I can find you a nice set of tires and rims for 1k.

I wish they would let us all drop a net down and then use FFS to locate the fish to pluck them out one by one.
I’m sick of watching the fish all scatter in shallow water from being spooked.

Lowering the limits will hurt the guys without FFS more than anyone that does use it. The guy that releases 30 fish a day doesn’t compare to someone that might release 5 fish a day in a total kill rate.

Joe –
Have you checked with Kones Korner in Castlewood SD?
They have been my go to Benelli dealer in the past.

Hopefully, in 2-3 weeks when I go up to Sask to chase some snow geese they don’t molest me at the border for bringing extra ammo across. If they do I will be leaving everything up at my farmers place to minimize the pain when I go back this fall.

Good video ^^
Somehow I missed the cocktail booth!

I went and learned a few things…
I didn’t know that Skeeters lineup changed to the death of the WX 2200 and the birth of the 2260 model. The new Alumacrafts look huge and have very clean lines on the transom. Also learned that shettt isn’t cheap anymore.

Welcome to the lake. I have had a place on the lake for 38 years so I have seen my share of busted up docks. If your wide out in the open where you can get 4-5′ waves I would only suggest a steel dock that sits approx 3′ above the water. Pound in all of the corner posts and and bolt down all of your removable top sections.
If not you will be looking for your dock sections after every big wind.
Putting a boat on a lift might be tricky unless you can get it high enough out of the water so the waves don’t hit it.

I have ran a heated Ionic 125ah
house battery for my 250 SHO and 3 graphs for the last 2 years and have had no power issues so far.

The 22-27″ fish are sadly going to be very yummy for most boats.

It will be shut down mid summer with the #’s presented in my mind. The one over 20″ should be an fairly easy fish for people to catch.

Bump ^^ – spring is here.
New asking price is $5000

Here is Jon Thelen’s new 205X Comp Sport outfitted with a new 4.2 Liter 350hp Yami and a 9.9 kicker. The rear pods are designed so you still have the lower transom to mount all your transducers and stuff onto. It should fly with an option to hang 400hp on it.

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Looking at that picture it looks like its a wishbone tounge on a tilt trailer. It happened to me many years ago on an 8×10 tilt sledbed I owned.
The bolt body itself will be corroded entirely into the aluminum sleeve so getting that out won’t be viable.
Your easiest method of repair is to shift the entire bolt pattern approx 2″ and get into new metal and redrill everything and cut down the pivot tails if required. Cut yourself a couple of new sleeves using pipe for the inner tubing and remount everything up.

All I know is I just bought a 10″ Lite Flite drill and tested it out with my newest 12amp Forge battery on my 1200 inch pound Milwaukee (2804) drill and I drilled my (10) house holes thru 36″ of ice. It stalled a couple of times but that’s good because it was about to rip the side handle of the drill out of my hands. I see now that the newest Milwaukee (2903) series drills have 1400 inch pounds of torque so that tells me its time for me to buy that and retire my propane 10″ auger that I have been using for good.

I drilled close to (30) 8″ Lite Flite holes on Red last weekend thru 3′ of ice and and my 12 amp forge was still at 2 bars.

Thanks- I didn’t even know there was an IF version. A 10′ cable would make it nicer but a guy can always trim them down if they wish.

orve4 wrote:

Heading up the End of March to do a Pike fishing trip.

You might need to bring a boat. A lot can change between now and then. I have done a similar trip many times up there and usually the 3rd weekend or so is all she wrote. TBD…

34-37″ currently on Red across a few mile area that I have punched holes at. You can still get thru with an 8″ lite flite and a drill if your not on top of any snow.

I’m trying to do all of the things I want to do in life long before I retire.
I don’t need to be the guy with tons of $$ in the bank and no ambition to spend any of it when I’m 65.
I have multiple friends with plenty of $ that just retired or are nearing retirement that are no longer able to or have lost the desire to hunt and fish like they did when they where in the 40’s and 50’s

What is the replacement rig going to be??

It’s cold and still making ice – Drilled the house holes yestetday around 6pm with a 10″ Jiffy with a 12″ extension and the auger handles were touching the floor of the house. Going to have to either pre-drill or add another extension very soon.
Sadly my holes closed up to around 7-8″ dia already on the first 8-12″ of water because the sides are closing in which will either force me to redrill or move the shack later today.

^^ I agree to some extent but the Forge batteries haven’t been out for too long so the shelf life shouldn’t come into play. Also Walmart provides the return policy. All the sellers are iffy to what your getting when everything comes from China.

Rotella T6 synthetic oil change is 15 qrts of oil every 15k miles.
Fuel filter every 30k for me but I have went 50k plus oil the fuel filter before without any noticable issues.

I spent 3 days last week riding the Black Hills of SD. The trails and the views where great once again. I have riden out there 3 times prior and have always had perfectly smooth trails as long as they have decent snow.
By this weekend the bulk of the northern half of MN will also have good conditions which will benefit the entire midwest and hopefully the dealers that are sitting on lots of inventory.

I own 3 of those same drill heads and have had the same happen to mine. Once the battery’s get around 3 years old, they are much more prone to stop, blink. and/or overheat. This is more common with the smaller 5 amp battery’s and I have went through over a dozen of them. I have also had the shifter slide into a torque setting which will cause the drill to stall out with any decent load. Once the battery’s get weak they will die out in seconds and still blink 3-4 bars.
I would carry another battery with to verify if thats the issue first.

Eelpoutguy wrote:

Finally got er out.
Had it WOT across the lake and only 89 mph

It’s looks like that is the 130hp version of the 900 ace based on the hood. If so that’s all your going to get unless your on glare ice.
Sadly Doo’s dream meter is off approx 10% as well so 89 speedo is really around 80 gps.

I own an Eskimo 10″ propane and use it when I need to as well. I was just wondering if a guy could run a 10″ bit thru 2′ of ice with a hand drill. I know the 12 amp battery will power the 8″ Lite Flite with ease so I assume it would also turn a 10″ as long as you go slow.

In regards to drilling thick 30″+ ice and a Lite Flite it works good but you will need to peck more often to keep the chips out. I have drilled thru 40″ of ice at LOW multiple times with an extension up there. If you don’t clear the chips out the fins will actually bend over and the hole thing will lock up in the hole. One time I thought it was stuck forever!

Has anyone tried a 10″ Pistal Bit or converted a 10″ Lite Flite to work on a Millwakee M18 drill?
I have 8″ Lite Flite but want a 10″ option for my permenant house holes without jumping into a 40 V setup.

If you would like a 304 s/st top custom built just let me know. I can build you any size and shape of top/drain board you want. I can even label it NSF if you wish.
The most common used clean dishtables you will find will be 30″ deep and have a 8″ tall backsplash and a 1.5″ wide x 3″ tall rolled front edge. They are designed to have the drain board at 34″ AFF to adapt to a standard dishmachine opening. You will need a 20″ deep “Y direction” sink for the standard opening turndown that’s formed into every table.
PM me if you have any questions.

Sitting in a heated fishouse and watching TV without having a sippy now and then doesn’t sound right to me.

Bidennomics almost made me tip over at the liquor store the other day though.