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We had the same thing with our brand new 350 Mag inboard first day of fishing this summer. Engine ran great on the run out to the fishing grounds and trolled all day and bogged down on the run in. The closer home we got the worse it bogged. Got into the river and she idled fine. Turned out it was a clogged fuel filter, even though it looked good. Try the simple things first.

Happy kids and pretty fish - a winning combination. What I've found while fishing with the kids is that they are not species conscious. They just want to catch fish - and they did. Last trip my grandson told me he would rather catch a 12 pound steelhead than a 20 pound king any day - way more fun.

Good job. Catching is always fun. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.

I feel for ya on the fleas - had the same conditions last week. Even had them on the rigger cables and connections to the weights and probe. We did the same as you on 8/1 with about the same results. Good job on finding some fish though. We don't fish coppers, but shallow riggers and cores have been doing the job for us too.

We were checked at the Oak last year. The Coasties followed the boat upriver and checked us after we were secured at the dock. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.

You can use just about any large bead to keep the swivel out of the twilli. Also, we keep a lighter on board to heat the wire where we re going to cut it. Then it cuts without fraying.

I have an outboard powered 17' center console fiberglass boat that I use at the Virginia shore for flounder fishing mostly. It came factory equipped with a set of rocker switches that was fragile. I noticed early on that if my hands were wet and I had any cuts or scrapes on my fingers that I would get a shock from my stainless steering wheel when the motor was running. Can't happen right? No electrical connection to the manual steering system. Well, the switches started to fail after a few years and I replaced the them with a Blue Seas gang switch with built in fuses and then added a grounding buss bar. I replaced some of the factory wiring and cleaned it all up and the electrical shock that I experienced through the steering wheel disappeared. Something about how the boat was wired at the factory caused the manual steering system to pick up enough voltage to transmit a shock to broken wet skin. I'm not enough of an electrician to explain it, but I know I fixed a problem and don't know why.

I like to use a white green dot spinnie pulling a bright green fly with uv glow and a gold 42nd spinnie pulling a moonshine smitty fly. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.

We found 50 degree water about ten feet deeper out of the oak Wednesday than we found on Tuesday. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.

I'm guessing the springs broke with the boat on the trailer but the weight of the boat kept them from pulling apart. With the weight off, it could separate and what I experienced was separation of already broken springs. I am really fortunate that the second separation happened when I was going only about 15 mph on a side road as it let the rear axle loose and lift the trailer off the road and jackknife the trailer.

Slow going for our first trip of the season. We only boated 8 fish over three days - not enough to establish a pattern. No skunks on the boat. Most fish were caught on bright green things in the upper 80' of the water column. Did run into our usual share of problems though. First problem was that our subtroll didn't work so we were fishing blind. Hoping a new power plug fixes that for the next trip. Second problem was we lost RPMs on the brand new engine on the way back in Sunday evening. The guys at Lake Breeze Marina had it correctly diagnosed as a clogged fuel filter bright and early Monday morning so we didn't lose too much of the day. Finally I was bringing the trailer home today to work on it while the boat is in the water and broke a spring at Mansfield,PA. I ratchet strapped it back together and limped down the road to Mill Hall where I broke another spring on the other axle, so the trailer is now in a repair shop in Mill Hall. The good thing is they will make arrangements for me to pick it up on a weekend so I don't have to burn vacation (fishing) time to pick it up. Can't wait to do this all over again. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.

I was the flea flicker on our boat yesterday. Took one of our six hits on a ten color and I had to stand at the transom to keep the fleas off. In ten colors we had three times the line would have jammed without attention Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United mobile app Age and treachery will always overcome youth and enthusiasm.

Great report- great fish. Getting fire up for our first trip up in just a week now.

Replaced the 350 Mag at 2000 hours due to water problems. I was told by the Mercruiser dealer that I got the last available factory new inboard 350 Mag without catalytic converters. It has a tag on it that says not for use in boats in the US except for repowers.