fishinwrench

Fishermen have brought this insanity upon themselves. Smart Companies are watching, and when they see the amount of money being spent they are thinking "Wow, these fishing guys have lots of expendable money. We need to raise our prices and come up with more stuff to sell them". Now it has trickled down to the used second hand market. You know darn well that he paid less than 2.5k for that rig back in the '80's. And the trailer is gonna need tires, wheel bearings, bunks, and a light kit. It's worth $801.54 if he has both titles. 600.10 if he doesn't.

I was wondering......Hair? What hair? There isn't even enough there to tell what color it is, unless you're in the boat with me. That boy has some wicked eyes ! Darn Paparazzi !

Must have been a slow day. I only hit that hump when I'm desperate for a bite and haven't done very well elsewhere.

With smimmers all around, why was the motor even running? And if you're sitting/standing at the helm then how do you trip and fall. Doesn't sound like an accident...... Sounds like a code #14 (operator error).

4,000.00 ? The dude has lost his everlovin' mind !

I had a trip out yesterday evening that was a waste of time, waste of gas, waste of energy....I could go on & on. What exactly is it about an Easterly breeze that just absolutely kills the bite? Or was it just that I suck THAT BAD?

Such a beautiful place......until one of those wicked storms blow in that the place is famous for. I've seen those 4'-6' swells, and the miles of debris left behind. If you're out there and see a dark cloud in the distance, it was time to go home an hour ago. 😳

Interesting wording there. If the "Driver did it", then how was it an "accident"? The driver hit the swimmers..... But the Boat hit the bluff. 🤔

I never said otherwise. What I said, was that "hybrid Striper/White bass mutts" have no toothpatch at all. Not a single round one like a White, nor a double quotation-mark looking one like a Wiper. Or if they do you can't feel it. The tongue is slick and smooth all the way back to its throat. Just for clarity.....I am referring to the offspring from a male Hybrid Striper, and a female White bass. Biologists claim that female hybrid Stripers are sterile (for reasons of egg bouyancy and adhesion).....And I can't honestly dispute that even though I highly doubt it. But I have personally watched male hybrids herd female whites to the surface and blow a cloud of jizz all over them. Seen it happen, and I catch the results of it all the time. Most folks I'm sure just assume they are White bass.....but they are different. It's fairly obvious if you do a lot of White bass fishing.

If we're going by the bible I think it's very clear how Women ranked at that time. I find it hard to fathom that anything a WOMAN said to Jesus was given any merit. Matter of fact......any woman TODAY that actually read the bible....... would likely wanna throw it in a fire. 😏

I wish I could get a team of accredited fisheries biologists to TRY to prove me wrong. And when they can't then I want them to halt the stocking of hybrid Stripers into waters with native white bass. It's probably too late though. They've already effectively altered and destroyed the native white bass gene pool. And that's a freakin' shame! The consequences for doing something like that should be HUGE !

Right. I was showing the difference between a hybrid mutt and an actual striper. These aren't recent stockers though, there has been no stocking of Striped bass in LO for 30 years. During the Winter, and again in late Summer, several schools of 15-18" Stripers will make an appearance in the upper Gravois area. They are never mixed with White bass, but will sometimes have a few mutts mixed in with them. The first indication that you've caught a mutt (white bass/hybrid-striper cross) is that as soon as you grab them they start vibrating like a sex toy (heart attack?), and if you stick your finger in its mouth there will be no tongue tooth patch (or patches) at all. And most times if you throw it in the livewell, or release it, it will go belly-up and die within minutes, no matter how cool and oxygenated the water is. The mutts are not very hardy at all.....which is the main reason their existence bothers me. Less hardy fish that die easily are successfully breeding with perfectly robust NATIVE fish. And that doesn't feel like a good thing to have going on.

Whatever happened to the Cutbows? Does anyone, besides me, remember the Summer that they were stocking them at Bennett? And know where they came from? Some of them were pretty hefty.

Well if you knew him I doubt that you'd take hygiene tips from him. So don't expect me too. 😉

Pretty typical of everything us guys enjoy. Right? Hours upon hours of blood/sweat/tears just for 8 seconds of glory.

Shavings from a bar of Ivory soap. I know absolutely nothing about gardening, but an acquaintance that does swears by it.

Yo, there's a stray in that package of tmc100 #18's 😂 How the hell does THAT happen ? Drunk at the vise 🙅‍♂️

30 seconds of excitement after 2-3 hours of casting practice. 😂

I'll share 🙂

Done! 👍

Both are white/hybrid mutts that according to MDC fisheries biologists... "Do not exist". The result of a male hybrid striper and a female White bass . Pure stripers have a bigger mouth in relation to their gill plate.

Because the people who control society hold them very close to their heart. Consider being an innocent person at a very serious court trial......and the jury is full of people who believe angels are real. Scary !

I knew that. 🙂

No No, I always remain respectful in religious conversations. Getting offended and turning away (or shutting down threads) is 100% the result of insecurities and the inability to rationalize a position that resists the common sense that they are SUPPOSED TO BE accepting of.

How so? Were they born intelligent? How did we lose that ability?