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Your absolutely correct, for the opener of eye season it was like Ghost Town at the Glen!! I talked to Trudy, owner of BJ bait shop in Dexter and she said this really hurts our business, just little sales on the must have list, no bait, worms for guys pulling crawler harnesses, in the 3 days we were at camp, there was never more than 2-3 vehicles with trailers parked over there, all smaller boats, like 14-16fterx that can be pulled to shore for the other guys to get in. There was 2 boats tied to poles driven into the ground. Open bow boats could pull up to shore and load their partner. Defiantly no way a cuddy boat could do the same, and no way was I going to back in risk blundering my new 4 blade prop

Ya Hoo, Mr. Black I was thinking of you and the folks aboard the Sunken Treasure, I was hoping for a pic. But after seeing what Henchens looked like basically under water I could plainly see why there was no Pics. Best of luck to you Mr. Black, I wish you well the rest of the season. I also give Gene a 2 up to fact that he got you and the other folks on some Lake'O gold, to get anything in this god awful weather conditions to commit is a goal in itself !! I don't see anything being good till this whole mess resides.

Well yea!! Push the spark plug ends down if their not all the on already, if not you can hear or feel a slight pop. Then the plug wire is on correctly

Stay home, there's at least 3ft of water you must wade through to get to the dock, they were in Chaumont bay yesterday putting sand bag around the houses where the put that new launch in before the public launch, out by long point that road that lLake'O washes against and the pond on the other. There they had a grader pushing the debrie off the road, everything from logs to trees to tires you name it, that launch was under water. The only launch I saw useable was at isthmus, in that back eddy they made, there's a cut to get through but I didn't know about depth, it's not that wide. Henchens is under water unless your slipped, and Henderson was up to the height of the parking lot. We drove over to the last marinia, that guy fixed my lower unit 2 years ago, we met up with him and he said we could put in there, but his ramp is steep with lawn between the drop off the ramp and my truck. There's no way to hold the boat back as that's on the steep ramp, with 15ft of wet muddy grass between the wheels of the trailer and the wheels of my truck!! Long story short I envisioned the shyten kabutal in the drink he also said he wouldn't go out now anyway, they rescued 2 boats since the start of eye season. First call they got was a boat had severe hull damage he hit something just under the water, and the water was coming in fast, the second boat had a big branch caught under the boat and also somehow it was lodged between the lower unit and the underside of the boat, the operator raised the lower unit which tore the steel lines off the cylinders to raise or lower the drive unit, now he doesn't have a way to lower the drive into the water. I would have thought they would have lowered themselves, the guy at the marinia said they are a push pull cylinders? Ok that's a problem. There was a man in a green outfit, that wanted to see the damage on the boat with a hole in the hull, he said it's a 5mph speed zone in the bay till your out past Lime Barrel Shoals. He said to us it's best you just keep the boat on the trailer for a few weeks at the least!! So I did, when we came back to camp the water rose another 3" the water was under the boards on the park bench before we had looked and till we got back the water was over the boards and the bench sits a least 3-4" out of level and the boards were under the water. It freaken bad up there, and there's no way to really understand the situation untill you see it first hand!! I wish you locals the best!! You'll need it

Yea buddy there's a nice batch of eye, we got to camp Sunday eve, drove up in a mix of snow and rain, woke up to 30*temp and snowing like hell. The BRCG launch was closed, Dexter public launch was open but there was no way I could get others in the boat, the water was raging down over the falls and all the walk area was under 2-3ft of swift moveing water with whole trees flying over the dam. Freaken scary stuff, Monday after noon we drove out to Isthmus, there we could of launched, but it's a put the boat back on the trailer ordeal, Henchens is under water and so is Henderson public launch, so I drove out to the next marinia before the road goes up a little, he fixed my lower unit 2years ago, he said I wouldn't do it, they towed 2 boats in since the walleye season opened, with extensive damage to the hull on one boat, and the other had a large branch caught up in the out drive, something about it or the owner tried to push the branch out under the boat and broke the metal lines on the rams and he had the motor to high to make any headway.. As he's telling us this, here comes a picnic table with a small looked like a barbecue grill on top. Yea there ain't no walleye worth destroying your boat over. Then he told us, no faster than 6mph till we get on the other side of association isle. Those folks are in a world of hurt. From isthmus to long point that road that both side of LakeO they had a just run a grader through to open the road, it was full of rocks and tree branches you name it was there. The water at the Dexter camp ground 3" over night, when we got there the boards on a park bench were above the water, we helped two older guys out of the camp launch this morning and the bench boards were under water this morning. I don't think you can understand the damage UNTILL you see first hand. It's very bad, I heard they were sandbagging parts of Chaumont bay areas now also.

Thanks for the pics guys, I was hoping for a better day, and the lack of pics, tells me the weather or the debrie was to much to handle. This coming week from what I read and see it might be long john weather but one foot or less after Tuesday's!!

Yew, that is Freaken high migh have to use the camp ramp that usually sucks because you back out to far and your over the edge, if someone isn't in the boat to off load it cross your finger your axels come with the trailer!!

HA, HA, Justin the best eye fishing I ever had in NY. It was 2-3fters, I had a old puke yellow/orange tri-haul, snowing like hell and the eyes were on fire, we needed 1 more for a 3 man ticket when were approached by the U.S. Coast Guard making sure we were all right, they asked if we were catching, and we showed them our catch they were in awe, then they asked if that one more fish was worth it to us, we replied absolutely!! OK fella's just be carefull but I would suggest you wrap it up, with the bildge running and water coming out the hose full time now with waves coming over the bow, we took their advice. We'll catch that one more tomorrow!! Yea right we struggled the rest of the time, later in the week we got our 1 more. That was years ago, I just saw the pics, while I was looking for my circle hooks to make up harnesses. Best of luck to all tomorrow, I'll be on the water come Monday!! PAP!

Thanks plan on hitting some of those bays. I won't be in the water till Monday. I only fish during The daytime, but are equipped to fish at night, but like you mentioned that's an accident waiting to happen in my mind. What little there is

If you know of a place that sells the bigger spin&glows You could make your own to get yourself out of a pinch, then just PM. Brian for the real deal, he's got em' down to a science, and priced cheaper than you can make them

How about this, you said it made a loud pop sound through the carb, that's a tell a tail sign of timing, if you remove the distributer cap and turn the motor over does the rotor turn while turning the motor over, not that the chain tore!! You could make a jumper wire with alligator clips on put direct power to the coil if she fires up then all those little safety features come into play, again you can bypass the shift interrupter, my uncle had that happen his went south, also if cables are stretched it could be out of adjustment, it must be sitting in the saddle if out of adjustment it won't start because it's in the motor interruption mode which stalls the motor for a split second so you can pull the lever either way, foreward or reverse. There's a measurement that that brass timbal should be, I have a manual I'll look at that, get back to you PAP.