fishinwrench

No kiddin'. Nothing worse than an asshole step-hackle.

Absolutely! A kid without a feather has nobody to steal liquor from or go fishing with, and they grow up being afraid to fart. We have enough sober, non-farting, X box players in society.

How in the world could they prove what species a person is targeting? Do they have a Thought Reader now?

A few feathers won't do it, but a big wad of squirrel tail or bucktail really gives the wart a new life.

A bulky dressed rear treble on a Wiggle wart is a killer! And I think it improves any jigging spoon. I don't like them on suspending jerkbaits though.

While I have become as tired as most folks of hearing all of this anarchist BS and all the fist pounding about rights violations, this mindset didn't just pop up out of nowhere. It is a result of masses of people all over the country being constantly f@√ed with. Government and the law has entered into personal family issues, they over punish and drain peoples funds over piddly crap in the name of "safety", or environmental reasons, ect.ect. And while a large portion of us don't feel effected by it there are a lot who truly are, and they don't feel that what they are feeling and/or seeing is ay all justified. When authorities enter into a persons (or their family/friends) life, and make life hard on them for what they feel is "no good reason" then you end up with a group of folks who absolutely do not trust and might actually FEAR any official officer or form of authority. And then those same people raise children and influence others to feel the same way. Although it can be annoying and counter productive alot of the time, that growing mindset is not unjustified if you just look around a bit.

I have the Fast Orange thing going on. It hasn't let me down so far

Yeah they used to plumb those old boats with braided nylon tubing that looks like thin-walled garden hose and I know how that stuff is after a few years. I change all that crap out and replace with the black flex hose any time I run across it.. You should have had room to do a loop there where the vent hose WAS (I'm sure it is rotten and gone by now too). As for the foam: You just have to dig it out, clean up the mess with a shop vac, then shoot in some new. That stuff is cheap.

I wish you lived closer, I'd take that 6'6" HMG off your hands.

I guess it all depends on whether you prefer to hike-a-leg....or Squat to pee. Nice job on the sex change there, Doc!

My utility bill has officially exceeded my mortgage payment. So Yeah!

Ahem! Reverse trap

I hit DG yesterday but went grossly over budget. I need to start over This is slightly harder than I initially thought. That's a good thing tho.

That's the best instructional post on jig fishing that I've ever seen.

Well, there aren't many of them around theses parts. One that came to me had a bearing squealing in the compressor and the bearing wasn't available as a replacement item. Had to order a new compressor and it took just short of 2 months to get one through a dealer. That sucker was 700.00+/- and I never determined why the bearing failed (oil was being delivered to the top of the compressor just fine). That issue is definatly not exclusive to Tohatsu, Merc Optimax compressor failures are common too, but with them there is always a related cause. I guess the only thing that put a bad taste in my mouth about that Tohatsu is how freakin long it took to get the blasted thing. When something is "backordered from Japan" you just lost a season, at least.

Awesome. Good Job ! Yeah Tohatsu stepped in after Merc and Yamaha went to blows. Id love to tear into a few 4-strokes but as of yet nobody has been willing to foot the bill. They are a disposable powerhead and I expect them to stay that way. I would never in a million years buy a used one.

It doesn't necessarily take 100k to motivate a competitive angler, I have guided alot of beyond-local club anglers during their pre-fish trips. All they were out for was bragging rights or AOY standings within their club or company. I really enjoyed attending their weigh-in's to see how "my boys" finished up. I certainly didn't see anything wrong with it. There was one time that the gentleman kept calling me throughout the later part of tournament day because he was looking for a kicker to upgrade his limit,.... I didn't care much for that at all. Podunk company tournament or not that's uncool in my book. He didn't get the kicker though, so karma worked, but he did finish 4th out of 30some boats and his co-angler got a check as well.

No you're fine. It's jon boat water.

Love seeing those old prop outboards running the river. Sissy's nowadays think they need a jet pump. Just takes a little skill.

Obviously a rental.

Perfect! ^

I love aluminum boats and will probably never own another glass rig as long as I live, but the layout and construction of most aluminum "bass boats" never suit me. There's always something with each and every model that annoys me, and it's usually not something that can be reasonably modified. My solution is to choose and purchase a hull and then build it (or have it built) to suit my personal needs. In the end you'll have the perfect rig for YOU at a fraction of the cost.

Bank account!

I'm sure they are literally wading in spoonbill roe at the MDC hatchery, and if none of it is making it's way into the marketplace I'd be really surprised.

I'm not saying that what he did was right. But a standard charge of taking wildlife illegally/out of season could have been the extent of the punishment. Assuming that he wasn't a repeat offender.