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Is it ok to run it to the spot and let it sit there knowing the water in it is gonna freeze? It's gonna be in the single digits in the morning and never get above freezing tomorrow, just wondering if its ok to run the engine in that. How would you go about clearing the water out when you get to the spot? Or just leaving it in there is ok?

Outboards self drain, no worries about freezing

jehler wrote:Outboards self drain, no worries about freezing

Thanks for easing my mind.

Take a piece of weedeater line about a foot long. Stick it up the pisser tube as far as you can when you turn the motor off. And keep the lower unit in the water. Almost got stranded its year because I left it trimmed up so it would dip in and out of the water in the waves. Ended up with over an inch of ice on the whole lower unit when I went back to get the boat.

NuffDaddy wrote:Take a piece of weedeater line about a foot long. Stick it up the pisser tube as far as you can

Dan said that's what he does too.

3legged_lab wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:Take a piece of weedeater line about a foot long. Stick it up the pisser tube as far as you can

Dan said that's what he does too.

So if that's true, Wonder how we could get him to start shooting pearls?

Someone's gonna hit this one at long ways

3legged_lab wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:Take a piece of weedeater line about a foot long. Stick it up the pisser tube as far as you can

Dan said that's what he does too.

That might have been where I got it from. I know I read it on a forum somewhere. Works good.

3legged_lab wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:Take a piece of weedeater line about a foot long. Stick it up the pisser tube as far as you can

Dan said that's what he does too.

Just realized you weren't talking about outboards.

:lol::lol::lol:

It didnt freeze up, but we hit some rough ass water and wound up gettin my right eyelid frozen shut a few times, waders were stiff as a board and my jacket was pretty crunchy all morning too. I don't see how you northern guys deal with that crap on a regular basis. It was absolutely miserable.

FlintRiverFowler wrote:It didnt freeze up, but we hit some rough ass water and wound up gettin my right eyelid frozen shut a few times, waders were stiff as a board and my jacket was pretty crunchy all morning too. I don't see how you northern guys deal with that crap on a regular basis. It was absolutely miserable.

We grow these things, I believe you might know them as testicles

BrewGUN wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:It didnt freeze up, but we hit some rough ass water and wound up gettin my right eyelid frozen shut a few times, waders were stiff as a board and my jacket was pretty crunchy all morning too. I don't see how you northern guys deal with that crap on a regular basis. It was absolutely miserable.

We grow hairy Sasquatch knuckles

FIFY

FlintRiverFowler wrote:

BrewGUN wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:It didnt freeze up, but we hit some rough ass water and wound up gettin my right eyelid frozen shut a few times, waders were stiff as a board and my jacket was pretty crunchy all morning too. I don't see how you northern guys deal with that crap on a regular basis. It was absolutely miserable.

We grow hairy Sasquatch knuckles

FIFY

That too, but explain Jehler?

FlintRiverFowler wrote:It didnt freeze up, but we hit some rough ass water and wound up gettin my right eyelid frozen shut a few times, waders were stiff as a board and my jacket was pretty crunchy all morning too. I don't see how you northern guys deal with that crap on a regular basis. It was absolutely miserable.

Was the water freezing yet? It really starts to suck when you have to go bust ice rings off the decoys every 15 min.

NuffDaddy wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:It didnt freeze up, but we hit some rough ass water and wound up gettin my right eyelid frozen shut a few times, waders were stiff as a board and my jacket was pretty crunchy all morning too. I don't see how you northern guys deal with that crap on a regular basis. It was absolutely miserable.

Was the water freezing yet? It really starts to suck when you have to go bust ice rings off the decoys every 15 min.

It wasnt great white north cold. The wind was blowing and keeping the waves up and it was probly 8-10 degrees. But by the time we picked up the decoys they were pretty well covered in ice. The boat was an ice cube. What's normal winter stuff up your way is insanity down here. A few weeks ago when it got down to 4 degrees they canceled school for two days bc it was too cold outside. And possibly too sunny.

NuffDaddy wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:It didnt freeze up, but we hit some rough ass water and wound up gettin my right eyelid frozen shut a few times, waders were stiff as a board and my jacket was pretty crunchy all morning too. I don't see how you northern guys deal with that crap on a regular basis. It was absolutely miserable.

Was the water freezing yet? It really starts to suck when you have to go bust ice rings off the decoys every 15 min.

That does suck. A lot.

assateague wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:It didnt freeze up, but we hit some rough ass water and wound up gettin my right eyelid frozen shut a few times, waders were stiff as a board and my jacket was pretty crunchy all morning too. I don't see how you northern guys deal with that crap on a regular basis. It was absolutely miserable.

Was the water freezing yet? It really starts to suck when you have to go bust ice rings off the decoys every 15 min.

That does suck. A lot.

It kept me from going out the last 2 days of the season. I went out on Friday and it was miserable. And we only got 1 mallard. If there woulda been birds I woulda been out. That was the day I thought I was stranded with a frozen outboard too.

FlintRiverFowler wrote:

NuffDaddy wrote:

FlintRiverFowler wrote:It didnt freeze up, but we hit some rough ass water and wound up gettin my right eyelid frozen shut a few times, waders were stiff as a board and my jacket was pretty crunchy all morning too. I don't see how you northern guys deal with that crap on a regular basis. It was absolutely miserable.

Was the water freezing yet? It really starts to suck when you have to go bust ice rings off the decoys every 15 min.

It wasnt great white north cold. The wind was blowing and keeping the waves up and it was probly 8-10 degrees. But by the time we picked up the decoys they were pretty well covered in ice. The boat was an ice cube. What's normal winter stuff up your way is insanity down here. A few weeks ago when it got down to 4 degrees they canceled school for two days bc it was too cold outside. And possibly too sunny.

They canceled schools here today. They said the wind chill was too cold. WTF? This is Michigan.