fishinwrench

No need for loaded guns in my house. I actually forbid it. My home is equipped with a UT-BYD (ULTRA TACTICAL-BIG YELLOW DOG) that goes berserk and alerts everyone in the house if so much as a possum enters the yard at 3:am. So there's always plenty of time to prepare for a home invasion. The UT-BYD has 3 automatic sensitivity warning levels. Code White- (prancing whine from window to window) = Critter or neighborhood pet. Code Blue- (whine, bark, whine, bark, whine, & stares at the door) = Someone he loves and is anxious to play with. Code Red- (deep elongated growl, hair on back elevated, goes rapidly back & forth from my location to whatever side of the house the intruder is currently at. Intensity and volume of growl increases the longer he goes ignored) = Something or someone unknown and in need of inspection. Works equally well even during power outages. Hands down the best home security system ever ! 👍

I have had a cool collection of "famous" fisherpersons visit my shop. Mark Zona was the last. Never met any that I didn't enjoy helping out and visiting with. I think pretty much everyone in the professional fishing circle are just solid down home kinda people, especially when the cameras are off.

The best gun for "home defense" is the one your most familiar with, and used to. The majority of people only handle their "tactical weapons" a few times after they first get them......then they just sit in their hiding place. When the real need arises you might as well grab a can opener or apple peeler. 🙄

It's "tactical" Doug. 🙄 It's one of those that they don't call it a GUN......its called a "weapon". 😔

I used to have a neighbor that was in his mid-80''s and was always doing things that he had no business doing. Rescued him from the roof of his house once because he decided to clean his chimney.....with a garden hoe and a log chain. Had to drag him out from under the crawlspace of his house, by his heels, because he decided to re-rout a drain pipe. Got trapped under a tractor tire and the fire dept. had to save him after he replaced an axle seal in his old Case tractor. It was always something. The old dude just couldn't chill on his porch and stay out of trouble. And he'd always cuss you like a pregnant step-child the whole time you were saving him. "Sit down and shut up, Earl ! Goddammit!"

Sounds like a bad idea to me.

Old Boudreaux married Chlotiel from Louisiana and he told her that her duties were to keep the house clean, dishes washed, and the lawn mowed and a hot meal on the table. The first day he didn't see anything, the second day he didn't see anything, but by the third day, most of the swelling had gone down he could see a little out of his left eye, enough to fix himself something to eat, load the dishwasher, and telephone a landscaper.

Maybe Mercury has their own metric system clock, for measuring "hours". 😅 1 Merc hour = 3.3 REAL hours.

Go ahead and nit-pick ...... I can have my boat floating off the trailer there in the same amount of time as I can at Larry Gale. Besides, if you're headed to BD's you've already passed Lighthouse, Purvis, and Runaway 2 (depending on which road you are coming from). I know, I know..... you're a Wrench-hater and anything I say offends you. 🙄 Too bad, cuz if you told "Nasty" that you're a friend/customer of mine he probably wouldn't charge you....and would probably offer to launch you for nothing. Even though he's blind as a bat 😅

Ok, so use the one across the lake off 5-65, it's only 5.00 You're gonna burn way more than 20.00 in fuel/oil doing it your way. But whatever. 🤷‍♂️

Not always...... but certainly often ! I'm sorry it bothers you. I'm actually just trying to help you out.....cuz you appear to be ignorant.

Between Gale and Brown bend there is.... A ramp at the Hurricane deck bridge. Lighthouse/Silver sands. Purvis. Mimosa beach (Bollinger). Run away 2. Big Dicks. Mallard bay (or whatever it's called now). But ok, I'm not gonna argue the point.....You can spend all day sight seeing and stimulating the economy if that's what blows your dress up. 🙄

I spend more time fishing than boat riding, that's true. There's a good "public" ramp every 8-10 miles on LO. (with only one exception). What lake has more ?

I hate to start another argument about TIME on outboards 🙄 but I don't think y'all realize what you're saying. I'm not doubting that someone pulled the data from your ECM, and it indicated that much time. What I'm doubting is the accuracy of that counter. If you spent 100 hours per year in the driver's seat of your bassboat .....at an average speed of 40mph.....then you've covered 80,000 miles of water in 17 years......and have spent enough on fuel/oil to have bought a brand new boat every 4-5 years. You need to find a ramp that's way closer to your fishing holes !

I don't have a clue what a mesh booster is. But we tried 3 different types and this is the only one that helped at all

The Gravois Mills access has 2 motels within walking distance, one has a dock you can tie up to, but no electricity on the dock. And there are 2 more motels within 8 miles either direction. There's a town hooker if you get lonely and the fish aren't biting, a weed dispensary (I highly recommend the "raspberry cush"), and fuel, groceries, BBQ ribs/chicken/beef, and eggs/bacon/toast/coffee are also within walking distance. C'mon! 🙂

A VZ200 lower is 3497.00.......So I gotta say no. If you can get into a good COMPLETE 200HPDI for 6500.00 then you won't be upside down in it. If you ran it for a year, and then it blew up.....it could be parted out for 4500.00 or traded in for 2k.

I never really kept count. Some days I'll catch 8-10 of them, some days only 1-2, and then I might go weeks without catching one. I definitely catch more out on the flats in the Summer & Fall than I catch up in the creeks during the Spring. It's not just a birth defect, they are a definite crossbreed.

Maybe, who knows? I've only actually seen it here in the Gravois arm of LO. I just assume it happens anywhere and everywhere hybrids are in the mix. I can't imagine why it wouldn't.

I haven't the foggiest idea. Lake O had stockings of them way earlier than that. I never would have noticed, had I not gotten totally consumed with catching whites on the fly, and got really intimate with them for over a decade (Spring -Summer & Fall). Started noticing something different with some of the "Whites" I was catching......Then sat on the bridge and high banks for hours at a time watching big hybrids join right in on the spawning whirlygigs during the Spring runs. If You've never actually sat and watched them when they are actually in the act of spawning you're missing out, because it's the craziest thing you've ever seen. Probably everyone has seen a couple of whites wallering around on the surface..... but that's just foreplay. When the REAL BUSINESS happens there will be 4-6 males repeatedly body-slamming a female, sometimes knocking her clear out of the water, until she squirts......and then you'll see a cloud of jizz as big as the hood of your truck come from all those male whites.....and whatever hybrids are joining in on the gang bang. It's enough to make you go home and immediately rip the clothes off your wife!!! 😂 And that's what you might as well go do, because you aren't gonna catch any fish. If you are catching some.....then they either AREN'T spawning yet......or they've already spawned.

That's my fear. Pure Whites are a really hearty species. Hybrids, stripers, and these mutts will die from over exertion, or have a heart attack and go belly-up 5-10 minutes after you release them. You definitely can't balloon one of them and expect it to return to the school..... it'll croak before it ever relocates them. You can balloon pure Whites all day long, never a problem.

Good luck with that. They usually don't help much at all. I can't even connect to the wi-fi 60 feet away in my shop. Have to go stand on the porch that's attached to the house.

BS! In the places you fish most.... it's more likely that you haven't caught a pure White bass. I don't think you're paying close enough attention.

My grandpa was a station wagon guy, but my Dad always had trucks. I never understood why Papaw chose station wagons until I turned 16 and could drive it. There weren't that many 4x4 trucks back then, and those old station wagons were TANKS. As long as you didn't bottom it out or bury it to the frame those suckers would go anywhere. Snow, Mud, Sand, whatever. 👍

Blame the Boy Scouts of America, and the MDC. In the 1970's they had us planting Bradford Pear trees all over the place in Boone, Callaway, Audrain, Montgomery counties......WITH THE HELP AND GUIDANCE OF THE MISSOURI DEPT.OF CONSERVATION ! 😂 Big MDC dump trucks and trailers just loaded with them.....and all of us Boy Scouts with shovels and rakes, and blisters on our hands. So typical ! 🙄 Seriously, how many times have the MDC biologists CHANGED THEIR MINDS and declared war on a species that THEY once introduced? How many times? 🤔 I want y'all to remember all of my rants when they FINALLY decide to declare war on Hybrid Striped Bass. Just remember that Wrench said so! 😉