fishinwrench

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 ? 😅

Of course all businesses have insurance to pay......but it's reasonable and there are limitations to what that insurance covers. They can't just serve up poison for a couple days and expect to still see a profit at the end of the month. I swear, the way some of you pick at my EVERY WORD...... It's like politicians nit-picking at their opponents. 🙄 "He said 5 billion and it's actually 4 trillion". Malpractice insurance covers exactly what it implies......and then some. And you (or your insurance company) pays for it UP FRONT.

In this day/age some streams actually need more friends.

I've read A LOT of instructional materials, spent way more time than 47 minutes reading them too. Plus sat through seminars, and not one included stories, or even pictures, of fish caught & landed. I still benefitted from the information. 👍

Nope, not even remotely. No part of my hourly fee is escalated because I might make a mistake, or misdiagnose and cause your boat to explode.....and then have to defend myself in a lawsuit. Grocery stores don't consider that as a possibility when calculating markup on retail items. "Someone might slip and fall while getting this milk because we didn't scrub the floor.....so we'd better add 2.00 to the sale price of each unit". Restaurants don't charge extra because someone might choke on a match stick that's inside a French fry. Medical fees are escalated off the charts for that reason specifically.

There are a number of things that people can eat to survive if they HAVE TO. The fact that you have a cell phone, computer, and the electricity and service to support them indicates that you don't have to eat SHTF food yet.

You won't get an itemized bill. Not an exclusive one that covers the doctor & hospitals malpractice insurance, and time in court that YOU are paying for. In advance mind you ! In what other profession do the CUSTOMERS pay for the expenses of the alleged professional being sued ?

Pole dancing!

Before you declare how well the "system works" can you please break this down and justify 96,000.00 in the first place? Sounds like a bunch of 400.00 towels, and 1100.00 pillow cases to me.

Not quite yet.....But soon ! Pricing has definitely peaked, and should be on a drastic downfall within the next year or two.

Rumor has it that Mercury is moving fully into Electric Outboards......Which likely means they'll be moving their plant to China.

During the white bass run, years ago, Cricket caught a big buffalo and insisted on keeping it. It was like butchering a hog, made a huge mess, and he said it tasted like $#!t. I choose to believe him......I ain't eating those nasty bastards!

Commercial fishermen on the Mississippi used to target Buffalo, using gill nets, during certain times of the year. So at one time there was actually a market for them.

OMC went through a similar ordeal in the past. A lot of the '87-'88-'89 motors were actually built in 1986. They were good ones too. I'm still running 2 of them today. 👍 I bet you won't be able to say that about the '24 Mercs in 2061 😅

So last Friday Mercury Outboard division in Fond du lac, Wi. laid off 400 workers. Today they laid off another 140. 😲 Someone was quoted as saying it was because of "excess inventory".....But yet when someone wants to swap motors, and has cash in hand, the waiting time is 3-5 months. 🤔 Whaddya reckon is going on ? I'm betting that sponsorships to all these wannabe pro fishermen are about to get trimmed drastically !