fishinwrench

Some jackass at a bar slipped my daughter a moly one night. That was an interesting evening 🤪 We are trying to get her sobered up, she's sitting in our living room floor and she says, "Dad.....You are my dad right?....Ok look, I have the money to pay my tab here...so will y'all quit freaking out?" Wow! 🤔 Then she requested that my wife sing her nursery rhymes and feed her ice chips until her "toes stopped yelling" ⁉️⁉️

Suicide knob, baby ! 👍

Yeah being a big fish in a small pond is a real ego booster.

Wish I was. I have to ride herd on some of these folks around here. 😎 Good people, some of them just don't understand lawnmowers, weedeaters, rakes, and trash bags. 🙄 They are more concerned with not missing church on Sundays, Wednesdays, and Fridays because demons keep tampering with their mailboxes and they don't want them moving any closer to their house.

A better idea would be to replace it with a steering wheel from a 1948 Allis-Chalmers tractor.

I have created my own HOA around here, and since I am the one everyone seeks help from when they have a problem....I have elected myself president. No legal documents needed, they know if they don't keep their sloppiness at a reasonable level then they can't depend on me for ANYTHING anymore.

I go back and forth with the camper idea, can't decide if I want one or not. We probably wouldn't cook in it at all. About the only time I would truly enjoy having one is during foul weather.....I could set in there comfortably and tie flys or something. I'm definitely not a big RV guy, I'd much rather stay in a motel than to go through all that hassle.

Why is everyone on this Meanmouth kick all of a sudden ? Ever since Thanksgiving it seems that Facebook and all the forums have been ablaze with talk of Meanmouth bass and pics of Kentucky mutts.

The wife and I share a tent, and each kid has their own even though they often bunk together. But that way if one of them trashes their tent, gets their sleeping bag wet, or leaves the door open and it fills the tent with flys....it is THEIR problem and nobody else's. In my family if you are old enough to feed yourself and wipe your own butt....then you are 100% on your own at camp. The first-aid kit is in the glove box of the truck if you start bleeding. Pack it away neatly when your done.

I love my job, but I don't like to recreate where a number of motorboats gather. It always ends in me having to work all weekend.

Dude, your fine. You said what you were thinking and were honest about it. I respect and admire that. I like you more now than I would have if you had kept your true thoughts hidden like a phoney prick. I can't stand phoney people. Sticks and stones...... You haven't made any enemy's here !

Just a typical BS session by a group of fishing bums. It's all about entertainment bro. Beats the hell out of watching TV. The only time there's a problem is when somebody who isn't interested in the conversation forgets that they can just click on a different one......or put their phone down and go do something else.

Sexy! 👍 That'll do the job for Smallies. A bit large for the majority of Niangua trout.

What are you slinging ?

Regardless of what it is defined as, it is a color choice among fishing lures that fish can see.....and that's what is being studied here. Or am I not properly in touch with the scientific transgression going on here?

Just see how long it stays running ok, now that the plug gap is set correctly. If it Jack's up and they tell you once again that it "fouled the plugs" then demand that they correct the problem that is causing fouled plugs..... before your warranty expires. And don't settle for them giving you some bottle of bull$#!t additive to pour in your fuel tank. Explain to them that attempting to operate on a river with flowing water with a motor that is not dependable is DANGEROUS.

Fuel quality? (Ditch the additives that you are probably being sold....and dumping in there) Temperature of the air/water? (as it relates to the length of time it takes the engine to warm up/cool down) Load on the motor? (weight of boat, amount of current) Something changed. My biggest hangup with 4-strokes is that once a little wear happens the fuel mixture and exhaust relief changes. After that happens it is impossible to get the performance back to what it once was. Valvetrain seats and guides are friggin NYLON PLASTIC so if the motor ever gets a little too warm for a short period of time you can bet they'll become distorted. And to go in and rebuild/replace them costs as much as a new powerhead. And guess what condition exempts your warranty? That's right..OVERHEATING ! If they can find any signs of overheated plastic your "warranty" ain't worth a spit.

Why is there never any mention of black or white in those color visibility graphs ?

Well yeah, they were gapped at half of what they are supposed to be. That doesn't mean that the plugs are bad, it just means that they aren't set right. It throws the heat range off when the gapping is not correct. The plug has to get hot enough to burn off wet deposits.

Those plugs aren't fouled, they look fine....other than the gapping. Brush them off, gap them at .040 and put them back in. So.....yet another dealership letting the floor sweeper/trailer wheel bearing guy do their warranty work. 🙄

If you mean yours ? Probably not. Yours is a Suzuki designed powerhead with a Mercury designed ignition system, charging system, and fuel system. A Frankenstein. But maybe. Who knows? Only time will tell. It's been good to you so far, and that's a good sign. How many hours would you guess it has on it now?

I'm gonna go out on a limb here and say that the consideration of UV pigmented colors, and the use of such, is not going to improve anyone's angling success noticably. Dr. Loren Hill spent his whole adult life (as did several others) studying and tinkering with colors and color pigments as they relate to fish, and the best thing they ever came up with was a gizmo that you might still find at a garage sale for $2 or less today. No sense in trying to reinvent the wheel, it's a waste of your time.

Mercury has lost a good percentage of retail buyers in THIS region. The only guys I personally know that are running the new Merc's on bass boats, are the guys getting pro-staff deals and trading up every 2-3 years. The only retail buyers now (that I see, anyway) are the tri-toon crowd. Retail sales on Evinrude is growing rapidly, and Yamaha retail sales is absolutely killin' it. That 4-stroke Yammie, as bad as I hate to admit it, is showing signs of being one hell of a good outboard.

No, they had Opti cowlings but they were actually 3.0L EFI's. Can't tell you how many times I have had folks call and say they were bringing in an Optimax....and when I pull the cowling, guess what? It ain't. That was a bit of a dealer scam for awhile, back when the general public was programmed to believe that the Optimax was the greatest outboard to ever come along. Buyers didn't know an Optimax from a Duramax, so if it said Optimax on the cowling they thought they had the $#!t. 😎 As it turned out.....they were better off if it wasn't.

IKR ! When that boat was rigged though, those motors were reported to be the fastest and most fuel efficient 3.0L outboards available. After it was done and we took it out for a test run I was rather disappointed in its "speed". About 64mph was the best I could get out of it, with nothing but 2 occupants, 4 batteries and some fuel. It did slice beautifully through the big waves however.