fishinwrench

An F2 is all it takes to seriously alter your life. Been there/done that. I can't even imagine what it would be like to have an F4-F5 on top of you.

I have done a ton of bed fishing through all stages of the spawn and I've noticed that if you just toss the fish back in the water they'll shoot off in any direction and be gone awhile, but if you ease them back in the water calmly they'll swim off slowly and end up right back on the bed in less than a minute. I actually caught the same 19" fish 3 times during a club paper tournament and racked up some serious points. It was brought up during the scoring and the TD's determined that it was within the rules. I am becoming staunchly against hauling fish to a set of scales miles away during ANY time of the year, but immediate C&R doesn't seem to hurt the fish noticeably at all, regardless of when it is.

Nice one! Nobody weighs trout, 24" is a lunker regardless of what it weighs.

Had a squirrel fall out of a tree into the creek and landed within rods length of me. At first he panicked and wanted to climb out on ME but I kicked his butt for trying. Nothing uglier than a wet squirrel !

No eggs, so I assume they were indeed males. Pretty big males at that. I never cared much for greenies so I had never cleaned a mess of them before. These were 10-11 inchers and I gotta say that the fillets were decent. Nice and thick, and the meat looked better than gill fillets do. None of those weird black strings that you don't know what are... but eat them anyway.

A couple of neighborhood boys got sent up here for me to teach them how to fillet fish, and they had a bucket with a dozen or so big fat green sunnies. I did two then coached them both through a couple. Their stomachs were lumpy and felt hard, so I assumed crawdads. Nope almost all of them had stomachs full of tiny Pebbles and rocks up to the size of a dime. This was news to me ! Anyone know if this is common green sunny behavior? If so, why?

Your plug is fine unless it is getting hot and starting to melt. Just use straight butt connectors instead of wire nuts, and coat them in liquid tape.

The heat occurred at the wire nuts, correct? No other signs of heat anywhere else? Heat in a circuit is caused when there is unusual resistance (wire too small, loose or dirty connection, ect) Wire Nuts on stranded wire are bad news. Use Butt Connectors and coat them with liquid tape. Using wire nuts is akin to bending a garden hose..... Pressure (heat) builds up there. If you think your wire is too small, or you question a connection then run the motor awhile IN THE WATER OF COURSE and feel the wire and any splices in various spots to see if any excessive heat is building up. If it is then you need to address it.

You stuff the snake in your butt crack to get even with doctors for hard-selling such a rediculis procedure. When the doc craps his pants you tell him HE is the one in need of an anal probing.

I'm not scared of monkeys, I just hate them. I'd love nothing more than a walk through the zoo with a 12ga. slug gun.

I thought it was just me who hated crowds. Everyone else seems drawn to them.

You can launch at Alhonna

And wives with bruises. Remember in those old movies... Some gal would start raising hell, and the closest man to her would haul off and knock the spit out of her mouth. Even Lucy got her butt whooped frequently. Try that crap today ! Ha!

The Gravois will get pounded too. All the lower end Alhonna boys will be trying the upper Gravi because of the water temp and color. That's why I'm out there everyday sore-mouthing as many as I can. No sizable quality tournaments are ever held out of the Gravois access, so all the keepers get hauled out... but none ever get brought back. The decline has become noticable over the last several years.

I can tell by the way a person stands, sits, or walks whether or not I can talk "freely" or not. People who wouldn't say $#it if they had a mouthful hold their chin at a perfect 90° to their chest all the time, sit with both feet flat on the floor, and walk like their heels are sore. They seldom wear hats, and if they do it will be incredibly clean and straight. Fingernails PERFECT. If there's a beard it is neatly groomed. Even if you keep your vocabulary in check they are still judging you, either by the vehicle you're driving or the cleanliness of your shoes. The real jackasses are the ones that ask permission to pet your dog. What the hell? Look at him! By all means PET the sonuvabitch!

We went out yesterday for a couple hours, caught a few crappie and got soaking wet. And yes I can even smoke in the rain. So can he

I'll give you my guess if you'll gimme 50% if it's 50% right.

On May 11 it will be 74°

Don't cuss. Don't smoke....Got it. Here's my request..... Don't listen, and don't breathe. Y'all stand in a cloud of hairspray fallout probably every morning, sit next to your Sweetie's while they fill the room with nail polish fumes, sit in traffic behind diesel burners, burn leaves, sniff your gas cap when refueling, ect. But then someone 40' away lights a cigarette and you loose your mind. Gimme a break!

It would be kinda nice if we had some NEW cuss words. All of the old standard ones have gotten kinda boring.

OK they are convinced that it was a water snake and not a copperhead, but just like Ronnie said they are still glad it's dead.

Good point. I should start showing them hundreds of copperheads, cottonmouths, baby rattlesnakes, and poisonous lizards.... Maybe they'll sell their house and move.

It's just far enough from the lake that I have doubts about it being a water snake. Might be though I guess. All I know for certain is that it wasn't a copperhead or any other venomous snake. But they aren't going to believe me unless I can find a pic/description that proves it.

I didn't take it, she sent it to me saying "OMG THERE'S A COPPERHEAD IN MY MUDROOM". I told them it wasn't a copperhead, it was a king snake. They look up King snake but it doesn't match any of the pics......so they still insist that it WAS a copperhead, and are worried about more of them getting in. Of course they killed it. I just wanna prove to them that they killed a harmless snake.