sherman brown

as for the hand flares I have just opened them up and exposed them to the elements. until it rains and washes the powder away then I just put them in the trash. the areal flares I just shoot them into the air at home. but I always kept a few old ones in the boat just in case I needed extra flares. but now I have the distress light that replaces the flairs. but I still have a few of my old ones. plus, I have several of the 12 GA flares and gun and some old metal military flares still in the boat.

how old are your units? were they used a lot each year? I have used all types of weights and now only use the 10# dredge weights as they don't have near as much blowback as a 13# pancake weight. so, I wouldn't need the weights and I use the Chamberlain releases and as I only fish for walleye using the lite bite slide divers and only want to use 2 riggers. but a have the Chamberlain stackers to use if I ever try stacking for walleye. I do like having the ball retrievers on them. but mainly the riggers are all I'm interested in. and if a bought them would you ship them at my expense to Muncie IN 47302?

if you are still selling these for 3.00 per spoon, I would take the 3rd one down from the top in the left row. then 1, 2, 3, from the top in the middle row. and 11, 14, from the top in the right row. please let me know if you have the ones I want. do you have any idea how much for shipping to Muncie In 47302?

some of these sounds like they would be great for walleye on the central basin. the Dreamweaver purple alewife has been our best spoon ever for walleye. must be the super slim as the wd spoons are smaller than what we use. I found it's the DW spoons, that we use.

be sure and update us on your progress. when you ger er done you will have a great boat for play or fishing. you can look back and be so proud of what you have done. I should have put a floor in the old Cherokee boat I mostly restored. but it was still a great fishing boat for Erie. my biggest complaint was after putting outlaw in large bright red letters on it every time I was in the water, I got hassled by the leo,s and costal patrols in saltwater wherever I used it from the Intracoastal in Fl to the northers part of the lower part of Mi. I gave up and took the outlaw off of it and the hassles stopped. but i am very envious of you getting such a boat to restore for such a great price and i am so anxious to see your masterpiece completed. it will seem like it's our project to if you post updates.

no, I don't but if the inside of the barrel looks good and he got it right he may have got a great little 20ga. Marlin has been making great guns for many yrs. you might find out a lot more going to the website. and asking them about your gun. i believe the site is marlinfirearms.com. and i believe they have a collector section under resources. if the barrel isn't full choke, it could be used for deer hunting with regular slugs. I wouldn't' try any sabot slugs in it. I had an old savage auto 16ga my brother found in a trash can with a bent barrel. he straightened it using a door and frame then sold it to me for 40.00. it did have a tendency to jam and hence the bent barrel and trash can I would guess but it wasn't anything I couldn't live with. it did have a full choke, but I still used it with slugs, and it shot great but kicked like a young bull. but I wouldn't recommend to anyone to use a full choke gun for slugs. I took a nice 10 point with it on my first ever gun hunt for deer. and took a few more deer over the next few yrs.

maybe you should think about selling the spoons in lots or so much for each spoon and lay them out so people can pick lots or spoons they want. most guys that's just starting and need lures have a really hard time coming up with over 500.00 at one time. and guys that already have some stuff are reluctant to buy 200 spoons at one time. just a suggestion.

great looking project boat. i had a great chance to pick up a 1987 Rinker boat with a not running right 115 Johnson on it for 800.00 a year ago last fall. the hull is in awesome shape with the interior was still in good to very good condition. it did cost me 658.00 to get the carbs rebuilt plus replacing some parts in the carb. only got to take it out 2 times last year but she ran great and did a great job on our local lake. but the boat you got should make a much better big water boat. great deals on these boats are very rare so congrats on your new boat. have a great time restoring her and then using her for yrs to come. I did partially restore an old 18' Cherokee aluminum boat without a motor many yrs. back. it was setting in a field under a tree. I had seen it for a while on our trips to Tn to visit family. so, on one trip I stopped to check on price and condition. the hull and transom were still in great shape but everything else was toast, and old woman priced it way to high because some guy at a marina on dale hollow had told her it was worth it. but that had been when it was first parked. I offered he 200.00 for it while I would be in TN for a couple of weeks. but never heard back until we were back home in In, she had someone else check it out and they told her if she could get 200.00, she should take it. and i already had an 1983 80hp Mariner motor. we had to buy a couple of used tires and repack the wheel bearings and work on the wiring before we could trailer it home. the paint was so faded you could see the aluminum. but I only wanted her for drift fishing the western basin on Erie. i took it over for a friend at an auto body shop to see and he said he would paint it for the paint and materials if I would have it sand blasted. my ex bil owned a sand blast shop and my younger brother worked for him. my bil said if my brother wanted to do the work, we could do it Saturday. I had it painted a beautiful metallic blue. the old steering was done by cables and pullies. I know a guy that had bought out a marina going out of business. he had all kinds of boat parts. I bought a bracket that bolted to the transom for a cable steer to be added and the cable. I bought new bearings, tires and new seats at an RV surplus store for a third of what they cost elsewhere. for the floor I filled most of the boat with cans of foam then I just laid a 1/2" sheet of marine plywood in the back which covered most of the floor space then tore the old rotted high deck bow out and filled the floor with cans on foam then placed a partial sheet of marine plywood on top of the foam and let it dry. the old boat looked great on the outside but the old sides of vinal could have been replaced. but it was much better than I ever expected it to be already and a was on a very tight budget. the new seats were a plus. we fished it for many years on the western basin of Erie. we also used it fishing Manistee Lake in Manistee Mi for salmon. we caught tons of salmon and walleye with that old 200.00 boat. but some years later we wanted to move to the central basin, and I thought I would need a bigger boat (boy was a wrong) so I bought an old 20' sea ray with a 302 V-8 2 barrel that I changed to a 4 barrel with an adaptor plate. then I sold the old boat and motor for 800.00. if I had known what I had been doing I would have kept the old boat as it would have worked great. and the 80hp mariner just sipped the gas. I looked over this and I'm sorry for HI-JACKING your thread. but i just thought you might be interested in reading about another person's story.

you have a few I would love to try on Erie for walleye but the ones I would take is the 2nd and 4th in the 1st lot then the 1st 2 and the last 2 in the 2nd lot and the 3rd and 5th on lot 3. now if you would sell these to me and change the lots I would buy those I have listed.

I would try and find a metal shop that sells aluminum sheets. just get the size you need to fill the area where it's mounted in 1/4" or 3/8" and bolt all the way through the aluminum. I did this yrs. ago with a sheet of 1/2" when I had a weak transom and it worked great for yrs. I also had a weak spot in my floor and used a 3/16" piece of aluminum to cover it with extra metal to go well beyond the weak spot and just screwed it down to the floor. but with an aluminum backing plate it will hold almost forever.

I can't believe someone hasn't bought these for 550.00 as that's a steal for those riggers. if I didn't already have the 2 Big Jon pro tournament plus the boat, we bought already has 2 cannon riggers on it that were using now I would have bought these for sure.

the silver minnow is what i have and the hook is brazed to the inside of the spoon and doesn't come out the back like this one pictured. and mine have the weedless prong that will keep it from hanging up in the weeds where the bass live. i don't use mine a lot as I'm a worm guy. a purple worn is the bait of choice for pond fishing for bass.

if I was still saltwater fishing I would buy it to go with the ones I already have. I think I have about 3 of these plus 2 330 size reels that we used in Florida fishing around bridges that had deep water around piling where we fished for grouper and Goliath grouper. we needed something we could put a lot of drag for the 100# line we used. i can attest that these are great reels. I caught the largest red fish I ever caught using a 345 baited with a medium sized pin fish that we caught fishing for them at a lagoon at another location. pin fish are great bait fish for all larger fish. good luck selling your reel and you have it priced to sell.

I think I have enough to last me the rest of my life, I will be 72 in May. I only use two of the smaller sizes for bass. it just depends on how many bass fishermen see you have them for sale and want to try them if they don't already know they will catch bass. and your price and spoon condition will play a role in selling some of them. you can just do a web search for them and see what they sell for new.

yes, I believe the one on the right is a Johnson silver minnow. i still use these for bass fishing ponds sometimes. they work great as you choose the speed of retrieve from slow to fast or it can be stopped and let flutter down then retrieved again. but i think they would also catch pike and even a musky under the right conditions.

I will take it. find out the shipping cost. I will add 5.00 for pay pal fee. let me know the total and message me your pay pal info. if you want to be paid by, check i will need your address. let me know what we are doing.

that is a good price for micky mouse boots but at this time I have good boots. but I wore these for deer hunting on stand and used them for ice fishing for hours at a time. back yrs. ago and I still have my toes. The best think I liked about the boots was they were completely waterproof unless you get water over the top of them. I shot a deer on the other side of a river and had to bring it back across in water up to my chest and the boots got waterlogged then I used them for our ML season thinking they had dried out. but after a short time, my feet were wet, and I thought my feet was frozen off. but they are great boots for cold activities when not wet inside., LOL.