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Andrew, Sheepishly, I have to admit that if I caught that fish I would call it a pike and throw it back. How do you tell? Around here in some nearby towns and also parts of Ontario, pickerel is the name applied to walleye. There is even a big, long-running annual "Pickerel Tournament" in nearby...

This one? http://www.duckworksbbs.com/plans/jim/af4/breve/index.htm I'm no naval architect, but I'm not crazy about that dead-flat bottom. I suppose it would be great for sheltered water, and let you get into really shallow areas, but I hunt big water, and I think in a chop it would pound badly...

Hehe, sounds like my kind of shooting.

Carl, You been water swatting again? I don't see many holes in those breasts.

"So what is the proper trailer tire pressure. What is printed on the sidewall seems way too high to me. I think I keep mine at 45 psi which still seems way too high." Mark W I'm no expert, and everybody seems to do their own thing, but after my tire-blowing-wheel-bending experience, I...

Were they underinflated? That's probably the most common reason for trailer tire blowouts. The sidewalls flex too much and they get hot. It also makes the wheel rim vulnerable to damage if you hit a sharp-edged pothole. I've been there, so now I'm really conscientious about keeping my trailer...

I haven't done it, but I have seen them successfully welded. I have also seen the bolt-on/clamp-on type used, but they looked pretty clunky. 1/3 of mine has been missing for 20 years; I don't think anything of it. I don't plan to fix it.

Evinrude usually has the number tag on the side of the transom clamp bracket. The numbers are stamped into the aluminum tag, so you can probably read it through the paint. If they switched to a printed label you might not be able to read it without scraping the paint off the label. If you still...

Yes, they have been around for a long while, and also used to be sold under the Sears Gamefisher label. They are extremely lightweight, came in several horsepowers from 1 thru 3 (maybe more), and are said to be really good runners. Some of them had "automatic" clutches that got mixed reviews...

As has been said, spar varnish is the name given to old-fashioned oil-based varnish. There are lots of brands sold. Some of the popular ones are Epifanes, Captain's (Z-Spar), Flagship, Rivoli, and Man-O-War. Some hardware stores also carry their own house brand. The MinWax can shown in a post...

I would be looking for a used one. It's a fairly simple machine, and if it has real problems you should be able to tell just by inspecting it carefully. Age doesn't matter at all; in fact, lots of guys prefer the really old ones. For $500 you should be able to come up with a pretty nice, heavy...

Good point Steve. It was the early '70's, so I would think it was shown with a 16mm film projector. The class was held at a local high school, and the whole digital media thing hadn't taken off yet, so how else would they have done it? I suspect they must have distributed the episode on film at...

I saw that back in the ‘70’s during a duck identification class taught by the Michigan Duck Hunter’s Association. I think one of the guys was baseball player Harmon Killebrew. My memory says they were hunting from a two man Kalash-style boat. I remember at one point, one of the guys asked “What...

No problems are showing in the picture. Your boat looks great; way better than most. Miley used a one piece stem, sawn out of a big old piece of oak, so at both ends of the stem, the grain runs out at a rather extreme angle (the stem goes around a corner, but the grain runs in a straight line)...

Chad, My '84 Merc 50hp had similar symptoms a few years ago. I found some online troubleshooting procedures and determined it was the trigger module. Is that the same as the "TPM"? The Merc dealer wanted two-hundred-something dollars for it. I found a brand new one on eBay for under $100. I...