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    Anchor winch pedistal?

    I am thinking about making a pedestal to mount the anchor winch on, so that the line will feed through the railing on the stern side. The old Bass Buggy has railing and fencing all the way around and the bimini top rests on the top rail so the anchor line needs to feed between the top and next...
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    Water seperator location?

    I read somewhere that you install the filter and then pump fuel into it. So I was wondering if it would be possible to mount it before the squeeze bulb or not? It would be handy if I could mount mine between the tank and the squeeze bulb but I will do what I have to. Thanks!
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    Old wiring

    Still trying to get the old 50 horse to charge the battery so I checked the rectifier that I installed last year. It was bad again. While checking the 2 yellow wires from the stator I noticed that one of them had that green corrosion above the terminal end. The wires ran up through a piece of...
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    Fuel venting?

    After we loaded the boat on the trailer the last time I noticed that the 12 gallon fuel tank was puffed up like a buttermilk biscuit. I loosened the cap and a lot of air escaped. So I was wondering if it is affecting the way the motor gets fuel. I thought that little plastic thumb screw like...
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    1985 Mercury 50 hp idle problems

    I had problems with the idle being too high and adjusted it down and adjusted the throttle cable to hold it against the stop. Then when I got it on the water it stalled at idle from being too low. So I adjusted it a little faster but it still stalled. Now I'm going to see if it will idle at...
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    New list

    I had it on the lake today and got the bunk slicks installed on the trailer. I need to adjust the idle back up a bit because it died after it idles for a minute. Then I noticed the gas line dripping at the twist on connector, Mercury motor. The trolling motor has a pin that has slipped to one...
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    Fuel line connector.

    Have any of you found a good way to keep the twist lock connector on the end of the fuel line clean and dry while trailering the boat home from the lake. For some reason the connector gets milky looking and slick to handle before it is time to connect it again. Then it picks up whatever dirt is...
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    Bunk slicks

    The last time in we had to back in a long way to get the boat off the trailer and back on. I ordered some bunk slicks and plan on installing them the next time out. I ordered two sets of 3"x16" packs of ten, and figure that if I space them 8" apart they should be enough to cover the front ten...
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    Shake down cruises

    Everytime we put the boat in the water I make a list of things that need work. I just ordered bunk slicks and a better anchor winch. I'm working on getting the motor to idle down slower and then I want to fix it so it charges the battery. One time somebody asked what are the handiest things to...
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    1985 Mercury 50 HP idle too fast

    I picked the boat and motor up from the shop yesterday and got it on the water. It started and ran good. The only thing I didn't like was that it was ideling way too fast. I looked in the manual and couldn't find anything about idle speed adjustment, only idle mixture adjustment. I would think...
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    What happened over the winter?

    Last year I had problems with the old 50 hp Merc. starting because it was flooding so I took the carbs off and had them rebuilt. I installed them and adjusted the carbs until it started and ran good on the muffs and seemed to throttle up smoothly and powerfully. Yesterday we took it to the lake...
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    Super garlic scent.

    I ordered a couple of bottles of garlic scent last year, the kind that you can dunk your plastic worms in and tint them different colors. So today I hooked a super salty wacky worm on my hook and dunked the end of it in the garlic. Now I know this garlic is highly concentrated and you don't want...
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    Finally found a bow mount.

    I needed a scissor mount for an old Minn Kota that I have kept for a long time. I ran into a guy who was selling his bow mount and so I bought trolling motor, mount and all, he traded up to the remote control type and was happy to get this one out of his garage. I have it bolted down to the bow...
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    Can you catch them again?

    I was fishing a heavily stained power plant lake that had been a strip mine many years before. I had heard that they were catching big stripers from shore but by the time I got there a week later the bite was off so I tried casting lures for bass. I didn't have much luck in the cooler water the...
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    New record Striper from Alabama

    I saw the headlines about the guy who caught a huge striped bass in Alabama. I think it will be interesting to hear what kind of bait he used and how heavy his line was etc. I went to school with a guy who was jug fishing with his dad and they caught a 60 pound catfish. He said it was so big...
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    Sure missing the boats right now.

    We had to do a lot of traveling this winter so we had to take the rv and leave the boats at home. Now that we have most of our business taken care of we are in Florida and in an area where we would love to have a boat and be out fishing. The rv park that we are staying at used to rent canoes but...
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    Storing Batteries

    I have left a couple of cars in the garage all winter before and never had any problems with them starting and running in the spring. This year I removed the batteries from the boats, two starting batteries and three deep cycles and stored them in the garage. Now is there any reason why they...
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    Under skinning between the pontoons.

    I want to under skin the area under the deck and between the pontoons to help keep water from splashing against the cross members and coming up between the cracks in the decking. Does anybody know where to get some decent sized sheets of aluminum? It would be for under skinning an 18' Bass Buggy...
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    Easily changed transducer?

    If I want to use the same fishfinder on two different boats do I have to buy a second transducer or do they make one for the transom that can be easily and quickly changed? Still don't know if I will be buying a Lowrance or a Humminbird but it will have the down scanning on it. I figure that I...
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    Caught one big one and a small one today.

    The gator lay over on the bank and watched us fishing off of the dock until I caught this one and then it was a matter of getting it up onto the dock before the gator got there. The fish doesn't look as big as he really was, because I was holding him to the side and watching the gator swim...
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