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    Trailer Questions

    The sessions I have seen have been a disaster- but that's just what you sometimes see at a ramp. The problem I see/ have seen with them, it's usually a light aluminum boat that will eagerly float off a submerged trailer vs the whole fighting the lead line nonsense after a rig floats off the tilt...
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    Lowrance X-4

    Leave a Lowrance trns mt loose enough to kick up and it kick's up every time you get up on plane- that's fine though- Yep- mounting the most crritical portion of the sounding system by a 1/4" piece of plastic- thumbs up there, nahh- that's not piss poor engineering. Sounds like the OP is fine...
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    TinBoats Twitter - Random posts

    Those are just... Why.. Why, why, why? I have seen the same ones- one guy had an R1 engine in a go cart, yes, a go cart. Hard to look away though. Russian road rage is another that is hard to stop watching.
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    Johnson 20

    Not. Bad idea at all! Worse case it will sure make the first three serious cranks much, much easier.
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    Trailer Questions

    I had LED's on my Lowe- well, well worth it, I need to switch these on my Grizzly over now too.
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    Gas, charcoal, or other?

    Mesquite, +1, best dang cooking wood goin', hands down..
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    Help choosing new outboard ?

    I agree on the weight- its not like you are going from a 10 up to. 50 horse, aand the location on the hull where you probably will be adding weight is where the hull wants to carry its load anyway. We have a Yammahamma 150 Pro-V that we have had since 1998. We have changed exactly zero, nada-...
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    Lowrance X-4

    Red you are making a fool of yourself- I am done responding to your childish nonsense. Near I can figure you are a "Big" O supporter and my signature got your "we are the 99%" shirt all balled up on you. I am done with you and your nonsense. Read the original post- a hull mount plastic...
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    Trailer Questions

    Tilt trailers are for guys that haven't heard of marine rated hub grease :) . I have seen guys at the ramp tying up one lane of the ramp for 45 minutes loading a boat with the tilting mechanism where your avg Joe would load lauch in the lane in maybe three minutes tops with one guy. I asked a...
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    Johnson 20

    Try putting some pre-mixed fuel in a spray bottle, spray a little in the carb with the throttle held on fast. Twist back to "start", close the choke if there is one and give her a few yanks. If it sputters you have spark.. If it sputters real good you have good spark. They really are the golden...
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    Your favorite Soft Plastic Rig

    John the Zoom plastics you have to watch- most claim to be salt impregnated and are not at all, no salt equals less weight, less neutral bouyancy- they want to float- you don't want that. And last no salt and they won't hold the lure properly. Anyway- back to soaking them, soaking them before...
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    Help choosing new outboard ?

    I would direct you to OnlineOutboards.com, I would opt for either the 9.8 or the 20 horse based on your specs. Prop the 9.8 properly and you will be fine. I skip the 15 because it is a de-tuned 20- always buy the motor that has the highest hp rating in it's cc' family. The 20 that boat should...
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    Couple little fishies

    Yeah but you guys have all those smallies!!!
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    Adding a Stereo and other equipment.

    I believe the Skeeter has the two depth finders ran with the cranking battery- but that's it, they don't have a real large draw though. I may have been the lucky one on the interference thing- in most of the Jons I have ran I have used just one battery for everything (rope starts) and I couldn't...
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    Couple little fishies

    Right on! Nothing better than power plants.
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    Lowrance X-4

    Designed to flip up when you hit something with it- oh I'm rolling now.. Yeah- that feature works greeeat! It flips up alright! Flips up ito more than one piece. The let us know how long it lasts was for the OP, I'm sure in shallow water and duck hunting around brush it will last for seasons to...
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    Lowrance X-4

    Red, buddy.. You have boken the part I listed "several" (to use your words) times?- how is that possible? The skeg takes all the abuse.. -Original post-, "fishing the mainly shallow Potomac"... "And bird hunting"..(IE backing into brush up close to the bank.. "Snap"- especially brittle in cold...
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    Mud Motor kits available?

    By river prop I mean my crap prop.. That deal there might last a season at best- not to mention the rediculous drag and cavitation it probably creates. I just bolt on my crap prop and clean it up with a hand file from time to time. Keep my good prop for clen water. I just wish someone made a...
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    Lowrance X-4

    Hey guys- go ahead- mount them up. (60 mph in stump fields- what are you talking about?... And I often fish 6" water, you go through the shallow stuff to get to water where "Bubba" won't... And that's where they get broken..) Mount it up. Do us the favor too of letting us know how long it...
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    Couple little fishies

    61 degrees? Huh? (Powerplant cooling lake?) Wish my local powerplant lake was good- we had a big fish kill, be ruint for three years.
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