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  1. Allen

    2018 skeeter WX2090

    I think the thing I would really look at closely is the transom and lower unit. Here's my thinking...if someone pulls a boat up on shore they often lift the motor enough so the skeg isn't stuck in the mud. A wave or two over the back and now the boat is sitting 12-16 inches lower in the water...
  2. Allen

    Soybean welfare plan

    Because government has long chosen winners and losers. That's how politicians get votes.
  3. Allen

    5.6 ft box pulling a fifh wheel

    If'n a guy is pulling 10,000 lbs and above without trailer brakes, well...I don't know what to say about that level of dumb. My brakes work just fine. - - - Updated - - - Really? A guy pulls the speed limit in a properly setup fifth wheel and you're going to go there? Obviously there's a...
  4. Allen

    5.6 ft box pulling a fifh wheel

    What this guy said. - - - Updated - - - Get an F250 with a 6.5 ft bed and don't look back. My 2009 pulls my 32(?) foot fifth wheel and the boat like nobody's business at 75 mph. I'd be crawling down the highway with your proposed setup.
  5. Allen

    Keep Big Fish or not, don't judge!

    I will be on Sak holding a "Catch a Fish for Grandma" day...err, weekend. Let's see, me + K + 4 kids = 60 fish for a two day limit. Not sure if Grandma would turn down something like that if we were so fortunate, and I surely wouldn't begrudge her a few fish dinners. - - - Updated - - -...
  6. Allen

    Transducer cable?

    Those things look like a sock. I'll keep them in mind, but for the time being I have a couple pair of goat skin bitchslappers that fit very well.
  7. Allen

    2018 skeeter WX2090

    The only issue I can reasonably think of is wiring. Wet connectors will eventually dry, but they may get some corrosion. I had an older Lowrance LMS that would get intermittent after being left out in the rain. Finally found a connector on the wiring to the puck that would get the smallest...
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    Tax dollars being put to good use.

    I came within about 18 inches of doing that over by Underwood last summer. Missed a herd of about a dozen that couldn't have been anymore tightly packed if they were in a cattle trailer. If'n I'd have hit one, I'd have hit them all like bowling pins. All I saw were white rumps as I drove by in...
  9. Allen

    Transducer cable?

    From the little I can see up in there, the cord goes straight up the left tube (original transducer mount and livewell pump is attached to left side tube where it disappears from sight as it goes over to the right hand side of the Toon. On the right, I can't really see anything and that is...
  10. Allen

    Tax dollars being put to good use.

    Something like this should be a prime candidate for that excess oil money we wanted set aside for outdoorsy things. It's not like those extra oil trucks didn't come with a direct cost to wildlife's lives. These crossings (and bridges) work, science and the occasional hunter have proven it...
  11. Allen

    Transducer cable?

    I think I am just going to run it like this for the upcoming weekend and tackle the removal of the tin next week. I could splice the cable, but then I would always be wondering when it was going to fail, regardless of how much waterproofing I do on it. The second transducer will have to go in...
  12. Allen

    Governors Cup 2018

    51.3 lbs It'd be higher, but I don't do tournaments.
  13. Allen

    Transducer cable?

    Whoa! That's a great frigging idea.
  14. Allen

    Transducer cable?

    Yeah, I use electrical tape and a piece of bungee cord. I absolutely can't get the damn old cable to budge! It's either clipped to the underside of the deck, or pinched between the deck and a tube. - - - Updated - - - p.s. no need to cut the ducer off, it is up at Sak in a couple feet of...
  15. Allen

    Sak question

    It justifies your purchase of a big water boat that can safely take you across the main part of Sak. But yeah, I too fell like there's just better fishing on average the farther north you go.
  16. Allen

    Anyone regret going from aluminum hull to glass hull?

    I still can't believe we haven't had at least one person (outside of Marbleyes, for the wrong reasons) come out and say that they regret going to glass. :;:huh I figured there would have to be at least a couple.
  17. Allen

    Tax dollars being put to good use.

    Right, these critters are working their way up and down the Missouri River valley in that area. I've seen some pretty nice animals using these kinds of crossings in the past.
  18. Allen

    Transducer cable?

    Anyone on here ever successfully spliced one? Basically, it's just a pair of telephone wire sized aluminum wires surrounded by a stranded shielding cable. I'm discovering that replacing my transducer and cable on the Toon is one hell of an undertaking! It will involve removing a bunch of...
  19. Allen

    Anyone regret going from aluminum hull to glass hull?

    Some of the talk here makes me think back to when I drove a 16 ft beer can around on Sak with a 3.9 hp Merc. It would keep up with a person on a fast walk, and almost hit jogging speed when going with the wind. There were a few times where I got blown across Little Knife Bay and had to wait...
  20. Allen

    Anyone regret going from aluminum hull to glass hull?

    ndlongshot, that is probably my biggest concern as well. I totally ripped a transducer off of my Toon last weekend having to put her on an island because someone needed to take a leak so bad they were worried about peeing their pants. As we left, the Toon "gently" bonked a rock and that was it...

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