@@Steelzim U.S. in Ohio

@1980s-fan thank you!! It was a blast for sure. Plenty of fish that's for sure. They stock them every year too so that's always good.🤙

@jeffrankin4234 sorry there wasn't enough info, I'll take that into consideration the next time.

@waikarimoana Thanks Tony!! Yeah we have some great water here. Hope all is well in your neck of the woods.🤙

Thanks brother! It was near the end of November before we started getting all this weather.

@@Steelzim yes it is. In Ohio

Thank you!🤙I put the links to the gear I used in the video if you want to check them out. But I'm using 6# Berkley Trilene XT with Seguar florocarbon and size 6 octopus hooks by Gamakatsu .

@Troutaholic1961 thank you! I'll keep that in mind🤙

@@angie215 heck yes!!! It was definitely needed🤣🤣

@@gabef3842 it's the main river.

@carsonlessif1808 thank you!🤙 I'm on the Grand River in Painesville

Thank you, I use the fish grips as an alternative to using my fingers in their gills.

The grippers can work you just have to support the fishes stomach when you are holding them with it. The same applies to big pike or muskie, holding them vertically can cause damage

@@archerjay1 You dont need your hands in the gills either. Grippers are a huge no go on all trout. Just hold him by the tail and one hand under his head

@lisastewart7992 the reason I use the can is the intake for my water doesn't alow me to use the muffs. If you have the side intakes on your motor the muffs will work

@archerjay1 thanks! it has intake holes on the sides, but wasn't peeing when I tried to winterise, so a friend recommended checking the impeller. It ran fine most of the summer, but hasn't been staying running, so I'm probably going to look for carburetor cleaning videos too

@lisastewart7992 it could be the impeller, I have a short on how to test your impeller before you start taking it apart. Granted you do have to take the lower unit off to test in that way, but it is pretty simple once you start tinkering.

@@promod6037 there were alot of giants returned to the wayer that day. I only keep a few for food👍

Thank you!! Yeah every one is special!

@MiltonRamirez-wu5yd it's a mercury 9.9 2 stroke

@archerjay1 sorry for bothering you again i don't understand the year, my is mercury 1989 2 stroke 9.9 hp

I see the typo and apologize for that. My motor is a 1996 mercury 9.9hp 2 stroke. And please if you have any more questions please feel free to ask.🤙

@Rustycam1025 thank you for the extra info. 🤙

@@DEVILDOG1964 hahahahahaha

Thank you! It was a hot one out there that day

Thats awesome! It won't be long now before they start to push closer to shore. Where are you launching out of? Great job and tight lines!

DUNKIRK BUT FRIENDS SCORED SHALLOW OUT OF THE CATT WE WERE VERY DEEP. WHERE DID YOU LAUNCH OUT OF?

I launch out of Fairport Harbor

I'd be glad to have you along on a trip.👍

@@kindywoodandiron1756 thank you very much. I hope it can help you catch more walleye👍 tight lines

@josemariatrueba4568 Thanks for the tip. I guess it's for the backyard mechanic that likes to tinker. That's great input though. Thanks again👍 tight lines brother!!

@archerjay1 You are right. We all have a multimeter at hand. Now I was wondering why one of your cheap coils failed. I'm getting an expert in ignition coils because I've got a problem with my Mercury 15 two atroke, which is almost exactly as your 9.9. That's why I came to your KZbin channel. The engine failed aome time ago, and the other day I measured the inductance of both coils, which were around 15 micro Henry instead of around 500 or 1 thousand. Multimeter showed zero ohms, and I came to the conclusion that both could had failed. Today I have replaced both coils with some very old ones that I had at hand. The engine has started well afterwards, but after 5 minutes idling fine, the engine started sounding as if running on one cylinder and stopped after several seconds. I started it again but was running badly, and it stopped running. It looks like one of the coils has failed but I quit working because it started raining. Now I'm thinking why my new old coil, which came from a 1997 135hp engine, has failed after only 5 minutes, maybe very much the same as your cheap coil. Maybe there's something killing coils in our engines? Is your 9.9 still working fine with the new oem Sierra coils?

@josemariatrueba4568 so I've tinkered around with the electrical system on my motor for some time now, and I've changed the switch box, coils, plugs, wires, basically everything, then I turned to the stator, and swapped it out for a cheap Amazon one in a pinch to just fish again. So needless to say that the cheap stator failed now as well. So as to the question about the coils failing, and from what I've researched and come up with through physical tests of each component is that I believe my coils were burning up because the stator/trigger were starting to fail. It all works in concert with each other and when one starts to wear out it will wear out other parts quicker. I will be making a stator/trigger video asap. Let me know if this helped and if you have any more questions. And yes the OEM coils are working great👍 I'm sure you know but with these 2 strokes no matter what's going on it can only be 3 things. 1. electricity 2. fuel 3. air/compression.

@@archerjay1 Is your engine working alright today?

@josemariatrueba4568 it will be as soon as I pull the cheap stator/trigger off once again and replace it with an OEM part..LOL it was running flawlessly and then Kapoot. Went through the cycle of possibilities and tests and it's the stator/trigger. On a side note the cheap $25 one lasted 3 months😐

Good point. I didn't dig as deep as you have on this that's for sure. It sounds like you know your electricity.👍 and it is possible about getting the extra voltage. And through experience and sometimes just throwing a bucket of parts at them in the past the OEM parts are just worth the money, and mostly covered by a lifetime warranty.

​​​@@archerjay1 I'm afraid that you are very right. Shall we order a complete set of stator ignition timing, switbox and coils? I love this engine. It has been working great for 20 years or so when I bought it new for 3,000 euros around year 2003 or so. I love two strokes since my youth when I went to Motocross competitions. Two strokes are simple, light and give lots of torque! I've got 4 units of Mercury 5hp (two for this sailing sportboat, one for spare and another one short shaft for the inflatable dinghy). I also have one Mercury 135hp extra long shaft for my Pursuit 2550 (when I bought this boat it had twin Mercury 135hp in very bad shape, one completely destroyed after replacing all six carburators, actually three double carburators, because one of the new carburators wasn't sending any gasoline to one of the six cylinders. Then I removed both engines and bought a third Mercury 135 engine second hand which run great until now that I have an overheating issue. I have replaced this broken diaphragm at poppet valve but temperature alarm still kicks in if I run it over 2000 rpm (more job now that I'm retired). By the way... I'm from Bilbao, a city located at the northern coast of Spain near France. Where are you from?

@@mats2595 you're welcome. Hope it helped👍

@randymiller5008 yeah I wish I could use big boards, but ya gotta make lemonade out of lemons..lol. tight lines as well my friend👊

@@archerjay1 I use Off shore Tackle boards . Quick release in the front and I have a lock for the back. I take the screw out of the bottom and flip the weight 180 degrees , so it diggs harder . And a tattle flag ... Put my phone number on em because they cost a fortune 😄🎣✌️

@@randymiller5008 that sounds like you have it dialed in brother! I like the phone number on the board in case you lose it.👍

@@alexACR3167 thank you!! I'm gonna have to look into that. Thanks for the tip👍

@stevehawkins6476 sorry about the volume that's what made me buy microphones. If you have any questions I can answer them if you would like.

@@Allwayzfishin yeah thay definitely sounds like a plan

This crazy I was out a day before y'all an limited out. Great vid guys. Wouldn't mind tag along sometime.

@@nickmonday3387 that sounds like a plan!

Heck yes. That would be awesome.

@@angie215 thank you!!! It's a work in progress

What state ty

@@rickyrishel8198 Thank you!

@@rickyrishel8198 Ohio

@@archerjay1 Holmes County here. Good luck thanks

@rickyrishel8198 awesome! Thank you again, good luck and tight lines to you as well👊

Thank you! No that was on the north side in PA

@bloodlinefishingadventuresllc thank you very much! We do love it...same to you my friend!

@@archerjay1 thank you

@bloodlinefishingadventuresllc you got it my friend!

@@richardwinters5750 thank you!

@@michaelupchurch3769 thank you!! I try to as much as possible👍

@@cconlystore I haven't used Dreamweaver jets before. Do they have different holes on the bottom of the jet that you can move the snap to?

@fishingrelaunched4864 thank you! yeah it's definitely building forever memories and teaching them some skills

@RLester331 thank you that's very possible👍

@@archerjay1 Fairport

@@RLester331 yup that's the same waters for sure

@billfresh3776 yeah I have a couple yellow boards that I started with, needless to say I spent more time turning around to retrieve them because they come off easily. That's why I switched to the walleye board. The sliding keel weight on the bottom of the boards are to balance the board so it runs level and true in the water. Too much weight forward and the nose dives too deep, and likewise too much rear keel weight lifts the nose too high and they don't cut the water how they should and in turn won't get out to the side of the boat. When I use jet divers I am letting out 100' of line before I put the board on and typically I run another 100 out after putting my board on the line. Yeah Erie does get choppy fast because it is the shallowest of the great lakes. Lastly when I rig up my jet divers I use 30" of line behind the diver, and I make my harnesses with the same amount of line that gives me a 5' leader from the jet to the blade on my harness. Hope this helps and feel free to reply with any more questions you have. Tight lines and good luck👊

@Reeldinghylife thank you!!🎣 just subscribed to you brother!!👊

@@admihelich1 thank you! Hope you found d something that will help get some more eyes in the boat!👊

Thank you! Hope you found it useful 👍

Thanks!👊No it's Lake Erie near Clevland o Ohio

I would start with 60' of line out then work your way out from there. The depending factors on depth adjustment will depend on current, speed, and type of line used. I use braid which has less drag on the line and in turn helps me to get a little deeper, but makes it a little more challenging to get shallower.If you are using mono it will be somewhat easier to get a little shallower.Jets are depth specific but you can adjust the length of line out to go shallower or deeper. Hope this helps, and let me know how it works for you.👍

Thank you. Hope it helps you get some eyes👍

Yeah I've gotten some big largemouth out if there as well as crappie. It's a good spot👍

Thanks brother!!

Hey Tony! Thanks brother! Hope y'all are well there in NZ