that the guy could have handled the boat, as for the wife, I did prefer not to inquire.

It is not so true that outdated flares work. After 5 years they often have to be ignited by open flame and even then I have had some of them fizzle out. I now have a policy of using them for fireworks while they still work. As for the electric SOS beacon, you cannot shoot it very high into the sky, on the other hand it will work a lot longer than flares do.

Have you ever needed them , and did they help?

Do I know how to get rid of the old ones?. They become part of the 4th of July fireworks!

I had to replace my flares again. The three year expiration date is up. I decided to to some price comparison checking Cabela , West Marine , Bass pro, and Walmart. At walmart the set of handheld Orion flares is $24,98 , the other stores charge between $34 and $38. The flares you can shoot from a flare pistol are $19.93 at Walmart and at least $10 dollars more in the other stores. So the 2 packages totalled $45 at Wallmart. In one of the above mentioned stores these 2 products sold for $80. I do not like shopping in Walmart, but I hate getting ripped of at stores that have the word sport or boat in their name.

You may be immature, but at least, you're having fun.

It is hard to say what you should do without seeing how you do it now, But make sure that your hooks are very sharp. keep constant pressure on the fish and keep your rod up high. Do not "pump" the rod because that is where you loose constant pressure.

Praying Mantis Charters in the Little Salmon River has a twin engine Steiger. He has won several tournaments using it. He zooms across the lake at 60 miles an hour. So if the fish don't bite here he'll pick up his gear and tries his luck thirty miles away in half an hour.

See if you can find a used Steiger craft Block Island or Miami

last I read about them, they are almost completely wiped out due to rabies. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

NAY. It is not a state park or state launch.

I am not sure if marine plywood is the right material. I used it when I did my Islander, but in retrospect I would use a different plywood today.The marine plywood is not only very expensive , but it is also quite soft. It is very dense, which is important. I used Okuma. Marine plywood will rot just as fast as other plywood and you will have to treat it with a few layers of epoxy. A good thing to have is another 2 boards which you need to put the glued together plywood in between and a bunch of concrete blocks to lay on top as weights during the setting process of the glue. I found that putting some eye bolts in the old transom and using a chain and a cherrypicker will make removal of the old transom a lot easier. It is heavy.

What bugs me with these numbers is that with a southern wind upwelling the warmer deep water will come up (the opposite of summer temperature wise). Unless you can somehow get graphs of wind speed and direction and cross reference them with your temperature graph, this only gives a very localized picture. Only at the depth of the intake crib. When the lake freezes over the water will stratify but with a mostly open lake and stormy weather like last winter the temperatures are probably all over the place.

That's what you do when you have twilly tips on a rod and you decide to use that rod for leadcore.

i tried to add weights,and it sort of works I have added weights to leadcore and added it on on the end close to the rod. thinking that it would not disturb the unique character of leadcore. But you will have to let the backing farther out in order to allow your extra weight to go down the required 20 to 30 feet. It works but having to take off the weight every time often requires a second person. In my opinion it is easier to put a hundred feet or so of 19 strand stainless steel wire between the core and the backing. It has the same sinking quality as leadcore but very much less water resistance. That way your leadcore will also go down to seventy feet. Either way you will have to let out another few hundred feet and it moves your line from brown and steely depths to salmon territory. I also tried to use 16 and 20 color lengths. That did not make a lot of difference in depth but it did cause a lot of lines crossing and knotting up . One technique that I use a lot in the finger lakes with live bait and leadcore is stopping the engine and allowing the core with bait to sink down to even 200 feet where it comes into the cone of my fish finder and then start, go and stop . That way you can get the very big very deep lakers. I do think that it only works with live bait.

I just read this little thing again and found it is the writings of a sot , Shakespeare I am not.

Just an observation. When I fish a lot I hardly post at all. Then as seasons change the fishing decreases and the posting become more. In the depths of winter posting becomes a steady stream and fishing just a dream. Cabin fever forces me out the door into my snow stained boat to stamp around in and postings turn into a torrent. Please Spring speed up your arrival and release me from this snow bound shore onto the water where my life means more.

This may be a bit far fetched, but my leadcores have braided housing around the core. Having used these leadcores with twilitips for several years I did see some fraying of the braid. I do not know if the same would happen with ceramic tips.

I used to have a set just like it. Except for the finish. The cedar stops the rot and the unfinished wood soaks up the water and causes the boards to lay deeper in the water. This makes them pull a lot harder.