fishinwrench

Interesting memory that obviously means nothing to anyone.......but the very first time I ever drove a boat by myself, with nobody else in the boat, a 3' gar jumped right in front of me and landed on the bow of the boat. 9 y/o on the Mississippi river. And since I really thought I had saw Bigfoot a week earlier, nobody believed me. 😅

HA ! It SHOULD BE recorded........ because she'll add or subtract an adjective or verb that changes the intended meaning. You can count on it !

The most easily identifiable difference that I see in illustrations is the lack of spots on the pectoral and pelvic fins. Shortnose and gator gar don't have them. Longnose and Spotted do. I'll have to start looking a little harder at them I guess.

I'm happy to report that my daddy could never say that I ever kept him from fishing as much as he wanted to. 🙂👍 I wanna start a new thing, and I hope it goes viral. It's a brave new world where kids have to sit down, shut-up, enjoy their cush little lives, and stop feeding guilt trips on their parents. One day they'll grow up.....and THEN if they've done well, they get to call the shots. Anybody else with me here? 😉

After seeing this I realize that I may not be able to properly identify a gar species. I'm almost positive that I've seen bigger, many times.

Maybe they need to reduce the nighttime speed limit even further. If you're traveling at night and can't see A BOAT in front of you then YOU should be the one ticketed for not using good judgement. Reminds me of the stupid game my kids used to play, where they throw a towel over their heads and run around the house like idiots until they crash into a wall, piece of furniture, or go flying off the top of the staircase. The game isn't over until someone starts bleeding, crying, or is in need of immediate medical attention. 🙄

I would have liked to, looks like a fine boat for a GREAT price. Congrats to the buyer 👍 You did very good !

SeaNymph boats are a little weak. Usually built with thinner guage aluminum and known for loose, leaky, broken rivets and cracked welds. Not a big problem if you can get to both sides of the rivets....but often they are buried in flooring and upholstery.

Yeah, a bunch of guys are. Long shaft 9.9's are kinda hard to find. I bet it doesn't have 8 hours total on it too.

At least wood gets a little soggy and flexy, and gives some clues that it is deteriorating, and needing attention. Synthetic materials just go to pieces all at once. 😳 Bump a log.....Motor just falls off.

Wood is subject to moisture and insects. Composite materials are subject to UV exposure, and cold or hot weather. Nothing that floats will last forever. Dock builders thought that composite flooring was the greatest thing ever invented...... But after 15 years of sun exposure.... people, coolers, batteries, and 5 gallon gas cans are falling through the decking. 😅 The stuff crunches like a potato chip. And it's the same composite used for stringers and transoms now. 🙄

The way I see it, if the way you are using the river/lake negatively effects any other users.....then you are doing wrong. Screaming upriver at breakneck speeds really has no purpose, other than giving yourself, and your passenger, an adrenaline rush. Plus, it's selfish as hell if there's anyone alive that depends on you, or your passenger.

Switch is either bad, or wired wrong.

Here's your answer...... You bought from a retailer. He/she can price their goods anyway they want. But it's doubtful that he/she paid more for bait shrimp than consumable shrimp. Just attempting to increase the profit margin a bit. They don't sell much of it.....and it costs money to keep it frozen.

Yes why is it regular Shrimp are Higher $ than Bait Shrimp? Don't make sense to me. oneshot You were the one that said that regular shrimp was more expensive than bait shrimp ☝️ I don't buy either, so I wouldn't know.

Anything that floats is more likely to get picked up. (Mono, Braid). Braid floats like a cork and cuts seals like a hacksaw blade. There's usually some line around nearly every propshaft that comes in here. I've been doing this long enough to recognize a pattern.....Boats that are trailered will often have bits of line but usually it isn't under the seal. Boats that are docked will more often have huge balls of line, and more times than not it has sucked up into the seals. The reason is because docked boats get run in REVERSE more. Trolling motors always have line behind the prop....but it never cuts the seal. Why? No Reverse! The changing direction of the propshaft is what sucks the line into the seals. The average trailered boat (bass boats) only see reverse at the boat ramp 2 short times per day. Docked boats, especially ski boats/wake boats, get put into reverse alot more, and that causes a backlash of any line that is wrapped around the shaft, and eventually it gets under the seals. There is SO MUCH line in this lake that I don't feel comfortable diving into it anymore. Diving in and getting tangled up in line that is connected to a brushpile would really suck.

That'll never happen. You can, however, help their propshaft seals to find 50' sections of braided line.....by being just as careless with your old line as they are with their wakes. A few outdrive overhauls will show you how much spending money those high-rollers really have.

Pretty typical, they never work when you need them because they don't get used enough. Contacts on the switch are all green and corroded. Disconnect the battery, open up the switch, clean the contacts with a wire brush and WD-40 then reassemble the switch, and hook the battery back up. You should be good to go until it sets again unused for a month or two. Some units have a push button breaker, but most have an auto-reset breaker that resets itself after the circuit cools off.

Welp, that just changed the course of MY day. Thanks! 😏

It's a cultural thing 🙄 Our 2 oldest daughters, and the youngest has started tagging along now......all get up in the morning and immediately drive to the coffee shop, 11 miles away, when they could make a cup (or a whole pot) of any kind of coffee they could possibly want, right here in the kitchen. Then they bring it home, drink about half of it.....and my wife dumps it out and throws the cups away 4 hours later. 😅 Whatever! 🤷‍♂️

I've seen 2 in Morgan co. One (the biggest) walked right in on us while we were cutting/loading wood and making all kinds of racket. Acted like someone's pet. The other was seen quietly wandering the bank along Brushy creek cove (Purvis) and acted more like a wild critter.

8 hours of continuous work equals 1200.00 That'd buy enough meat to fill a couple freezers I think. Probably best to save that Armageddon meat for when/if you really need it. 😉

So call the number and hang up. There's your proof that you called. If there's ever any drama about it you can say you called to tell them about the lion kill.... and they hung up on you. Nobody at MDC is interested in hearing your "lion story". 🙄 The less you say, the better off you'll be.

I thought so too ! I was just standing there rebuilding a carburetor and the next thing ya know I'm grabbing the bench to stay on my feet. My wife says "Get away from that stuff and get some fresh air, before you pass out !". No, the earth wobbled, I said. Didn't you feel it? She rolled her eyes and turned the fan on me. 🙄

If you eat some bait shrimp you'll know why about 4 hours later. 😂 You'll be able to $#!t through your screen door.