fishinwrench

Until the day comes that I can travel the 8 miles into town without hitting one I won't be capable of getting too upset at deer poachers. Just sayin'. We need an extended season on them around here, badly. Nobody will waste a round on a doe or a small buck around here, everyone just wants to get their picture in the paper next to a gigantic rack I guess. Meanwhile there's probably 400 does per square mile.

If you hit one with a bullet.....he will die.

At least the scorpions weren't active Nov. 1962 ? Dang ol'timer! I hadn't even soiled my first cloth diaper at that time.

Hmmm, I put a center console in a 16' Sea Nymph jon......it STILL rode like a potato wagon on a railroad crossing. It'd be a bit awkward pitchin' behind docks from a Mako bay boat. LOL

I thought that was Johnny Borden's hump

The best crappie catches I've ever had were during the week of Thanksgiving, regardless of whether it was mild and calm or rainy and cold. Just something about this time of the year that put the LO crappie on a good feed.

Glad to see you here. Do you ever get into the White bass on the Mo. ?

All I see resulting from that is a terrible hangover, so let me just forfeit right now

That's kinda what I thought. It's gotta be a pretty fish, in a pretty place, and if there's any mud or anything else around that might get us dirty then it needs to be covered with concrete. Dirty water is scary business! If you can't see what's in there then your taking you life into your own hands by getting close to it. Crocodiles, Sharks.....WHO KNOWS! SHEEEZE! Trout purists are such pansies

So they could put carp in those pretty streams instead? Think of the savings!

^^This^^ The sensor/caps have a habit of cracking around the thread ring after a few years. Mercury should have updated that POS but choose to ignore it year after year. Typical. Get a fresh new one and sleep easy for a year or two.

Woah! Baby Tarpon

I think that once my whites vanish I'm gonna target a mess of KY's on the flyrod. I know a brushy channel bank real close that is always loaded with them during the fall/winter.

I can probably get a Teleflex kit at 40% off MSRP after Thanksgiving. Other than that I dunno (ebay?). Dont see many of them around here, and have only installed 1 in my whole working life.

If you're replacing the compete gearset then you'll need the fwd.bearing/race, seal kit, and a new pinion nut also.

You didn't say what year, but does your lower unit housing look like this? http://www.crowleymarine.com/mercury-outboard/parts/497_200.cfm What parts are you needing?

Well done. That Kentucky is a hoss !

Yeah, for a single "multi-species" boat you're gonna have to include the following: Rough water capability with a strong trolling motor....yet not too big to get in behind the docks QUIETLY...nor too heavy to float/idle across a shallow stump filled flat. Plenty of open floor space and storage compartments to keep stuff off the floor. Oversized livewell(s). I might as we'll stop now since such a boat doesn't exist. At least not one that I would enjoy fishing from. You need a rig with all the features of a 18-20' glass bassboat, a 16-18' jon boat, and a 20-24' toon....all rolled into one.

I think that is the first walleye I've ever seen come from Pomme. Nice one too! Not to change the subject but how are the white bass rebounding there?

They are a blast! My favorite fly rod target by far, and if they'd just "get air" I'd never fish for anything else Consider yourself lucky for getting off the water before that gale started. I was on a wide open shallow flat (55° water) and it went from a manageable breeze to 3 foot rollers in a matter of 5 minutes.

Right on! I found a good mess today too. Brought 18 to hand on the fly, kept the best 10 for the freezer. That wind got plum wicked right before dark, didn't it? Whew!

I don't know if this is still the case but you used to be able to buy cheap free floating water bed mattresses for 30 bucks. You could lay something heavy on them and drag it all over the yard with one hand. I used one for years to move salvage outboards around my place, slide washer/dryer/fridge/and oversize houseplants across the floor, and in the Winter we'd pump it full of air and shove loads of kids down the hillsides. That thing was great!

That was sarcasm in it's finest form Well played Ham! A guy buying a boat with his wife in mind....proof that all that glitters is not sold Bunches of those "compromise boats" for sale with incredibly low hours on them. The wife is usually good for two half-days during the life of that boat. Buy her a jet ski and set her free, if she comes back she's yours, if she doesn't then she never was....AND YOU UNLOADED A JET SKI !