fishinwrench

Nice ! Congrats on the new wagon, and I'm glad ya got the Honda straightened out.

The local talk radio this morning is making a big deal about some "official decision" being made today regarding allowing gay people in the boy scouts. The question I have is..... who decides who is "gay" ? "Are you gay? " Um, No. "Ok, you're cleared". Or how does that work? LOL

Been around lakes and rivers all my life, this is the first I've ever heard about a "fish die-off" during/or after a spawn. And the way it reads your biologist guy acts like it is just a common thing. Pardon me! Good luck with your lake.

The biologist "believes" that? Why, cuz it sounds possible, or is there some honest science behind that theory? Does that guy know what happened to the whites too?

I'm guessing that it was more than 300.00 ?

I always thought cotton seed cake was for Buffalo and carp.

"If everyone lived off the land" there'd be alot fewer of "us".. Like only as many as "the land" could sustain.....which would likely solve every problem that has ever been discussed here, and elsewhere.

Goldfish! Albino's if you can get'em.

Pomme lost its White bass not too long ago.....no explanation. Now it's loosing crappie? During the stressful period of a hot Summer or hard Winter you could somewhat discount it. But not during the ideal water temp periods of late Spring. And lakewide all at once? I'd say that's reason for some immediate concern. No?

All this scrambling of details among news reports seems to have gotten more common since 9-11. I don't recall so much error in "official reporting" prior to that event. And now, today, we are pretty much conditioned to EXPECT it and accept it. Not cool! So now when something inconvenient slips out.....Well....that was just an error in the reporting. Oh....Ok....WHEW! WTFever.

Bettet take pics of them next to a ruler just in case one of them is THE BOMB and you end up loosing it.

I had a badger come in on me while bowhunting a persimmon patch in Camden co. many years ago and I had no idea WTF it was..... I described it as a groundhog/sloth hybrid to my buddies who accused me of being stoned. Then one day I saw a taxidermy'ed one in a gun shop and immediately knew that I hadn't had a flashback after all. I'd say that seeing one in Mo. is very rare. I'll confess that I did indeed draw on it and was a micro-second from launching a broadhead at it, but I'm glad now that I didn't.

Culling? Crappie don't do as well as bass in a livewell for several hours. I noticed alot of dead crappie on a certain arm of LO immediately after a crappie tournament and assumed that was the cause since they were all about the same size (about 10 1/2").

I was in Scouts all of my childhood. We had really great leaders and I learned more quality "stuff" in BSA than I ever did in public school. I have saved lives using knowledge and skills I developed in my scouting years. Quite a few of them actually, including my own on multiple occasions Anyone that stayed in scouts long enough to earn their merit badges had to have learned a ton of valuable skills, regardless of how lame their "troop leaders" were.

The reason Bass fishing is so popular is because of all the different ways (and places) they can be caught. On the surface, or from 10" of water on a jig to 40'+ on a spoon, and all things in between in ponds, lakes, creeks and rivers. And then once you've been there/done all that, you can start flyfishing for them. It never has to get boring. But if you fish ALOT and narrow your choices down permanently to a basic few techniques.....you'll be buying golf clubs or building a monster truck soon.

I've had my views changed (corrected) on several topics here over the years. It isn't rare by any means for me to fly off into the unknown on a subject....and then "be brought back down closer to earth" by someone on here. The frustration always remains though, because even if one of us has a truly logical solution to 'whatever', nobody capable of actually doing anything about it ever hears/considers/acts on it.

Until you have most of the basics down, and some refined skills developed.....why not just save yourself some cash and stay out of the competition relm for awhile longer? You'll learn alot faster by spending time on the water alone without any pressure. when/if you're ready to start competing you'll know it.

Success with post spawn Whites would be a bona-fide test for any guide. Take plenty of beer and snacks and don't let your wife forget to take "her book".

Bend Over And Take it

I didn't catch what area you hail from but if you're in the LO area I'd be glad to do the waterpump for ya.

Well if there was a single beer cap on board they'll claim "alcohol involvement", but seriously how hammered would you have to be to hit a docked houseboat at 3/4 throttle? I'm giving the driver the benefit of doubt. Here is how a broken shift cable can cause something like this: Driver is easing into a docking area, shifts into reverse to stop the boat, cable breaks and boat is still powering forward, driver panics and goes for more throttle in reverse, boat speeds forward....Crash! But because there was a beer in the cupholder "the crash happened because of alcohol". I'm not defending drunken boating but I hope they investigate further than the cupholder and .08% toxicology findings. There are 2 shift cables and a shift converter on that Mercruiser I/O and that relates to 9 areas of potential shift failure while still allowing throttle advance in either direction.

Just slap a bunch of turbines in the Missouri river and kill two birds with one stone (pun'ny hu?) Generate energy and chop up asian carp into blue cat chow.

The "fitted" fuel hoses for the 1965 Merc 650 are NLA so all connections will have to be fitted with shortened threaded nipples (standard nipples are too long to fit without kinking the hoses). To go through all of that (8 times), plus refresh the water pump is gonna be about 350.00 P&L from an "honest" mechanic, and about 40.00 from one that's crooked as a snake

The dirty water shouldn't turn you off at all, it will have the fish super shallow. Drop a jig, lizard or a big tube around shoreline cover and be prepared to nail him/her before it hits the bottom.

The water pump refresh is a breeze, but the issue you're eventually gonna run into with older Mercs is the availability of ignition components when you need them...... and sooner or later you will. So in other words, regardless of how much you're willing to spend freshening up the old Merc she's only gonna run for as long as the current ignition system allows, unless you have access to a few other ones to rob parts from.