Knotlost Charters

You can also find owners manuals online and that shows you as well.

The standard go-to is BIG GAME as for the poundage you may start with something around 15# Having said that, there are many variables that can change that poundage, but they pretty much are all good today, P-line, blood run, all the stren line, and on and on the list goes. Almost all the line today is much better than line 15 years ago.

Use two rubber bands half hitched around the braid, then hook the rubber bands to the planer, you can go to 3 bands or down to 1 depending on weight of the line your pulling. Half hitch the rubber band 3X though (each one) so they don't slide. This although a pain to do works and will reduce the swearing on your boat substantially. I cant get anything else to work either on inlines with heavy lines, that's why we go to the otters many times.

Like Rich said the 50 to 60 foot rigger were on fire, total out of temp, but the fish don't read the internet so they don't know what they are supposed to do.... was a great meat day for me, crushed big kings on meat, surprising was the copper wasn't very active only two serious hits... rigger was on fire in the morning. Use something white in the morning and it will help..

Two things I should mention number one the foam will never be wet on the top. You have to get to the bottom where the foam meets the boat hull and checked it very carefully. If it is wet it’s going to create corrosion and it will corrode through your hull eventually. With a piece of copper tubing push it down to the hull near the keel twisting it as you go. pull up A plug if you will, and check the bottom of the foam and see if has any water in it. The second thing I want to mention is a three-quarter inch plywood is going to make your boat extremely heavy you’re thinking no it won’t. trust me I’ve done two of these with three-quarter Inch and regretted both. The other four I’ve done with half-inch seven-ply, it was fine especially when you’re using epoxy and fiberglass. Way strong enough. Sent from my iPhone using Lake Ontario United

Epoxy isn't messy if your carful, pretty easy really for quallity of the end result. You need a few tools, not very expencive but needed, use the right rollers and get your stuff at . http://www.uscomposites.com You can call them and they will help you with all your questions and what you need to do what you want. Here are two pieces of my floor just before putting them into the boat.

If you put wood down, then lay plastic (vinyl floor) over the top how does the wood dry back out? Its in a boat so it will get wet even if its from humidity, and once water gets under vinyl it will stay there forever. It will rot... Vinyl is for factories that only care about fast and easy. 1. take all out and dig out that foam, get rid of that, clean down to the metal good take your time. powerwash the after the foam is out, that will get the last bits of foam out. Foam traps water and holds it there. its awful, only reason its there is so they can advertise the boat as unsinkable, and its not anyway, so get rid of it. This is a big time consuming mess, so dont rush and try to hurry take your time you will be glad you did later when nothing is plugging up your sump pump. PS take all your pole holders out and do it right. 2. Paint Gluvix on any the seams at the bottom if it needs it, inspect, and repair with new rivets, any and all the bracing that you have now exposed. 3. Get some plywood from lows called AraucoPly 1/2 inch. It's almost identical to marine grade plywood at 1/3 the price, it holds up to boil for 45 min with no delamination and is 7 ply with no voids. DO NOT USE TREATED LUMBER OF ANY KIND> 4. lay it out and cut it and decide how you're fastening it to the deck. I used pan heads into the alum supports so I could remove it if I wanted to. Drill your holes a bit larger then needed so there is room for a coat of epoxy, then coat and paint epoxy onto every edge and hole of the wood top and bottom let that soak in, two coats on the bottom and edges. On the top I used 2 layers of fiberglass on the top (none on the bottom) with epoxy. finished it and painted it turned out perfect just like factory. This takes a bit more time to do it this way but only maybe 2 times as much but lasts much longer. And when you repaint the floor is brand new looking again.

Go and look at Blood run, great hooks very reasonable.

If you find some or decide to get some made let me know I would like a few of these as well. PK