sherman brown

these are the best ratcheting holders in my opinion because of the one hand operation. you can adjust the up and down with one hand if you have your fishing rod in the other hand. your price of 90.00 for new holders is a great price. the best price I know of for the same holder is 106.00 plus change and then add the tax so you save over 20.00 on each one you buy. I am happy with the single axis I have.

I started my hunting by hunting squirrels and rabbits when I was about 6 to 8 years old with my oldest brother's octagon barrel pump 22 with the pump not working so I used it as a single shot. A few years later I moved up to a 12 gauge shotgun which I used for many years for small game mostly for rabbits in Indiana and when I often visited Tennessee. I was in the Marine Corps from 72 until 76 and didn't do any game hunting during that time. After I came home, I bought an 1100 Remington autoloader and used it for small game again, but I was more interested in fishing, which included salmon fishing on Lake Michigan trolling. I mostly fished for them on Manistee Lake in the fall. In 1980 my older brother found a Savage 16 gauge autoloader in a trash can with the barrel bent looking like someone had wrapped it around a tree. It did have a tendency to jam. hew used a door to straighten the barrel. it had a full choke but I shot slugs through it and it was as true as any gun I ever shot. I started deer hunting that fall and got my first deer on the morning of the second day of my first time deer hunting. I bought a CVA 50 caliber muzzleloader kit after the gun season I had it put together and the metal was put through a black oxide which made it a smooth black then I coated the wood with a beautiful walnut stain then used a spray on clear sealant on it the gun turned out to be a beautiful gun. I used it to hunt 1 weekend that year. the 2nd year I didn't score in gun season and when muzzleloader season came in I was hunting with my muzzleloader but when a big doe was 19 steps away the cap didn't fire it was wet and filled the nipple full of crap. by the time I got the nipple cleaned and was putting another cap on they took off. I had a Ruger 10-22 I wasn't using and traded it for a recurve bow at a flea market so year three I hunted bow season and got a small doe. then gun season I got a buck and the muzzleloader season I got a doe, when they came out with the inline muzzleloaders I bought a White brand that used musket caps. but later came out with a conversion kit to use 209 shotgun primers. since then I have owned several autoloader shotguns for deer hunting and several different muzzleloaders and I've taken at least I deer for the next 25+ years but a lot of those years I took doe's with my muzzleloaders. I ended up with a Thompson Center encore that has taken many deer. I bought another Thompson Center gun for my youngest son. a few years ago I bought a new CVA 45 caliber long-range accura but I haven't taken a deer with it yet. my oldest granddaughter wanted to hunt with me so a couple of years ago I took her with my encore. but I was trying to remove the hammer tang to move to the right side of the hammer after me shooting left-handed it didn't work for her and I broke the hammer and haven't been able to find one. so I dug out the one my son no longer uses and gave it to her.

I got it bad but not that bad. I opened the drains on the block and noticed it was draining slowly but I figured the water had already drained out the other side. come spring and after I started it and ran long enough to open the thermostat water was gushing out the side of the motor. I just knew I had a cracked block but the freeze plugs did their job. so this lesson was cheap at replacing the freeze plugs and always making sure the drains are open and not clogged. when I cleaned the drain that didn't drain I removed lots of sand. my youngest son ran over a sand bar that summer and filled the block with sand.

tilting my motor down for the winter and stored outside most of my life is all I ever done and as stated above, I never had a problem. outboard motors are designed to drain all the water out when the motor is tilted down 2 stroke and 4 stroke alike.

for running wire line on Erie for walleye, the Convector 30s are hard to beat. I used the Diawa Sealine sg17lca and the accudepth plus 17s for years and they had a great service life. when I upgraded the ACD plus reels I went with the newer sealine sg17lc3b reels and still use them. when I started having issues with the old LCA reels and Tuna Tom wasn't working on them anymore I upgraded to the Coldwater 203 reels but haven't been using them long enough to be able to recommend them for long term use. but they are the smoothest reels of any I have used. but for a mid range reel, I think they fill the bill. I run 3 lite bite slide divers on each side but don't use them as slide divers. I fish with a lot of inexperienced people and kept having a problem getting the divers put out on the wrong side of the boat. for me, the best solution was using one brand reel on one side of my boat and another brand on the other side. when I started doing this I used the silver accudepth plus on one side and the black sealines on the other side. when I ran across a great deal on the sealine sg17lc3b reels I upgraded the ACD plus reels that were still working great but they were getting on in years. the metal ring on the lc3b reels was a bright gold which stood out over the older LCA reels. and with all the great reviews on the coldwater reels that's the way I went. I would have been happy to have gone with the lc3b reels but then they would look like the lc3b reels I was already using. and I don't regret getting the coldwater's yet. I recommend the Daiwa wilderness trolling rods I got from Fish USA for 20 bucks but for salmon, I recommend the 8' medium rods. for walleye, the med/lt works best. you can use these for divers, or boards, but for your riggers, I recommend the Daiwa ugly stick GX2 medium action. They have enough flex for loading them up on the riggers but still have the backbone for fighting kings.