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    Boat is 30 years old, this year.
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    Here's a wrinkle I have been doing the last few years. Get a big fly rod, add an extension butt and replace that expensive fly line with mono. and backing. Add a Du-bro drop back release to the grip to keep the reel from free spooling when trolling. Lower lure or dodger/fly combination on downrigger to desired depth. When fish hits, the drop back release will free the line and you can fight the fish conventionally albeit with a single action reel...lots of laughs and great fun for fly rod afficionados! A few drops of Bunker (menhaden...does not wash off easily) oil on the fly will get strikes. Cheers, DocWet [Everything has limitations...and I hate limitations.]
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    My boat has been marina kept for 29 years and I don't think I will ever go back to towing...its just too much of a hassle hooking and un-hooking especially since I am older. Trailerable means under 18 feet in my opinion...anything longer and you are talking WEIGHT. The best systems are the ones where the boat is lifted out on a cradle (no bottom paint), and not subject to floods and high wind bashing. This is the most common mooring method in Florida canals. In spite of anti-fouling paint, sacrificial zincs, outdrive still dis-integrated and had to be replaced. For new owners, my advice is to keep your boat in the marina only if you know you are going to be using it every day...otherwise trailer it and check the outdrive each time it is hauled out. If you are not going to use it for awhile, keep it on the trailer...not in the water. Boating is still enjoyable to me in spite of the costs. Cheers, DocWet [Everything has limitations...and I hate limitations.]
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    All along the Oregon seacoast, you will find these signs. As if you didn't already have enough to worry about.
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    From our visit to the Oregon seacoast this year, I commissioned a King salmon sawn from a redwood log...just under 4 ft. long it is. Will be installed in my mancave. Sawyer and artist is Sara Elisabeth Ruscetta from Cannon Beach, Oregon. Regards, DocWet
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    We used to go to Ontario to fish for the big salmon and trout... In August and September, with the zephyrs so balmy and light... We'd do the lake Ontario shuffle by day...and sometimes by night... 3 to 4' waves with a wind chop on top was a typical day's ramble... Later, dining at the Three Bridges Inn was always a gamble... Spending lots to catch a little was the usual day's sum... Our guide friend Jim would sometimes show us the way... At times we were very lucky to find our way back at the end of the day. copyright DPW 2013
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    Use 10% Permethrin (livestock insecticide), dilute it first, 2/3 oz. to 1 gallon H2O. It may not be 100% against these buggers, but it sure beats most other off-the-shelf repellents. Entomologists say that there are 2 thousand varieties of these pests...so keeping them at bay will be a daunting task. Frank Forester writes in Fish and Fishing that, " he has never fished for the red fleshed trout of Hamilton County, NY being deterred there from by the black fly, which to him is especially venemous." Cheers, DocWet [ Everything has limitations...and I hate limitations.]
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