Recent content by Tom L

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well this surprised me saturday, fishing off manasquan NJ, I was 18 miles off shore in a 42 ft, here comes this boat , looked like a black spec trolling inshore from the east, when it was closer yup , a guy in a 19 ft bankes, trolling tuna, he had two rods out, looked like he was by himself...

good luck with the new boat, I have one that I love, I call it a clown car when I am goose hunting, can put 25 full body floaters in it

I can see it on my screen, wonder what is wrong that you can't see it?

I haven't found a picture,it was before cell phones and cameras for me, I made this very crude sketch of what I used everything was made out of 2 x 6 pressure treated, and the 4" pvc pipe hinge was thru the entire frame from side to side,the bottom frame was all joined together with the hinge at...

it is a displacement hull, so increasing hp will only try to push the stern thru the bow, it is made to squat a little and push thru, mine is very sea worthy , it likes 9 knots, and anything more is kind of useless displacement hulls do just that , they displace water, the amount of water that...

I made a setup like this for my 17 ft bankes and my hercules , layout was sold a bunch of years ago not sure if I can dig up a picture. the way it worked was I left the boat on the trailer and towed it as normal. I made a wooden frame, out of 2 x 6's with a large pvc hinge near the back, and...

I'd vote for finding some fiberglass panels, I had one with luan flaps and they didn't hold up well. a fiberglass panel with an angle bolted to the back to help it stay rigid would be great. if you have to paint it, you must prime it first, otherwise the paint blows off at warp speed

I lost a home made can decoy once, gunning divers in january, long time ago, one of the first ones I ever made a group downwind a mile saw it floating by and picked it up we were already done for the day and headed home. so they never had a chance to return it 3 years later I found it on a...

my favorites are solid pine bobtails only about 11" long, they sit real well in the water and I seem to do great with them 6 or 7 drakes and one hen in a small tight group

every year over in monroe you get the same indian lady complaining that I kill all the poor ducks and geese should sue them like anyone else would, just ordered on line, hopefully it comes in a timely fashion

has anyone in NJ been able to get a federal duck stamp have tried all of the local post office's and have been told they will not bring them in for another month. that would be at the end of the sept early goose season one lady at the post office said she had some but was ordered to send...

I am hoping to clean out the bottom of my work benches one day, hopefully will find the 25-30 tape measures I have lost over the years LOL

your cutting tip is not seated in the torch make sure the tip is meant for the torch when you put the tip in the end of the torch and put the retainer nut on, if the seal (tapered surfaces) on the back of the tip do not sit flush and seal when tightend , the tip will blowback and do just...

I have a wagner I think 400 series that I purchased for my kiln / sawmill it is pin less and works good, has 50 or so settings for different species of wood, it does function like it is supposed too. around 400 to purchase 10 years ago. I think with these meters you get what you pay for...