White fenders
grey/silver trailer
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step only unless the grab bar also works as a hitching aid.
I mounted mine on the trolling motor with the Lowrance SS-TMB bracket. With a 101+ lb thrust TM on high you can get 2.5-3mph which is enough to give a decent scroll image so long as you are rock steady to hold it in a straight line. With practice you can also SLOWLY and STEADILY pivot the TM head and get a decent left or right scan of a point. Just keep in mind that the opposite side is 180 degrees and not parallel. Its actually kinda like a manual version of what the new Humminbird 360 down imaging does but only as a single pass.It works on these steep and deep highland reservoirs near my home just fine but if my home lake was a shallow rocky lake with an appetite for trolling motor mounted transducers like Dardanelle, Id think twice before putting $200 in such an exposed place. I also added a Rig Rite metal trolling motor transducer bracket in front of the structurescan transducer for some head-on protection too.
And I was here at the time…though only 3 mos old, not that we went to the weigh-in though. Knowing my dad, he probably already had me painting the fence or planting turnips or something to earn my keep. Now that you guys are in the walleye binness, are you gonna be sponsoring a walleye tour or events? Theres some of us here in north and northwest Arkansas really interested in walleye fishing and would love to see it break out of the “way up north” stereotype. Ive fished for them on Bull and Table Rock and even in the OI the year the water was super high and the weigh-in was at Robinson Point; and my father-in-law fishes for them regularly down on the Little Red and even over on the Spring River near Hardy.
OK, thanks for the response and if anyone pops up with firsthand experience Id appreciate it if youd post it. With the mounts being $200+ each its kinda hard to just shotgun purchase several of them to try and then use the best fit. If I have to pull the motor, then I was going to go ahead and swap out the slidemaster for the rebuilt Detwiler again but dont really want the Talon to go up and down with the jackplate as it would if mounted between the jackplate and the motor (which would be the 3″ setback). So if mounted between the 6″ jackplate and transom, 6″ + 3″ gives the 9″ setback option but Im concerned about the MK sandwich brackets allowing for the 6-hole Basscat custom jackplate hole pattern.So if side mounted to the Detwiler, where on the jackplate would the holes need to be drilled?Thanks again and please let me know if anything turns up.
I have a 04 PIV with saddles and add quickleen and mercury fuel treatment/stabilizer to every gallon added. The I siphon old gas out of the belly tank for tractor, lawnmower, weedeater, edger, generator, etc. rather than let it set long enough to go stale, condensate, or separate. Now that Mercury has redone their fuel additive lines breaking out into several separate products, upping the price and not providing (that I can find) bottles larger than 12oz, Im thinking seriously about switching instead to Marine Sta-bil and Seafoam, which Ive used in an 82 9.9 Merc and various small engines for many years. Does anyone have any long-term experience with Marine Sta-bil or Seafoam in a high horsepower outboard?ThanksDeke
The Pizza Place on the left as you come up the hill from the lake is a decent place to grab a bite too, and aint too far of a walk up from the lake either if you dont mind beaching the boat. Of course when Im fishing I usually barely make time for a can of Beenie Weenies and a Ding Dong much less sitting down and ordering food.
Well, Im no closer to having an answer than I was when I started. I KNOW I can do what ISSY1 did and sandwich mount between the jackplate and motor with 3″ setback with the 3SLR mount and included spacers. Id like to sandwich mount between the transom and jackplate but the bottom holes are exposed and I want to keep using the 6-hole setup. If the 9SLR mounting plate was just 2-3″ longer then it would work but its not. Also, the spacers are 2-3″ too short to span the distance from one side to the other between the bottom 2 holes so I cant do that to cover the holes either. I reckon I could buy another spacer kit and cut them in two and put half on each side but I really dont want to do that either for looks if nothing else.So I asked Minn Kota what they recommend and heres their reply:”The sandwich bracket should have the holes necessary to work with the hole pattern already on your boat. With regard to the jackplate; my understanding is that the J type bracket can be used on that brand of jackplate but it does require drilling the bracket; since there is drilling required you will want to confirm that it is functional with Detwiler.”So I contacted Detwiler and heres their reply:”I cannot recommend installing the Minn Kota Talon on your Detwiler jack plate. I recommend that you mount on the transom as shown in the videos Minn Kota supplies on their website.”I know that they deal with hundreds of emails and phone calls a day but since most requests are for the same questions they could have a catalog of detailed answers that they could cut and paste from to help explain why. As it is with no real information provided Im just forced to assume that their position is one based off of either product liability and/or warranty exposure avoidance and not for any meaningful reason. Since Im way out of warrany, its not a real concern for me but a legitimate safety issue is another matter though.Theres lots of room in the 8″ Detwiler All-In-One to drill and mount the j9SLR mounts to the side up near the transom. The thickness of the aluminum on that part of the jackplate is about 1/2 that of the SlideMaster though so the concern is if drilling holes would weaken the strength of the plate enough to matter. Theres enough room to even add a backing plate on the inside too, but that still leaves the possibility of stress fractures in the side of the jackplate; But then again, they have their own big holes in the sides by design. Not being an engineer I just dont know.
I just wish you had more in your online store…I know you have many more things that youll sell if we give you a call; the thing is knowing about them. For example, I just bought a set of jackplate bolts from you guys via the phone and did so because I know when I get it itll be the right thing. I dont have to worry about size, length, thread (fine), grade, etc. that I would to find it local; and Ive had even the local (former) BassCat dealer even sell me the wrong thing before. But theyre not on your stores website. Theres been other stuff Ive bought that way too that werent on the website.Deke
BBS…303 is costly but I bought a whole gallon of BBS for a little bit of nothing (relatively) and it works at least as well as anything Ive found. Vinegar isnt too bad either for some things if you dont mind the after-smell. Deke
I ran over a mid-sized duck one year that was dropped in the middle of the lake during a heavy rain. Id sure hate to hit that one though.Deke
Any Pledge? Seems to me if I remember right there was something about it needing to be Lemon Pledge specifically.Deke
Thanks…I was hoping to have it ordered and received by the time I take the existing one out where I could just put the new one in at the same time but this will still work. Ill just have to wait and measure it once I get the existing one out then wait to get the new one in. I still have the shifter throttle cable tucked in the bilge so I can just swap it out and use that in the meantime. Just for reference, if I remember right the Hotfoot generally needs an additional 3 or so over the specified shifter cable, correct?Thanks again, very much for the exact part#…I really appreciate exactness! Deke
If youre needing to replace the 3-bank NOCO or CMR Pro-Pak, the 4-bank NOCO GEN4 has the exact same footprint and mounting holes as the 3-Bank and weighs only a few ounces more.Deke
There was a piece on this locally on ESPN radio the other day…Kentucky and Illinois are the only two states that have it so far but theyre trying hard to make Arkansas the third. Theres also an organization that is providing insurance to schools that covers basically anybody and everything associated with any subscribed high schools event, even an unassocialted third party person who may just be graciously allowing a high school competitor to join him in his boat that day. Pretty cool I thought if its not too good to be true. If this grows as it looks like it could then it truly opens some doors and avenues in this sport that have heretofore not been there. Remedy the barrier of the ownership of a competitive boat and associated liability then fishing as a competitive sport inherently has far fewer physical barriers than just about any other sport on the planet. Race, gender, stature, age, physique, athleticism, economic class, etc. matter less in fishing than just about any other competitive sport except maybe chess. Deke
Not everyone comes from a family that is conducive to them getting hooked on fishing such as families of single mothers or grandparents as primary caregivers, parents with no interest in fishing (or worthless parents), inner-city families, families with parents working 2nd or 3rd shifts, and on and on (and this pathetic reality is shockingly more common today than most care to recognize). Plus theres more to generating a well rounded person than pure academics; athletics, sports and other extra-curricular activities are also important to avoid them becoming “book smart but street dumb”. This is coming from someone with 2 masters degrees and a spouse whos a teacher and not an education nay-sayer.I like any ideas that expand the opportunities for inclusion of students that dont fit the athletic mold. This is especially true now that there are parents who are basically indoctrinating their kids from the very earliest ages to excel in a sport and then lobbying and politicking their way through youth sports to maximize the athletic opportunities for their child. For those kids who dont grow up having these “advantages”, these non-traditional extracurricular activities enable them to be exposed to things and find opportunities that they probably otherwise would miss; and just like with street gangs, inclusion is the key. I think rodeo teams, competitive engineering challenges like robotics and such, debates, chess, FFA/4-H, shooting/archery, skiing, fishing, etc. as high-school sanctioned activities is a fantastic thingIts true that far too much money already goes into education. Roughly 40% of all taxes paid through all avenues (state and federal income taxes, sales taxes, property taxes, etc.) ends up channeled back through grants, allocations and direct funding to education; but the cost of this fishing program pales in comparison to the multi-million dollar athletic facilities that are becoming “necessities” to many secondary and post-secondary schools nowadays. But whats the cost of disenchanted youth with no job (and Im recognizing its not nearly as easy for youth to find employment now as it was when I was a kid even for those eager to find work) roaming the streets with nothing else to occupy their attention?
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