Bobber Gas Tank
Bobber Gas Tank
Bait Hucking and Fly Fishing in Colorado
It was one of those fishing trips. You know, everyone catches fish but you, you loose six or eight of your most expensive streamers, it rains buckets, and you sink the boat. That's right; I got skunked at Steamboat Lake over Memorial weekend.
I was determined to show those meat huckers (worms and power bait) that a well chosen and strategically placed fly was as effective as anything a conventional fisherman could load on a hook and hang under a bobber. Well, no such luck, I got stomped.
The fish were rising like mad on a midge hatch, and I threw everything in the box at them. I could swear I saw a hefty rainbow nudge my fly to the side to eat the natural laying only centimeters from my damn near perfect replica. As we watched the group of 12 year olds add another 18" fish to their stringer (full loaded, I might add) I decided it must be a lake thing. I don't fish lakes often.
I usually have good luck with a streamer in faster moving water, so I head for one on the several tributaries hoping to get the boat up far enough to make a make a few good casts. No such luck, here comes the wind. Determined and frustrated, I proceed to lose several of my best streamers in the dense shrubbery surrounding the mouth of the creek (can't retrieve them since the current is too strong to get the boat any further up the creek).
On the way back to camp we are passed by a couple of boats with stringers of fish crashing off the bows of their boats (hmmm, are they just rubbing it my face, or are they tenderizing the meat?)Questioning my decision to become a fly fisherman, I head over to the dock to pick up my 5 year-old son and a fresh styro of night crawlers. I'll let my son fish the meat before I crumble and load one up on the spinner myself. Surprising, no luck with the meat either, and hear comes the rain. I throw my arms up and ponder my karma activity of the past year.
We charge for shore as the lake turns to white caps. The rain and lightning moves in fast. Did I mention that we got the boat for free and have no clue what to do in the rain? We pull the boat up close to shore near our camp, outside of the no-wake zone. We leave all of our gear and head for the soggy camp.
Well, apparently it's best to leave your boat in protected cove in the no wake zone. From what we could tell, our boat was hammered with 300 to 400 gallons of water from the waves and boat wakes from boaters rushing back to the dock. Yes, it sank in 18 inches of water. I didn't realize a boat could sink in 18" of water! All of our gear is floating around the shore. The gas tank and gear which included an Orvis waste pack with hmmmm, some 500 plus flies. Every box any fly had to be opened and dried on the dashboards of our trucks.
We bail the boat, load the truck and haul our soggy gear and crippled egos back home.
Next memorial day, it's back to the river!!!
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honda cb550 gas tank?
I have a rat 1974 Honda CB550 that I have been working on making into a bobber, but still using original frame and most other parts. I decided that I want to take off the original gas tank and install a custom gas tank such as a bobber or stretch gas tank. but I dont know very much about gas tanks or what I would have to look for in a custom gas tank that would meet the specifications of my bike in order to work, also was wondering exactly how to take off the tank and what lines am i gonna have to take off?
I have a 74 550 as well. In order to remove the tank, all you have to do is lift up the seat, pull of the fuel lines (there should be 2...they have clamps on them you have to pinch together to remove the lines). the rear of my tank does not have a bolt, just a rubber fitting, so lift up on the back of the tank and pull towards the back of the bike. there are 2 rubber grommets that the "C" fittings on the front of the tank (1 on each side) push into. As far as a new tank, it will be very hard to fit a new tank. you may consider customizing your own tank if you want a new look. The 74 550 has the coils under the tank and requires a large "tunnel" in a tank.
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