fishinwrench

Do you ever have those days when fishing a bugger or leech on the swing.....and you constantly get that Blam-Blam-Blam of fish swatting at the fly but not getting stuck ? The last time my shop helper and I fished it together we were getting a lot of that, and he ran out of 4x-5x tippet material. He tied on some 10# flouro (the stuff he uses for white bass) and immediately every single "Blam" was a solid hookup. Seemed ridiculous tying 10lb. line to a #12 fly......but it freakin' worked. He had me 6 to 1 and I still refused to bum a piece of that heavy flouro....... I'm carrying some with me NEXT time !

Right on 👍 We need to hit the Niangua together sometime. I bet we could both pick up a trick or two. 😉

Yep, leeches and buggers always seem to get the job done. They are both excellent search patterns, and they get bites either when dead drifting, or on the swing, or when stripping through slow water. Even gets bit just hanging in the current...... You can't fish them wrong, but one way will always be better on any given day. A tungsten bead-head crackleback in lt.olive has been a staple for me in faster water riffles FOR YEARS. The hackle lets it tickle right along the bottom on a dead drift without hanging up. You'll either get bit mid-drift once it has gotten down along the bottom....or when it starts to swing up off the bottom. A lt.olive colored soft hackle (same color as the crackleback) is a staple for me too. I fish it kinda spey style in the mediocre slow pools, and it picks up random stragglers year 'round. Black foam Beatle's, and outlandish oversized attractor dry flys are fun during the summer and into the fall before the leaves start falling. The biggest mistake I see people make when on the Niangua is standing in one spot too long. Those fish are schooling stockers.....so keep moving until you catch one, then there will usually be 8-10 more in that little area. Those ding-a-ling rainbows will either move 4-6ft. to take a fly.....or they won't take it at all. Oh, I forgot the Y2K Bug. That one has saved the day more than 20 times during the fall/winter. I sight fish that big blob of orange/yellow goo, and some of the biggest trout I've caught in the Niangua have come on that stupid thing.

A dragging brake creates friction and will heat up the hub.....which in turn causes wheel bearing seals to fail, and lug nuts to either loosen or seize. Your trailer wheels & hubs should always be noticably cooler than the wheels on your tow vehicle. If they aren't then something ain't right.

The cable and control valve for the livewell is surprising 🤔 They are usually good for 6-7 years. Onboard Battery chargers...oh definitely 🙄 total pieces of crap......all of them. None are built to sustain the elements. They need to be sealed..... but yet they also need to BREATHE ! So many are replaced under warranty that I'm surprised that anyone can make any profit on them. Springfield power pedestals.....too many brittle plastic components= junk. I see/hear of more trailer bearing or seal failures with the new-age hub systems than I ever witnessed with the old school bearing buddy/grease hubs. Plus expensive and overly complicated to service & repair. Not a fan at all. Trailer brakes are a constant nightmare. Sitting is the culprit. If you tow the boat every day they operate fine. But if the trailer is left un-towed for periods of time they are gonna give you fits.

Oh goody! Y'all are gonna LOVE this, and if this doesn't make you feel fortunate then I'll eat your hat. First marriage ended with both of us remaining friends, but the second one......Oooh Boy ! Met her on a Salmon fishing trip in Michigan, a dis-communicated (that means "kicked out") Jehovah Witness, pretty as hell, perfect smile, beautiful voice, and a genuine firecracker in the sack! Lesson #1) If they are CRAZY in bed then they are crazy when not in bed also.....But when you're mid-30's and horny a guy can fail to make intelligent choices. I was so madly IN LOVE that I married her and moved her and her 2 kids in with me. All was great for the first couple years, until a visit from the local JW's happened......and suddenly she became obsessed with getting back "into the truth" and reconnecting with her family that had "shunned" her. Well who was I to stand in the way of THAT, right? I even embarked into extensive Bible study, even though I was clear that I had no interest whatsoever in joining the JW congregation, but if that's what she needed to do .....fine👍 She got real weird shortly afterwards. So weird that even her kids were nervous around her, and looked to ME for sanity, stability, and level-headedness. This infuriated her! "How dare you get between me and my children!" 😮 I was certainly no angel, fished all the time, worked when I wasn't fishing, smoked weed (which was forbidden at the time), started sleeping on the couch, and spent more quality (fun) time with the kids than I did with her. THEN a F3 tornado hit my place.... and that was the straw.... She said she was leaving. I said "Don't let the door hit you in the rear end on your way out". We agreed to a divorce, but the elders in her "church " told her if she did then she would be dis-communicated AGAIN. JW's can't just divorce their mate unless their spouse does something ABSOLUTELY HIDEOUS AND UNGODLY. So one day I'm cleaning up tornado damage and preparing to rebuild my house & shop.....and here comes a deputy sheriff with a warrant for my arrest. 🤔 CHILD MOLESTATION 1st degree ! I thought it was a joke 🤣 Nobody else at the Sheriff's dept. thought it was a joke though! 😳 except for close friends and family that were around all the time...... but there wasn't anything THEY could do. When I heard what she had alleged I completely lost my cool and exploded in a room full of cops. That just made it worse....."Oh, he's not only a child molester, he's uncontrollably violent too!" I demanded a polygraph test....even though it wasn't admissable.....just so my lawyer would BELIEVE ME 🙏 But nobody could request one for HER. I lost half the insurance settlement for my house/property PLUS 40k in lawyer fees, PLUS had to walk 5 years of probation as a sex offender. They bled me dry (penniless) to the point that I couldn't afford to pay lawyers anymore, and was forced into a plea agreement. No evidence whatsoever....but you can't just INTERROGATE children ya know! And at that point I was too scared to allow a jury filled with people that believe angels are real.....to decide my fate. Took me 6 years and a slew of good friends to help me regain my sense of humor. And 12 years of hard work to recover financially So keep your head up, brother. Consider the loss of the fishing gear and half the house/cars/boats/whatever... your TORNADO.......and hope like hell that she doesn't join any cults and/or get any desperate "ideas". 🙂 Life gets better starting NOW 👍

If you need something to feel thankful for just lemme know......and I'll share MY divorce story with ya. It could be A LOT worse, trust me. 🥺

I had a Cortland cassette reel once. The "cassettes" weren't vented and my backing turned black and rotted after the reel got dunked.

Sounds like there's a fox in the hen house, to me.

If my woman ever said to me.... "I'm going somewhere very dangerous where I need to be armed, but I can't tell you where it is".... I'd say "Well Good luck, Warrior Princess, if you're not back in 2 hours then I'll consider you PAST DUE and I'll start taking applications". 👍

There's less than a 1% chance that she'll be needing to shoot anyone, and a 2% chance that she'll drop her pistol in the toilet.

Got caught in one like that once. We put our PFD's over our heads and made it under a dock. The sound of those hailstones on the roof of the dock was deafening. As we sat under the dock a group of a dozen or so geese took flight off of a point of land, and we watched as they went down one-by-one. When it was over we idled out.....and 2 of the 12-15 geese were floating deader than a hammer.

Can we all get together, run out and buy new kickass kites & plenty of extra string...... So this FREAKIN' WIND WILL QUIT BLOWING !!

So a guy is trying to get a contract for a job that he can't manage ? What comes first.....the project, or the project manager? This is how "breech of contract" begins. 🙄

No, Ameren's biggest concern is keeping milfoil from growing around million dollar homes and docks, so they draw the lake WAY DOWN in the winter, let the shoreline freeze....and then keep it as low as possible until Memorial day weekend. Aquatic vegetation can't survive the winter drawdown, and that keeps property values as high as possible. City folks with big money think hydrilla and milfoil is "yucky". 🙄 Back when UE managed the lake we had glorious milfoil beds....and the fishing was off the charts. I miss those days 😢

Somebody didn't listen 🙄

I've been trying to learn as much as I possibly can about Beaver since I hit puberty.

And doctors wouldn't own yachts and Cadillacs, and wouldn't have manicured lawns, or a harem of horny nurses sending them tit-pics all day long if it wasn't for guys like you. 😅 Don't downplay your importance in the grand scheme of things. 👍

Go to Sturgis or Daytona nowadays during "Bike Week"....... Guys haul their Harleys to the party on COVERED TRAILERS. Total pussification of everything American! 😢

Listen, if a line of 5-6 idling trucks with empty trailers .....and 5-6 idling boats hovering around the ramp doesn't make them "aware of what's going on" then walking over and talking to them is just gonna slow the process even more ! It isn't ignorance. The problem is candyassed city boys with new toys strapped to the top of their electric cars, and the mindset that THEY are eco-friendly. Just like the asshats on bicycles with their cute little mushroom helmets on, that refuse to get out of heavy traffic during rush hour. I was all for kayak angling...... thought it was cool as hell......Until THESE douchebag anti-Trumpers got into it. Now they are more annoying than jet skis and Wake boats.

Excellent question. But then again.....they have ACCESSORIES galore ! "Some assembly required". 🙄

Amen to THAT👍 Doing way better than I am. 🙄

If you're homeless, car, license, and insurance'less.......then you do whatever you can to survive. If that means cooking meth, or stealing......then whatever! Most of us have way more than we need......And the stuff we DO NEED is probably insured for theft. I left a grilled cheese sandwich on my desk for just long enough to go wash the grease off my hands......Guess who stole it? Knowing my neighbors, I'd say she needed it worse than I did.

I suggest that you sue for malpractice. 2/3 of their fee is set aside for that ya know. 👍

Easy fix. You need to buy a new boat ! Something about paying sales tax puts you right back in the hammer drawer. 👍