fishinwrench

So far so good 👍😊 We'll be hitting 60 this year, and still doing everything we could do at 13 Maybe if Papaw had done it himself instead of making us do it..... he'd still be with us. 🤔

You'd think, wouldn't ya! 🙄 Hell I'd pay 10.00/gal. if it meant I could cruise and chill, not have to fight insane traffic, and constantly be worrying about what all the idiots around me were gonna do at any second. But NO. It seems that no matter the price, the roads are going to be filled with everyone out running around spending 100.00 on fuel to find a .50 discount on eggs.

When I was a kid my friends and I would get "selected' to seine for minnows and crawdads. Anyone who freaked out about getting covered in leeches would be immediately calmed down by my grandpa explaining how LUCKY they were to get leeches on them. "They are a bringer of good health, you'll probably live to be 120 years old now. Don't pull on it ! Leave it on there until it falls off on it's own, and be thankful ! ".

Whadderya talking about? Leeches are good for you. Hell, I brought that one home and put him on my funky lip. 👍 Better results than any phoney-baloney doctor can provide.

I don't think so. They were hard, like a grain of uncooked rice If I had to guess I'd say larval snail..... but I've just never seen one before.

This sounds like a potential business opportunity for @oneshot Seriously 🤔👍

What are these little slimy red things ?

Although the river guage didn't indicate it the water was up a bit and kinda cloudy today, and it was windier than all get out. My daughter and I started by picking away at the pocket water in the riffles and caught a half dozen between us by short-line drifting olive leech's. The kid stayed with the shallow/fast water game awhile longer, and I switched to a black&olive tungsten bead headed bugger and started concentrating on the slightly deeper tailouts. Bites started coming for me pretty much every other swing..... although I was only connecting with 1/3 of the bites. She changed up her rigging and we teamed up on every tailout from the bridge to the lower boat ramp. She was keeping score and said that we had 16 to hand between us.......and beings as how she couldn't seem to recall who caught more, that means it was Me 😁 1 decent Brown, and the others were 12-14" Rainbows. We discussed making a second pass over the most productive areas, but because of the ridiculous wind we elected to go spend the last couple hours of daylight in the park to see if we could get a dryfly bite going.......We failed at that, but did really well during the last hour or so doing the same thing we had success with in the river. Zone 3 is loaded with little Rainbows, but we zeroed on the Smallies. 🤷‍♂️ Cool lunch spot. Bet it won't last through the next high water event.

Although the river guage didn't indicate it, the water was up a bit and kinda cloudy today, and it was windier than all get out. My daughter and I started by picking away at the pocket water in the riffles and caught a half dozen between us by short-line drifting olive leech's. The kid stayed with the shallow/fast water game awhile longer, and I switched to a black&olive tungsten bead headed bugger and started concentrating on the slightly deeper tailouts. Bites started coming for me pretty much every other swing..... although I was only connecting with 1/3 of the bites. She changed up her rigging and we teamed up on every tailout from the bridge to the lower boat ramp. She was keeping score and said that we had 16 to hand between us.......and beings as how she couldn't seem to recall who caught more, that means it was Me 😁 1 decent Brown, and the others were 12-14" Rainbows. We discussed making a second pass over the most productive areas, but because of the ridiculous wind we elected to go spend the last couple hours of daylight in the park to see if we could get a dryfly bite going.......We failed at that, but did really well during the last hour or so doing the same thing we had success with in the river. Cool lunch spot. Bet it won't last through the next high water event.

Yeah. That particular area, except for a few small little stretches is mostly mud-bank and not the typical good Niangua habitat. I got excited when they finally opened up the road down there.....but we took the jet and ran up several miles, and then down a mile or so, and found it to be the crappiest stretch on the Niangua that I know of. Further down by Bird Island the gradient picks up noticably, you get away from the mud & clay, and it starts to get good again.

Points given for consistency! Those look Great, ol'boy. 👍

It applies to lifted Chevy trucks. I was warned about it by the guys at Rough Country when I lifted my Tahoe

No problem. It's my way of paying my dues for y'all putting up with me. 😁

I've never seen or heard of a shaft or steering wheel breaking, but on rack & pinion units the outer helm bushing is always soft brass and it causes slop in the pinion shaft. Chevy trucks will do the same thing if you're a lardass and use the wheel to climb in and out of the truck. On hydraulic units there is always vacuum in the pump housing and putting downward force on the shaft causes the unit to sip a bit of air.....and you don't want excess air in any hydraulic pump, especially when it concerns steering control. Spinning the wheel, fully both ways, lock-to-lock before taking off will purge any excess air, which eventually pushes out the cylinder seals and drips fluid into the splash well..... but honestly, nobody ever does that (except ME anytime I'm running someone's boat that has hydraulic steering). Plus it causes stress cracks in the fiberglass where the console meets the gunnel, and where the console connects to the floor.

Well nearly every single bass boat that comes in here shows signs of it. Tilt helm or not. I was guilty of it myself until I started noticing what it was doing to the helm and console.

That's a @ness conspiracy ! That shady bastard dropped them in the banks outgoing mail, then went and had lunch and drinks with all the shipping money. 👍. 😂 I shoulda called Alex Jones.

Which brings to mind today's tip for all bass boat owners....... I see alot of used boats, and there's something that almost everyone does, and it's a big No-No ! Do NOT use the steering wheel to help your fatass get in & out of the driver's seat !!!! Even the best built bass boats do not have steering helms and consoles designed for that angle of stress.

If y'all haven't already, you should check out the Troutbitten podcasts and video's. Pretty good stuff

Like any other bridge replacement.......You start on it well before the original bridge collapses, so that traffic can continue across it until it's completed. Trained engineers have been saying "It's time!" for going on 10 years. Just like the little bridge in question.......What are they hiring engineers for, if nobody will listen to them, and follow through with their recommendations?

You and me both 👍 One of the real eye-openers that I've learned about FFS fishing, is something I've learned from my more successful customers, and I'll share it right here...... If the fish you're targeting aren't willingly biting after 1/2dozen casts don't keep throwing baits at them, because by doing that you're just EDUCATING THEM. In other words:.... If a hotdog has been circling your head all day and pestering you.....when lunchtime rolls around, the last thing you're likely to eat is a friggin HOTDOG! Give them 45 minutes, or an hour, and then briefly try them again. Once you hit them during the right TIME PERIOD it honestly doesn't matter what kinda bait you're throwing..... you're probably gonna load the boat in a really short period of time. But continuing to hammer away at a group of fish that aren't "in the mood" yet will screw the pooch. The old long held belief that bass follow shad schools all day long is a myth. They only follow them when they are actively looking to eat them, and the rest of the time they actually prefer to not be in their company at all. Just like birds at a bird feeder, you'll look out and every bird in the neighborhood is at the feeder.....but an hour later, not a bird in sight. If all that birds had to worry about was where their next meal was coming from.....then why don't they just stay right there in your yard? That's a really important lesson even for guys that don't use FFS. Bass & Crappie fishing, it turns out, is more about timing than I ever really expected. Especially with white bass. And the truly mind blowing thing is that simply rounding a bend, barely out of sight from one spot, can change the "hot-time" by 2 hours or more. So the whole "Should I stay, or should I go" thing is always gonna be a head scratcher unless you're a guy that can be on the water every single day, practically all month long. I've never been one of those Run & Gun type guys........but that certainly explains all of the times that I've had my butt kicked by guys that are. It's less about WHAT you're throwing, and MORE about WHEN you're throwing it, & where.

It was just one of those kinda days. Woke up to a dramatic thundersnow, the wife stayed in her underwear all day......but they called school off, so nobody could have any fun with THAT. 🙄 The only way to keep the sexual frustration at bay was to go out into the cold and build a pornographic snow-hottie. She was a hit! At least 7 people stopped and took pics of her, including the UPS guy. 😂. Once all those pics hit Facebook she'll be a bonafide porn star ⭐

The Coconut girl from last year.

That was Sugarbritches. Here's me!

Penelope Peppernose says, "it's too nipply for her to get wet."