fishinwrench

They are cool, and are obviously killer on the Madison......but just haven't been that productive for me. 🤷‍♂️

I thought we had a dozen moles tearing up the yard around the swimming pool. Turned out to be a single shrew. Got him with the serpentine belt of my Tahoe one morning, and since then not a single hump of dirt in the yard. 👍

I've experimented with a bunch of articulated streamers, but for ME the only one worth the effort is Blane's Game Changer. I quit using long shank streamer hooks a decade ago.....and I think that was a good move. Any fish worth hooking eats the fly head first, so nearly everything I fish with is tied on Mustad 34007 1x long hooks. B10S is a popular hook, but they are brittle and I had a couple of them break while trying to get unsnagged so now I'm gun-shy about tying on them anymore.

No, you can use cactus chenille, just instead of tying the belly sections in as clumps.....just tie the stem of a marabou plume in and make 3-4 wraps. The darker back pieces can still be tied in via clumps. Try it ! 👍 I have a couple in the boat, but it's covered and I'm not in the mood to go diving for it at the moment.

Yeah the attic biologists have ruined marijuana 🙄 If you're a person that gets stoned every day I'm sure it isn't that intense. But for someone like me (and probably you) that only partakes occasionally.....you gotta sneak up on that $#!t unless you honestly have no plans for the day at all. I was stoned as hell the night the tornado hit 😳. Talk about a headrush !!!!

You wanna see a picture of a feather duster? 😅 Here ya go... Seriously though, you don't wrap the bottom color that thick. #2 Blue & white with a chartreuse core is a deadly White/Hybrid fly......But I've gone to these lately Pop's Shad

I'm not a fan of edibles 😵‍💫 Ate a half of a gummy on a fishing float and within 30 minutes I was TOO HIGH TO FISH! Longest float ever. How the hell can you be too high to FISH ? 🤷‍♂️

Here's a tip on that fly that IMO makes it even better..... Tie in the stem and wrap the white (or belly) sections of marabou, and then tie in the back (darker) sections the way you did both. 👍 It swims way better that way. And the center core shows through in a way that just screams "EAT ME !" Looks like a feather duster when dry.....but really comes alive when in the water.

I don't feel so bad about exterminating hawks now. 👍 It's unfortunate for them that they can't seem to acquire a taste for feral cats.

There are only 20+ boat cushions laying around here. 😅

Crawling around in boats, and getting on my knees on concrete/gravel ect. is stuff I have to do every day. And doing it with bare legs and knees just sucks.

Feels good to wear jeans again 👍

The alcohol content tests the same AROUND HERE, but I don't see any benefit to running premium fuel. Actually the shelf life of premium could be less..... since they don't sell as much of it. As I said, the only issue I recognize with today's fuel is....How long it can be stored, which appears to be about 4-6 weeks, tops. Any longer than that and I can notice a difference. When setting the idle mixtures on carbureted engines after a complete fuel system overhaul, I can notice a difference on 1/4 turn of the mixture screw (jet) with fresh fuel. With aged fuel I can turn those mixture screws 1/2-3/4 turn and barely be able to notice a difference. That right there tells me everything I feel that I need to know. I always set idle mixtures with fresh 87% fuel that I've had in my remote tank for less than 2 weeks.

As I understand it.....All ethanol is alcohol, but not all alcohol is ethanol. Therefore the advertised "ethanol free" fuel is not necessarily ALCOHOL free.

I suspect there is a bit of a play on words going on. 🤔 People bring me boats all the time, claiming "I only buy ETHANOL FREE fuel"..... But I test it, and it always has 8-10% alcohol content. Which is fine, as long as it is fresh. 3-4 month old fuel is starting to degrade noticably when tuning idle mixtures. And 8+ month old fuel is terrible.... Sometimes won't even kill weeds.

A classmate of mine was diagnosed with breast cancer at MU about 15 years ago, but got dismissed from her job at the Callaway nuclear plant and had no insurance. She went to somewhere in Italy to get treated more affordably, but they couldn't confirm the cancer....so no treatment ensued. Still doing fine today. 🤷‍♂️ Loosing her job turned out to be a blessing. Undoubtedly they would have "treated" her in Columbia.....and then patted themselves on the back for CURING cancer that didn't even exist. Or.....killed her with chemo trying 😳 Therefore anytime someone crows about "beating cancer" I always wonder (quietly of course) if they actually HAD cancer in the first place.

Says who? Just curious.....as I would obviously have no idea. 🤔

I was thinking about that the other day. Every animal that passes through the woods in my area gets instantly covered in ticks. A little 6pt. visited me a couple days ago, and his head, neck, shoulders and hips were LOADED. It was sad.

Likely suffering a hangover from that debate. Nobody is immune! 😅

There's a big difference between a feeder stream and an isolated pond. Streams without enough people to love them can suffer badly from gravel dredging, chemical spills, and any number of things. Your stream has a lifeline of migratory fish, all it needs is enough people that treasure it, to ensure its lasting health. 👍

You mean like the tax on tobacco?

Answer me this then genius. Where does the money come from if not a customer? In any other business you need to clarify......The money for WHAT ? How dare you (of all people) send this into a political thread ! 😅 On purpose to boot !

Toothpicks float. Bobber stops sink. So there's that.

I can read for hours, video about a minute and a half is my limit, it helps sometimes to play them on X2 but even then it's hard to stay focused on it. I'm not sure that I've actually learned anything at all from video. So episodes of Sesame Street didn't help YOU at all, did it ? 😅