Maybe you can point him to this link. There is some rust, moisture talk on some of the forums. http://floridashootersnetwork.com/

No, my brother sent it to me. I never saw it before. Not sure where it happened.

The first thing to kill Mom & Pop stores was putting interstate highways around a town taking Main Street out of the retail business. Just snowbaled from there.
My two cents.

Check a local nat gas Utility. I don’t know if they would sell directly or not. We in So. MN use them regularly but plumbing contractors wouldn’t be involved with thier installation. It would be the Utility as part of the gas service to a house.

My wife and I have done a few. My two cents is to allow much more time than you first thought especially if you work fulltime also. Secondly, unless you have done some remodels before and have first hand knowledge, it will cost more than you think.
We like to believe the money is made when you buy it, not when you sell. You gotta know you didn’t pay to much.
Good luck!
Randge

I would have surgery to repair that extra hole. Think of the torch if it had only one outlet.

When I was 10 I could overhaul my Zebco 202 blindfolded. Today I can’t figure out how a Zebco 33 comes apart. I open the reel and remove the plastic sheild over an x shaped nut. I cant figger out how the nut comes off. Any one help?

Sorry can’t get the 3rd pix to go

Randges Carp

Buffy’s Cat

Jason
Thanks for the help with Fountain. I will appologize in advance for the lengthy tale but it was just too much for a couple sentences.
We pulled into Albert Lea with our 14 ft jon boat about 7:30 am. We headed to the dam for some directions and just to check the action.
We headed to the bait shop and got the boat in at Brookside ramp shortly after 8.
We were alone at the landing and hurried to launch so some hot fishing action would help us forget the cilly 26 degrees and the steady NW wind.
The 9.9 Johnson had little trouble shattering the 1/4 inch ice in the channel and we entered the main lake with Shad Raps in tow. Not sure where to find the Hatch bridge, we headed I belive WNW as we headed into the wind. The Johnson wasn’t running too well. It killed several times at troll speed and I soon warmed up on the pull rope.
We made it over to a bridge, all the while crossing about 6-7 feet of water.
Just past the bridge, everything changed. The motor killed. Two pulls and the rope broke. It was too short to pull directly on the flywheel so it was dead. Not to be detered, I plopped the trolling moter in and hit the switch. We got about twelve feet out of it and it slowed to about 2 rpms and quit. I had charged the battery all night, but it chose now to expire.
Well, I haven’t rowed in a long time but we turned the boat around, back under the bridge and because we were in the nw corner, knew the wind would give us a good drift all the way across the pond. We threw on a crawler (the bait store was temporarily closed to move so we had nothing but Kwik Trip crawlers) and let the gales of October take over.
About 2/3 across, Buffy’s (Jason, you may remember her from the 2001 LP state softball runnerup season in 2001. She was the catcher.)pole bent in half! Fish on! She adjusted her drag as the fish stripped line. She had it about 30 yards from the boat and suddenly her reel gears stripped. I messed with it while she procedded to pull it in by hand. Her first and a nice size Catfish. See pic. Now we’re fishin.
We had drifted nearly to the other shore so we had to start rowing toward the landing.
She threw out her crawler again and I row/trolled with a Shad Rap. We were making headway againt the wind when suddenly my rod tried to exit the boat from my bent leg grip on it. I recovered and set the hook. Fish on!
My reel had no trouble hauling in the Carp. See pic. Although they do fight pretty good when you snag’em by the tail. It made me dream of Salmon snaggin’ at Manitowoc almost.
Buffy volunteered to row. Her first time. She did great, even getting us back thru the 1/4″ ice in the channel. See pic.
We loaded the boat and by then had used up our morning. We headed back to town a little disappointed by the equipment malady but happy about the catch.
I wonder if she will go with me in my boat again? She would probably want to ride in your boat next time.
Thanks for your help Jason, “A bad day fishing is better than a good day of work anytime”.

Randge & Buffy

Anybody fish Fountain or Albert Lea lake this week. Any advice on baits for Early (7-noon) morning Walleyes.