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You can adjust the "foot" tighter but it is temporary, if it is torn or cut you will eventually have to remove the rod and unscrew the old one and put a new one one. Silly simply ONCE YOU GET THE SOB APART. I have not seen a sharkbite fitting to fit galvanized steel pipe, which is what the hydrant riser pipe is. The rubber foot costs maybe $5, but again getting them apart can sure pull a muscle it a wrench slips, (yeah I know for sure). Don't forget to turn off the water. Most of my plumbing lessons have come from bad ideas, mistakes, and or lack of knowledge. Unless it's froze or you accidentally break the pipe, then digging it up to replace it would be my last choice. BTW don't know how the lines are run, but it someone ran PVC all the way to the hydrant and didn't put in a streel L and short length of galvanized pipe, the line is very easy to break. (See comment on mistakes and bad ideas above). Dang I wish I had a decent right arm and shoulder I would come over and do it, that getting the head off th hydrant is a "man card tester" at times. Although we might be able to video it and you and I do it together with a lot of redneck ingenuity, then sell it on pay per view. Might get enough to pay the big old redneck boys to dig it up after we break something!

Not gonna help you, (or me any more) but two pipe wrenches going different directions and maximum effort. Given time and an agile mind you could figure a way to ratchet strap one to something solid, and put a cheater handle on the other. Easier to just tell a big stout feller it too much even for him. Helps if you have a few cold beers handy, any good stout redneck will at that point say BULL stink for a couple of them beers I will break it loose for ya.

Painting treated wood is a waste of time and money. Won't stick long and looks terrible.

The one at Stockton is usually the weekend before regular firearm season opener, it is seldom cold. Maybe a bit early in the morning, but more often it is warm.

Oneshot, you need to get signed up for the Stockton or Trumen lake special hunts. Guides, accessible blinds and amount of assistance can be worked with. I help at the one at Stockton and they have a pretty good system going.

Some days are worse than others. I went to Physical Therapy Monday and no clue what happened but I went pale, popped a flop sweat and got light headed. All I was doing was standing in one place and stretching some big rubber bands to strengthen shoulder. Fortunately the young, cute female PT saw me and slapped a chair under my butt before I collapsed. I was feeling pretty good about how close she was watching over me until she said, "It must be me, there is another OLD GUY that gets dizzy around me". Dang girl that one was harsh. 😭

I will say, in my personal opinion, that Faith, Believing, and Being a Christian (not organized religion version) are similar and different at the same time. I have faith, some days I have trouble believing but faith brings me back, being a Christian all I can say is I am not a very good one most days I routinely fall short. Bring some cold ones and a good campfire and I will relate three different times that if my faith was lacking it was brought back to me in ways that left me shaken. No voices no burning bushes and probably wouldn't mean anything to anyone but me. None of us are getring out alive, I would rather have for a friend or fishing buddy a "good human being" that doesnt go to any church and questions faith than some who goes to church and talks the talk but doesnt walk the walk, falling short means you can work to be better, not trying means you don't care. Otherwise live every day like it is a gift, because it is. None of us know how many more gifts we will get to open.

My killz-all (.410/22 and an earlier .22/20) were both quite accurate with the .22 barrel, and yes the trigger I'll was horrible and heavy. I used them when I ran beagles, was perfect for rabbits, run you got a load of 6s, sit and you got a bullet. The .410 was the worst of the two, heavy and just didn't like it. Never liked it for squirrel hunting though.

LOL, I routinely get "the look" when I go ahead and do things I am not supposed to do yet, now it's just more of a resigned head shake.

I don't think I have every really seen it happen on a creek/river either but yeah I have seen several acres of whites and hybrids erupt withing a few seconds of one another and some be a couple hundred yards away. Have seen some less obvious instances of crappie not hitting and then, within in the space of minutes they are hitting everything that moves. Fish are weird, they may not even know why, they are just doing. Watching some of the live scope videos yiu can sometimes see that catching one fish get the others excited and they begin hitting better.

Mob mentality in the fish. One attacks a helpless little bait fish and the rest jump in too.

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I still have an OLD Diawa BG 13 from the early 80s maybe. No instant reverse but it is a big ole tough reel. It was my dad's is the main reason I still have it, and honestly I wouldn't be afraid to put it on a new rod and head for the saltwater with it. If that kills it, well then it will have died a good death.

The Mojo Bass rod I was after, appears to have a 1 piece or 2 piece option. Other than traveling I can't come up with a good reason for a two piece, of course that is what I am gonna do with it so . . . Also am gonna stop at Scheels in KC on way home, forgot there was one even there. Saw it on Google maps while looking for a place for lunch.

Which model Okuma? They range from Walmart level to WTH $ level.

OK I know that one well. I don't think it is a COE maintained one though. I was looking through MDC accesses and didn't see it listed as theirs. I am thinking that it used to MDC, but they may possibly have given it up, removed their "stuff" and walked away, making it an orphan, unless some other organization or private entity has taken it over. But I am not at all sure of that.

You will know if it's one I caught, It won't be very well trained, and it may still have a rapala shad rap stuck in its mouth. Getting bit by a musky would be bad 3nough, but to get but and get a trebel hook stuck in ya too, well that would just seem normal this year. Maybe the musky was fishing for people.

OK I know that one well. I don't think it is a COE maintained one though.

I had to be in town for labs, dr. and poison today so I stopped at Johnny place. Found a St. Croix Bass Mojo, 7'1" spinning rod that spoke to me. Medum power/fast action, but seems pretty stiff for a medium. And the handle doesn't have that extra length wasted in the handle, it is shorter, light, and kind of purplish in color. I should have bought it, but didnt. Should make a great walleye jig rod too. Now for a real currently looking to hold a Diawa BG 3000 size, dang things aren't easy to see in person, may look at academy tomorrow as I have to go to different dr up north.

Local muskie Fishermen reportedly have been catching and training muskie to attack people. Their plan is to chase away swimmers, skiers and such, keeping the lake for fisherman. At least that is what heard.

What ramp is it? Truman is outside my area, but I can ask a few questions.

Well it will have to be a spinning set up, but I get it, all you guys just don't want me to buy a new rod/reel. LOL. I kind of thought the rods/reels I have would work, but have been wrong before.

Truth right there. I have had to make more than one long dive to grab a rod butt. They can take it very soft and gentle or grab it like it's the last cheeseburger at a weight watchers convention.

Any one of them will take a deer cleanly if you do your part. My Knight DISC will be setting in the safe until someone buys it, no intention of letting it go bang against my new shoulder, but dang it was an accurate killing ML. Almost all of them with a sabot and 240 gr XTP bullet.

There is a decent chance that I might get to partake in a trip to the Louisiana coast to fish for redfish and sheepshead. I have never wet a hook in saltwater and also I never pass up a good reason to buy a new rod/reel. I did a search and saw.a site.salty 10 or something like that. They were reccomend in a plain ole 7 foot medium action rod and something along the lines of a 3 to 4000 size reel, Penn Battle II was mentioned. Since I have made it 54 years without getting to fish saltwater I don't want to spend a lot of $ on somehing that has no other use. I am thinking something along the lines of a St. Croix 7'6" in either M or MH and the aforementioned Penn Battle II. Honestly I have some 6'6" medium and medium heavy rods that could be respooled with different line and probably do fine. But they seem to me to be a bit light for redfish but I don't know a thing about them so any advice would be appreciated. The St. Croix and Penn combo I was thinking of could be had for $250 or so pretry easily. Something about the Penn reel being sealed so it doesn't get saltwater in it??