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This person may or may not be a member yet. Do you know who it is?

This person may or may not be a member yet. Do you know who it is?

This person may or may not be a member yet. Do you know who it is?

This person may or may not be a member yet. Do you know who it is?

This person may or may not be a member yet. Do you know who it is?

This person may or may not be a member yet. Do you know who it is?

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This should be an easy one for everyone.

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You can not use grease. You could use marine lubricant. It needs to be able to work its way up through the cable. I believe there are two ways the cable connects at the helm. One is a flat slide end that is bolted to the helm, the other is a cable that goes around the helm. You might want to try some good old WD-40. Turn your wheel all the way to the right to extend the cable all of the way out at the outboard. Spray the WD-40 at the end of the cable casing. See if you can squirt it inside the casing. You may want to remove the nut first before you spray. Turn the wheel all of the way the opposite direction and try and spray where the cable connects to the helm. You may have to unbolt it from the hem to do this. After you have it all sprayed and put back together, work the wheel left and right for a while. You may have to repeat the lubrication process. A new steering cable is somewhere's around $125 Seems like I have saw an aresol lubrication system for steering cables. With the pressurized aresol, it forces the lubrication up the line. Let me see if I can dig that up. Worse case scenarial you have to replace the cable. If you decide to go this way and need a hand, give me a shout. We could change out the cable in less than 2 hours, providing we do not have to pull the motor. Let me know how it goes.

Some members have been having problems with the site since day light savings time went into effect. This is an issue with the vbulletin software. I made a change to the code to address this issue. This should take care of the problem. Let me know if anyone is still having issues. Sorry about the inconvenience. Mike

I have the link exchange working on the home page now. If you would like to add your site to the link exchange, you must have a reciprocal link to Great Lakes Fisherman on your site. I will check all links periodically to verify the site still works and there is a reciprocal link. You have to be a registered member in order to submit a link. If you have any question, send me a PM with your question.

Here is the link for the Cable Buddy. Cable Buddy You have to change the nut on the end of your steering cable at the motor.

I took a bunch of pictures of boats as everyone headed back to the ramp. I will be making posts through out the next week with boats and no names. Can you name who it is? Here is the third one. Who is it?

I took a bunch of pictures of boats as everyone headed back to the ramp. I will be making posts through out the next week with boats and no names. Can you name who it is? Here is the second one. Who is it?

I took a bunch of pictures of boats as everyone headed back to the ramp. Not every boat owner is a member here. I will be making posts throughout the next week of boats that we do not know who they are. Can you name who it is? Here is the first one. Who is it?

I am not familiar with the ins and outs of hydraulic steering. Is there a cable that runs from the steering column to the back of the boat? If there is, I am guessing the cable is seizing up. I believe there is a way that you can lubricate this cable. Give me some more details on the set up. I had to change a steering cable out on my old boat because it set up from not being used. This is the way it was when I purchased the boat. It got used plenty once it was mine

Ooppsss....How did I forget the bosses? Bad GLF! Sorry Darla and Connie. Thanks for everything.

I was unable to fish in the Brown Blast because it was moved to Sunday. My hats off to the Fishdog guys, Mark and Steve, for thinking of everyones safety and moving it to Sunday. I did however make it to the weigh in. I met a few of you and appeared that everyone that went out had a great time. The fishing was not as hot as what it had been this past week. No doubt the weather or Friday and Saturday scattered the fish. I did not get a chance to stick around and see who one the tournament. My youngest was ill and we had to leave. I saw some browns, coho, and kings being weighed in. Team Running Arends weighed in a really nice spring king. I believe this fish hit the scale at around 13lbs. You have to excuse me for not know everyones names. This next team weighed in a nice mixed bag of fish including a really nice brown. I believe their total weight was around 22lbs and they may have been the ones that one the tournament. We have seen the big fish of the tourney, now we need to see the little one. I believe this honor went to Team Six Shooter. Notice how tasty this fish looks as Jim is licking his lips Notice the extension of the fish to make this appear as a lunker If I had not seen it with my own eyes, I would have sworn it was an alewive. I amost forgot about one photo. Not only did Team Six Shooter have one Lunker, they had another. Those are two fish to be proud of It look like everyone had a great time. Maybe I will be able to fish in the Brown Blast next year.

I have moved the Charter Service Section. It is now located in the Link Exchange area. You can get there by clicking on the link in the "Site Navigation" block on the home page. The link exchange uses different software, so I could not move the threads. I have sent pm's to all of the charter captains that had a link on the forums to repost them in the link exchange. If anyone has any questions, or needs help posting in the new section, give me a shout.

Anyone know when the morels will start showing up? What are the best areas to look for them?