Congrats on the C-boat. Post a pic.

Thanks everyone. I’ll have to pray (until I can get it checked) it’s a faulty sensor, because it only goes off at very low rpms, pees fine and never acts hot.

He’s pretty savy with mechanical stuff so I doubt it’s oil level. Suppose if the oil pump was going bad… are there any other reasons an alarm would beep other than overheating?

Stopped at the n. Clinton ramp tuesday: Muddy and pretty high yet.

Guess I shouldn’t have posted it, because I know nothing about it. It was just such an impressive deer I thought I’d share it with you guys and maybe someone from down there would know the particulars. The hunter looks to be a very authenic Monroe County type. I’d trade him the one I got even up.

Yeah, you can use a scope on a muzzleloader in Iowa. Regarding any other info, I only recieved the pics from a friend and there wasn’t any info other than Monroe County. If I remember correctly there was a huge buck shot down in that area around ALbia several years ago by a kid.

should be in here: http://www.iowadnr.com/law/regs/2007regs_fish.pdf

Brian, I guess your right. I wasn’t ripping on the guy, but it just seemed inconceivable to me that anyone would ask a question like that. I see so many people hammering up and down the river with little or no thought regarding safety (theirs or anyone else’s.) At a minimum I should have told him about the locks and dams up and downstream, nothing to say about the 100’s of wingdams, logs, rock piles, sand bars, mud flats and a nuke plant. Maybe what we need is a satellite that beams a message to our GPS units that lets us know that taking a 12 foot john boat with a 15 hp Johnson to the middle of Mille Lacs is probably a bad idea in a thunderstorm.

Your advice about being nice and sharing is receive with the same spirit in which I think it was given. It’s hard sometimes… It’s kind of like trying to quit chewing tobacco… you always seem to revert back to the cesspool from which you originally crawled out of. Tut

Joel, Isn’t part of being a responsible person learning the area you fish for yourself? I was at the Priceston ramp on the Mississiippi earlier this summer and a guy with Linn County plates (75 miles away) busses in and unloads his boat in front of me. No big deal… I wasn’t in any hurry to get out on the water. I put my boat in and tied it off to the dock and as I’m walking back up to park my PU/trailer he asks me, “Is there anything in the river to hit, I’m not from around here?” How do you answer that question without being a total [censored]? I told him that he might consider staying in the marked channel, but I’m not sure he knew green from red.

In any event, if I were you and you are going to provide this information I would think you’d want a waiver of liability at a minimum, which BTW doesn’t prevent someone from suing you and you having to defend yourself. Tut

I wonder if they could adapt this for bait too?

Thanks.

Jon, Thanks, that helps a bunch. I like to troll with this motor, but I wish I could run my motor at a higher rpm without increasing my speed. If I understand your explanation correctly, speed is a product of rpm and pitch. A higher pitched prop will increase my boat speed at the same rpm and a lower pitch prop will reduce my forward speed at the same rpm??? Therefore, if I want to keep my speed constant and increase my rpm’s I should consider reducing my prop pitch by one number. I could care less about top end speed, because I rarely travel more than ten miles in a day’s time. Thanks again for the information and please let me know if I got it right. Tut

O, I’m going to hit the river down here as much as possible this week… we’ll have to compare notes. How far north of the Cities are you looking to go on your smallmouth trip in August. My fiend lives in Aitkin and he might know of something up there, but that may be farther up the Mississippi than you want to go. Good luck. Tut

I just bought a Lowrance 522igps and I think it’s the best thing since sliced bread. I’m still learning all the functions, but it is so user friendly about all you have to do is wire it up, mount and fish.

That was Conroy. I believe their sewer system amounted to an underground pipe, which dumped into a field tile and then a drainage, which ended up in Clear Creek. Unless things have gotten a lot worse over the last 35 years, the fishing was pretty good in the Iowa River when I was a kid growing up in Iowa City.

Fairfax??? Isn’t the fine town of Fairfax on the Prairie Creek Drainage in Linn Country? Maybe you meant the Metro area of Tiffin/Oxford and Homestead?

Haven’t heard of anything yet around here. Might have something to do with the fact that it snowed last Wednesday?

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Kooty Check These Photos out… got them e-mailed to me today.

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Jason, I had a 6 foot cedar fence installed with one double gate and a single 3 foot gate last December and it cost $2,100 for approximately 150 feet or $14 per foot. Menards or Home Depot will price out materials if you tell them what you want and then you can compare what it costs just to hire a fencing contractor. Make sure you call for an underground utility locate before you dig if you’re doing it yourself. I speak from experience! I was digging an LP line in my yard one time and I got to this black root I couldn’t get through with the shovel. So what’d I do? I got an axe and chopped a 6 inch section out of my phone line. Good luck, Tut

Thanks to all the sponsors!!! I’ve bought a boat and trolling motor through this site and I’ve learned a great deal. Thanks again, Tut

More like… I left the camera in the pickup, because I didn’t want to take a picture of Jim’s $20 fish?

Troy, You might want to visit with you local county FSA/NRCS office. That stands for Farm Service Agency and Natural Resource Conservation Service, which used to be the old Soil Conservation Service. It should be listed under the USDA in the phone book. They also handle cost share erosional project, identify wetland issues and can be generally helpful with these kinds of things. Tut

You might want to consider a trip home soon. Tut

ERB, Nice to see your post. I love my new/your old boat. The fishing hasn’t been very good lately, seems like about every time things start to staighten out we get blasted with rain and cold again. Regarding that trolling plate, where you get it? Tut

Better send $10 or a Lowerance 332 to me or it’s The Piggley-Wiggley Police at your door tomorrow. That would be really Bad to be arrested by the PWP on Mother’s Day.

Three of us fished all day yesterday. One of us had that new Cajun red line. Guess who didn’t catch anything. I mean nothing, notta, not even a carp, zilch… Mr. Redline. I will say one thing for it when he snapped it off on a snag it sounded just like a gun shot. For what it’s worth. Tut

Please elborate on your thoughts related to a flasher on the bow??? Pros-cons? I’m looking at spending the big bucks on a new color locator/gps unit and I haven’t decided whether to just move my old locator to the bow or go with something new. I fish mostly in the Miss. River. thanks