For the wife and I, it’s Sturgeon Bay for us as we have a summer place about a mile out of town. We’re there on and off May through October. While fishing is best out of there early morning, that’s not happening if my wife go’s. She has to sit back with her coffee and watch the news a bit, then walk the dog.
I’m lucky if we are motoring out by 8, some days it’s 9 in the morning. Charters are coming in then when we are going out. Reality is we still get more fish than we can use and give most away.
While I love my salmon trolling and still do alot of it, I’m fishing more for walleye now, on both sides of Bay of green bay. I’ll fish the Sturgeon Bay side, or if winds are good, I will motor over to around Oconto area, south a bit to north about 8 miles. I really like it over there as the water is more stained and there is so much room to fish, I can for the most part stay away from others.
Having a place in Sturgeon Bay has been fantastic for us. There is just so much to do. Great eating, free multiple bands playing during the week, great people, company that visits, loves it there, and cheap drinks. One local bar has 16 oz cold tap beer for $1.50 and a pool table for a quarter.

While I also have never had to use it for myself, I did use it once to help a guide out at a launch in Sturgeon Bay when his battery was so dead it wouldn’t even try to start his Verado. We were just getting off the lake about 3 and he was going out with two clients who were standing there a little miffed that his boat didn’t work.
I asked if he wanted to try my jump unit to not only try and help him out, but also to see how it actually worked.
He hooked it up, waited about 15 sec, and it instantly started. I knew who he was, and as he was taking clients out bass fishing, I had doubts his boat would start later while fishing, so I told him he could keep it, but had to return it that night as I was going salmon trolling in the morning. He couldn’t believe I just let him take it.
I gave him my address and about 10 that night he showed up.
We stay in touch and are best of friends since then.

Noco is a great jump pack. Saying that, I have a Gooloo 2000 that I picked up yrs back for $100. Absolutely love it, they are cheaper now and you can get the 3000 version for that now. As to what type of battery it can be used on, I really don’t think it matters.
Not only that, the main distributer for Ionic, sells and recommends a Noco jump pack for lith batteries. If you are getting one for lith boat batteries or any battery for that matter, what you want is one that will work with a battery that has gone below the 10 volt area, as if it doesn’t have that ability, it will not allow any charging or jump to take place, similar to most stand-alone chargers that will not charge a battery below a certain voltage.
Noco’s and Gooloo’s have an override that will allow a dead battery to take the jump, not all do, and this is an important feature.
On lith starting batteries this is extremely important as sometimes they will go in protection mode and shut off but can be woke up with the right jump pack.
You cannot just charge them back up at home unless your built in charger is something like a Minnkota lith charger that will wake it up first.
With a Noco, Gooloo, or any other jump pack that has a similar feature that allows it to work with a shut down or dead battery, you will have the ability for it to work with a dead battery, or a Lith battery that shut itself off over something it didn’t like at the moment. You then would be able to connect the jump pack, wake up the lith battery, and be on your way.
Anyway, what this all means is they should work with any battery, lith included. Also, agm as most all new vehicles are now agm.

There also is another advantage to your lith batteries. Not only do the better ones such as the Ionic 125 have immense capacity, most good lith batteries have a 10-11 yr warranty. If you are getting one to replace one you have, keep your existing one to put back in your boat if ever selling as the lith one will last so long.
Also you might want to have a jump pack with a wake up feature just in case for some reason your lith battery goes into protection mode for some reason. Nocos have it, my Gooloo also does. The Gooloo packs are only about $70-$100 on Amazon.

They have been using them for years without issue. You just need to make sure your lith battery is rated for use as a starting battery with the BMS needed, not all are.
You also need a charger with at the minimum an AGM setting for charging. Ionic has one of the better batteries for this, but there are many others now. Relion is another main player.
There are also now many other lower priced options out there.
Technically Mercury is the only one approving them yet, but they also are the only outboard manufacture involved with a lith battery manufacture. Mercury’s and Yamahas have the same basic charging system.
Even before Mercury approved them, you could order out a Ranger walleye boat, from the factory, with not only lith trolling motor batteries, but also a lith starting battery. Go figure.
Go on Bass boat central and you will find the bass guys have been running the lith batteries for years without issue. The only real problems that have been shown are with having the correct onboard charger, using a cheap battery with questionable BMS, or those that have powerpole charging systems, but I think they are slowly figuring that out.
Your better lith batteries have designed their BMS protections to be fully compatible. It is a never changing game though with the newer engines having stronger and stronger charging systems in that they have to keep tweeking the BMS to be able to handle this increased charging rates. I think the future will be a BMS that can be continually upgraded by bluetooth.
Edit, I forgot to add there is one other actual issue, and that is cold temps. If you are one that fishes in cold weather, below freezing, you will have an issue with some lith batteries when charging, and when your engine fires up as it is trying to charge the battery. They don’t like being charged below about 28 deg or so and will shutdown if not designed for it. Your better batteries have options now with built in heaters, and BMS systems where if trying to charge or starting your engine, it will automatically sense the temperature, turn on the battery heater, and not allow any charging till the battery warms up to above freezing. This probably is the one thing that still bothers Yamaha, but there are more and more batteries available now with these heaters and BMS for that. So if you fish when its below freezing in the morning, you need a battery designed for that.
Alot of people don’t realize that with an electric car, there actually are the same issues with cold temperatures. They actually have heaters in them that automatically heat the batteries in cold weather. So you park your car at night and it says say you have 150 miles range left, but you get up in the morning and you only have 100 miles range left, thats because the battery heater ran most of the night.

$70,000 for production of a “DEI musical” in Ireland
$2.5 million for electric vehicles for Vietnam
$47,000 for a “transgender opera” in Colombia
$6 million to fund tourism in Egypt
Hundreds of thousands of dollars for a non-profit linked to designated terrorist organizations — even AFTER an inspector general launched an investigation
Millions to EcoHealth Alliance — which was involved in research at the Wuhan lab
“Hundreds of thousands of meals that went to al Qaeda-affiliated fighters in Syria”
Hundreds of millions of dollars to fund “irrigation canals, farming equipment, and even fertilizer used to support the unprecedented poppy cultivation and heroin production in Afghanistan,” benefiting the Taliban
$32,000 for a “transgender comic book” in Peru
Funding to print “personalized” contraceptives birth control devices in developing countries
• $8.3 million for “equity and inclusion” education.
• $7.9 million to teach Sri Lankan journalists to avoid “binary-gender language.”
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• $6 million to advance LGBTQ principles in “priority countries around the world.”
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USAID also spent millions to promote transgenderism through various media outlets including using $47,000 of taxpayer funds to produce a transgender opera in Colombia, $32,000 for a transgender opera in Columbia, $70,000 for a “DEI-themed musical” in Ireland and $2 million for a “transgender comic book in Peru.”

Many years ago in the late 70’s I used to bring my grandma to Lacrosse on weekends to visit with her sister and I would go fishing.
Didn’t go fishing one day and instead went to this bar, Red Sails, and stayed there till closing. My Grandma’s sister’s house was just off downtown LaCrosse and while driving home and almost coming in to downtown, I dozed off, crossed the centerline and almost had a head on with a police car. I just pulled over and two cops walked up and asked if I had been drinking. I said I had, and while I’ve never lied to a cop, told them the reason I was out was I bring my grandma there because no one else will, but being young I couldn’t stay at her sisters place all day, so I had to go out for awhile. I then told them if I lost my license there would be no one to bring my grandma to see her sister.
Anyway, the one cop wanted to lock me up, the other felt sorry for me. They got talking and the one cop came back to say his partner wanted to lock me up so he had to give me a ticket for something and was going to give me a ticket for speeding even though I wasn’t. I said thanks’ I was only three blocks from where I was staying and in the end, I guess they felt I had woken up enough to make it home, so they let me drive home.
Never be a jerk to a cop.

I get that also when posting pictures, even reduced in size ones.
I’ve found that if I go out of the forum then log right back on, for some reason it’s posted.
If you stay on waiting to post, you could wait forever and we have fiber internet.

Got some beef from a farmer down the road last spring. I have 12 acres of farm field he farms and when I didn’t get paid at the end of the year, I knew he was in trouble. Thought about calling him, but actually felt sorry for him so we just waited to hear. Wasn’t going to be the end of the world if I didn’t get paid.
About a month later we got a call, and he explained he was having money problems and was wondering if I wanted to buy some beef from him as he was having a couple of his cows butchered. I said I couldn’t buy any beef while he still owed me money but if he gave me some for what he owed that would be fine. So then he says, I’ll give you the butchers number and you can tell him what you want and I said no, just drop off what you feel is a fair exchange. I’ve never got beef from a farmer and have good and bad about it.
Anyway, didn’t expect the best beef, but was happy to get something for what he owed.
I trusted him to be honest about it, and was pleasantly surprised at the amount and variety he dropped off. The steaks were some of the best I have had, the roasts were good and tender, the hamburger was ok. We’re sort of sad now as it’s getting about that time to have to actually buy beef again.

If you want to see a setup Like you are talking about, look up Cody S on Youtube. He’s out of the Green Bay area. While he has a live scope on his front trolling motor, He also has a portable livescope setup on a track mounted pole setup. His locator, which he uses for the boat and Icefishing also goes on the track also. Pretty neat actually.

Thank’s, here is another picture you might like. The fosters husband took it out pheasant hunting a couple weeks prior to me getting it.

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Just thought I would post. Years back I posted about our wonderfull brittany, but sadly a couple months back after 13 wonderful years we had to put her down.
We weren’t sure if we would ever have a dog again, but last week we picked up this wounderful 4 yr old from springer rescue and couldn’t be happier.

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My bank says never accept a cashiers check unless you are standing next to him at his bank when getting it.
Cash, wire transfer or go to his bank with him.
I went through this some years back on a private sale of a Lund that I had. We went to his bank to do the paperwork and payout to me. The Teller handed me the check.
Sols a 5th wheel once to a guy from Canada, and insisted on wire transfer or cash, he brought cash, 25k. That was interesting as he got really held up at the border because of it. My bank really helped him out with all the extra paperwork he needed taken care of because of that cash. We had a good laugh after about his border issues.

We’ve had our Brittany for 12 years and almost always have a doggie vest on. She’ll jump in at fish you are landing, seagulls, ducks, or whatever if excited. We also had a winter house on the intercoastal by Padre Island and while we took her in the bay boat, we also would take her out on our sit on top fishing kayaks.
Anyway, the real advantage to the vest is its handle. Makes it so easy to get a dog back in the boat. Also, no loose hooks or lures out.
Walleye fishing, she will be patient and let us net the fish, but salmon fishing we have a short leash connected to her near the windshield as sometimes a salmon can thrash around with a lure for a bit before you get it out.
If your floor is hard, we have a rubber nonslip mat for her to lay on. Also if it’s hot, be sure to have a midsized towel that you can get wet and lay over her to cool her off.
If it’s hot, we will take the vast off when trolling.

I’ve had over 50 years experience playing with props on all types of boats, many aluminum boats, go fast bass boats , bay boat, and multiple walleye boats so I’ very familiar as to what causes what and what changes affect what.
As to that Lund, yes I changed out to the same prop in stainless, a 17″ version. I actually think that boat should use a 15″ version whether it’s aluminum or stainless. I went with the same size as I thought with raising the engine a hole I would gain a few more rpm than I did. If I had kept the boat I was going to try and find someone with a 15 that wanted to trade for my 17, and then would have lowered the engine back down a hole to where it was originally. If I remember right, even with the engine height change, there was only a small rpm change of a hundred or so. If you are looking for a larger rpm change drop pitch.
Sadly I sold that boat as I needed some garage space as it was a second boat for me, and with two boats and two vehicles and a three car garage, I wasn’t able to talk my wife into parking her car out in the winter.
Somebody got a fantastic little boat. Actually, was in some back and forth talks with a longtime member on here about him buying it, but someone local committed before him. He missed out on a great boat.

I had a Lund pro Guide 1775 with a 90 merc and when I switched out the Spitfire aluminum to a Spitfire stainless, the difference was dramatic. More bow lift, more acceleration, higher top speed, and an inch higher engine height. Fantastic prop for those engines.

If you are going to the Algoma area, there is a great facebook page that will help you out with what is happening as most everyone shares info. I forget the actual heading but look up Algoma/Kewaunee lake Michigan fishing. It’s a facebook group that discusses what’s happening at the time. Not much on there yet but should get active in another couple weeks. Also if you go out and have success, remember to help others out by posting what and how. Lake michigan changes by the day depending on wind direction and it’s best when everyone helps each other.

Not surprising when you figure the 2040 used to be rated for 300, then also take in account Ranger 20′ at 300 already.
Maybe a 3 mph gain.
While my 2200 will go 58, I’m sort of a 35 mph kind of guy.
There is really only about a 25 hp difference when you look at the dyno charts, then take in account the more performance lower unit on the 250 SHO, I probably would stay with the 250.

My first house when getting out of the service was $15,500. It was a flat where I collected $110 rent on one half so that the half I lived in was $40. Great times for a single guy when one weeks pay plus rent collected, paid for my total months expenses.
Will the boat market retreat somewhat, maybe if the economy tanks. With ten year old glass boats going for what they cost when new, The only people really hurt are those not having a boat to trade in when buying new.
You will never get back to what things were, my first Suburban cost #3200 now $80 to $100k

After charging a AGM battery and letting it rest for a couple hrs, your voltage reading on a good battery should be in the neighborhood of 12.8 volts. You need to wait a couple hrs or overnight before doing this. If you are 12.6ish battery is bad

If by Marketplace you mean Facebook, and bought it used, I would first assume the seller knew it was bad and scammed you. Are you sure you set the battery profile to AGM for the AGM battery? In the charger manual it gives the different charge curves and voltages. You could try putting a voltage tester on the charger leads when first plugging in and check to see if it matches up with the volts for that charge curve.
How long have the PCL chargers been out, there is a two year warranty.

Lindy, just get a slider mount for the trolling mtr. The Skeeters come with them. Really simple on the water, just pull one pin on the side and slide it out. Easy peazy. Saves room in the garage also.

If that is where you back the trailer in to, you need to back in more. By the picture you posted, you have apx 1/4 of the top of the fender submerged. It should be backed in more so that apx 3/4 of the top of the fender is submerged.
And yes I also forgot to mention backing further in at first to wet all the bunks, then pull out till apx 3/4 of the top of the fender is submerged.

It changes by the angle of the ramp, but on my last three Skeeter walleye boats, on an average ramp you can figure backing in till apx 1/4 to 1/3 of the top of the fender is out of the water. This has been on a MX2040, and two WX2200’s. You back in more than that to start and you’re asking to have the boat crooked on the trailer.
Also I might add, on my 2200’s, I added a 2 speed winch. Even my WX2200’s winch up like they were a 16′ boat on a roller trailer.
Some use the Dorato and just drive on till it clips. Thats great till you end up at a no power load launch, then it sucks.

Thanks, finally got the last two out. No way they were coming out by hand with all that over abundance of red Loctite on the screws. I had been using a impact driver, and a 3/8 ratchet wrench and the last two didn’t want to budge. Finally got one more to loosen. Last ditch effort, borrowed a slightly stronger impact, and even with heating the loctite, it snapped the remaining screw. Drilled that out and made a tool to double up two wood screw inserts and screwed those into the fiberglass deck with lots of epoxy to help set them. Ran an electric space heater on that for two days to make sure the epoxy cured. Then just ran a new bolt in. Also cleaned the origonal bolts of red loctite and used blue this time.

My guess would be venting. Sometimes in the winter with heavy snows,the vent over my bathroom closest to our septic tanks gets plugged up and the shower and toilet will will sometimes make funny noises yet the sinks and toilets at the other end of the house are fine.
Soon as I clear that vent it goes away.

Just say no if you really don’t agree with it. Why on earth would you support something you are totally against and help to subject that on others?
If he truely is a real friend, he’ll understand and respect your opinion and seek out someone else to do it.

BP visa for us. 15 cents off every gallon of gas, plus credit back on other purchases. Our grocery store is linked to our bp card at bp gas stations for rewards. At times we get 30 cents off per gallon of gas.

A 20′ trailer by it’s self is 6k to 8k or more for a good one.
As a 50 yr plus fisherman, I will never have a boat with a cheap trailer.

Wife spends about a half hour on the phone every year with Direct tv to get our bill lowered every time they raise it.
She has to go through two or three people till she finally gets someone that can lower it.
It doesn’t do any good to tell them you can get a better price from someone else as you would have already switched if that were the case. You need to tell them you just can’t afford their rste increase, and when they say they can get you less of a plan for less money, say no, you like the plan you have. Also if you are a long time user like we are, stress that.