Recent content by M_P

That one's for the boat

Our lab just had a litter of pups and the male we bred her with was competing yesterday in the retriever trials. I took the afternoon off work and went down to watch. The only money I spent was on a window sticker for the truck and a couple hats for my son at the CCFR booth

Was able to get out with my Brother and my youngest Son on Saturday. Launched out of Big Otter and ran straight out to 58 fow. Set up a copper spoon on 5 colour and was letting line out on the next lead core rod when the first one fired. 5 colour straight out the back, alternated the dipsys...

Our the first trip out this year on the May long weekend the old Johnson Faststrike packed it in. Turned out to be carb issues and finding new carbs for it would be like winning the lottery so we began the search for a used motor. After a few weeks we found a 20" Etec 150. The mechanic that I...

Out with my son a few weeks back and thought we were going have to run the kicker all the way into port. We are running a Johnson 150 FastStrike, ran great on our way out but come time to head in it was hard starting, would not idle and wouldn't run higher than 4k rpm and smoking like mad. It...

This year's spring project was to install a VHF in the Princecraft. Looking into the operator's course for my boys and I. Between the in-person and on-line options, there's really no excuse to not have it.

Dogs know when we're hurting.

Sorry man.

You will be hard pressed to find us trolling for Salmon or Walleye without our first mate. She's a 4 year old lab female and she loves the boat. She goes absolutely nuts when a rigger goes off or we're reeling in a fish. Can't take her when casting though - she thinks it's fish on every time...