fishinwrench

Yep, and they aren't all cheap either. I was handed an expensive 6wt. Winston once, the guy was real proud of it. I shook it once and said "That's the heaviest 3wt. I've ever had my hands on." 😏

When I go catfishing it's always one rod out of 3 identical setups that catches almost all the fish. I can move the rods around, change baits, ect. But it will always be that one rod getting almost all the bites.

I think you mean BVK If you're trout fishing then I'd go with a 6wt and a WF-6-F Rio Grand line. Personally I like a floating line with a variety of sinking leaders better than I do a F/S line. I wouldn't mind having that 5wt. Imperial for a dry fly rod. Do you wanna sell it?

There are channel cat in the deep slow pools. The deep hole at Mayfield spring was loaded with them years ago. Tasty little 1-2 pounders. We had frog legs, channel cat fillets, beans, and taters for 3 nights there once. I love that place.

They say all kinds of stuff that I witness differently. "No threadfin at Lake O", Hybrid Stripers can't successfully cross-breed", "No Cottonmouths north of the Missouri River", "CWD is spreading", "You can't shoot feral hogs and control their numbers", "Zebra mussels can destroy a fishery", "Felt soled boots are to blame for spreading didymo, and didymo can destroy a fishery", "The emerald borer beetle is dead set on destroying our woodlands", "Bass tournaments, regardless of their numbers and frequency have no ill effect on a fishery", "We need to spend a few million on a handful of collared elk", "Showing fatherless urban kids what catching a fish is like will make them pull their pants up and spin their hats back around the right way".... Seriously I could go on all night. To say that they proclaim expertise and authority while saying, doing, and defending galactically stupid things, is putting it mildly. Just because they are the only "official" friend that us outdoorsmen have doesn't mean that they are actually good at what they are doing. The cold hard truth is that they are a pious legion of blue pill buffoons. That doesn't mean you can't love them, but let's not totally loose our grip on reality by accepting their statements as "good information", because more often than not it falls short.

I see this happen all the time. The Spring Branch in Gravois is a place where numerous people pull over and make a few casts on a daily basis, and there's a spring inflow so there's always some fish hanging around there and alot of times they are larger than average. Guys that are exceptional fishermen will work it over diligently with a variety of baits, and blank.....then someone with a busted up spincast rig that can barely even cast, will walk right up behind them, throw some stupid rusty hooked plug 15 feet from NOTHING.... and hook a TOAD. Literally happens all the time.

The idea behind "throttle pickup timing" is that the trigger should be advancing as the carb(s) jumps from the low speed orifice to the high speed jet(s)......So that you have a fairly smooth acceleration curve from idle to WOT. If throttle pickup timing is off then what you have is a motor that kinda bogs or has a dead spot....then suddenly jumps to life at about 1/2-3/4 throttle. You'll never get it perfect with an inline 2-3-4 cylinder motor, but on V4's and V6's it should accelerate really smooth all the way. You can tinker with your throttle pickup timing to get the best hole shot, it won't hurt anything. Just make sure that when you're throttled down the valve plates are fully closed....and when at WOT they are fully opened.

It's just a 1" 2x Centerpoint pistol scope. ($50.00) and some 11mm UTG mounts. It's definitely Snake Head Accurate if I can find something to rest it against. My off-hand pistol shooting skills are pathetic.

Hu? Run that by me again, please.

Neutral safety switch. The next time it fails to crank, shift it in and out of gear a few times to reset the switch.....and try it again.

So do you believe that an unrealized 1.7° is enough to alter the geography of a species? If anything I'd blame it on human land use and development. I think those critters are trying to get away from the noise....but have run out of places to go.

That motor was sunk and it blew itself apart hydraulically. No difference between master splines and keys as far as ignition timing goes. I will need all the identification info you can give me on it to look up the specs (Year, HP, Serial# off the mount, and the number off the aluminum block plug if it is different from the Serial# on the mount) If your max timing stop screw is completely bottomed out then something isn't right. Is there a sticker on the airbox that has Max Timing on it?

You have been reborn. Glory be to Mod.

And eventually some kid with a Beetle Spin will come along at just the right moment, and it will be caught. What does that tell you?

Hell I never see a skunk unless one gets killed on the road, and obviously the woods are loaded with them because for 2 weeks in February there will be dead ones everywhere.

So did she play along? Probably not. Sisters are lame that way alot. 🤣

All this from the guy that says "succulent bread pudding". 😅

I used to do exactly the same; had cages full of snakes caught wild in the basement. 2 4’ lengths of 1/4” rebar with a 6” “L” on one end pinned poisonous snakes down as you worked up to the head so you could grab them , make ‘em dizzy, and toss them in a gunny sack and tie it off. Had a couple get loose in the basement one time...that was interesting. I quit keeping venomous snakes after that. We had leather bootlace lasso's rigged on a broom handle because black snakes were fiesty and they'd hurt ya. We had a big "Roundup" one day in a couple of fields that were along the town branch, we filled a big Rubbermaid trash can about a foot and a half deep of assorted snakes (mostly garters, speckled Kings, blacks, and ringnecks) and then hauled the can over and dumped it out in front of a girls house that was having a birthday party. 😁 Then laid down and let them crawl all over us. We were little jackasses. Show & Tell at school was always a snake of some kind. I have some old poloroid pics somewhere of some of our snake adventures. It was actually really cool. 😊 One of the guys parents would let him keep a few at home, but the other 2 of us had to sneak them to our room occasionally, keep them hid, and we didn't dare let one get away inside the house. My mom had a real good nose for that musty captured snake smell.

So..... that's all you got? 😏

And caused THIS

But DO check THESE THINGS ... Here's my newest thing to be anal on with Mercury's.....Ya know those little plastic linkage sync caps like these? This one broke off and allowed the ignition to over advance about 16°

I'm glad you asked that because it shows that you have studied and are doing your best to do excellent work. 👏 So now I'm gonna piss you off and tell you what I do (and this ain't by the book). A long time ago I spent good money with the Snap-On man because I thought I needed a precise dial indicator and a variety of attaching hardware.....but I haven't touched it in years. If your flywheel is simply marked ZERO then set that #1 at zero with a kabob stick. If your flywheel is marked .472 (or some other rediculous measurement) then roll the crank over clockwise until you just begin to feel the rod kick over just barely noticably and set your pointer on that .472 (or whatever the hell it is) and you'll be fine. Set your spec timing static at cranking speed and then retard it by 2° and lock it down. Double check it after locking it down and moving things around a bit.... and if you're still there you're perfect. Never touch it again.

I was alot of things before I became a fishing forum expert. Try to learn something every day on your own and when you get close to my age you SHOULD know a thing or two. You don't truly start "learning" until long after the books and websites end. Common knowledge is only adequate for commoners like you. 🖕😊

I don't think they "lied"......I just think they don't know squat, but feel compelled to pretend that they do.

Actually a few friends and I were pretty much junior herpetologists when we were young, we loved snakes, collected them and studied them Spring til Fall for a number of years. You couldn't trip me (or them) up on a snake ID quiz even from across the creek. The librarian knew us as the "Snake boys". We caught a few Cottonmouths just to say we had done it but mostly we were VERY CAUTIOUS with venomous snakes. The others we would actually let them bite us just so we could freak people out and display the bite marks 😁 We thought we were really cool. Now I will say that JD's pic does look more like a black snake.....but I wasn't there and the pic kinda sucks. There are plenty of Cottonmouths on the Salt river and its tribs though, regardless of what is printed. Now that I've lived further south for just as long as I lived up there I can even say that I've actually seen more up there then I have down here. Statements like the one above from MDC just solidify my belief that biologists are 100% full of crap about just about everything they profess to know anything about.