Recent content by JeffChastain

haha! Thats awesome bro. That's the biggest I've caught out of oxford lake. I wonder if there are some 60 lb whoppers in there? Are you in montgomery fulltime now?

Welcome back, Mike. And thanks for what you do. I worked in aviation when I was in the military, and sometimes without an engineer that was a contractor, we would've never gotten a helicopter fixed. Even though you guys get paid far more than us for the same job :roll: (haha) we need you guys...

My HB seems to be an older model. Taking the screw out of the tilt bracket leaves me looking at two wires running straight into the unit. The only option without opening the unit would be to splice the wires. I'm not feeling so sure that I have two red wires running from the unit now. I haven't...

What you need is an air hammer. I have a bad habit of calling an air hammer "rivet gun". One like this will do the job just fine. Also, you'll want some of these. It is acceptable to buck the rivet with a flat set, but it is a bit harder to keep from pounding up the aluminum you're riveting into.

Alright, I checked for you today too, and yes, the 1/4th is what you'll need. Also, don't worry too much if the rivets are too long. I don't reckon you care too much if the shop head on the rivet is perfect. But, if they are way too long, you can just grab a sander, and sand the excess lenght...

That's how I figured it too. But, as you'll see in the picture, my white wire just runs between each battery, not connecting to the fish finder. Does that matter? Can I just run one red wire to the positive, and one to the negative on the battery?

So, I own a Humminbird 100 Wide portable. It comes in a case, and runs off of two 6 volt batteries. I got this awesome idea a few days ago. I figured hey, my trolling motors run on 12 volts, and so does my fishfinder. I can take the wires for the fishfinder off of the two 6 volt battery...

BPS has a few great sales going on, actually. They have a couple of humminbird and lowrance units for around 299 that have down imaging and dual beam sonar. I've already asked santa for a new depthfinder for christmas. Wonder if he'll spend that much?

) Sixgun86 2) aeviaanah 3)Jim 4)Brine 5) Capt. Ahab 6)LonLB 7) Peperrocks 8 )JeffChastain 9) 10) I'll give it a go. Got a few nice things laying around that I haven't used.

That's what I like about the suspending baits. You can burn them once they hit the water to get them deep, then stop reeling, and they suspend at that depth. Rapala does awesome things.

That's a sweet kitty, jig. I'm gonna take you up on heading out on neely henry. You're catchin them like they're going out of style!

I'm sorry, bro. I'm used to the way we numbered things in the military. I'm having a hard time refreshing my memory, but I do believe a size 5 rivet is the civilians equivalent to 3/16. Our bags of rivets came numbered like XXXXX4-5, with the last two numbers being diameter, and length. I'd bet...

Go With a size 5 rivet.What you have in your boat are size 4. Generally it's good to go up a size when replacing a rivet in order to ensure a tight fit. You may have to drill the hole out a bit. Get rivets in lengths 3 and 4, as in not sure of the thickness of your aluminum. You should be good...

I wouldn't say I've had good luck this fall season, but the luck I have had has come from the Rapala X-rap jerks and suspending baits. Fished reeeeeeeal slow. I let that suspending bait sit out there sometimes for up to a minute, move it a few feet, then let it set on a semi-slack line. It's fun...

LonLB, I'd surely get after it for you if you could get it to me. Bucking rivets isn't so hard with a little practice though. Get yourself a couple pieces of scrap aluminum, drill holes in them both, put them in a vice and rivet them together until you get it looking good. That's how we learned...