fishinwrench

Are you catching them in the clear water, or in the mud ?

Well I'm already laid back, peaceful, have the munchies, and I find everything funny while being straight. I guess I just don't have a need for it anymore.

That's pretty typical. Out of 9 Optimax (DFI) rebuilds I've only been able to determine the actual cause of 4 of the failures. 3 had water in the oil reservoir, and the other was an overheat meltdown (allegedly with no alarm, and no hard codes stored). From an outboard techs perspective those motors are a sonuvabitch. Running problems seem nearly impossible for me to properly diagnose 80% of the time. I fake it, guess, and get lucky about half of the time. The others I give up on and send them to my most trusted Merc dealer....so it can be HIS headache instead of mine. 😊

Well you missed your window old man. You'd have liked Colombian gold, but I don't think you'd enjoy chronic lung buster sticky buds much. Freakin' biologists, can never leave things alone. 🙄

No no, you misunderstood. Mitch said he has never SMOKED a joint. He didn't say he never refused to just take one hit and pass it on. Bogart! 😂

You should join our little airgun club. 😊 Been shooting powder burners all my life, but I've never had more fun with guns than I've had the last couple years. Billethead is the president.... he's a beast!

I gotcha. I thought you were implying that the current moving you downstream was going to be just as strong above the dam as it is below. And that's never the case.

What in the sam hell are you talking about? If inflow is more than outflow.....then where's all the extra water going? It's backing up, Captain. Therefore even less current ABOVE the dam.

Yep. That's the way I always operate. A number of my "passengers" have hopped up to "catch the dock" as I pull up to it. My reaction is always kinda stern.... but hey. "Sit your @$$ down, I'll put us there, and THEN you can get up after the boat has come to a complete stop". If I want your help I'll ask for it. I might come off like a prick....but they only do it once. 😊 I'd rather hurt your feelings than to have to jump in to save your life after you fall in the lake with a busted open skull.

Why is it that we get fed reports daily regarding COVID19 and it's effects on every country in the world..... except one? Not a peep about how Russia is doing.

The kid got this today.

Yep, they love stuff that's a challenge to catch. They love to show off their speed and agility.

Yes we do. A high school level tournament was held where boat operators aren't screened very well. One team was having motor problems and there was nobody present that was qualified to assist them, so everyone else just assumed they pulled out, forfeited, and went home. They didn't though, they got the motor to run and attempted to finish the day albeit way too far away from the ramp considering the issues the motor had. And a really bad decision was made by the "captain" to fish the dam area even though the motor was not in good running condition. The motor either died or failed to start while in that area, and nobody in the boat had the wherwithall to keep them from getting swept over the spillway. Then the tournament director(s), after everyone had loaded and left, surely realized that there was still a truck&trailer in the parking lot.....but still didn't consider that it might have been one of their group. So much disorganization and poor decision making is evident there.....and I would hope that it gives a LOUD wake-up call to all these high school/college "fishing team" organizers. Honestly, small town bass clubs are better put together than these hailed events. In every bass club I've ever fished with we all had each other's phone numbers so that if somebody had trouble there wouldn't be any problem getting someone to lend a hand. So how rediculous am I, and what have I potentially misunderstood about it ?

No kidding. I used to enjoy smoking weed, but IMO the "ATTIC BIOLOGISTS" ruined it. 2 hits of the crap that is out there now makes me a vegetable. I might as well have dropped a 1/2 hit of blotter. Hate to say it, but I'm not pro-legalization anymore.

No public record of it.... but that's not surprising. That sucks if it wasn't a persistent offender type thing. Poor dude!

I've known a bunch of dudes that got busted for selling weed.....but none of them got PRISON TIME for it. A little county stint is all. Surely there's more to THAT story. 🤔

That's an interesting perspective. I guess I wasn't paying much attention to politics during that time.

This is yet another prime example of why it is so stupid for the EPA to force manufacturers to design motors that won't run at all....unless they can run CLEAN and GREEN. If an engine quits at an inopportune time, then people (taxpayers) can die. A little bit of bad exhaust is a small price to pay for 3 lives.

You don't have that kinda flow force ABOVE the dam ! Those are figures from below the spillway. Surely they weren't 50-100' from the giant waterfall when the motor stalled.

Man! Fast thinker! Almost seems scripted. I had forgotten about that. 😂

Think that's a 30-45 minute response ? Surely not. But even if so.....2 teenagers and a couple of flat-sided Plano boxes should have been able to get the boat out of the current. I just can't get this image out of my head....of some ding-a-ling saying "welp, SURPRISE, the motor died...guess we're all gonna die".

No kidding. Because you know full well that the city's attorney was just banking on the odds that the guy didn't have enough funds to see it go to trial.

I had a nasty case once that I thought I was prepared to take to a trial. But then it occurred to me that my fate was going to be in the hands of 12 people that were too stupid to get out of jury duty.....so I took the plea.

This is interesting and makes perfect sense. I know several places where the whites gather up real thick before they run up the creeks, I can see them on the LCR but I've never been able to catch them with any consistency. I know that in the late summer-fall you can fire up a school of uncooperative whites by running the boat over them a couple times, but for some stupid reason I never considered trying that in the early Spring. I guarantee that's exactly what's happening for you. I hate trolling, but the next time I am out I'm going to zigzag over their heads a few times and then go in for the kill. I bet I hammer 'em. Thanks for the wake up call !

Heck yeah! 😋