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I heading down to Tarpon Springs, Florida the first weekend in October for a (very sad) memorial. I’ll be traveling alone and will likely have to fend for myself as I don’t want to burden the folks I’m visiting with entertaining me. I am planning to take my 8’ and 9’ surf rods (the biggest that...

Hi everyone, I’ve been away from the forums for a while (new job + new baby). I hope all are well. I’m using my 2 weeks of paternity leave (during which my main responsibility seems to be to keep our 4 year old from driving my wife nuts) to FINALLY get my tinny going for the summer, and I...

Has anyone used these on their tin boat to strip old paint? I used them and their much more cost effective generic Blue Demon equivalents stripping my steel trailer, and they were ****-near miraculous, at least on the areas they could reach. They even take mill scale off of hot-rolled steel...

I went fly fishing for wild trout today at Gunpowder Falls state park in Maryland. I hooked up twice, but both times the trout spit my size 16 hare’s ear nymph before I landed it. The first one threw the hook by leaping like a 7” long sailfish though - it was pretty astonishing. That said even...

This afternoon I took my daughter fishing on the fishing pier across the Choptank River in Trappe MD (I don’t take her fishing in small boats in cold weather). It’s an old bridge with a chunk cut out of the middle over the shipping channel. When they built a new, taller bridge, the old one was...

I was buying fishing line today and spun past the trackers for sale. I get that MIG welding sheet metal is hard, but they really struggled in some of the corners. No reason to believe the welds were unsound, just ugly. Proof they can do a decent looking weld: But not consistently (same...

So, I tried my hand (unsuccessfully) at livelining eels for the first time tonight. I have to say, eels are the friskiest, hardiest bait I’ve ever used. I bought them Sunday morning and, per the bait shop’s instructions, kept them in a bucket with only a wet towel for moisture until Monday...

I had no idea they used to do it like this... https://youtu.be/lp_Rs75-5vI Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

I just my ordered one of these. Only the 8’ combo is on sale for $109. https://www.walmart.com/ip/Abu-Garcia-Ambassadeur-7000-Combo/46713091 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Like most people, I hate modern gas cans. The new nozzles that are supposed to control spills and emissions are usually so clumsy that they create spills instead. That said, my 3.5 Johnson will only run for an hour on its internal tank, so I pretty much have to carry extra fuel with me. I...

Today I took my daughter out for a 2 hour cruise up the Patuxent to look at the leaves. Sadly, the colors don’t really come out, but it was spectacular. The Johnson had some trouble with cold starts, requiring choke and probably a dozen pulls. Once warm, it took a single light pull to start...

Headed out to the mouth of the Magothy River on the Chesapeake Bay last night with a fishing buddy (admittedly on his fiberglass center console, although one intrepid soul was fishing the Chesapeake from a ~1236 Jon boat) for some night fishing. We’d been out once before and totally struck...

This guy got REALLY lucky. https://www.bishfish.co.nz/articles/general/longway.htm Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

So, having moved to Maryland relatively recently, I’ve got it in my head that I want to try duck hunting. One thing that gives me a bit of pause is that duck hunting boats seem even more specialized than fishing boats. I can whip up a diy blind without too much drama, but I’m wondering what...

So, a week ago, I nearly got skunked night fishing on the Chesapeake. My buddy and I eventually got into some good white perch right by the ramp. Initially, I fished a small crank bait and was catching about one juvenile striped bass for every white perch. This was pretty irritating...

Has anyone here ever built a Specmar kit boat? To date, I've only ever welded mild steel, but considering what plate boats go for, it might be worth learning to MIG aluminum. I like the 18' Orca. https://www.specmar.com/aluminum-boat-plans/monohull-boats/18-ft-orca-620b Sent from my iPhone...

I re-read this article periodically. I would think that only the largest and most heavily built tinnies would be suitable for this kind of fishing, but it gives useful thoughts for how to take small boats out on relatively bigger water, even if "big water" means a lake or bay and not 60 miles...

Hi Everyone - my inlaws just gave us a 14' Starcraft Seafarer with a 3.5 Johnson 2-stroke. It hasn't been run for about 10 years, but was properly prepared for storage. The only marine motors I've worked on in the last 20+ years are diesel inboards on sailboats, so my plan was to replace the...

Hi Everyone, I just wanted to introduce myself and my new boat - a 1967 StarCraft Seafarer 14 with a 3.5 hp Johnson. The backstory is that the original owner used this boat for fishing on Kentucky Lake and Lake Barkley. My father in law bought it from him in 2003 to go fishing with my...