01-07-2008, 02:28 AM
I have been out a couple times this season, about a dozen pan fish for my effort, gills and a couple respectable crappie...
I was susposed to go out yesterday, I got in the truck only to find the battery dead. we had two days of 10 below zero temps here this past week, guess I should have gone out and started the motor at least once during the time... I put the battery on the charger over night and it was still dead today... so I put the battery back on the truck, got the charger on it just enough to get it started, drove to the auto store shut the engine off and the battery was totaly dead.... pulled it out of the truck and went in for a new battery, only 90 bucks.... all I needed was a 2 dollar can of waxworms [
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got the battery in, got the wax worms, and some varnish for my new tipup I built a couple days ago...
I started the finish on the tipup, just put the second coat on, I will put on at least 3 more coats before the night is over, one about every half hour or so... by morning it will be finished and I can re-esemble it and put it out on the lake for a try out...[cool]
I will get a photo and detail on all the functioning parts when it is finished...
I may have to change the hook, right now it is on a hair trigger, a crappie could set it off, just hope the trigger is not so light that my bait sets it off....[shocked]
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I was susposed to go out yesterday, I got in the truck only to find the battery dead. we had two days of 10 below zero temps here this past week, guess I should have gone out and started the motor at least once during the time... I put the battery on the charger over night and it was still dead today... so I put the battery back on the truck, got the charger on it just enough to get it started, drove to the auto store shut the engine off and the battery was totaly dead.... pulled it out of the truck and went in for a new battery, only 90 bucks.... all I needed was a 2 dollar can of waxworms [
] got the battery in, got the wax worms, and some varnish for my new tipup I built a couple days ago...
I started the finish on the tipup, just put the second coat on, I will put on at least 3 more coats before the night is over, one about every half hour or so... by morning it will be finished and I can re-esemble it and put it out on the lake for a try out...[cool]
I will get a photo and detail on all the functioning parts when it is finished...
I may have to change the hook, right now it is on a hair trigger, a crappie could set it off, just hope the trigger is not so light that my bait sets it off....[shocked]
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