fishinwrench

It's all A-rigs, jerkbaits, and jigs right now. Surprisingly shallow, 6-12'. The fish are schooled up, so if you find a spot with a couple gooduns on it....Stay put!

20.76 Andrew Capps/Brock Reinkemeyer Bradley Jelinek and Joey Jelinek got second and big bass with 16.64 and 4.90. Third was Rodney Bowersox and Don Mason with 13.99 Thank you to all who fished. Next one scheduled Feb. 2

Yep, I figured. The first few quarts to dribble off that coon pecker will make you see all kinds of monsters.

After you get a few estimates, post them up. I'll see if I can persuade you to drive a bit further. 😊

Everything coming from the East takes an insane path to my door. Even orders as close as STL. I can order from Bob Marriott's in CA and Feathercraft in STL on the same day.....and the order from CA will be here 4-6 days sooner.

Old timers tended to sip a bit of moonshine too. 😁 Some of it potent enough to make you see things, and even occasionally go completely blind.

Talk of Bigfoot (MoMo) was rampant along the Salt river when I was a kid. My dad and Grandpa even packed a Model 94 .30-30 in the boat, and around camp "just in case". Us kids were nervous about it. They'd send us out to gather wood, and if we acted scared they'd say "THERE AIN'T NUTHIN OUT THERE...MoMo ISN'T REAL!" Oh yeah, well what are you packing that Deer Rifle for then ? 😳

I made a really cool one for my Tahoe, from a shower curtain rod and paracord. Everyone that rides with me says I should manufacturer and sell them. 😊

Listen, when you're as buttass ugly as I am, and mouthy to boot....You don't get to choose whichever prom queen you want. You just happily accept whoever is willing to pick the ticks off the spots you can't reach.

Sometimes women just need somebody to cook for and to clean up after. And they always need someone to yell at. Sugarbritches hardly ever raised hell with me until the big kids moved out. But now all the hell-raising that used to get directed at them, now gets directed at me. If anything happens to the youngest kid or the dog I will be in serious trouble.... unless I can secure a girlfriend.

Yeah, If given reasonable notice, and they told you they would move the reservation to the following year, then didn't..... that's not cool. It would be interesting to hear their side of the story though.

Did you "HAVE TO" cancel, or did you "CHOOSE TO" cancel ? I don't recall any government mandated lockdowns during last April. I bet the fishing was good too. Y'all shoulda went ! 😊

Guys are out there right now, walking docks and filling buckets with 10-11 inchers while the snow is falling sideways. 🤔 I think I'll pass. 😅

I'll try to explain it.... There's a difference between knowing for a fact that fish are there but you can't catch them, and wondering if maybe they just aren't there. I don't know about everyone else, but I can only spend so much time sight-fishing to fish that simply will not bite. Before Livescope there was always an unknown element that tends to keep your hopes up... and keeps you trying. So now that you KNOW you're gonna get your @$$ handed to you today...... what's the point in putting yourself through it? You might as well go home and clean out your attic and garage. Or go power wash the deck. 😅

It's going to be interesting to see how many folks just get tired of it, and give up on fishing. It is all pretty new and fascinating NOW, but that will wear off in a couple years.

It makes crappie fillets taste like something other than the batter you dust them with. I'll never understand the fascination everybody around here has with eating crappie. If there's a more tasteless meat in the entire universe I don't know what it could possibly be.

The stuff with the rooster on the bottle. Forgot what it's called.

I'll cook you a fine dinner. 👍 I Promise you one thing for sure.....If I fed you something disguised as MEAT, and upon dissecting it you discovered there wasn't a bit of real meat in it.....I would WANT and EXPECT you to raise hell about it. 😅

That fella is a Charlie Craven scholar. I can recognize that right away. 👍 Welcome to the madness. 😊

We did KFC bowls the other night too.....which led to yet another fight in the kitchen. She wanted to use chicken nuggets, which SOUNDED fine to me at first. But the stupid chicken nuggets that she bought were not REAL chicken meat! They were like little deep-fried balls of chicken flavored BREAD. What a let down THAT was ! I threw a huge tantrum about it, which destroyed everyones chances for the yummy desert she had planned. She was pissed, the kids were pissed....and of course it was all my fault. You'd think that by now I would have learned to just shut up and not debate about what I'm being fed....But Noooo. Not me! Ol' "Say whatever you're thinking" Wrench here 🙄 Who knew there was such a thing as name brand "chicken nuggets" that don't have any chicken meat in them???? WTH?

True true true! Honestly, I only had to have one REAL beating. I pretty much towed the line (with a few minor exceptions) from then on out.

Only because I won't hit her back, and she knows it. 😅

I kinda wish. Nope, mama was too drunk on her days off to save me. The ol'man was my rock. The only truly dependable person I've ever had on my side. As if YOU are one to pop off some crap like that. He who gets his feelings hurt, or gets offended every month, as regularly as a menstrual cycle.🙄

It worked extremely well on me. He put me right where I belonged. But just know, that it takes an equal level of whoopass to KEEP ME THERE.