fishinwrench

In my 50-some years, everyone that I've heard say that phrase has always been the first one with their nose in the middle of things. They seldom miss a detail, and if they do they'll make something up to fill in the gaps. Just admit it, you're drawn to it like flys to a butter dish. 😄

The guy said, "it ran fine all during snagging season, but now when you try to start it all it does is make a chirping sound"..... When I first pulled the cowling off my immediate thought was HORNETS NEST, so I dropped the cowling, screamed profanities, and took off running. 😆

We fished all the brushpiles within a mile of Coffman on Monday, caught fish pretty steady in brush from the middle of the day until about 7:00pm and had 4 keepers and a ton of shorts by then. After about 6:30 the fish pulled away from the brush and started roaming around, wouldn't touch a worm or a jig anymore. We started tossing spoons and slow-rolling spinnerbaits and caught 8-10 shorts on spoons and several shorts and 3 more keepers on Spinnerbaits. Hit some shallow backend stuff on the way back to the ramp as the light faded but it was dead back there.

Sounds like the guys doing your rigging and service are getting in a hurry when reinstalling the lower cowling. It is a bit of a PIA (10 pounds of stuff in a 5 pound can) but if done correctly the lower cowlings will not break. If you are using the bolts to pull the clam shell together then you're doing it wrong.

No way to prove it, but I'm comfortable saying that more smallmouth over 15" have been killed by giggers on the Niangua than by hook & line anglers.

Just for kicks let's see what happens when someone you've blocked quotes you. 😋

Fish are biting good in 14' but according to my electronics the thermocline is at 22' near the mouth of the Gravois.

The king of all tiller V bottom fishing boats is the old Lowe Lunker V. They were made in 14 and 16ft versions, all are built like a tank, easily customizable, and there are a bunch of them out there for sale. Nothing on them to rot or suffer from sun/rain exposure, so anything this side of a 1982 should fit the bill.

Well if you slow down to Pontoon speed you can avoid the pounding. 😉

If you're considering a fishing toon then you've already decided that you won't be covering a lot of water at high speeds, therefore I'll bring up the option of a 18' center console wide Jon with slightly lowered decks. Bass fishing from a pontoon is like fishing off a bridge. They are great for catfishing, trolling, or soaking minnows for crappie, but just absolutely suck for anything else.

It came from trees. Messy basturds aren't they?

That's a stalemate.

We got'em pretty good yesterday evening. Still eating that spinnerbait. No bigguns but a respectable limit.

An unstable ground connection can make all kinds of weird stuff happen. Your discription of the issues you are are having make no sense (mechanically), and anytime things "don't make sense" I automatically start checking ground connections. You say that you pumped the primer bulb and the motor started. Were you able to pump it more than 3 full squeezes? If so then you may have fuel pickup pump issues or a restricted/leaking fuel delivery hose. If you didn't get 3 full squeezes then I doubt the squeezing of the bulb had anything to do with it starting afterwards. None of this matters though because at this point in its life nobody can touch it unless they work for a dealership. So take it back to where you bought it. Now that that's out of the way.....did you remove any fish from Lil'Gravi ? If so I'm done talking to you 😊

Battery connection clean and TIGHT?

I have done a good bit of it around big docks on LO. Never messed with the great big spoons out on structure. The one I pitch is a double that is 4" long. I just pitch it in there, let it flutter down 8-12'. The actual depth under the dock doesn't seem to matter (10'-40+'). All of my bites have come within the first few feet of drop. I've never had any luck diddling around down deep with it. An extra hook on the front makes it harder to pitch (watch your fingers!) but helps keep them stuck. Don't dick around with them at the boat. Swing them in right away or they'll shake off and shoot that spoon right at your face.

This is the one we were checking out, it has good vision. Everything showed up really good even though the water was pretty green. It does take 2 people to operate it. You gotta have someone feeding it cable.

Got to see one in action today. Has sonar capability so you can find stuff (or schools of fish) then dive it down to take a look. The lights make vision plenty good enough in the shade under docks, and oddly enough fish aren't spooked by it at all. It even has a magnetic attachment to drop a bait right in front of a fish. Sells for around 2k so I'm guessing there's already several guys out there that have them. Ran the thing around for probably 40 minutes and the battery showed no signs of getting weak. I learned right away that alot of those big clouds of "shad" are actually giant schools of bluegill. Saw some bass, crappie, carp, and also found a fairly new looking 6XD stuck in a brushpile. I'd much rather have one of these than one that flys in the air! 😀

No theory. Sorry to be the one breaking it to ya, but Santa Claus is fictional. There's better reasons to be a good boy than taking a chance that you might be given a lump of coal.

Obviously drove right past a thousand lightly fished 10-15' brushpiles. Wonder what makes the ones in the Glaize worth that drive for him?

FTFY

Honestly I can take it. I piss and moan about the cold all Winter so I figure I have to be a trooper during the Summer. Sweating is better than frostbite any day. Just can't set my tools down without throwing a rag over them because a wrench laid down on the deck of a boat will turn into a branding iron in about 48 seconds My wife, on the other hand, drives me crazy. It is colder in this house right now than it is during a power outage in January. And if I try to turn the AC down she'll come at me like a velociraptor.

No kidding! For me the Wiggle Wart bite is pretty short. About 2 weeks during the middle of Spring, pecking it along clean Rocky bottoms from the shoreline out to 6-7'. There are obviously other niche's for it that produce good, but that's the only time throughout the year that I rely heavily on it. I could actually get by with only one color pattern....Old School Brown Craw with the red belly.

No, I suck at video editing. But basically you just use spray adhesive to stick sheets of foam together, figure out the size you want, and cut out rectangles. Tie on your tailing goodys, then put a thread base over the hook shank for the head to stick to. Poke a hole in the middle, slip it over the eye of the hook, put on some super glue gel and fold it over. Use strong thread to cinch down the waist while the gel is still gooey. I like cheap googly eyes because they add even more bulk and bouyancy. You can dress it up even more with a sharpie if you want, or add rubber legs when you cinch down the waist.

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