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    Scott


    Location:
    North Shore MA
    About Me My pages and photos gives you a glimpse into my life...
    Music All types...depends on what mood I am in at the time. Just picked up Sirius...huge fan.
    Movies Jaws, Shawshank, Forrest Gump, The Matrix, Lord of the Rings, A River Runs Through It, Dumb and Dumber
    TV Reality TV, fishing / hunting shows, College and Pro Football.
    Books Reading Alaska now...don't know why i started.
    Likes Family, Being outside, fishing, hunting, photos of the outdoors especially of fish and game
    Dislikes these would be things that i, um, don't like.
    Hobbies Fishing, hunting, rod building, lure building, DIY home repair, boats,outboard engines, skiing, hiking,
    Vices Started getting into burbon recently...go figure. Two months of the year, i may be known to buy a tin of something for when I am chasing tuna. Helps with the frustration.
    Virtues Patience is a virtue i think...wish i had some.
    Heroes Our men and women serviing in the armed forces. God bless them all.

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    Is it Spring Yet?

    Wednesday, March 12, 2008, 02:56 PM [General]

     

     Holy crap am i sick of winter...been keeping myself busy with building rods, plugs and tying flies but enough is enough!  Snow today for a bit and they are calling for a "wintry mix" later this week with lows in the 20s. 

    Maybe i'll put the grips and reel seat on the new 12wt i'm building tonight...question is...do i put the forward Cigar grip on it or do i just go with the full wells?  8 weeks ago, there wouldn't have been a maybe at the front of this paragraph but after a while, even building rods doesn't do it.  Stripers are in southern jersey...maybe i should just hop in the car and be done with it.

    5 weeks to go from past log books...can i wait that long?

     

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    Winterize your engine

    Thursday, October 18, 2007, 02:09 PM [General]

     

    A few years ago I got tired of paying a mechanic to winterize and shrink wrap my boat so i signed up for an outboard engine mechanic's course and have been doing all the work on my engines since and found out just how easy it is to winterize an outboard engine.  Here are the steps if you want to save yourself a little cash...

     

    1. Fill up your gas tank

     

    2. treat with Stabil and Enzyme treatment

     

    3. run boat to get treated gas into engine

     

    4. run boat on land at idle speed for fogging

     

    5. Spray fogging oil into engine carb or fogging hole (4-stroeks) until engine dies or almost dies out.

     

    6. Remove spark plug and give about a 3 second spay with fogging oil into each cylinder head.

     

    7 replace spark plugs, only hand tighten (do not reattach plug wires)

     

    8 turn over engine 3 cranks

     

    9 replace plug wires

     

    10. remove lower unit oil (works like on a  vacuum - undo bottom first and then top)

     

    11. refill lower unit oil and replace gaskets on screws

     

    12. remove cotter pin, bolt and prop

     

    13. grease prop shaft and cover to protect from weather

     

    14 pump antifreeze into your engine either with muffs or through the hose clamp (newer engines).  Use hand pump, don't start engine to circulate fluid.

     

    15. Run antifreeze through all pumps - bilge to live wells to macerators.

     

    16. Charge, remove and store batteries where they will not freeze

     

     Shrink wrap...you're done!

     

     

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    Scott,
    Picture of the fish is up on my page now. Man, do I look goofy, too. Wow. Anyhow, my guess is that it's about 30", maybe a tad less.

    David
    November 15, 2007
    02:18 PM CST

    So Chad pulled up the pictures here at the office yesterday and everyone seems to think it was closer to a 15-pound fish. I'll say 13 just to be reasonable.

    I'm going with Henry again this Saturday AM and will probably throw a Crease Fly. Hopefully I'll have some more pictures Saturday afternoon. We got some video footage of the last fish, too, so Henry should have that on his American Angler page soon. I'll let you know when it's up.

    -Cannon

    David
    November 14, 2007
    02:21 PM CST

    Scott,

    I caught my biggest striper on the fly this past Saturday on Lake Lanier with Henry Cowen - 10-11 pounder that nailed a "Cowen's Baitfish" pattern about five feet below the surface -- AWESOME fish! I can only imagine what a 20-pounder feels like! These linesides are quickly becoming my fish of choice.

    David
    November 13, 2007
    09:13 AM CST

    Scott -- 2nd week of June is my birthday, so I should be able to pull that off, right? I actually have a good buddy who just moved to Boston, so I could even save some dough and stay at his place. I'll start saving for airfare.
    Off the subject - my wife and I were just looking at your pictures and we both agree that your daughter is about as cute as they come. Congrats on that!

    David
    October 17, 2007
    01:01 PM CST