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By Dash 1 · Posted
Hey government, Just give us choices. I don’t care what people use as long as as it works for you. I’m needing a new weed eater. Plan on a Stihl FS 40 easy start. I’m done with the cheaper brands. Just don’t last long enough. Probably true with the Stormy Daniels of the world as well. Cheaper don’t last long enough 🤭 -
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By CigarGuy · Posted
Quick update: Lucky 7 now has rainbows, fatheads, crappie and light pike in stock. If I remember correctly, scoop of rainbows was $8.99. Stopped at L&M in Virginia. Rainbows $6.99, fatheads and crappie minnows (scoop) $3.99. I was billed $6.99 dozen for rainbows, but was given a healthy scoop! -
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By leech~~ · Posted
I have had the same old Strikemaster augers for years, take care of them and they will last a long time. I think E-augers are nice for around home lakes or at the cabin. The thing that was a eye opener to me was being in D-Rock in New Brighton getting new blades and there were two guys that just got back from a week in Canada on a big ice fishing trip and both very pissed off at their e-augers dying! They were both buying new gas augers. -
By LakeofthewoodsMN · Posted
On the south end... Things are shaping up nicely for the MN Fishing Opener which takes place Saturday, May 11th. Recent rain has brought up the water levels, which were low. The walleyes and saugers are in very good shape across the south shore. Expectations are high. The goto presentation this weekend will be a jig and frozen emerald shiner or other kind of minnow. Emerald shiners are a staple in LOW and walleyes love them. Hook the shiner through the mouth and out the gill. Push the minnow all the way up to the jig head and hook the minnow as far back as possible. This will give you a better hooking percentage. Jig sizes and colors? This is stained water so you can get away with a big heavier jig, which is nice for those who don't fish a lot. It enables them to have more control and feel the bottom. A quarter ounce jig is a good size for starters. In stained water, gold, glow white, glow red, pink, orange and chartreuse, or a combo of those colors, are great places to start. The limit of walleyes and saugers is a combined limit of six fish, up to four of the six can be walleyes. All walleyes between 19.5 - 28.0 inches must be released. One fish over 28.0 inches can be kept. The possession limit in MN is one daily limit of fish. Whether intentionally or unintentionally, there will be some good pike caught this weekend. The pike season on LOW is open year round. The limit is 3 pike per day with one fish allowed more than 40 inches. All fish 30 - 40 inches must be released. On the Rainy River... Sturgeon fishing on the Rainy River has been excellent. The catch and release season is May 8 - 15. The keep season starts up again July 1st. FYI, there will be some nice walleyes in the Rainy River for the fishing opener. Lots of sturgeon anglers are reporting big walleyes being caught on sturgeon rigs! Up at the NW Angle... Angle resorts are ready to roll for the opener. As many of you know, this is the area of LOW where the islands begin. Lots of structure. Go to spots for walleyes, neck down areas, shoreline breaks, points and bays which will have warmer water. In true NW Angle form, be ready for a mixed bag of fish. In addition to walleyes and saugers, pike, jumbo perch, crappies, and even a few smallies and muskies will be caught. Again, the goto presentation will be a jig and minnow. Slow trolling a crankbait will also produce fish if need be. -
By Mike89 · Posted
Totally disagree Gim. I have a gas Jiffy legend auger. Never issues. Take a little time to care for it before putting it away and good to go. Sincei started using non oxygen gas, startron and seafood in never have issues with my 2 strokes. seafood??? I'd try seafoam!!! 🤣
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lotsofish
Over the past few weeks my 1973 Johnson 35hp has been giving my some problems and I just wanted to mention what it was doing and what I've done that's helped(temporarily) so that if anybody has had the same experience can chime in or anybody else can let me know if they think I'm on the right track.
First I'll start off with what it's doing. It will run normally, have all the power it's always had and work just fine at times. While running normally and cruising on plane, it will start to lose power slowly, then all of a sudden drop power very low. It may do this for a short time, then run normally for a second, then back to slow, creating a jerky ride. Soon though it will get "stuck" running poorly and sound bad. It's only running on 1 cylinder.
I tried changing the spark plugs as a first step, but it has not made any difference.
If the motor is running "bad" I can take the cover off, remove the spark plug wires and reconnect them or sometimes just jiggle them a bit and it will work again for a little while, which makes me think that the problem has to do with the plug wire connection. I have tried to use a pliers to tighten the connector inside the plug wires and it seemed to work for a little while, but while out tonight the motor was doing the same thing. I was able to fix it temporarily again out on the water, but after doing it about 6 or 7 times it got to the point where I couldn't get it started.
When testing it in the driveway, I've tried to start the motor with only 1 plug wire attached to see if I could reproduce the effect/sound of only 1 cylinder firing or to isolate which cylinder is having a problem, but I could not get it started that way. With the plugs out and wires attached, pulling the starter cord does create spark in both plugs, but I don't know for sure that when I tested it if the motor would have been running normally at that time or not.
I would just replace the plug wires and try it out again, but the problem is you can't replace just the wires on this motor. They come out of a coil pack directly and I would have to replace the entire coil pack too just to replace the plug wires. I haven't tried to find one yet, but I'm sure I'll be looking at finding a used one since this is such an old motor. Before I go buy the piece and try it, I just wanted to see if everyone thinks I'm on the right path or if there are any other tests I should try first.
Thank you.
Edit: In doing some looking online, it might not be a 1973 motor since I don't think they made a 35hp that year. I will check tomorrow to see for sure, but it is from the 70's.
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