fishinwrench

I have had it in both elbows, wrists, and right shoulder. Feels like a hot match imbedded in my joints. Icing it for awhile, then heating it gave me enough relief to fall asleep (mine hurt so bad at times that I was about ready to chop my arm off). As soon as I woke up I'd have to grab some dumbells and excersize it, then basically keep moving all day. If I stopped and rested for very long it would start hurting unbearably. Eventually it just goes away, but it takes awhile. My shoulder incident was the longest and the pain stayed with me for 6-7 months. Drinking soda always seemed to make it hurt worse for some reason.

I understand, and I hope you didn't take what I said in a smart Aleck way. But I get in and out of boats all the time and it's real easy to slip and get hurt even when you're nimble and being careful. Having a rail to hold onto isn't gonna save you unless you are psycally capable of doing a one armed pullup. Statistically most boating related injuries happen when boarding and unboarding.

The remote TM setup on the boat I just sold allowed me to just splash the boat, go park the truck, and bring the boat to me at the dock using the remote. Pretty Sweet! I only forgot to plug the TM in before launching ONCE. Luckily the breeze was in my favor and eventually blew the boat up on the bank.

I dunno guys, that looks like a good way to bust your @$$ and break a leg to me. Are you incapable of swinging a leg over the bow and putting a knee on the front deck ? Maybe throw a boat cushion up there to kneel on until you can get ahold of the pedestal seat and stand up ? I don't wanna sound like a dick but maybe some specific physical therapy to build muscle and joint strength or flexibility would be a better alternative for those who are having trouble entering and exiting boats.

Enforcer, No need to dissect the deep dark abyss on LO, the best bites can be right off the bank even during the coldest periods. IMO there is something magical about the 12' depth on LO. You can almost always (Winter/Spring/Summer/Fall) catch keeper fish at 12' or get them to come up from 12' to eat a jerkbait that is running about 5-7' deep. They'll often suspend at 12-15' about 2 long casts out from a known good bank or secondary point, and those fish will eat jerkbaits if you can coax them into moving at all. I haven't taken the time to learn A-rig fishing but I'm sure that'd work better at times. Jerkbaits and a 5" hula grub (Chomper or Yamamoto) is about all I throw during the Winter. Before I got addicted to the DT grubs I used to do OK with a regular jig and a pork frog fishing it the same way (slowly inching it down the banks from the shoreline out, counting every rock and shaking it gently off any sticks you find). It works.

I'm sure there was a bunch of them clinging to stuff along the bank, but that was the only one that I noticed flying around. I switched to a black nymph of the same size for awhile but it didn't produce. Caught most of mine by swinging a leech, and caught a few on a Y2K bug.

Critter, it sounds like you did a lot of jumping around expecting things to be different a few miles away. Next time just forget about milk-running mainlake points and stuff for awhile and pick a decent sized cove that has a little of everything in it. Choose a cove that has a decent back end flat, a piece of steep channel bank, and some chunk/gravel mix stuff...and don't leave that cove until you have figured out a way to catch a few fish in it even if they are shorts. Then buckle down and see if you can find a keeper or at least one that's darn close. Until you have figured out where a few fish are hanging out in that cove and have figured out a way to make a couple of them bite, then there's really no sense in leaving that cove to go look for greener pastures. By doing so you're not trying to figure anything out...you're just trying to get lucky. This time of the year you can safely eliminate the extreme back end of the cove but it's not a bad idea to run back there where you know there's probably no bass at all and then start idling back out, staying in the middle of the cove while watching your electronics for the first sign of life. It doesn't have to be a giant ball of shad...just look for the first little speck of life that shows up on your electronics (a single lonely bluegill is good enough). When you see that, shut the motor down, look to your right then left.... And pick a side to start fishing on. Somewhere between there and the mouth of the cove there WILL BE some bass. Once you have unlocked the code to catching fish in your little chosen "test cove" you can own the whole lake. But until then your just stuck on the porch with the blind dogs.

I went through the CDC phase back about 1999 and unless duck butt oil has changed since then my take is that CDC has about the same water resistant qualities as a tuft of cotton. Who started that rediculis fable anyway? Probably the same one that claimed that the fur from a swamp rabbits feet floated like a cork. I truly hope that fly tying instructors in 2015 let their students know that there is as much bulls#it in the field of fly tying as there is in all other aspects of life, because all the books and mentors that I learned from sure sent me on a lot of "snipe hunts". I would have progressed so much faster, and saved so much time/money without all the malarky. If you've ever skinned a muskrat so you could tie a Adams, or perused catalogs looking for Austrailian possum fur ....then you know exactly what I mean. Surely by now you've realized that they probably don't even have possums in Australia....Or Partridges in Hungary. Some jackass just knew that if he told fly tyers that something came from the opposite end of the earth then they'd believe there was something truly unique about it. The sad fact is that those writers and pattern developers were either laughing to themselves behind our backs, or they were nuttier than a PINE squirrel turd.

Bunch of fishing nuts at Ft.Lostinthe Woods. You should have no trouble at all finding a ride.

No kidding ! Dudes fuel filter has to be kept cleaner than his underwear.

I only let a fang show because it is a thread about food, and I'm getting hungry.

I can settle this. Here is proof that they stocked with milk cans. If it's on the stamp then it has to be true. By far my favorite BTW. Good job, Al !

Anything "shad-like", and of course Clown (seems to work everywhere jerkbaits are thrown). On sunny days I think it pays to motorboat the FLASH. On cloudy days I think it pays to throw non-metallic baits. I have a confidence deficit with orange bellies myself but some guys swear by them.

Oh Snap!

That's one litter box I'd want no part of !

Gitnby, The scenario where you gain by removing them is; Running WOT and trimmed out. In that setting it may be holding you back by "diving under/attempting to pull the stern DOWN", when what you want THEN is more LIFT. As long as the cav plate is level with the world they operate as designed. I'd argue that 4-6" adjustable tabs mounted to the transom*** would be a better performance tweek though, since engine trim angle doesn't alter those. ***Think offshore racing* Yep, it's Winter alright.

If they still called them Whale Tails nobody would dare. "Hydrofoil" sounds so..... Wicked mod !

Remember you said that! The stringers full of Meramec Smallies might be next, so you'd best sit on your hands.

Ahh, well crap! I thought it kinda had this type thing going on... See where I'm going here? Some silicone strips like THAT would go nuts when water passed over it.

Let it be known though, that when dusted, fried, and served with a side of baked beans.... the biologist lost the bet.

Well you need a new drug dealer then. PM sent.

My luck, I'd be down to the final touches and the nozzle would clog. #@&%-+$#;:$# !!!!

The photobomb on the flathead pic is a classic.

Cool thx. They look textured, are they ? Looks like they'd move some water and go crazy during a strip.

What are those delicious looking fat strips of.....(textured silicone?) called ? I need some of those.