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I've never tracked the exact gain, but I know that I've had some long days with the radio on and also left the fish finder on accidentally for a whole week and didn't have a problem. The charge controller distributes the charge as needed according to battery levels. At the very least it is keeping things topped off and preventing concern over running accessories without the motor on.

Good tips. I have a 2001 2002WA and I'm always looking for handy customizations. I don't have a lot of gadgets on mine, but did add a small solar panel and charge controller to keep the batteries topped off. That has been pretty handy. I attached the panel to the top of the outboard with industrial strength velcro.

Our dog doesn't use a crate anymore, so we're selling this barely used crate to save room in the basement. Paid around $75 for it but will let it go for $25 cash. Located in Ithaca. Send me a PM if interested.

Don't remember exactly where I bought them, but they are these: http://cesmith.com/product/269/mid-mount-adjustable-holder/55105A

If I am running 8-10 rods, I will often bump the net up to the walkaround area or the rail rod holder. If fewer, I will spread the rod holders out in the tracks and just put it in the one furthest forward.

You are absolutely right to think through location of the tracks/rod holders. I am pretty happy with how I laid mine out -- Berts swiveling elevated downrigger bases in the back corners for the riggers, 24" track sections along the gunwale for 2-3 adjustable rod holders that I typically use for divers and a net holder, and then two rail-mount rod holders on each side to run my boards -- see picture below.

sold pending payment. buyer doesn't want the bow roller, so that's available for a couple bucks if somebody needs a new one. Don't want to just throw it out and don't want it laying around...

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Cleaning up the work bench and don't need these little things. There is: - Bow stop boat roller (new) -- $5 - 2 Cannon EZ retrievers for downrigger weights (new, but open package) -- $15 for the pair - 3 Attwood Boat fender/bumper hanger lock kits (new, but open package) -- $10 for all three - 1 Blue Sea 12v outlet -- (new) $5 - 1 Brass 1 inch diameter brass snap tight boat plug (new) -- $1 - 1 small used boat or bilge plug -- $1 - 1 small used rail clamp for rod holder (I had used it with heavy duty black plastic one) -- $1 Buy individually, or $25 for all of it. Pickup in Ithaca area or shipped as cheaply as possibly at buyer's expense. Send me a PM.

about 60 was our best down depth today and we found fish from 65' of water out to about 180 fow.

nice morning -- especially solo!

Organized a trip with my fishing buddy Doug for this morning for what will likely be the last time I get to use the boat this year (lots of work and then archery season). Fished just the am today out of Myers and it was an awesome morning. We boated about 15-17 fish this morning, with 10 of them being quality fish -- heavy and good fighters. Caught a real nice salmon and a nice brown, plus a couple decent salmon and a bunch of really heavy lakers up to about 9 or 10 pounds. We kept one limit of fish, but released the rest. We also lost a couple good ones including a nice heavy fish that went airborne and then did some flips and got away. We got blown off the lake by noon with the fish stil biting, but didn't want to fight the wind and rain. We caught more fish than that a couple times this year, but not the quantity of big fish like today and even the lakers were fighting hard today. Caught them on riggers, wire divers with spinnies, and copper, too. Nothing but a couple dink salmon on the leadcore today. White, orange, green, and firetiger all took nice fish for us. We were busy and had trouble keeping lines in the water, but it sometimes didn't matter -- at one point we boated a few back to back and were down to just one rod in the water and then it fired, too. Fun morning!

whatever you look at, be very careful of weight limits because that 20hp 4 stroke will exceed the limits for most of the typical brackets.

Only fished on Sunday morning, but the day started off with a nice laker on a 300 copper. No matter how many times we weighed it, we couldn't get it to weigh more than 7.5lbs. That was as close as we came, but we did catch 10 lakers and 3 short salmon before we got tired of the wind and rain at 11:30. We had a case of the drops for a little while there, but we can't make any claims about losing a money fish. No lamprey at all and at least 6 of the lakers were over 5lbs. A solid day overall. Congrats to all the winners!

Congratulations on the win, Rollie. Regarding the launch and a couple guys missing weigh-in. Didn't weigh-in actually happen sometime before 1:15pm? I was there just before 1:15pm and it was already complete and most people were gone. I actually didn't get to fish on Sunday (was just stopping by to check out the day's catch), so I have no real beef, but if I had been rushing back for a 1:15pm weigh in and found out it happened earlier, that would have been disappointing.

Just came off the lake. No fleas and only a little bit of scum/debris/weeds along the east side from Myers up to AES. West side was completely clean. Water temps at surface ranged from 62 to 69. Bite was tough, but we managed to get our share of fish after searching and changing tactics. Good luck to all on Sunday.