fishinwrench

Well I lost 2 boats, half a house, and half of my business. Until the definition of "Justice" in divorce court changes..... any man who signs marriage license papers is a blooming idiot.

I've caught bass on beds (sight fishing) in 18-22'. Theoretically if you can visably see the beds then actual light penetration is TWICE that......since light has to travel down there, then back up to your eyes.

My grandpa used to say...."I don't want nuthin to do with any animal whose @$$hole is higher than mine". I've always lived by that, and don't regret it. 👍

I think this is wrong. Note the mention of a "dry channel" at mile 66. https://missouricanoe.org/niangua-river/ When the river level is low, to the point that water isn't flowing over the dam..... then the channel goes "dry". If there's a gate (or gates) then where is it ?

Exactly. Dad's bird gun had scratches on the bluing from holding fences down for the dog, and so me and my brother could hop over. Those scratches always took me back when I'd look at them. He had some sweet over/unders but his REAL bird gun was a 1897 hammer pump.....loose as a goose & no choke, but if he ever missed on a covey rise I sure never witnessed it....not even on doubles. 👍 Quail were EVERYWHERE when I was a kid. Then by the time I was old enough to have my own dog and go out by myself....they were just gone. 😔 My grandpa's Winchester 39A pump .22 had a raw spot worn on the stock from riding between the seat and fender on his tractor. He'd pop a bunny occasionally and stuff it in his lunchbox if it was close to quitting time. Mamaw would clean that sucker when he got home😊 They don't make women like that anymore. They were "working guns" and every imperfection meant something to me.

Y'all be sure to heavily insure those heirloom guns ! I had my dad & grandad's guns, and they all got busted to pieces and barrels bent in the tornado, including the beautiful gun cabinet that was from my dad. I was "insured" but I wasn't insured enough. 😢. Gone forever. 😭

I thought I lost mine, but it just got relocated. Moved from my head to my ears, nose, and butt crack 🙄

That mod.94 looks to have had some custom stock work. They've always been my favorite Missouri deer rifle. W/stock buckhorn sights 👍 .30-30 is a better whitetail round than anybody gives it credit for. Drops them in their tracks.

I'm not smart enough to know what extrapolate means......so there's no way I can be of any help. 🤷‍♂️

Was poking around in the caves around Grafton once and came across A BODY! 😳 We freaked out and GTFOT. Reported it to the local law and they "investigated"...... Turned out to be a mannequin. 😅

Back when I was just a little pup, Buffalo were the main target of commercial fishermen on the Mississippi and lower Salt river. My grandpa HATED commercial fishermen! If you ever had a trammel net caught on your lower unit you'd quickly learn to hate them too. I've tried preparing them before..... it's like butchering a hog, and didn't turn out very tasty at all. But there was a riverside restaurant in Louisiana, Mo. called "Badeye's" that served Buffalo & hush puppies..... Absolutely delicious 😋. River barges even used to pull over and dock there just so the crew could run in and grab boxes of food (and cases of beer) to go.

It's kinda being kept quiet, but guys need to know...

Just to bring this topic full circle......let it be known that there's no FORWARD FACING SONAR or BAROTRAUMA in heaven. 👍

Aw, c'mon Mitch. Don't stop me now. I'm almost on the verge of accepting that everything that makes no sense and can't be explained is because GOD DID IT !

On another note..... Turtles seem to be able to float, or sink, at will. A turtle can sit on the bottom effortlessly, or float like a cork effortlessly. But maybe they do so by gulping air.....I dunno.

Fresh blood floats on water because it has more than 2parts oxygen. Once the oxygen has depleted then the blood mixes freely with water and slowly sinks. I have a hard time buying that a fishes BLOOD is carrying enough buoyant material, or gases, to effect a fishes equilibrium. I'm reasonably certain that digestive gas is what is retained in the swim bladder.....but I don't really know. Fish do fart.... I've witnessed that in aquarium fish.

I get that. But as I've pointed out.....the buoyancy of a bottle of beer or soda is the same whether it's shaken up or not. It doesn't float higher, or float differently regardless of the state of the contents inside of it. And guess what.....If you open the soda/beer, releasing some "gas", then put the lid back on resealing it.....it still floats the same. So how does the amount of PRESSURE inside a fishes body effect it's buoyancy? It can't unless the fishes body blows up like a balloon, changing its overall mass. And I'm talking about its ENTIRE body.....not just the size of the bladder contained within.

I mildly resent being called dumb, but that's ok.....been called worse. I've been taught how to fizz fish but have never actually done it myself. Fish mortality studies, being what they are, pretty much indicate that you spending all afternoon wading around poking floaters isn't doing anything beneficial to the survival rate of the fish population. If you TRULY cared, and it made your BLOOD BOIL.... then you wouldn't have been hanging around supporting a tournament weigh-in in the first place. 😅 Might sound crass and inhumane, but fish paramedics trying to make an impression on a few onlookers are annoying as hell to me. Scoop them up and fillet them if wanton waste is your concern. Or, better yet.....keep track of whose fish they are, and have them penalized for a DEAD FISH.

It is helpful, thanks. 👍 These gases, if in the blood, are consistently present within the fishes body though, right? If so, then am I to assume that the location within the body is the only determining factor of whether a fish ends up with barotrauma issues or not ? Surely they don't just suddenly produce gases on demand. Am I wrong in assuming that gases are only produced through the digestion of food ?

Oh, here we go.....🙄 "Folks"should. Like YOU are completely above that level.....and have a perfectly accurate understanding of everything being discussed here. OMG! Painful indeed 🤣

Not even close! She hopped in my truck when I was headed over to the bagnell strip to play Skee-ball, and feed carp.....and she just never went back home. It was like picking up a tick at an amusement park.

I know that in Lake O everything below 17-18 ft. is completely covered in a 2-3ft.deep layer of silty goo. Why any fish would want to be in that environment is a mystery. I doubt that there are even any crawfish, leeches, or anything living in that nastiness. Surely fish don't settle down into that blanket of snot. I don't see how they could even get any oxygen if they did. If you're on this lake and you have this vision that your jig is crawling/hopping around in a pretty textbook rock pile or brushpile in 20-25'...... You're living in a dream world. In reality you're down there poofing around like a dachshund in a snowdrift, making giant clouds of yuk that fish can't even see through. It's a wonder that anyone ever catches fish like that.....but they undeniably do. 🤷‍♂️

Here's where it all gets stupid though: I got on a school of fish in 36-42' a couple years ago, and picked on them for a little over 2 weeks. I think I caught 40-45 of them from that one particular spot, and all were Cookie cutter 15-17 inchers, and only one in 15 would have air bladder issues. All the rest of them had no problems at all staying upright. Why did it effect a few, but not all ? Caught numerous spotted bass at Lake Lanier in 45-50' back in the day.....and I don't remember any of them ever suffering from "barotrauma".

Ok, this is good stuff. But in the real world of what we are talking about regarding BASS in 30+FOW ...... We are only talking about a depth change of 15' and a temperature change of usually less than 10°

No I didn't !