fishinwrench

This is why we ALWAYS wear sunglasses and a hat. 2 guys chucking Clousers on sink-tips might as well be having a pellet gun fight. It's all in a day's work. Good for ya! 😊 Teaches you to be calm when under fire.

We team up on the front deck when pitching/flipping docks. It isn't the casts that'll get ya.... it's those lightning quick hooksets. Nothing like getting blasted in the face with an elbow, or getting body slammed....then immediately getting yelled at to GET THE NET. The "You ok?" doesn't happen until the fish is in the boat. 😅 Never an apology.... because HEY 🤷 My tournament partner once pointed at the carpet and said, "Is that you, or do we have a fish bleeding". In a tone that was definitely HOPING it was me. No it's me. Ok good!

"Shock Poovah". I've heard it spoken of by sexy ladies on big boats. Must be pretty good stuff (leg spreader) You're probably gonna knock the bottom out of it tonight! Don't hurt yourself, or your lady. I'm jealous. 💚 You have some quality friends there. 😊 Happy Anniversary!

I have a lizard that lives behind my test tank that may honestly be a state/world record for his species. I'll get a pic of him the next chance I get. He is quite large. Biggest I've ever seen. Trying not to exaggerate here..... he's every bit of 11" and probably 2.75" girth. Has a head like a pit bull. He does alot of pushups.

I warmly welcome all skinks and lizards. Saw one chase down and pounce on a spider and eat it once....and fell instantly in love with them.

Yeah it happens 😢 Naw, Gerald never actually bites anyone, he just plays like he is going to and actually has become a welcome part of every pool day. Oh how he loves to make mom and the kids freak out, screach, dive and splash water everywhere 😎 it adds alot of fun. He accidentally trapped himself in the surface film one day, and I thought the kids were going to start crying. I carefully scooped him up with the net, let him dry himself off.....and the fun continued. He's a good guy. We love him. 🤗

Yeah some insects do things that make me wanna give them more credit. Gerald the horsefly was no dumbazz, that's for sure. He knew exactly how far he could push me, and he was way more bold around the girls than he was when I was in the pool. I actually went soft several times when I could have easily killed him. He played me well.

I wanted to be a herpetologist when I was younger. Fascinated with reptiles. Fish and reptiles have a lot in common. Fish and birds have a lot in common too. Insects? Not so much. Insects have no ability to reason.

Oh I know. You hear that all the time though, people (biologists) saying that fish don't have the capacity to think, or reason. That they are just a nervous system reacting to stimuli. That just ain't true. They've got more going on in that pea sized brain than we even can comprehend.

Trout being selective...is "choosing". A refusal is choosing. As is a confident take.

They do have the capability to choose. Whether done by instinct or otherwise. I can point out baits that WILL NOT catch them. If they didn't have the capability to choose then it wouldn't matter what you threw or how you worked it. Even YOU could catch a mess of them. 😅

Yeah they wouldn't be there if the fish were all gone. I'd say that their presence indicates you're fishing in a good spot.

That's exactly what the politicians have been saying. The politicians are getting the advise they are repeating from the most respected medical professionals in the world. Thinking for myself I come to THIS conclusion:. Nobody really knows if it is a life threatening situation or not, but if it turns out to be, they wanna be able to say "they were on top of it". It looks like it has turned out to be no big deal at all, but the leftside politicians want it to stay on the front page and try to use it to their political advantage in every way possible. BLM, Covid, and whatever else they can escalate to convince people that they are needed by them. Then later, should their side take control, they'll want all the credit for SAVING US ALL. We'll owe our lives to them. Yeah, right🙄 It's been a pattern for as long as I've been alive. They create mass fear in something.....then they SAVE US.....then they take more taxes to "help cover the costs" of it. And the people applaud them and kiss their feet. Head Games!

We got "the call" on Monday that our youngest (11) had been in contact with someone at school that tested positive, so she has to do her work from home AGAIN until the 18th. Then on Tuesday we learned that her whole class had been called and told the same thing. Madi has been on the phone with almost all of her classmates and nobody is sick. One of the teachers supposedly was tested positive and that's what caused it all. We got another call today, checking to see if we needed anything, and got this list of things that we are supposed to do (keep her home, no going to the store or anything, no going to other kids houses or having her friends over....blah-blah-blah). It was very hard to stay polite because the teacher who supposedly started it all has been seen running around all over town. Obviously she isn't sick.....So we're wondering why she got tested in the first place? I understand the protocol that the school has to follow, it's not their fault at all......But I think it's safe to say that teachers, principles, students and everyone else is sick of this BS. And if all of this mass hysteria truly does end after election day, I'm publishing a new chapter on society's ignorance.

Right back atcha, homie! 👍

I thought you were talking about an outside hydrant/faucet connected to the house. Apparently you are talking about a yard hydrant.

My intention was to imply the exact opposite, so I don't know how you got THERE. All of my White bass boxes are loaded with shad/baitfish imitators. Not a single crawdad style jig/fly one. Bring your crawdad lures, or even live crawdads for that matter, and I'll let you have the front of the boat all day. If you can school me on whites/hybrids/stripers by fishing crawdad style bugs along the bottom I'll buy you dinner. That's basically all I'm saying. If they are truly known to focus heavily on grubbing for crawdads then you SHOULD have no problem outfishing me.

Now that you mention it, I have caught hybrids while drifting for cats with cutbait. It was not anchored to the bottom in either case.....but ok. I have also, but that's a bit different than crawling something (crawdad imitation) on the bottom. Not saying it can't be done, but that's definitely not among the best ways to load the boat with them. Are you saying that they take the jigging spoon for a crawdad? Fish for them however you want, by all means, I don't care. I've just never known either species to be big crawdad scavengers like y'all are talking about.

I find it kinda funny that in the Lewis & Clark journals they talk about the abundance of game....just everywhere, but then end up eating their dogs all the time. WTF?

I'm surprised by that. A big striper grubbing for craws just doesn't seem likely. I haven't caught many over 22" though (19-22" is the average size where I fish). My biggest striper ever was only 14 lbs. I've heard/read that Whites will gorge on craws too, but from all the ones I've either knifed or had puke on me, I've never seen a piece of a crawdad in the belly of one. Their digestive system is without a doubt among the fastest working of all gamefish, and I think they choose to eat easily digested critters. Crawdads would certainly slow it down a bit. I've also never caught a white/hybrid/or striper by working a bait along the bottom.....And I have tried.

Nooo, these clowns think the stripers are boycotting a lake full of shad and running up the river just so they can feast on a few wild rainbows. 🙄

Hell yes they are! I left my shop hose on too late in the year and it froze/busted inside a wall. Cut a 4" hole in the wall, just enough to get a hacksaw blade in there, and pushed a new pipe with hydrant already attached.....Presto! Done in 20 minutes. If not for Shark Bite's I would have had to tear the whole friggin wall out.

Yeah the guides on Lanier used trout too. Not because they were trout, but because they were legal to use as bait under a balloon, and of the right size to target LARGE stripers.

When I built my deck I used CCA, let it dry out then power washed and sealed it with Thompson's. A few boards eventually started rotting so I replaced with a few sticks of CCA and a few sticks of regular old pine lumber. The plain old pine lumber (non-treated) has lasted longer than the CCA on the uncovered portion of my deck. If I had to do it again, and wanted it to last forever, I'd use plain lumber, never treat it, and just paint it. But actually for a deck I like the rough look of weathered unpainted/untreated lumber.

Cut it, and Shark Bite a new one on. Greatest invention ever! The only tool you need to be a plumber now....is a saw.