David Unnerstall

The last thing I want to do is offend anyone but those are the ugliest beasts on this earth. I get the willy's looking at them.

I have been eating cherry tomatoes and the others are turning orange. But I put out the broccoli too late. I feel so bad it just wilts in this heat and I am committing some sort of plant abuse.

I hope I NEVER have to make THAT choice.

'Way to go, Marcus. It is good to know there are Walleye up there.

I agree on the dedicated ground wire and on soldering all connections.

Back down in neutral...well to save wear on the brakes and transmission...and to minimize the time the brake lights are lit to keep them from getting hot.

Oh, I am still a "Hornyhead Chub" but I guess I always have been.

I think is has an effect on our attitude. When I was a "Bigmouth Buffalo" I tried to stir the pot a bit. When I was a "Hornyhead Chub" all I could think about was bikinis.

It is hard to pull a water skier with a trolling motor. I suspect he would lose interest after a while.

Did someone actually get in that or did you tow it along as a barge?

I agree -- trolling-motor-only or horsepower-limit lakes.

I will tell you what I have done is stop wearing hiking shoes and wear shoes that I can kick off. The old Chrysler only does 22 mph at its sweet spot.

Whenever I have enough time to get out for a few hours but not enough to get out of town I head to Spanish Lake with my cedar stripper. I have caught decent numbers in the past but not recently. Two weeks ago I launched in North/Sunfish Lake(s) just next to Spanish Lake. I have never had much success, there, but that is close to a wilderness experience whereas Spanish Lake is CONSTANT noise. I caught three LM that were just born in a couple hours. It does mean that bass are spawning and maybe, down the road, there will be a stable population.

PB Blaster

I posted a link to my Facebook page on this but I will upload some pictures, here. Now this is still not complete but usable. The galley cabinets have not been started. I have screwed in a piece of plywood and varnished and use that as a counter. The teardrop is convenient. I just pack a cooler. It is easy to get in (no fighting with a tent zipper), the top vent has a fan and brings air in the windows of the doors, at night. The modified Harbor Freight kit: The deck: It starts to look like a teardrop: The spars: The cedar strips: The doors and exterior skin: At night last weekend:

The main thing I have learned on this forum is I don't have near enough tackle. Every time I log in I learn that there is something I don't have and need to purchase immediately.

My wife and I "boondock" it but we gave up the tent last year. I built a teardrop with cedar strip sides to match my canoe. It is always packed and when you get there you can just climb in and go to sleep.

I paid $3K for a ten year old truck ten years ago. Now you need $15K to buy a ten year old truck. That is a lot of fishing tackle.

Wrench, wasn't it you who wrote "you gotta read ALL of these topics because you never know what direction they will take?"

Coyotes once came up into my camp when I was bow-hunting in the Arcadia Valley behind Crane Lookout tower. I was sleeping in my camper shell so there was to be no contact. I mention this because their communication was fascinating. So many syllables -- it was amazing. But when they start howling far away it is a bit different.

Congratulations, Joe. My hole-in-one dropped into the cup of the green we just played. I hit the ball off the toe of the club, it went right, hit a telephone pole and bounced back in front of us and ended up on the green to our left and into the hole.

Candy is not that bad but she is concerned. Thanks for all of the replies. I am a bit embarrassed at having a dog like this. But I came home from the neighborhood tavern around midnight, she showed me a picture of the dog and I said: "fine!"

That is so sad. Life is so precarious.

Quill, I guess I am mellowing with age. I don't want anything to happen to this dog. Just look at this dog:

While reading Wrench and Harris debate the issue of dangerous animals in the thread about the character who shot that bear I thought about dogs and coyote's. You see I now have a floofy-dog -- a 22-lb fur-ball who has no idea. It is my wife's dog. On occasion when we are camping in Mark Twain NF she will bolt out at night and bark at something more than 100 feet from camp. I never had a dog that I had to worry about. If she were to meet up with coyote's will she have a chance?