fishinwrench

When I was just a little kid we had these hairy silver-dollar sized spiders in our basement that would jump TOWARDS YOU whenever you got close to them. It's been over 50 years since a spider has jumped at me......but I'll obviously never get over that. Those are the type of spiders that make me wanna burn the house down.

I fully realize how hypocritical my view can be. 🙄 It's as if because the fish on my stringer (or in my livewell) aren't whining and looking at me all sad, and panicking.....that they are perfectly content with the whole situation. If spiders would cry a little..... maybe I wouldn't hate them so badly. 😅

We are talking about a 1984 Evinrude 115 here. 😁

A 1748 with a 16" transom was likely rigged with a jet pump motor. Can you post a few pics of the boat ?

Ya know....... Totally unrelated......But I always have personally considered trapping inhumane as hell, and about as unsporting as it can get. Maybe back in the day, when the pioneer types did it in order to make a living.....it could be somewhat justified. But as any kind of a sporting way to harvest wildlife...... It's just sick. And yeah I have a couple good friends that still do it, and I have even participated in running their traps with them in the past.....but it has just never been one of my things. Yet I grew up running limb lines and trot-lines......So how is that any different? Right? There's just something about putting a bullet in a critters head while it is struggling with a foot caught in a trap.....and has been for HOURS.....Yuck! Or even purposely drowning a beaver, otter, or muskrat. I wouldn't even do that to one of these stupid feral cats around here.

Those guys made it look easier than getting a bird dog turned loose. 😅

Puts it in the Jet category.

I released a bird dog from a trap once, and even that was no easy task. I can't even imagine trying to release a panicking mountain lion.

OMG, I hate it when people call a gun "a weapon".

What happens if a trapper catches a cougar? What's the proper, legal & acceptable protocol for that situation ?

Yeah totally! 🙄

All the defendant should have to say is..... "Given the reputation of Mountain lions, and the possibility that the only reason it was in that area is because it knew that I was in that area also......I feared for my safety". Any prosecutor that would argue THAT point....is a jackass.

It depends on what you're throwing, and how/where you're fishing it. Big Browns on the Current river will not hesitate to clobber a big 5" jerkbait worked erratically on 15# line, regardless of how clear the water is.

i thought you dont need oil until it runs out!!! From the looks of these questions I see that crackheads aren't as rare as I thought ! 😅

If the population of mountain lions equalled the population of pit bulls, mosquitoes, ect. I bet you wouldn't let your kids out of the house.

Since when do my thoughts about mountain lions effect EVERYONE? And who determined them to effect everyone negatively? 🤔 Hit that ignore button 👍

The motor is a 1984 model, boat is about the same. Kept on a hoist under a dock, and is in really good shape. The crackhead kid ran it without oil while Dad's health was failing, and toasted the powerhead. I'll end up owning it eventually, but I'll probably have to claim it as "abandoned" to get titles. They owe me some money but have stopped returning my calls. 🙄 It has been here since last April.

And what do you do when lightning starts striking around you ? Do you just stand there, enjoy the sight of it......and hope that it breeds more ? NO ! You immediately seek shelter and hope like hell that the storm passes quickly! I mean WHAT ARE THE ODDS ????!!!!! Get your candyass out there and wave a 7' fishing rod around! Talk about being amazed that something still has to be explained in 2024 !!! 🙄

Yep. No, an Evinrude 115 V4 with a locked-up powerhead. The owner passed away and the son is a crackhead 🙄 He's supposedly "looking for the titles".

They are solid motors 👍 Plenty of them still out there stirring water. Freshen up that fuel pump diaphragm, and freshen up everything else made of rubber.....and she'll likely last yet another 40-50 years.

He made sure that it wasn't going to eat him, or one of his kin. 👍

They have a superb crew taking & filling orders 👍 1st Class

The thing I really like about Bob Marriott's is that if there's any doubts, questions, or if they happen to be out of stock of something they personally call you immediately.....and they really know their stuff well. F-C would just ship whatever they had in stock, and you wouldn't know that the order wasn't filled completely until whatever they ship gets delivered. That kinda stuff doesn't fly with me.

Here it is.

I still get F-C catalogs but haven't ordered from them in many years. For some reason anything I order from them takes FOREVER (a week or more) to get here. I can order from Marriott's in California and it will be delivered in a couple days.