fishinwrench

Alot of crappie tournaments get won fishing the Sparrowfoot area during late Summer and Fall.

I went through a wicked shoulder ordeal and they told me it would take reconstructive surgery to fix it, but I didn't believe them because occasionally I would have an hour or three when I could do everything without pain, and.it actually hurt worse when I was resting than it did when I was up doing things. I weathered it out for about 4 months and miraculously it just healed itself. I'll avoid surgery until I'm on the verge of croaking. There were some rough nights though, real rough. And at one point I had been 4 full days without sleep. All good now, still, and nobody got rich off of me. People get impatient and want to feel better NOW, but I firmly believe that your body will heal itself if you can just give it time. I'll admit that if I had been working for someone else besides myself I would have been fired for not showing up to work for so long. Most folks don't have the luxury of taking that much time off of work, or being able to only work in short spurts like I had to do.

I believe I'd skip the dumbell eyes and use a 3ips sinking leader. You're not gonna get the side-to-side dance with that weight on the nose. Might as well be a fur strip Clouser.

It isn't just participating in a few tournaments that make you better, it's staying with it and grinding it out until you actually accomplish a few wins, then when you start feeling like you're really on top of it..... getting your butt kicked AGAIN, and starting all over from there, staying with it long enough to succeed yet again. Once you get to the point where it just becomes luck between you and a select few, the confidence really sets in. THEN somebody you never even considered being in your "league" comes in with a fat sack and blows you away because guess what? They are getting better too. It's never ending. At that point you either keep playing the game, (basically gambling) or you realize "Hey, this is freakin' rediculous".. ....and you go back to fun fishing, being a WAY better angler than you were before.

I bet Gilligan was driving.

This is probably a crazy place to share this, but the mention of wakeboarding brought it to mind.....so here goes 😊 My oldest daughter and one of her college professors are plugged into the virtual reality network and my daughter insisted that I "experience this", so I did. A few weeks ago I successfully helped fly a rocket to the moon to collect samples and even took full control when my partner (who was instructing me) passed out for 15-20 minutes. I also did some very extreme wakeboarding behind a boat full of drunken pirates and was stranded afloat in the middle of the ocean while sharks circled underneath me until they realized I had crashed and came back for me. Did some other very cool stuff as well, and afterwards I was sitting there, heart pounding and nearly out of breath, discussing how freakin' REAL it all was 😳 Seriously if you've never done this before it is worth ALOT to do it. So anyway I'm sitting there, mind already blown, and her professor says "Not to suggest anything, but JFYI there is porn 😁 Would you like an hour alone with Jennifer Lopez ? Ginger or Mary Ann ?" I looked at my wife, who was all 🤪 and figured I'd best pass on that. 😭

You ain't a woofin'! I was paid 800 to upgrade a stereo system in a wake boat awhile back, the total bill was just shy of 4k.....and if you could have heard how awesome the factory system sounded before that project began you'd have been truly concerned about your ears. To me it sounded better BEFORE the "upgrade"...... but they are sure happy with it, so WTF ever! 🤔

Cotton and honey. Or I've heard pancake syrup.

I have quite a graveyard of them, I have listed them on Ebay and sold a few, but they are a PIA to package and expensive to ship so I gave up on that BS. If you ever need one check with me first because I'll probably just give it to you free..... I'd like to be rid of them.

I've pretty much mastered catching a reasonably consistent limit of 15 -17" bass in a 4-5 hour period, but I still consider the bigger fish "luck", with the exception of the "hog time" bites in late Winter and mid-Spring. When I am on a pattern of good fish (2-3 pounders) I have no clue at all what I should do to catch 4-7 pounders.....other than to just keep hammering away until I get lucky. Take me somewhere (different lake) that I am not intimately familiar with and I need a minimum of 3 days to get properly dialed in.

That's a good point. The stuff you learn while competing would probably never get learned otherwise.

The best way to end up with what you really want, when limited to the USED market, is to find the boat and trailer you want....and don't concern yourself with what motor is on it because regardless of what it is you can almost always run it until you find the "right motor", then sell it or part it out and repower the boat with your "perfect motor". I don't even bother titling or registering the outboard if I know I am going to unload it soon (it's perfectly legal to use a "BORROWED" outboard as long as it is registered to SOMEBODY). Play it right (smart) and you can come out like a fat rat. 🐀

It doesn't take "professional anglers" to showcase that. The BBB is an all amateur event that always has more big bass brought to the scales than any of the professional circuits do. I "hobknob" with professional anglers all the time, and I promise you that they have more crap days than killer ones by a large margin!

I'm blown away by the number of guys that wouldn't fish at all if it weren't for tournaments. Their "love of the sport" truly has nothing to do with fish, it's the LED numbers on those scales that fill their dreams. Kinda sad....to me. I can't relate to them, and as I get older I am finding it harder to respect them. This is what y'all are bringing to the table with all of these high school & college fishing "teams".

That's a pretty sweet axe. I really should, cuz hammering out some Skynyrd and Metallica riffs every night would really piss off my wife. 😅

The only old Evinrude's that I run from are the early 70's models with the hydro-mechanical lower units. Those are bastards, but they only produced them for a couple years. All the others are sweethearts IMO. Damaged skegs can be repaired (for 40-80.00) so as long as the prop shaft isn't bent that isn't a deal killer.

Looks like a miniature sheepdog. 😁

Yeah they are the parents and grandparents of the kids, and the makers of wheelchairs, learning aids, medication, and prosthetic limbs. Without them there would be no special Olympics. Why can't I appreciate them for a minute without you jumping on every opportunity to make me look and feel like a douchebag?

Reporting to the manufacturer, yes. But of what benefit to the manufacturer is it to share their shortcomings to a place that intends to share it with potential buyers?

They darn sure aren't gonna spend time reporting warranty work, it only pays 1/3 of their normal shop rate. 😏 Besides, sharing warranty details with an outside rating/survey entity would be a good way to lose your dealership to someone across the highway. 😅

Be sure to let me know when you start helping raise money for Mercury 4-Stroke owners......cuz it looks like our campaign is loosing ground over yonder. And they need it worse than anybody.

The bigger they are, the less likely they are.....unless somebody is paying them to do it. If it takes 10 minutes that's $26.50 per report.

Went out on the shallow flats after some Whites yesterday evening and failed to connect with any, but did catch 3 keeper LM and 6-8 shorts (where the Whites SHOULD BE) in no time at all. No brush or cover anywhere close, so they are just cruising the shallow open water. I was hucking streamers on the 7wt., but if I was looking to catch a limit of green bass today I'd get out there and fan cast a 1/2oz. RedEye Shad over 3-7 foot of water.

How would a place like " " aquire information ? Unless there was an insurance claim or a police report there is no way to compile data on ANYTHING boat/motor related.