fishinwrench

Yeah It'll skip. If you use the bottom edge of a dock as a line fulcrum you can skip a bowling ball.

You can pluck them out, but occasionally you'll fillet one that has more grub than meat. That crap makes me loose my appetite.

Total weight, or maybe even have the hook/lead (less the plastic) weighing that much. It needs to have enough weight+mass to pitch and skip on med.-hvy. gear. I can slow ddown or control the fall with line size and tension. I just know that with similar streamlined baits (tubes and such) that 5/16 is NOT enough, it needs to be about 3/8-7/16 for what I wanna do with it.

Oh Dude! !!! Can you get that to weigh close to 3/8ox. ?

All I know is; I wish I was pitchin' a jig today. Excellent day to compete for a big one.

Not me, brother. I'm regreting not being out there. Lots of money to be won and I feel extremely Hawgy, today ! Anyway, forget THAT We need to hook up about those Whites one day kinda soon. Until then though, try keeping "some grape vines" in your right peripheral during a cool afternoon. I need to settle on a boat ramp in that vicinity, instead of Der'Vater's.

Those people don't give a rats butt about lake/river accesses, and if they pretend to care they are just acting.

We still have Wally up here, should be pushing between 9-11ft. by now.

F&F, They can write all the tickets they want, but no signature is required unless you just WANT to mail in some money. No way they'd tow a vehicle, that would have to be authorized, and it couldn't be done before a guy out fishing would be back loading his boat. Besides, that would be intentionally stranding a guy on the water.....I dare them to!

You got it! If I sign on NOW do I start racking up a retroactive paycheck for just chillin'?

They can close a gate or ASK you not to use an access, and they might ASK you to leave if you're there when they arrive. But from what I can find out so far that's pretty much it. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

Oh.....That was good!

When we're done bashing government workers can we start in on insurance professionals? Or we could do marine service/ boating industry first, that's fine.

Well in my defense I may not be a "paid biologist/invasive species specialist" but I do live and work on a lake that has them. I was here before they showed up, was here when hatches of them were borderline crazy in certain areas, and I'm still here .....on the lake.....every day.....and haven't seen but few THIS year. I studied up on them enough that when a "biologist" was quoted in a MDC article I read claiming that he believed that drum had a real appetite for them and could "save the lake" I laughed out loud. That dude should be furloughed just for being openly ignorant and getting paid for it. Believe what suits you, and support slinging tons of copper sulfate wherever ya want, but as I said....I DON'T THINK zebras have/or will harm our waterways if ignored, and MAY actually benefit them considering their current state of purity. Personally I'm considerably more concerned with critters that are disappearing than I am ones that are showing up. Specifically Dragon and damsel flies, and frogs.

Pick a fish species and learn all you can about them. Start a fishing logbook and keep after them every chance you get on any body of water that you have access to. The shortcuts and tricks you figure out on your own are the ones that truly build your confidence and understanding. Specializing on one species at a time, and not giving up until you're confident that you can catch one regardless of the conditions or the season will better organize the learning process.

Zebra mussels don't hurt a dang thing, and I think the propaganda is all done just to support funding for a bunch of phoney-baloney "jobs". Sure they'll clog up water intakes that are left submerged for a long-LONG time.....as they SHOULD, since "water intakes" are not a natural thing themselves. If a certain organism thrives to the point over over-population in a certain body of water then there is usually a good reason. Nature is gonna run its course regardless. You wanna STOP the spread of Zebra mussels? Then use the funds set aside for all the propaganda and "further study" and apply it towards cleaning up the water.

Did you explain to her that the fist pounding was just an actor acting? And that Dora, Swiper, and the Grumpy'ol Troll are actually friends that hang out together when off the set.

Now we're talkin'.

Regardless of who you strive to go to work for there are going to be goods/bads. If you're self employed there are risks and drawbacks, and if you choose to take a government job there are goods/bads. Factory workers never know when they'll be cut loose. Being self employed I often work for months without a paycheck. You just have to adjust the way you live for awhile, it's not THAT bad. As hard as I try I can't work up a single tear for the furloughed few. Enjoy your stupid vacation, or spend it looking for a "more secure" career if the anxiety is upsetting you.

That's the solution right there IMO. When masses stop showing up to "vote" it gets their attention. Only THEN do they realize that folks are not playing the game anymore. Voter turnout in my area was way down last time and the constant encouragement to PLEASE GO VOTE through local media was annoying. Yeah Yeah, "go vote". Whatever. KMA! Anywho, I just turned the weather radio on....it's running.

Yep, good (real) kids. They were hard at it the last day my g/f and I were down there. Mom and Gramps on the bank and 4 polite and well behaved kids wrestling stones and having a blast.

If there's no sign on the river bank then you're ok. Not everyone listens to the news.

WTH does it do that makes you lightheaded? Make sure it's the phone doing it and it's not just a coincidence. KnowhatImean? How else can I put this?.....Ummm....Oh to hell with it, just say it Wrench ! Ness, Don't stroke out on us, Bro !!!

Noooooo ! Some energetic kids just built a little dam out of stones off to the side of the old milldam run. I'm proud of them for leaving the X-box alone long enough to do it. No harm done at all.

It's a dang shame that every tax paying "citizen" won't stay at home and not spend a single dime for a day or two EVERYTIME some $#!t like this goes down. Id' love to see the result of that. Turn off their lights, build a twig fire in the back yard and heat up leftovers or thaw out some game. Use no electricity, use no fuel.....and buy nothing. That would be frikken amazing! Hell I'm gonna do it just for fun