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    It just dont get better than this!!!

    Yesterdays dinner consisted of boiled shrimp, boiled crabs, and boiled crawfish!!!!. I wish I would have thought to snap a few pics but it was the first crawfish of the season and my mind was on one thing, making my belly hurt!:D Say what you will about La., but when I can get up at 4 am, go...
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    Im SO Confused!!!

    Ok, Let me start at the beginning...I have a 1979 Skeeter, Duke 1500. Its a fiberglass boat, 15 ft long, 4 ft wide, made of fiberglass.This boat is trailered and never spends more than 1 day on the water at a time. I want to paint it soon (after hurricane season, I may need to get home with it...
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    What is this monstrosity?

    Hey all, I recently picked up a boat, motor, and trailer for cheap...really cheap! Anyhow, the boat was rotten (which I knew), the trailer was in great shape(which I needed), and the motor runs hot on one side(which is a bad head gasket). What I believed to be an Evinrude 90, turns out to be a...
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    Emergency kill switch

    Recently I have been doing alot of night fishing alone. I usually end up running the bayous around midnight or so. Using the lights from the houses and the moon I can usually see objects on the waters surface, but the one thing that bothers me is the objects that float just below that cant be...
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    painting fiberglass

    I recently acquired an old Skeeter fiberglass hull, a15ft open hull. I bought boat, motor,trailer, an extra 48spl with a good foot, 16ft trawl with boards and towlines for 600.00. Everything runs well and works as it should, but its uglier than a mud fence. This is where the questions come...
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    Johnson 48spl questions

    I recently picked up a 48 SPL that Im not sure of the year. How can I found out what year it is? When looking at the front of the motor (directly at the carbs), to the left on each carb is a screw, sort of brass in color . What does this screw do and what are the adjustments? (how many turns...
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    South La. Fishing

    I took my wife out fishing Friday, down to Montegut La. We fished for 3-4 hours, caught our limits (5 per person per day, 1 over 27") and didnt have a fish under 20". We threw the castnet for 30 minutes and picked up about 25lbs. of 5-10 count shrimp. Things are looking up with the arrival...
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    Skeeter D-1500

    This afternoon Im going to purchase a Skeeter "Duke 1500". Its a little fiberglass open type hull made in the 80s. Its 15ft long,approx 4ft wide,its rigged with 2 bench seats and a front deck and thats about it. Anyone know anything about these hulls? I have searched and searched but cannot find...
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    Hello, and yesterdays fishing trip

    Hi, Im down in Southern Louisiana, 19 miles from the end of the roads and the Gulf of Mexico. Yesterday I took my son out for his first fishing trip, along with my b-i-l. Here are the results: We caught our limits and was back at home cleaning them in less than 2 hours! This morning the wife...
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