DownshiftAndFloorIt

Im starting a crusade to convince everyone that gaftops are game fish and delicious and in lots of ways, much better target species than specs.

Itll be great when everybody starts targeting the gaftops and leaves me the specs. It could happen. Happened with amberjacks.

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if you get into gafftops

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Yall spec fish without getting into gaftops?

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1998 senior

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Awesome.

Who's running the oldest boat that is still raising fish? Mine is a 1996 vintage and toted out a load of snappers yesterday.

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Magnum Outboards in Harvey is about the only people working on Evinrudes right now.

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Boat stuff in Hammond had an etech guru named Dennis on their staff. If hes still there, thats where id bring it.

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Waters kinda shitty

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It was shitty 20 miles out today

This is fricking bullshite.

I should have clarified. Both inspection stickers and this are bullshite.

We're in the free drugs stage of AI implementation.

Once we're all addicted them token prices are going orbital

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you may get lucky and get sold one on the spot. They may take your name down and throw it in the trash as soon as you walk out of the door.

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When I learned that, it made my dream of buying a sub much less appealing. I dont even want one anymore.

I mean, I still want one. Ill just never actually buy one.

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not buy a boat from bass Pro

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A good rule of thumb.

OP, get a party barge.

Here baw, lemme help you out

It is fricking variable displacement oil pumps. fricking piece of shite government regulations driving us to this ridiculous design consideration and it is 99% of the reason that all of a sudden NOBODY can build a damn engine with lifters and cams that hold up. We've had hydraulic lifters for 60 years and all of a sudden nobody can keep frickin cams and lifters from grenading themselves.

We should all be happy that Trump cut the nuts off the 3 letter agencies because this was going to get much worse in 2027. Now it MIGHT start getting better. No manufacturer will admit it, because they don't want to tank their sales between now and '27.

If you own a vehicle with a regular ol oil pump, keep it. If you have one with a variable displacement oil pump, ditch it for one that doesn't have that junky arse garbage arse shite. It gains you about 1% better fuel economy in very specific EPA test driving cycles, and 10000000% more chance of your engine locking up.

I frickING HATE VARIABLE DISPLACEMENT OIL SYSTEMS.

Reciprocating engines thrive on oil flow. A shitload of it. It lubricates of course, but it also is responsible for a lot of heat transfer.