FishingTheFL

How long is for ever because when I had a buddy do a temp patch it seemed like it hardened up real quick. With in 5 mins or so... I know it's going to be pain and tedious but so worth it in the end. Would love to be out catching perch instead grinding glass.

Emm those perch look good. Slow down to Sampson. Couldn't tell by the 15 trucks or so down there. Was hoping for fish lunch. Guess it's a McDonald's fish day lol

The area that is cracked, should I put a thin layer of glass on the inside then use the puddy on the outside pressed into the crack then put a layer over top of that? Then sand again before paint? Or just a layer inside, puddy in the crack and on the outside feathered, then sanded painted? Its raining out but I'll try get pictures of the holes... their all right were seems meet so I gotta do something to restrength the holes.

Most likely by the amount of eggs they lay. They have ALOT of eggs. Pretty sure I read alewifes eat their fry tho. Seneca had a huge population of alewifes in the north in May. Good to know merc levels are down.

Yup, and might make this a regular think. Find old boats for winter projects so if we get a winter like last year, when I'm not plowing I'm grinding lol. Kinda fun.

Thanks for the info guys. I got to replace the main beam so I'm taking the whole floor up and taking out both beams and ribs, stringers whatever you wanna call them.I like the idea of the paste for the crack I didn't post picture off. I got most the floor up, foam out, bug still have 1/3 of the floor to get up. After that it's cut the ribs and main beams out... it a going to be a slow process with rain coming and then freezing temps. Goal for now is get the floor out.

I've got couple layers on and mask. I'll post more pictures as I go... at this point I should of just pulled the motor off and separate it. Oh well it's my project and in the end I'll have more leg room and a wind shield. Here's the plan. Lay New stringer back to where the strongest piece of rotted wood is. Then inject wood stabilizer epoxy into the rest of the wood. Where they but together I plan over laying the fiber glass a couple layers thicker. This will save me from cutting up the rest of the back where the battery and gas tanks go. Ultimately I think I should cut it open and bite the bullet and put new stringer all the way back, replace the center beam. .. or at least use the wood stabilizer and grind from the outside in small sections and repair as I go.

400 fish... that's more then one fish a day for a meal... does he sell them? This why they want stop the sale of them.... mercury poison if you eat that much fish..

Length of boat

Two main pics

Yup replacing the stringer on the damaged side. The undamaged side I'm going to drill a small hole down in it and see if it's rotted. If so I'm going to put CPSE threw a serious of small holes. Its the main beam I'm worried about. There is a spot where some dark water come threw and stained the bottom but if it's damaged, I want to fix it before I close up the floor. But that also means taking out a main beam that is literally wrapped in glass. Might be just wrapped and bound to the floor. Soon as the frost is gone in an hour I'll get pictures.

I'm currently tearing the floor out to fix a couple cracks that have been leaking. The one crack has a clear hole. The plan is to lay some fiber on the inside of the boat in the area where the damage is to get the shape. Then grind the outside to the new fiber and resin. Then shape the outside using the interior as a form. The part I have questions about is below the first stringer is the main beam and it looks as tho one of the other cracks I have to fix is below the main beam of that side. Can I get away with doing a light grind, filling the seam full of glass sand it down then patch over top of it, sand it down and it not crack again. Or should I just bite the bullet and fix that one from the inside as well since the floor is going to be open... I guess I plan on fiber glassing the floor back in for integrity and keep the new stringers dry.. I'll post pictures tomorrow.

True. Fishing was so much better... even the St Lawrence has suffered... seems like there are few large bass anymore... you know the ones that fill the live well with one fish... Merry Christmas guys. Off to grind the hull of my boat out while we got this dry weather.

I heard Ithaca is dumping sewage into Cayuga lake... Not sure where the girl friend found the article but it was local news... They also spread fertilizer this year by plane... the next day it rained.... I mean it rained... water levels were what a foot or two higher then normal... couple days later the lake looked like it was St Patty's day. First Cayuga then Seneca. Sure didn't turn the fish off on Cayuga. I think Ray is right too. Technique on Seneca compared to Cayuga is much different. After watching a guy for 6 hours in the rain, I caught on that only one technique out of the 10 or so people fishing was working. Next day I tried it out and caught a few. Some one said something about "tight lips". I see why with how people trash the fishery...take a walk along the lake now while the water is down near any public fishing while you will find beer bottles, nails, screws, trash with in the first few feet of the old water line... Surpised it's not a "zipper tight with a lock on it and key thrown away" fishery. Which I appreciate the info that has been given to me. I always got a trash bag with me to clean up... you always know there is going to be trash floating around on shore. Gotta say that hogs, chicken, and dairy farms probably produce more run off but the spray becomes air born and they have proven that it cause a fungus that is killing honey bees so their is national efforts to ban it. But it will just be a slight chemical change and they can get past the ban.

Heard a lot people did terrible this year. How do the wineries do damage out curiosity? If one those mines leak into the lake... that would be devastating. Human and animals a like. Since the water ways are connected by the canal system, it could affect both lakes. I'm friends with Gas Free Seneca on Facebook. Always getting updates from the area and around the country.

Don't have to lie about it... Fishing on Seneca has sucked this year... I don't know how many skunks stunk up the boat this year... a bunch lol. Maybe something in the lake changed... maybe one these old salt mines is leaking something in the lake... Out in California they have a natural gas leak pumping 110,000lbs of natural gas into the air.... yet it's not on the news. You could compare it to the Gulf of Mexico but from the sounds of it... this is worse....