Recent content by charlie_the_tuna

So we’ve been out a few times this week and I noticed how amazing our fuel burn has been. We ran a solid 2 plus hours and the fuel gauge never dropped below 3/4 of a tank. So we’re running home tonight and she starts coughing. About 10 seconds later she’s gone. SH!T!!! I’m 85% sure we’re out of...

She ran like a dog without a leash! Ran like a mother father for a half hour. Not so much as a hiccup. Then, BOOM!!! Started acting up again. Plan on going out tomorrow. Gonna swap out the small filter element and run outside for bass. They***8217;re killing 40-50 inch bass in 10 feet of water...

So we went out today and about 25 minutes, she ran great. Then, she started acting up again. My kid said the bulb was getting sucked in. When I went to check it out, it seemed like one side of the bulb was almost flat. Not really sucked in but not fat and round. I thought maybe it’s possible it...

Ok. I’ve tried Everything. Got in there with a bore scope and saw what the issue was. They cross drilled through the stringer and there’s just no way in hell I’m gonna get that fuel line through that hole. So I’m gonna run the line along the stringer and come out under the transom well. I’m...

i'm replacing the fuel line from the tank to the filter/water separator. like a jacka$$, i pulled the old line out without attaching the new line to it. why? because i'm a cheap bastard and it didn't want to buy 9 feet of line if i only needed 8. so i yanked it out to measure thinking it'll be a...

first, a bit of back story. some of you know i have two boys. 24 and somewhat gainfully employed and 20 and fishes 16-20 hours per day. Cam works at a hospital as an ER clerk. i don't know exactly what he does but everybody loves him because he's gorgeous. Steven is a man-child who lives to...

So I’ve been hitting it with liquid wrench every other day for about a week now. Lightly tapping it with a hammer hoping to shock the threads into sucking some of that penetrant in. Took a wrench to it yesterday and it’s on there pretty good. I have to imagine it’s the original 30 year old...

So my reel should be here tomorrow. I picked up a nice little rod today. Now to load it up with braid. This will be my first time using braid. My kid’s been breaking my balls to use braid. WOW!!! This stuff is expensive! Looks like it’ll run about $40 bucks to spool up with decent braid. So...

So on your recommendations, I ordered the mercury primer bulb. Man! That thing is hard to squeeze! I don’t imagine it’s gonna get any easier.

So my wife says I should buy myself a reel. She says I deserve it. She tells me to use my basspro card and charge the slammer IV 3500 for $280. This little beast has 30 pounds of drag. The spinfisher VI 3500 is on sale for $135. Basically half the price. Also half the drag. I have a slammer IV...

so i'm looking at the slammer 4 and they have a DX version. dealer exclusive. other than the color, does anybody know what the difference is?

I’m running home last week after a day of fishing and I’m at about 4,600rpm. The rpm’s drop a couple hundred and back up and back down and then drop all the way and shut down. It restarts right away and I bumped it back up and it happens again. So I figure let me check the bulb. Soft. I squeeze...

so basically, we've been filling gas cans at the station and dumping them in the boat. is there something i should add once in a while, or even every time we gas? every other time? every 4th fillup? once a month? the dam thing runs so beautifully, i hate to change anything. maybe a little go...

by now you've all heard about the summer of the shark off the coast of long island. we've had 5 minor "attacks" and they claim sharknado is here. first off, the news stations have broken the story... there are sharks in the ocean. who knew?!? we have more bunker than i've seen in a decade or...

So when I bought the boat it came with a raymarine dragonfly pro 7. Chart plotter/sonar/fish finder. I guess it works well and the full color display sure is pretty. Having never owned a marine GPS, I really don’t know how to use it. So what do I do? I just ordered a chart. Yes, a hard chart...