fishinwrench

I still expect a mummy to fall out of that spice rack (aka; cabnet) someday. I appreciate the craftsmanship and fine wood involved but that freakin' thing belongs in a Spielburg movie. When I was a little bitty 3/16 wrench my grandparents had a big standup clock that looked alot like that thing. I was scared to death of it and panicked if left in the room alone with it. By the time I was about a 7/16 I had almost gotten over it, but then one day when the house was real quiet, Mamaw was in the kitchen and Papaw at work..... it made a strange noise. I stayed leery of that clock until I was a teenager. True story.

Yeah, my brother has a bigger mouth than I do too, but we both came from the same place

Would y'all quit with the hockey already, you're causing our Spring to go away.

Looks all SMB to me. Nice healthy one too!

What he said ^… as far as crappie sized ones are concerned anyway.

Correct, but you need to disconnect the fuel line if it's not vented. I prefer caps with an adjustable thumb screw vent and I never tighten it all the way, because if you ever connect the fuel line before relieving pressure you risk getting sprayed in the face.

Yep. Pressure built up in your fuel tank. Check the vent. On the old metal tanks you vent by loosening the cap 1/4 turn.

I'm just gonna continue to let my hide soak in the sunlight and see how many of you moles I can outlive, just for the hell of it.

Very Widespread and Common belief repeated over and over by scores of old time 2stroke wrenches for decades....but it is pure baloney.

1988 XR2 "Used very little" means it has set ALOT. The oil injection system, fuel system, and cooling system should probably be checked out and/or refreshed. It'll cost ya some coin but it's vital to the life and dependability of the engine. Trim fluid needs checked and gearcase lube checked/refreshed. Look over the livewell plumbing real good on the boat, especially the pump thru-hull fittings and overflow outlet fittings...cuz they get brittle with age and can sink a boat in a hurry. Look over the steering and control cables for signs of degradation or stiffness. Trailer bunks and wheel bearings? Updated electronics should be the last thing on your list IMO

Very good! 88 was a good year for them too. Why's there 2 HB transducers on the transom ?

True. I used to order online from a MO flyshop thinking I was doing a good thing supporting my locals, but they are insanely slow to get the goods on the way and they have this annoying habit of not letting you know that an item is out of stock until the package arrives short. It is unacceptable that I can get stuff quicker from California than I can from STL, and be notified before the order is processed if anything is out of stock. Some 'good' brick and mortar flyshops just can't pull off the online sales thing very well.

There is still a big "trout" stigma associated with FFing that is holding it back. A ton of gear fishing guys are gonna take to warmwater FFing someday.....and boy oh boy will they ever have some coin to blow ! It's time is comin'. We'll be lucky if there's enough deer tails and saddle hackle to supply us all.

Yeah. Perplexed. I've never been in a boat that threw a blade, I bet the vibration is intense, not to mention the sudden steering torque. Were these all fresh props or ones that had been rebuilt or tweaked ?

Yep. I had it figured out as soon as you mentioned planting 3 flats of flowers. It's cool running into you here.

Fishing LO forces you to keep the bill of your hat pulled down low and concentrate on the water because the scenery is butt ugly. If you're not catching fish here you just wanna go home. TR is pretty, and just makes you glad to be out there. Hard to say which makes for a "better" lake.

My dad never swung a flyrod all his life but his dad (my Papaw) was one of those old guys that waded the muddy creeks of the Salt river basin in the same pants he wore to church. A flyrod and an UMCO aluminum box full of medium sized bugs, mostly poppers and mostly "yellow" was his favorite way to fish, and he was my idol. I learned to tie flys years before I was ever handed a flyrod, and when I finally got cut loose with one it was for the purpose of catching sunfish for limb-line bait. No instruction or teaching ensued, I guess he figured that I had followed along and watched him long enough that I could figure it out on my own, and eventually I did. I strayed away from flyfishing after I saw my first issue of Bassmaster magazine but kept going back to it from time to time whenever 'gear fishing' got even the slightest bit boring, or anytime I realized that I could probably catch the same fish on the fly that I was using gear to catch. The whole experience of flyfishing is just cooler to me, kinda like bowhunting vs. rifle hunting, it just puts my mind in a better place and I can appreciate success alot more....and accept failure better

East side or West?

Horse-puckey ! I've installed over 2 dozen of these over-glorified image producing 'depthfinders' on customers boats over the last several years and not a one of them has increased their yearly average catch rate, or become any more capable of putting together manageable patterns consistently than they could before. If anything, it causes them to keep hammering a piece of structure for 2 hours longer than they should. Meanwhile the guys fishing the same way they have been for decades before those things hit the market are still taking the majority of checks at weigh-in. Just sayin'

OMG! Y'all and your "new age fishing gadgets". I bet ya spend more time idling around wasting gas and dickin' with your toys than you do with a rod in your hands And in the end you'll not have caught one extra fish by doing so. I think you are screwing yourself by relying too much on high-dollar electronic gizmo's instead of fine tuning your natural instincts. But hey, that's just me..... I'm glad you're having fun and helping boost the economy 'over there'. LOL

I'm interested in this. You have thrown blades off how many props, without hitting anything? This is crazy. Gotta be more to this story... What year is the boat/motor ? I would expect it to turn a 24 tempest at 56-5800 wot, so what rpm were you getting with the 26 BEFORE it came undone?

In their bed? Whites don't mess around with beds, they grab the females and throw them over a log... or just 'hit it' on the fly right at the surface.

Instead of watching your speed (MPH), watch your tach. Have you lost or gained top end RPM?

I'm picking up on the sarcasm. But when was the last time you had that much fun fishing for trout or Smallmouth? I just think our native species that are doing so well WITHOUT ANY ASSISTANCE deserve the same concern as the ones we have to spend time, money, and worry about all the time. "Oh, here's a fish that is doing good all on its own....lets load the freezer with them while the gettin's good." Nothing wrong with a few fish frys, but massive numbers of anglers hauling them out by the bucketfuls until they are just " too tired to clean anymore fish" is a bad habit. I don't care what the legal limit is, it's wrong. What happens when the whites have a bad year (like happened at Pomme) ? When will they come back? What was that, like 3-4 years ago? How's the white bite on Pomme? Nobody knows, cuz they ain't caught enough to know.

Upon second reading you're probably (hopefully) right. My apologies. I've just seen such an open and encouraged raping of whites the last few years it's making me defensive.