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    Rod Holders From Fish On Sports in Interlochen, MI

    in Boat Maintenance and Rigging

    Posted

    I plan on putting mag dipsies in them. Seem solid to me. I would call them if you want them right away to see if they're in stock. They took about a month to ship to me. Which wasn't a big deal because of the winter time. I emailed them and they replied within 5 minutes apologizing and explaining that they're now anodizing them and the delay was with that. Hopefully all those problems are now sorted out.

    Great Lakes water levels article

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Are you guys going to wake up against the war on government waste? They aren't cutting waste. They're cutting things we care about. This project is a prime example. The article said the project lost funding... So you blame the army corp of engineers and say how inefficient they are... REALLY?

    I wish you guys could have seen woodtv this morning with the republican state representative from holland talking about Synders $1 billion a year road project. Instead of asking everyone to pay the $120 a year. He talked about cutting some outdoor programs. He named some stuff that brings money into our state. I bet they will eventually find some money in the salmon stocking program. They're going to clearly spend a lot less money this year because they're not planting as much fish. That probably means in the future they will require a lot less money! Look we made them more efficient!!!! Where do you think this waste comes from that they find?

    We used to have a state police station with a dozen or so cars. Now we have 1 car parked a few miles north of town and 1 car parked a few miles south of town.

    We all know the DNR has been hit pretty hard with budget cuts.

    We all know the schools have been hit hard too. While I would like to fire a good amount of teachers. I would replace them with ones that do a good job. I am sure that wouldn't save any money.

    Welfare? I had to deal with the department of human services to get a background check. I sent multiple faxes and multiple letters. No response. Even though it was required by law for them to respond. I show up in person and wait in line for an hour. I explained that they failed me and she talked about budget cuts and talked about how much people they used to have and what they have now. She took another 30 minutes but got me the letter I needed to go to camp. It was a giant hassle & would have costed a person with a 9-5 to take off work to go get this done. At what point are we really saving money?

    You got deadbeats taking money from the state. I know some of them personally. One is mentally retarded. Can't blame him for being that way. The others have kids. I am not willing to let some kids starve in this country because their parents don't' know how to hold a job. If anything I'd love to spend more money in this sector and work more with the kids. So they know that ANYONE can go to college and they can literally do anything they want to do in this country. That's the way it works all you have to do is work hard. They don't know this. They think you got to be rich because that's what their lazy parents told them. Instead they follow their parents pathway get pregnant and we repeat the cycle. We need to fix this & it would save a ton of money in the long run. It would cost money in the short term.

    I got a friend who lost his job went on the bridge card for few weeks. He called them to say he got a job and to end the benefits. He left his point of contact multiple voice messages. It took him a couple months to end the benefits. Now, he did not spend any money during this time. He could have & would have never gotten caught. I know someone who deals with these case workers. They are required by law to visit people and make sure its on the up and up. There isn't enough hours in the day to visit 1/10th of the people they are in charge of. How are you going to cut without harming the kids?

    SO!!!! I will grumble piss & moan. But I would rather pay the state the $120 per vehicle than find government "waste". The alignments, hubs,bearings,tie rods, and rims that I blame on the roads that I have replaced in the past few year has been a hell of a lot more than $120 a year per vehicle.

    1-26-2013 Saginaw River

    in Ice Fishing for Walleyes

    Posted

    Spent 2 hours in the early afternoon north of the indy bridge in bay city. Caught 7 walleye 2 of legal size. Blue/Silver Do jigger size 3 with a minnow hooked through the lips. Ice was thicker than 6 inches in the holes where I drilled. It was my first time going after walleye through the ice. The first hour I could have caught more but I didn't know what I was doing. The 2nd hour I had much better success of hooking up with them.

    I left then to go try for perch in the bay. I've never fished the area so i wanted a little variety. So I went up to vanderbelt park. Fishing was slow for everyone there. I got zero bites in 2 hours. I should have hole hopped more but with a manual auger and ice more than a foot in places. The walk from the park to the ice was brutal. frozen mud/ruts slick as can be and no flat land. I dumped my sled i was pulling twice on the way out and back. I probably won't go back there & look for a place a little easier to get to the ice or stick to the river.

    Only put 450 miles on the car. I think i'm gonna try to go back later in the week. We'll see how the weather is.

    transom rebuild

    in Boat Maintenance and Rigging

    Posted

    Lots of people don't use marine ply. They use Auruco ply that menards sells($40). You should be able to use 1 sheet 3/4 inches thick and cut it to shape. Glue & screw it together to get an inch and a half thickness(you remove the screws after it dries) & then use a couple coats of 2 part epoxy(west system is the most popular) and seal the entire thing. If any of it is exposed to sunlight you will need to paint it also. Some people don't use epoxy and they use 4-5 coats of spar varnish. When you go to put the bolts & fittings through just make sure you seal it up good with plenty of 3m 5200.

    Strikemaster electric auger

    in Ice Fishing Discussion

    Posted

    If you buy a drill attachment. Get something wider than the hole. Like a bucket lid for example. Put a hole in it and Attach it between the auger & the drill attachment piece. So if you put the drill in reverse and the chuck loosens the auger doesn't fall to the bottom of the lake.

    Laker help please

    in Salmon Pro's Connection

    Posted

    Bounce/skip a rigger on the bottom and slow down in speed. You won't have any issues picking them up. My first year targeting salmon I went too slow and I'd caught nothing but lakers.

    I don't know if you've seen 333tv. From time to time groups target them. I believe that in one of the Saint Joseph tournaments(maybe New Buffalo/Michigan City) a group did it. Occasionally, in other episodes too. Somewhere they will show you in greater detail how to skip the bottom and what it looks like. You could put a rigger on the bottom and skip and most people think its just hitting bottom and won't notice the fish. I am guilty when I was new of reeling in the lines to go in or switching up spoons and ending up with a nice laker surprise once I popped the release. I know they show you this in one of the episodes. I rewatched them last week. You can also skip over the commercials pretty easily too when watching on vimeo.

    http://www.tournamenttrail.net/salmon-showdown/watch/

    Todays NRA News Conference

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    NRA is a joke. I know they mean well. They're definitely not winning over the younger generation.

    1. Colombine had a cop assigned to it for 2 years & the shooting still happened. Sure, the cop exchanged gunfire with one of the shooters. It did nothing. The shooters still made their decision to do that even though they knew their was a cop. The cop's have since changed their strategy to rush in instead of waiting for backup. Either way... This is proof alone NRA's grand idea of arming our schools is a joke and will stop no one.

    2. NYC Police in august taking down one man with a gun shot 9 others. Most cops only have to qualify on their firearm once a year. Do you really want someone that shoots a few times during 1 week a year to be pulling a trigger in your school? Sounds real safe.

    3. http://www.quickmeme.com/meme/3sajdl/

    4. The fort hood shooter. The guy shot up a military base. While they had a policy that guns were to be locked up. You can't really expect that its going to take long for a few people to get access to rifles to defend the base. Even with this logic the guy went on a rampage. Just another example that what the NRA says will stop gun violence in schools won't work.

    Saying all that. I think banning ar15's is retarded. There should be background checks at gun shows. Private sales should have also have standardized receipt and both parties retain a copy. The background check database should be better. We got to figure out a way for family members to label their family crazy on that database at the very least for a couple of years. Said crazy person should be able to petition & get off of it but they should have to jump through hoops proving they're not crazy. All police nationwide should be required to fire their firearm twice a month on the clock at a semi-public gun range if possible. To make sure what happened in NYC empire state building doesn't happen again & to interact with the public who own firearms. Also, I don't want high capacity magazines banned but I think they're going to be.

    Water Levels Interesting Graph

    in Michigan Waters Fishing Reports - Salmon and Trout

    Posted

    I can't see what everyone is worried about--according to the graph in the link, L MI levels have actually gone UP...(since 64-65)*

    *This is the type of data representation that has been used by global warming "contrarians". Taking a subset of data and showing a point-to-point decrease in global temperatures can make the Earth look "cooler". Correct in that context, but the long-term change is WARMER. The contrarian would say that "L MI can be shown to be increasing in its level--must be a government conspiracy that the lakes are getting lower".

    But...those of us with firsthand knowledge of the lake know better, don't we? (Like those who have been studying climate for decades KNOW what they are seeing...)

    Those of us with first hand knowledge aren't worried about the chart. We're worried about this thing called dirt. This thing called dirt is under the water. Boats don't float on dirt they float on water. While these water levels are currently equal to 64-65 numbers. If we don't get a good amount of snow and a good amount of rain in the spring we're going to see a lot more dirt where boats should be parked. Its not cheap to move dirt that is underwater. It could possibly cost my local community a fortune in lost revenue. I have friends that will definitely get laid off if we don't get higher water levels. It doesn't matter who gets blamed this just sucks.

    2 WD Tow Vehicle

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I always got the vehicle in 2wd. I've never had any issues. I tow an 18 ft aluminum. I must also say even though the boat is pretty light I've had a good amount of water in it and never any issues. Ramp isn't the steepest but its steep enough for me to see a few unhooked boats a year dump their boats off rollers onto the pavement. I'd worry if your local ramp is really steep or you had to put your truck tires in the water to pull your boat out.

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