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    Which part ?
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    Oh, I thought the reason everyone wanted QUIET outboards was so they could whisper to their passengers while underway. Even out in the open, running on muffs and standing right next to it, I've never had an outboard make my ears ring. It cracks me up that people want to take a quiet boat ride to a lakefront restaurant where they have to scream over the music and noise to have a conversation with the waitress and whoever they are sitting next to. 😅
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    "We're not CAMPING, we are Meditating! So what's the problem?" 🤷‍♂️
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    Noise was never a "PROBLEM". 🙄 The 4-strokes happened to be quieter....so that was used as a sales pitch. Nobody bitches about how noisy their chainsaws, leaf blowers, and weed eaters are 🤔
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    I had to go steal pellets out of the water softener to throw on my driveway, before somebody (Me) ends up upside down in the ditch. I've never seen ice so bad here. I dropped my keys and they slid 30 feet. Retrieving them was similar to an Ironman competition. I hate this crap !
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    Gimme a break, I was so much younger then.
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    Daniel Roberts @ beaverlake flyfishing
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    I've had all types & brands, but my favorite by far is the old wooden handled Rapala's. Not the hardest steel for sure, but a few quick swipes on a steel.....or even across a shovel, lawn mower blade, screwdriver shaft, or hard rock.....and she's right back to razor sharp.
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    I tried like hell to get my youngest daughter involved in detailing boats. The older two did a fine job until they grew-up and got their own careers, but Mama has spoiled this youngest one to the point that she's TOO GOOD to scrub pontoons or stick her hands into any bilge areas. 🙄
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    It is so COLD out there this morning that my truck door unlocker wouldn't unlock. My truck was like....."Dude, NO! Get your @$$ back in the house and leave me alone !'
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    You can enhance the "jiggyness" of a fly with dumbbell eyes by placing the dumbbell closer to the hook eye. The farther back it is....the more the fly GLIDES. The closer it is to the eye....the more it JIGs. I dislike those jig-style hooks, they remind me of "Euro"......and I'd rather lick fish poop off my boat carpet than to fish a stupid Euro nymph. 🙄
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    There's really no need for it. The dumbbell eyes keep it right side up regardless.🤷‍♂️
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    I think these are gonna be my new favorite Crappie fly. I don't like his hook of choice though.....So I went with a standard Clouser hook.
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    I've officially gotten to the age where walking across ICE makes me feel like a geriatric patient. 🙄 Especially if it's on a slight incline.....which is EVERYWHERE around here. I miss the days when busting my butt was FUNNY !
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    Yep, or just go have lunch and come back a bit later👍. Eventually, sometime during the day, those fish will decide to turn-on, and you'll catch one every cast. Remember what time it was.....and if conditions don't change the next day, come back at the same time. I'm not a fan of FFS at all.....but I am definitely a fan of what I have learned by using it. I spent a lot of years thinking that the old saying "They just ain't biting" was a cop out......but nope, it's REAL !
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    Tell her to ask her supervisor why INSURANCE is paid ? And if they are considering dropping those polices also ?
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    The Float & Fly guides on Dale Hollow are absolutely tearing up the big smallmouth using FFS right now. 20-60 per day, all over 4lbs. 😲 Is anybody doing that on TR or Beaver ?
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    You sure it's mud ? Dog turds thaw at the same rate. 😅 The girls gave Orion a pedicure during Christmas break......Let him out to go pee immediately afterwards, and what does he do ? Steps in a pile of his own poop !
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    Why, so I could eat fish chunks rolled in stale corn flakes every other Friday ?
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    Agreed. Nothing turns my place into a muddy guagmire like 3+ inches of melted snow. 🙄
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    I quit keeping full limits of White bass and Crappie because I don't like spending that much time filleting fish ! It only takes 6 of them to feed my family 👍 and I don't have a church group to try to impress every month.
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    Odd thing about gar, there are certain spots on the lake where they are always thick, year round, and for no particular reason that I am aware of. There has to be a reason why they congregate in those little areas.....but whatever that reason is remains a head-scratcher. 🤔 They've been there reliably for 30+ years at least. And yeah, I can verify that sinking brush around a "Gar hole" is a waste of time. 🙄 It would suck to buy a piece of lakefront property, then discover that it is a Gar hole !
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    I'll say this......The backend flats, where I do a large portion of my fishing, were way overpopulated with Buffalo and Carp before the bowfishers came along. I think that any species that is as hearty and long-living as Buffalo are, require some form of predation......and the bowfishers definitely took care of the imbalance that was undeniable where I fish 👍 While the piles of rotting carcasses at the boat ramps were a bit disturbing for awhile, there's no denying that SOMETHING had to be done......and bygod they got it done !
  25. fishinwrench
    Yep, hell I learned how political Mountain Lions were a couple weeks ago.....And I learned it right here on OAF. 😅 Those bastards should run for state office !
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