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Yea, fishing the lake in February 65* now we're supposed to get up to 12-15"s. Yippy Ki AA mofo. I'm hoping for 2-5"s I'm so '

Well I kinda thought that!! In that case Nick you just jumped into the 21st centuryLOL I'm really impressed with the guage area, bet that looks Freaken awesome through that glass. If you could I know it will be difficult the rest of this week, on the account of Mother Nature, but a night picture would be neat!! .

Looks impressive that's for sure!! Do the screens stand up?? Or do you have a set at the back also?? If standing mid ship I can see my screens front which are my newer units and I put my Hummingbird 788 on the dog house, so either way I turn I got depth gauge, not that important later in the year but Browns in the spring in skinny water I got my eyes glued to the screen. Of coarse would be different story if you could send the board in the skinny waters. How often are we the only boat out there or even with another boater that would move out, so you can continue on course?? yea right!! Well that's another story. This is about your dash l like it a lot, just hope you can see them, unless you don't leave the helm. PAP

Yea I hear ya there bout time, I cheaped out on a tackle box that held 200 spoon for $35 aaayyyy, I'll get after the seminar, ha ha ya, right snooze you lose, and that's exactly what I did lost!! could of kicked myself right in azz

I personally thought it was great, was bummed not many walleye guys, but after the show, that was awesome, but no eye Capt's the only thing I was a little shocked by is they didn't know of any charter guys in 50 miles of there? I know they ment LakeO. I know they gave up some good long time secrets!! That was good for me as I was buying stinger spoons for $2.00 in the wrapper yet, I was in heaven. My uncle bought a 7ft Berkley IM8 pole for $20.00 for jigging, my other uncle bought a shyt load of stand up jigs. I was looking for R&R super slims, I didn't see any but I didn't get there till 10:15 on the count of the snow blowing, Freaken idiots flying buy ya in those little tin can cars, then there they were a mile or two against the guardrails or sitting in the median LOL. I put 7+hrs on the road yesterday, but all was good.

LMAO !!! Capt.

Guys I was only joking!! The drawing isn't till April!!! For those that have tickets know this!! Other don't know!!!! I was just busting those who have tickets!! OMG I didn't think at the time not everyone knew this!!! My bad. PAP,

I thought you guys were awesome!!! One thing I did learn today, I'm not the only guy that doesn't box a fish everytime out!! so I don't feel so bad now one thing I noticed about the majority of the Charter guys, most have 1 thing in common, that is the most will say keep it simple!! I think somtimes we tend to complicate things on our own, by thinking into it to much!! Thanks for answering our knot head questions!! PAP.

That's exactly right Les, there's one more catch here, he had to purchase at first as you or I would pay, if I told you the quantity and the amount of his own money he needed to put out to get the big quantity orders, well I nearly passed out!!! This is what I mentioned in my first post, as he had to tip toe through the flowerbeds to finally get these products in a gross and a timely manner. In my opinion they tried there damndist to squash out the little guy. Brian's perseverance got him through to the other side. So he could hand build these Riggs. His knowledge from winning laker tournaments after tournaments tell me this guy knows what works and where these colors work. Most guys know what works in the western part of Lake'O doesn't work on the easternmost part of the lake. Where else can you go and say "Hey I mostly fish Henderson area and the fish usually are Xamount of feet down, what color do you think I need" Oh well in my past experience this, this, and that on bright days and this and this on overcast day?? To me that's more important than the cost or should I say more than a monetary price?? To me I live 4.5 hrs from the lake, and don't have the luxury of jump in the boat and go at anytime. So if I can shorten my learning time to and turn it into catching time I'm all for it!!! This whole scenario would be greatly different if it were a different species. To get young kids involved and for them to catch the biggest fish they ever saw, and will make them want to go again is a precious moment for a parent. This is where I stand, my girls love to fish, but I'm not going to bore them to death, say trolling for eyes that's for sure. PAP.

Kresgeville Pa. Just me. Just below the Pocono 500 race track.

I'll second that any day, anytime, anywhere!!

Oh I forgot to add I have the winning ticket for the HDS9 Touch!!

I'm just walking in the door myself, I bought a pile of stinger spoons for $2.00 I thought I was in heaven!! I drove 3.5 hrs to get there. I should have left at 5:am took a little longer on the count of major snow squalls. I like the presentation, kinda, little bummed that no one fishes eyes when you could spit to Onieda, but hey I learned something's. I thought it looked picked over pretty good. I didn't get there till 10:15, guys were running towards their truck. I talked to Fishy Buisness, he thought I just had to buy this one reel, I'm like no, I don't need reels. I kinda thought the locals would get the cream of the crop, but hey if I can buy spoons for $2.00 I'm happy. My first experience at this so I didn't know what to really expect. I drove further for less already that's for sure!!

Yea I'm thinking along the same line, especially when Lauri said about the 327, I kinda forgot about the 4"bore of the 327, my best buddy in high school has a SS Camaro with a 327 in it I had a Pontiac Firebird 69 had a 400 ram air, but the poncho motor floated valves at 4500rpm so I put solids and the push rod support in and I ripped the lifter gallery right out, they had the lifter gallery like webbed to the block, where Chevy had them made fast to the block. So I pulled the 400 out and we slid a 383 stroker in!! That bad boy turned heads, I was the closest person to kick my brothers ass, he had a 66 chevelle 396 built by Burns and Yost, balanced and blueprinted. I can't honestly say he turned that big block 8 grand, but I still have all his trophies from Maple Grove drag Strip. Great talking to you all about this!! Pap

Thank you guys for all the info and stuff. Skipper I will spin the motor over and pull the pan, oh another interesting point of this motor is the dipstick is below the header like manifolds on this engine. My Sea Ray has a little indent in the exhauste manifold where the stick is above the manifold? I pulled it out and it not cut off the line and the checkered part are on the stick. One thing for sure its a early style motor. I've been around the dirt track racing scene since I was a kid. My uncle and cousins have taken the 320 modified and the 358 modified track championships, at Mokatech speed way which is closed for years now. Joe my cousin won the 358 mod. Class at 5 mile point raceway, I don't know for sure at Big Diamond speed way, so this is pretty cool find!!

But I checked the stroke and its 3 inches not 3 1/2 or 3.48 I have a tool with a little light/camera the Pistons appear 1/2 domed with 2 relief cuts in them, not little 1/2 cuts like in flat tops the heads are only milled on one end for accessories. The way it's set up only the port side has the holes. I will have to check into this more, later on, I've got 5" of snow to deal with and the motor is in my father in laws garage on a stand. I was wiring up a pulling tractor he had built, I sent him for terminals for battery ends, that's when I decided to poke around this motor. I have to check oil and fill up with gas as I have to leave at 6:am tomorrow to get to the show. One thing a little unnerving is the block castings#'s according to GM they had lots of these numbers, according to GM this block was used as a 350 4 bolt main used in big irrigation pumps out west and in trucks with a turbo 400 tranny or used in cars with a 4speed tranny. I guess I just have to pull it apart. I'm still stumped by the bosh duel point dist. The blue colored bosh coil, I see a lot on small engine tractor pullers that have to use points distributors and oe points.

Thanks for the interest!! I saw some of these motors go for $10.000 not even running. This is a cherry engine. I'm not putting the cart before the horse. Stuff like this doesn't happen to me. now I'm going to look at BAHA site to see if this motor was even a option. But if it was a special order would that be known.

Well that might be ok to use, the mid 80's on back are the one's that need that diesel motor oil as they still need to have to run type of oil. Pm Hank on here he's a moderator. He is also the best of the best as a boat mechanic also. He will give you the 100% right answer!! He posted on the thread called. finger lakes tackle. Hope that helps!!

Personally I've heard once you go synthetic you shouldn't go back! but I don't buy that. What year is the motor and if you need to be using a oil that is compatible to which type of lifters and cam. They used to have a buffer in the oil so that your cam and lifters didn't destroy each other.Shell Rotella oil still has these properties. This is the oil I use in a strait 30 weight. Need year of motor if still original to the boat!!

Hey all you motor heads!!! 2 years ago I bought a old boat for the out drive, come to find out that the motor was rebuilt, never saw water, meaning it was never used on a lake. The guy I bought the boat from was the grandfather of the owner. His grandson works for a company that builds test hulls for the drag boats. The boat I bought was a BAHA with what I assumed was a 350cid, I even posted it for sale, I was offered $400.00 in a pm. Needless to say that never happened. In a hurry to get my boat up and running I really didn't pay much attention to it. Yesterday for some reason I was looking at the valve covers they were factory mercruiser black but they looked like no other cover I've seen before, there was a plate that ran from one end to the other and a rectangular box in the middle and that had like steel wool in it. So it appeared like there was some sort of oil deflector. I have this motor on a stand so I rolled it out so I could see better. I then took notice it had a duel point distributor in it made in Germany and teamed up with a Bosh distributor, 2 condensers on the coil and of course the distributor. Moving along its a factory equipment four barrel intake with a inch spacer plate sits a 650cfm Holley carb. Now this is unusual, the carb has an electric choke but Is a double feed double pump, with a mechanical secondary's!! Then I look on the front of the heads and the heads had 2 humps with a like wide I after the 2 humps, so that means I think they are fuelly heads. Now this gets even better I find the block ID#'s 3970010. I go on to GM block ID#'s and it says 68-71 302/350 horse. Now it's a GM so we know the GM 302 was put in early vetts, camaro's and a few Yanko nova's. I checked the stroke and by cylinder probe it measures 3" so that's the proof, everthing is strait up but the Bosh coil and distributor. GM rated the 302 at under 300hp for insurance purposes. But a 7000rpm it pushed 350hp and the 350hp is what GM posted on their motors. NOW my question is did BAHA ever put one of these motors in their boats. This boat in its time was the cream of the crop, thru hull exhaust all Crome pipes. What's your take on this beast. Oh the lifters were solid also!! I might have a gold mine on my hands to the right person, on the other hand I have a bunch of good stuff, that gear heads would love to have. I bet if the guy reads this that offered me $400.00, would at least offered me $550.00 at the time I probably would have let it go!!!

As zebra mussel shells pass through the hourglass so does our money and bag full of lies.