A unique website dedicated to fishing information from Florida's Northern Big Bend. This includes the area from the Econfina River west to the Apalachicola River
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flatsbroke22 wrote:Those skeg guards are one of the biggest gimmicks on the market. At a price of around $100, they are not going to protect your skeg unless you something at idle and nothing more. You have to drill holes in your skeg and mount with sheer pins that are suppose to sheer off if you do hit something. So you got to replace it every time you hit something. I'm not just bashing this product without experience. I fell for it too. I hit the same rock as mentioned above. Nicked off a small piece of skeg. Bought a skeg guard and then hit another rock. It knocked off the guard along with the rest of my skeg so that there was not enough left to mount another one if I wanted too(sheered off right at the holes that I drilled for the guard). I bought a replacement skeg took it to a welding shop and had it welded back on for less money that that stupid skeg guard cost.
. I actually talked to Mr Belamy today and he said he could repair the skeg. Think I'm gonna go that route.
DixieReb wrote: I didn't think that old guy was still in business. He does good work, he's worked on some of our engines. But he does seem to like to fuss a lot!
. He's still kicking along. He does have the place up for sale. But still working.
. Mr Bellamy fixed me right up. Rebuilt it for me. 
I'll bet a dollar to a doughnut he griped about it first. 
