My springer is from Whiskey River Springer Spaniels out of Cadott, WI. Todd is a really nice guy and our dog has been a great family member and hunter. My father in law has a younger pup out of their kennel too as well as my sister in law.
Todd would probably be able to guide you to a breeder closer to where you live if he is too far away.
Like Mojo suggested I would try and get ahold of Sheldon/Iowaby1. He would probably be able to talk with you over the phone and make some suggestions based off the symptoms. I cleaned my VST on my Yamaha a few years back and like you mentioned cleaned the pickup screen. Ended up sending my fuel injectors to Sheldon to have them cleaned and my motor has been running way better ever since.
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Well this trip is a week away now for me! Going to start work on packing a bit this coming weekend if time allows. Debating if I bring 2 or 3 rods. Think it would be nice to have a jiggin rod, bobber rod, and crank bait rod. We are planning on camping on Ensing. Is there a better side of the lake to fish on, or any specific camp sites to look for?
Does it have a briggs and stratton motor with the newer style plastic carb? Couple good YT videos that go over some fixes for these.
First one is checking that the auto choke mechanism is working properly. This should be about a 10 min fix if it is the issue.
Second one goes over how restrictive the main jets are one these and a way to modify it so it is a larger hole. Lot more involved than the first choke video.
Links don’t seam to work so I just took screen shots of the YT video and you will have to search them.
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I use Stabil 360 marine. The small bottle of it will last about a year between all my small engines and all the gas I put in my boat boat. I just leave it in my truck and whenever I fill up a gas can or my boat I add it right at the gas station. For $10 a year its a good piece of mind
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Did the shop that fixed it ever pull the carb and take it apart and clean it? Like Grouse mentioned the jets passages are extremely small and if you had water/oil in the gas I would guess the carb is probably clogged up internally.
I use non oxy in all my small engines and always put a stabilizer in the gas can right when I fill them up so that my gas is good for a year plus. Another good practice is to try and run the carb on your small engines dry at the end of using them. If you have fuel shutoff valve, cut off the flow and just let the motor run till it kills on its own.
Next time it wont start, pull the air filter and spray some starter fluid into the intake and if it starts up and kills in after 10 or so seconds, it is a fuel delivery issue.
Where do you live Alex?
He has definitely lost even more of the little vision that he had. I think he is pretty much completely blind at this point. He is still his normal self, just runs into a lot of things and needs more help getting around. My wife has bought a bunch of balls with bells in them, but non of them are all that great. I probably should start thinking about getting a puppy.
For anyone interested here is the recipe I used to smoke my turkey breasts, turned out amazing! Have to figure out what to do with the legs at some point but those are in the freezer now.
Smoked Wild Turkey Breast:
In a large glass bowl, combine the brown sugar, salt, pepper and water and stir until dissolved. Add the turkey and weigh down to completely submerge if necessary. Transfer to the refrigerator to brine for 12-24 hours.
Brine Ingredients
1 1/2 Cup brown sugar
3/8 Cup kosher salt
3 Tablespoon cracked black pepper
6 Cup cold water
2 Turkey breast
Once done with brine, rinse the breasts and pat dry. Coat them in yellow mustard and then liberally cover with the dry rub of your choice. I used 50% Meat Church “Holy Gospel”, and 50% Meat Church “The Gospel”. The Holy Gospel is more peppery.
Smoke at 225 degrees F until an internal temp of 165 degrees F is reached. I had a dish with 50% apple cider vinegar and 50% water in the smoker and periodically brushed this liquid on the breasts throughout the smoke. When done, wrap in tinfoil and let rest. Slice and enjoy. They are even better as leftovers the next day.
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Haha good read Crawdaddy, you crack me up. Congrats on the bird that is a nice picture.
What a morning! Started out walking in kinda blind to a different area of the same public we have been hunting the last few days. I know the area pretty well and we had a field area we were trying to get to that we were assuming they have been roosting near. Without the cloud cover this morning it got light way sooner than the past few mornings and we definitely were behind schedule. Ended up stopping to pull out the decoys from our bags and happened to be pretty near a roosted bird that we didn’t realize and it flew down. Walking up to our planned spot and turned the corner and there was a couple decoys out that someone had already beat us to so we backed out and went away from the guy down a different field. As we were walking down a different field edge about 150 yards away 3 birds flew down so we quickly setup, but they never gobbled and more than likely saw us. Ended up sitting for about 1 hour with my father in law with the decoys out and bailed on him to go chase a distant gobble I had hear. Ended up getting one to respond and it sounded like it was coming closer so I setup in a narrow trail and waited. Couple minutes later a hen comes screaming down the trail and walked within 4 yards of me. Figured the gobbler would pop out next, but all of a sudden another hunter shows up and kinda blew up that setup. Talked to him briefly and he pushed back out the way he came which I appreciated. Figured that was a bust so I started walking up a trail to a pretty tall peak/high point. Was to steep to go down the way I wanted so I backtracked and cut into the woods half way back down. As I am about 30 yards into the woods I hear some wing beats and threw some really gnarly stuff I could make out two fans. Happened to be two toms that were fighting one another. They had no idea I was there and I was already about 25 yards away from them. I belly crawled to a downed tree and got my gun up and watched them fight for about 5 minutes until I had an opportunity at a shot on one of them. Im going to call this just dumb luck on my part and being in the right place at the right time. Pic is from the tree I was hiding behind when I shot him.
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Congrats to your daughter Jeremy that is awesome! Went out for the first two hours this morning, but didn’t see anything. Heard some distant gobbles so might get deeper in/come from a different angle tomorrow.
My father in law has a jake and a hen and I have a hen so that should work out. Gunna give it a try in the am and hopefully get some to come in closer.
Well we didn’t get wet at all this morning and it was not too much of a sloppy mess out there. Setup on a cut field corner close to where we have roosted them in the past years. Called a couple times and a group of 5 came out about 200 yards away and came on a rope right to use but stopped about 40 yards out and got pretty nervous. Only could see one Tom in the bunch and they were all so bunched up didn’t have a clear shot. Don’t think we spooked them too bad but they drifted away pretty quick once that got that close and didn’t see another turkey. Considering going to the same spot tomorrow morning, but setting up some decoys. How many and what kind would you guys set up?
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this is a pretty handy spark plug tester. no need to even remove the plug.
My wife brought him to the eye doctor this morning. Sounds like there is thinning to the peripheral retina and sudden retina degeneration. They are thinking it is SARDS. Sounds like its just a matter of time before he is completely blind. Good news is that most dogs still have a good quality of life with it and he is not in pain, but will have to adjust to not having sight. Will have to get creative with throwning the frisbee/ball since he pretty much lives for that.
Thanks for the input guys. We are going to get an apt at Animal Eye Specialty Center. He has been eating Purina Pro Plan for a long time, but I think we might switch it up to see if that helps with the scabs if they come back now that he is off the antibiotics. I looked up the SARDS symptoms and he does have some of them. He got some blood work done from the vet yesterday so we will should know today if anything comes of that. Not sure about Blasto and if that would show up in the bloodwork or not.
His eyes are a bit cloudy, but have been like that for a while now. He has a calcium deposit on one of his eyes too. Just seems like over the past week his vision has rapidly declined. We are probably going to get an apt at a vet ophthalmologist.
I have the itch to get out possibly this weekend. My normal fishing boat is still in storage, but I could use my 14ft duck boat to get out on the river. No trolling motor just a 10hp 2 stroke on the back. Thinking the 494 access might be my best bet for calmer water. Would like to go upriver from wherever I put in incase I have motor issues. Anyone have feedback if another launch would be a better option?
I have a carbonX 1000 that is a couple years old. Still really smooth and I have not taken it apart. Also they are very light weight. One thing I noticed with this reel is since it has carbon drag washers it has a little different feel to the drag. Almost like the drag friction is less once it is actually slipping compared to when the drag first engages. I run my drag on the looser side, but tend to have to crank this down a bit more to account for this. Not sure if that makes sense or not! I have a lot of daiwa reels too and in that same price point the Legalis LT is hard to beat if you can find it on sale.
Thanks for all the responses guys. Looks like we are going to have an entry date of may 18th which is a Saturday and then we will come back out the following Tuesday. One of the guys has done the Moose to base camp on Ensign in the past so it sounds like we are leaning that way and then possibly just push further in if we can’t find a good spot. Does look like you have a lot of options going out of Mouse. Little hesitant tho after all the comments on how busy it can be. Looking at the map a bit more does anyone have any feedback on snowbank to disappointment lake? Looking at Wood it does look like there is still one permit for that entry point. It only looks like there is 4 camp sites on that lake and they only allow 2 permits per day so I would assume you would be able to get one of the 4 on that lake, but if not you would be pushing into Good lake, Indiana or Basswood.
Scheels will price match pretty much anyone. I use the online chat all the time and just send them the website I found something cheaper for and they will update the item in your cart to the cheaper price.
Will take a look at Wood thanks for the tip Gitchi
All I have ever done in the past was base camp trips so that is all I really am familiar with. Still trying to get a consensus from the rest of the group on if we want to paddle in and just set up a base camp or try to do loop with breaking down camp every morning. The priority would be fishing and our primary target would be walleye. We are looking at more of the Ely side access points. I think we are capable of not using an outfitter if that makes our options more open. We should have enough of our own gear without having to rent anything. I looked through the permits website and its looking like we might have to shoot for either the weekend of fishing opener or the following weekend. Was reading another thread and someone mentioned the lake one access and trying to get to Lake Insula.
Agreed 60 mile radius of Minneapolis is a large area
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Don’t forget about the black box weight. That thing weights 4.3lbs. I think in the future if they can get rid of that or incorporate it into the transducer or head unit it would be awesome.
Ya it was relatively flat bottom at 25ft. Looked at the gain setting on my vexilar and it was at 3 out of 10. Probably user error/not the greatest target separation on that model vex. Mainly was just trying to note that I have probably walked right past fish in the past when just using my specific vexilar prior to having livescope. In hindsight probably should have at least dropped down a jig at each hole for any sign of life coming from the bottom.
Ya I had it set on the 40ft setting. I wish I would have messed with the vexilar a little more to see if I could have seen separation. Next time I run into this I will mess with it more. Might be a while since I seem to end up chasing roaming fish with the livescope more than camping over a school that is not moving.
I have my livescope either on my flip over sled or my smaller smitty wood sled. On a year like this it is pretty easy to pull around a sled hole to hole. Would be awesome if it was wireless.
I’m sure I could have fine tuned my vexilar a bit better and it is just the basic FL8 model. Just thought it was interesting.
I have thrown some rainbow trout in a batch of fried white fish and they were pretty good. My preferred method for the farm raised trout is to smoke them.
