I have been taking my boat to EAST SIDE MARINE out on South Weinbach Ave even since 1978 when I purchased the boat from them.

I have tried the place out on West Franklin and didn't have a good experience. In fact they called my boat trailer a rattle trap. Which sort of pissed me off. It may be true but I don't think it's good for a business person to put down a customers property even if they are trying to make a sell.

I had the place on West Franklin Street by the John Deer place work on my boats carburetor one fall. The next spring I took the boat out and the motor would not start. I ran the battery down trying to get the motor to start. I had to take the boat and motor to East Side Marine to get it fixed right. I called the place on West Franklin Street and they would not help me out without more cost. Evidently when they worked on the carburetor they didn't get the choke back together property and that was the problem. I was taking some friends out with me that spring to do a little fishing and it was embarrassing to say the least. The motor runs great now after East Side marine worked on it.

Sibs was the place that didn't get the work done right IMHO. I won't be taking my boat or motor back to Sibs unless the other shops fold up and go out of business. But your experience may be different.

Might check the gap on the new spark plugs and find out what gap to use to make them just the right temperature for your motor.

You can also clean up the old spark plugs with some seafoam (NAPTHA) and a small file or some 150 grit sandpaper. Soak the plugs in seafoam for 24 hours and then file the tip clean with the sandpaper. This may help get the engine running smoother.

Seafoam will clean out the fuel system.

Another suggestion. Check your fuel and fuel container and any fuel filters and make sure that they are all clean. You can clean the screen of the fuel filter yourself with just a few tools. Check the tank for rust or any foreign particles as they can plug things up. Might try a fresh tank of gas as that sometimes can make a difference in the way an engine runs. Some gas has alcohol in it. Even with less than 10% alcohol in the gas it can sometimes do harm to the fuel lines if they are not resistant to attack from alcohol.

You going to fish the Ohio River for Sauger? I spoke with one of the Co's from Warrick County and he said that the wing dam area was good for Sauger, crappie and other sport fish. I tired fishing below the Newburgh dam once and it was sort of scary being right below the dam. And my depth finder was showing very deep water with lots of debris near the bottom. Not sure what that stuff was, maybe big sunken logs that washed over the dam and sunk in that deep hole downstream of the dam.

It's great to see the Ohio River finally being clean enough to support more fish. I went into the field of Environmental Science and Conservation of Natural Resources so that I could try to help clean up the Rivers in some way. I didn't realize how hard that job was going to be. But today we can see the results of a cleaner Ohio River. At least most of the major cities are treating the sewage to some degree with secondary treatment plants. They are not perfect and somethings dump large quantities of raw sewage into the rivers and creek but for the most part during dry periods they do clean up the Sewage before it's dumped into the river. That's why stripers, LM Bass, and Saugers are making a comeback in the Rivers. We can thank the Clean Water act for that. And it's good to know that lifeforms that require clean water are living in the same water that we use for bathing and drinking. It's not perfectly clean but it's better than it was 100 years ago. I'd like to have seen the river when it was first discovered and still pristine. Man I bet that was a sight to behold. Imagine the river running clear as there were large forests in IN at that time. Even the prairies were covered in grass and there was not as much erosion as we have these days. All the tilling of the flat lands has resulted in the lose of top soil every time it rains unless special precautions are used to protect the soil from washing away. And all that soil eventually runs into the Ohio River and down to to the Mississippi River to New Orleans. There's a lot of stuff that's dumped into our Ohio River. And some of that stuff is there to stay for a while.