fishinwrench

The second you start your thread on the hook shank, you've broken THAT rule. 😏 😅

Maybe he figured that slamming them with a vehicle was a quicker way to get them there. 😂

Neat! 👍

The tone of their "peeping" makes me think they were a smaller bird.

Hardly. 😏 The fakest people I've ever known to be alive, were either politicians, preachers, cops, or single mothers on dating sites. None of which even owned a flyrod.

A buddy and I had a running argument about "tippet size" at Bennett Spring and I proved him wrong by impaling a grasshopper on a #12 hook and cutting my leader down to the diameter of about 15 pound test (just barely able to thread it through the hook eye). Immediate bite on the very first drift. 😅 We then set out to design the PERFECT hopper fly. The end result looked nothing like a real hopper other than it was the same size and color of the naturals, but it got bit just as quickly as the real thing. The only problem was that it got tore up easily and was only good for 2-3 fish if you were lucky. I'll have to dig around and see if I can find one to show ya. If you know what a "COOPER BUG" is, it was kinda tied like that with some lime green deer hair sticking out from both sides, and touched up with a red Sharpie.

Neither is the graveyard with Jeffery Epstein in it. 😏

If y'all would have left You know who, You know where......Then we'd have some American made vehicles. But Noooooo! 🙄

It's a legal fly. As is a Chernobyl Ant.

I can hear them way up there in the darkness, headed in a North-Northeast direction. Not quacking, or honking, but more of a Raspy...... "peep-peep......peep-peep...... peep-peep". Teals? Woody's? Coots? Something else entirely? What are they? 🤔

You can lightly seat the needle, then count the number of turns until the needle comes free from the carb body. Compare by doing the same to the other 2 carbs. If differences are more than 3/4 turn you can confirm that it has been "jacked with". I put a little drop of nail polish on one side of the screwdriver-slot on the needle, that helps with the counting.

I was studying THIS the other night... and it appears to me that it could be fished better from.the bank, than by boat. Just a mediocre little hike. Pack a lunch and go for it ! While scanning around I also found this... 😅

I don't think anyone is going to be able to launch at Der'Vater's Edge at the current lake level. I can just barely get a jon boat off the trailer there at 655.5

If you typically make long casts... use a 5 Mostly short casts.... use a 6

Were they at the access? I see tracks out over the ice that look like a 4-wheeler. He must have run over a spring area, cuz the ice out over most of the flat is 8-10".

I love it when somebody resurrects a 3-4 year old thread. 😊 How far back can we go anyway? I'm gonna go on the hunt during our next crappy weather event.....and I'm gonna bring forward a genuine relic. 🤗 And I encourage y'all to go find one also. 👍

I would expect there to be because it froze solid....AND THEN they dropped the lake 3'. But everybody is acting like it's no big deal.

I've seen 652.4 It's a great time to go build rock piles.

This is my favorite one. 👍

No worries there. They can still generate down to about 640 I believe.

Interesting. I think maybe their definition of "first appeared" might be in relation to passenger cars. I did an essay on the history of Chevrolet when I was in school, and the info I found at that time said what I posted. That it was originally designed as an engine fit for towing heavy loads. Either way, yeah, awesome motor still to this day.

The 350 Chevy motor was originally designed for school buses and dump trucks. It eventually morphed into Chevy's best engine ever. Perfect balance of weight and power.

Yep had the 390 V8 More like 8 mpg 😂 Seriously! But then gas was 39.9 to 43.9 so what the hell! 🤣

Not necessary built better, but they usually had smaller (6 cylinder) motors and shorter beds, making them lighter in the front/heavier in the back. Plus they had locking differentials. So yeah they got around better in 2wd than later model full size trucks did. I think 1966 was the first long bed Chevy truck. They were standard with a 250 6 cylinder and 3 on the tree transmission (gutless POS). So in 1968 they went completely the other direction and offered big-block 396 and 400 (RAT) V8's in them with 400turbo auto transmissions.....NOW THOSE were fun trucks! 😅 They continued that until 1976. The 1976 Big 10 Chevy's had a 454 big block with a Quad intake..... Freakin' Beast! Not that great off-road, but they were capable of some Impressive Burnouts. 😂 In 1978 they backed off a bit, with the Silverado and old reliable 350 small block from the 1972-73 era.

Well then, There you (quite possibly) have it ! There might be a ring around the needle if the needle is brass, but the lack of a ring doesn't indicate that it wasn't messed with. The fact that it's bent tells you that it indeed was. The carb body is very soft pot aluminum, and the hole the needle goes in is typically a very thin section (easily distorted). The needle is either brass or stainless steel. If it was a FUEL jet then a little damage there wouldn't be quite as critical, but distorted air flow over the emulsion tube definitely is a big deal. Most repair kits for air metering style carbs include a new stainless needle for that reason.