fishinwrench

I know where mine are, but I have taken a chainsaw file to the blades on my electric one about 3 too many times

If I could only have one rod it would be a 6

I totally understand not wanting to bother with mailing it, but if nobody close to ya wants it I'm due for a fresh one.

LMAO. I almost forgot about this Oscar winner!

None right now but here in about 6 weeks I'll be able to get you all the gar specimens you need, about 1 1/2 hours from Columbia. You could even witness hundreds of gar in the act of courting and spawning. It would be really cool if you shared the nature of your studies and the findings here.

In my experience the cloudiness is not only on the surface of the gel coat but throughout the layer. At least that's the case with all Champions, Chargers, Rangers, etc. that have had their fair amount of days out in the sun. I kinda think that it begins deep down next to the glitter (the source of the heat) and works its way up. You can work your butt off and hide it for a short time but the cloudiness always comes back within a week or less of normal use.

How cool! So if the eggs wash into an eddy, or let's say they drift less than 10 miles and end up in the still water shallows at the upper end of a lake tributary arm (even though it is oxygenated well from wind chop or whatever) then hatching could still be possible, just substantially reduced? Or can it theoretically just not happen at all?

That was friggin' GREAT! I was waiting for it, but it never happened....what a climax! Thank dog for old fashioned land cameras!

I've never done one, or had a boat with a wrap....but I like the looks of them. Saw a camo wrap on a jon boat that had been "used like a jon boat" and it seemed to be holding up surprisingly well. That might be the way to go.

I think those porous graphite looking parts like the foot pedal are dipped into a dye, or stained somehow and start looking gray when they dry out, yet look black again when they are wet. So I dunno. Maybe a light coat of spray paint (just a dusting, no buildup). The aluminum alloy parts can be prepped (cleaned) with alcohol or brake parts cleaner, hit with aluminum oxide primer, and then painted (not too thick on the paint). A coat of car wax when the paint is still just a little tacky will give it a nice hard finish. That's how I refinish outboard lower units, mounts and exhaust housings and they stay looking good for a long time.

If its in the clear gel coat and there's metal flake under it then No. You can shine it up and make the cloudiness disappear for a few days but that's about it. Once the clear gel coat has turned cloudy it's there for the duration. The good thing about that is: once the boat starts looking like that, and its owner just accepts it.... they usually start catching more fish

Oh man, those underwater release shots were AWESOME! Just can't get enough of that. Seriously, it made me wish I was there..... so how much better does it need to be?

Are you talking about the plastic head cap & tray, or the lower motor housing and synthetic shaft ?

I keep THIS link on my phone http://www.calendar-365.com/moon/moon-calendar.html

A pond/lake full of honker gills, half drunk guys sloggin' in the mud in hip boots, and a half dozen angry beavers that don't want them there ... that's oscar winning material. All you need is someone good at editing/producing.

How exactly does an "accidental stocking" happen? "Whoops, those aren't hybrids, who loaded this truck?! Oh well, too late now".

I can't even compose a quality slide-show, much less a halfway decent series of vid clips. I have tried and it is beyond my camera/computer skills. I will admit though that I have gone "heavy sigh" when it comes to the underwater release footage parts. But that's only because I watch alot (too many probably) of fly fishing vids.

No sense teaching these kids about firearms as they will be outdated by the time they grow up. In another 10-12 years everyone will probably have their own personal monitor drone buzzing quietly overhead ready to dispatch anyone in your perimeter that appears to want to do you harm. Maybe tomorrows sportsmen will sit in their house on cold nasty days and hunt deer/turkey with drones.

Battery chargers are fickle sonsabitches. Even the high dollar ones can't outlast a cheap coffee maker around here. I started buying the cheap Schumacher ones again because even though a "quality" one will last a little longer, it doesn't last long(er) enough to justify its cost.

I think you should ban people who want to ban things

They are gonna cut some water loose Thursday and give it a flush. If I get all my work done Wed. AND it's not cold and raining on Thurs. I might try and hit it on the rise.

Outstanding man! How about a SBS on that fly someday?

I, for one, really appreciate you calling them guns instead of 'Weapons". I'm so sick of that word I could puke in the lap of the next person I hear say it.

Look like a match?

I figured that Dutch had ya covered. Before ya go ebaying lemme see what I have in the depthfinder bone pile.