Sk8man

Ah OK thanks. If I decide to do it I'm going to rig some of the heavy duty ones on gimbal mounts but I still haven't made up my mind to spring for them.....

pa223 are yours like the first pic?

I believe these particular models are designed for dipsy use and appear to be sturdier than the other models commonly used and which are less expensive.

There are a few models of triple Big Jons with different pricing. I'm looking at the heavy duty diver models and I suspect that one model is perhaps older (and maybe problems with it?) as it is over $100 cheaper than the other and the other has what looks like a more solid base to each individual rod holder. Anyone with direct experience with each? The first pic is of the more expensive and perhaps more sturdy? set.

Thanks Lucky... you are always an interesting read

I hear you my boat is 18 ft also and I should also mention that I fish the larger Finger Lakes and they as well as Onieda in particular can be just as dangerous as Lake O under the "wrong" conditions. The space issue is a valid consideration though. I luckily have an area on my transom that a 3 gal tank fits perfectly within so it is located at the outside of the boat interior.... I also keep a 1 gal. container of gas in the boat and a small container of 2 stroke oil in the event that someone else runs out of gas or I need the gas itself myself I can hear my buddies and family members laughing right now but a number of them did also about my tire inflator kept in my vehicle until I bailed their butts out repeatedly

i know this doesn't address the issue itself but I had initially considered hooking up my 4 stroke kicker to my main 60 gal. gas tank but the more I thought about it I decided to just go with a separate straight hookup in case for some reason the gas in the main tank became compromised in some way or the main tank itself or hose etc.malfunctioned in some way for safety reasons rather than pure convenience. That way if one or the other became a problem I could still get back home....call me a little paranoid but it seems that in the past anytime I have had some sort of problem out there the weather was turning bad etc. and that is when mechanical things tend to go bad....

There may be a downside later on to the eating of the gobies though as they are bottom dwellers/feeders and that is where many of the environmental contaminants exist so the eventual assimilation of them maybe end up in the fish eating them. I believe they also can harbor botulism from what I have read.....always something...

WTG Rick Nice looking fish and obviously happy customers

Good one Andy....you have a lot of company too

By the way folks if any of you need prop work done the folks at the Prop Works here in Canandaigua are the best around and are great people to do business with.... http://thepropellerworks.com/

Good luck with it either way Steve.

Too bad this thread can't be sent to a responsible legislator. Obviously there is a real problem there that needs to be corrected. It is unfortunate that it seems to take threatened or activated lawsuits after injuries to get attention and correction to things like this now days.