fishinwrench

Awesome Fish ! Are we sure that isn't a very fat Striper? Either way that's one hell of a fish to land on a crappie rod. Congrats!

I have a waste oil collection service that actually comes around periodically and buys my old oil and fuel. Before I got hooked up with them I used to give my old gear lube to a shop that used a oil fired furnace. I'll post up their contact info when I get back to the shop if anyone is interested, I think they cover a wide area of Mo, KS., and possibly Ar.

If you could have been with me today (armed with that "mouthful") you'da got your arm jerked right good. Killer looking fly!

Well, you won't hear me say "install a w/s filter" on any outboard not factory equipped with one. On older carb motors all filtering should be done between the fuel pump and carbs....with no restrictions whatsoever between the tank and fuel pump (with an exception to pontoon applications where the fuel tank location is ABOVE the outboard, in which case an anti-siphon valve is required for safety sake). I have seen some issues that were truly caused from excessive alcohol in the fuel but in all honesty I think the worst cases I have dealt with were not from E10 pump fuel but rather from the witches brew of additives that many have been "sold on" and were using religiously. Your outboard will be converted to all alcohol resistant seals, gaskets, and diaphragms and you won't have to install any add-on filtering components or use any additional additives whatsoever. Bottom line is this: Old or bad fuel is "old bad fuel" (period), whether you let it sit too long...or whether it was alteady bad when you bought it.... and no filtering/separating, or commercial additives will refresh it or keep it from getting "old and bad". There is a big misconception (hype) about "fuel stabilizers" like Stabil and what they are designed to do that I'm not in the mood to write a book on right now, but I don't recommend their use at all.

Awesome business going on here! I love it.

Danville 6/0 is some weak stuff, I use it only for thread midges. Even the spring on my whip finisher will break it if I get in a hurry. Builds up nice though.

When I was a pup we had a network of trails and shortcuts that crossed through roughly 40 different peoples yards or property that led to various spots all over town. We rode bicycles, motorcycles, 3-wheelers, and noisy modified lawn tractors. Even had makeshift ramps built to jump fences and ditches. Not once did anyone EVER throw a fit about it. It wasn't uncommon however to get temporarily abducted to help carry in grocerys or lend a hand with tilling a garden if you we're passing through at the right time. I am SO glad that I grew up when and where I did. It must suck to be a kid now. Sad.

X2 As long as you stood still and didn't move they we're fine, but start moving around (casting, bending over, or anything else) and the water got pushed right through them. Miserable POS they were. Are the waders made from the same crap?

Geeze, what did they do, waterboard that kid to obtain all of those voluntary confessions? Sounds like he was TRYING to get himself jailed.

That ain't a wild boar,ya nimrod, it's a frikken pig. And You shot your neighbors mule? WTF? Just for that I'm gonna swat the next bee I see, and I hope your neighbor does the same. LOL

Wow! LMAO! This place is getting too big to just horse-a$$ around in...isn't it?

The summary on the Osage river makes me wanna cry. Yet amazingly fish still swim there.

Good point. Just because a fish was released in one spot and caught in another really doesn't indicate anything, except that the fish wasn't tied to a log. Evidence that fish ping-pong back and forth seasonally is just an assumption. A tagged fish captured a year later from the same area where it was released hasn't happened yet. Or has it?

LMAO Classic! Ness, I'm pickin'up what you're laying down, but it's the only way I know of to get even. They pummel me in hairspray man ! Every-Freakin- Day! So I fully intend to be a major PIA when I prepare to croak. But I promise not to cost any innocent health conscious premium payers a dime. J/k I'll give them up one day soon....as if it's not already too late anyway.

I was the one saying "calm down, relax, chill, everyone doesn't need to be trained to kill, especially children"...... Yet I am the one who went off the deep end? WTFever ! Y'all enjoy your soldier games. Hope you manage to stay out of prison.

Dude! Good score!

Woah! That was sweet.

I'm not sure which owl or hawk it is, but one of them makes a noise (sometimes) that sounds exactly like a cougar scream off in the distance.

Excellent! Kinda hard to sit in a tree waiting on a deer when the fishing is that good.

Shot at him 6-7 times with the closest hit being 20 yards away? Pretty pathetic for a possible assassin. Probably someone goofing off with their assault rifle (given the number of shots fired) and didn't check to be sure nobody was down there. Chalk up yet another one for the soldier of fortune gang.

"Unassessed/Condition unknown" I assume that it is a work in progress? Data for the ones I searched are available through mostreamteam.org so the info IS out there. Accuracy is questionable though.

Well there's obviously no blanket answer, it just depends on the individual body of water. Hell I know of a cove here in LO where crappie can be caught in 2-3fow all Winter, no spring influence, no massive amount of cover, nothing special that you'd ever recognize....but for some reason they are there. Next cove over...same water temp, same N-S-E-W orientation, same bottom composition....but no crappie. Crazy! It's like trying to figure out why your wife sits with her legs crossed, and your girlfriend sits with both feet in the floor. Ooops! Did I say that outloud?

News to me too. With the mindset of crappie anglers they'd have to stock like crazy...unless more reasonable limits apply in the areas where they plant them.

No, because we've already hashed the mere CCW stuff out in the past. It was the composition of the OP that riled me up. If he had accentuated(*****) Safety at least once during his description of his families fresh new training excersize instead of drilling on terms like *Combative*, *Tactical*, and *Weapons* then I probably would have assumed more towards the responsibility aspect of it all. But all I see there is an inexperienced young man with a family who is all goosed up on preparing for bloodshed and heroism. And I figured that saying something to calm him down just a bit could do no harm. That's all.

I am reasonably certain that the Smallmouth in the Lake O tribs do not leave the creeks for the Winter. And these are small shallow creeks wadable in all but a few isolated spots. They find somewhere (some little niche or crevice) to sit it out just like the frogs, salamanders, longears, punkinseeds and crawdads do. I do think that the availability of these "waiting it out" spots probably determines the overall fish population in these creeks.