In my opinion the transom savers that run to the trailer put more stress on your transom than not using one.

With a trasom saver you are putting hydrolic aided stress on your transom year round (every day sitting in the driveway still hydrolic stress)…especially if you trim down too much when putting the transom saver in. If you trim down too far with the transom saver installed you are basically “lifting” the back of your boat off the trailer with your motor.

Now its not like you are really lifting the back of the boat off the trailer but you are definitly taking boat weight off the bunks/rollers and forcing your motor and transom to carry that load. if you don’t believe me put your hand between the motor and the transom saver and trim down like you normally would…its a lot of pressure for the quick second you hit the trim down button when putting the transom saver in.

When you have the transom saver in you are directly taking every shock from the trailer frame and transfering it directly to your transom. All the flex that occurs in the bunks/rollers and trailer frame is being transfered to the transom through the transom saver.

without the transom saver the max stress on the transom is only created by the motor itslef. the stress created by the motor moving around is pretty minimal when compared to the torque of 200+ horses on a hole shot the transom is designed to handle.

The transom saver is a false sense of security…you are basically “pre stressing” your transom so you don’t notice the minimal flexing that may/may not occur.

And the guys transom that was flexing 4″….he has to have something else seriously wrong with it for this to happen and I don’t think a transom saver is going to solve his problem.

A little 9v battery will do the trick also. Unhook all the wires and touch what you think is the negative speaker wire to the neg on the battery and then touch what you think is the positive speaker wire to the other side of the battery and the speaker will make some noise. Try different combos until you figure out what wires are what. you won’t hurt the speakers

Looks like quite a bit of snow melted since I looked at that web cam yesterday.

we go up there every year over memorial day weekend. last year the ice went out only a few weeks prior. Needless to say the water temp wasn’t too high which made fishing tough. Caught lots of Walleyes early morning and late in the evening. Couldn’t catch crap during the day. Not even a northern. Made for some long days

Prior years we were always able to cast shores and pick pu some nice smallies or norherns.

10-4…makes sense now. A little heavy with 3.5 and a bit shy on the 1 hour.

I would still head to everets…Just as good of a chance for some hogs but a better chance of catching good numbers of fish.

Pool 2 has proven to be tough for me but it does have some hogs.

I am a bit confused by your post though! If pool 4 is 3-1/2 hours from your house and pool 2 is only an hour…where are you fishing pool 4? Everts is only 35 mins from pool 2 (494 ramp) I also can get to Wabasha in an hour and 15 min.

In my opinion I would drive the extra 35 mins to Everets and fish pool 4.

no luck for us also. fished from 4:00 until dark from the damn to the confluence. Only saw a few crappies caught and one very small eye. 2 sherif boats were out.

The life expectancy of a plasma is only 4 years. Go with LCD or DLP

26lbs-2oz bag
8lb-11oz big fish

What is the best way to get to the Hidden falls ramp? I come from the east side of the cities.

Exact spots would be nice though!

How is the flow?

Working wingdams?

Thanks guys I will check it out.

now that we don’t use copper they break in and steal the wire. Cut the homeruns off at the panel and climb in the attic and start pulling. I will never have the balls to break in and steal 20-$30 worth of copper to risk get put in Jail. DUMB

I wouldn’t buy a plasma or an LCD. WHy? Because Plasmas don’t last that long. I think the life is only like 4 years. LCDs picture isn’t that great on Non-HD channels. In my mind DLP is the way to go. I have a 50″ DLP 1080P Picture is great. It is only like 12″ deep and it is light. I can carry it by myself no problem.

I wouldn’t build a house without it!!! It is much easier to work with. it reduces water hammer. I can hold up to freezing unless it is at a fitting then I am sure it would fail but copper doesn’t hold up to freezing either. I think it comes with a 25 year warranty apposed to coppers 2 yr warranty. It doesn’t wear out like copper can. Much more OSHA freindly becuase you don’t have to use propane as much to sweat the fittings. Well as you can see I like Pex Viega. Don’t use Wirsbo for anything but infloor heat.

Just My $.02