fishinwrench

It's all fun & games until someone gets charged with a felony. 🤣

Sounds like an honest way to make a living to me. If I was hung better I'd shitcan this outboard motor gig.

I'm afraid I am, but we could probably work something out if you'll allow me to subcontract. 😊

A dog that is fed nothing but Science Diet for the first 3 years of its life will still chase a rabbit, and pounce on a chicken without hesitation. Truly wild fish will typically be more aggressive feeders than recently stocked hatchery fish. Hatchery fish do tend to stay gathered in groups, whereas wild streamborn fish will be loners. The pink meat thing doesn't mean anything. I'm not sure what causes some trout to have pink flesh, but truly wild fish can have white flesh, and some hatchery fish can have pink flesh.

The thing about FB fishing groups that I can't leave alone is the guys that haul fish around all day just so they can have a photo shoot later. And the "Guides" are the absolute worst about it. I can't help but ask them WHY they keep doing that. It's like I'm the only person in the world that believes it is beneficial to release fish back to the same area where it was caught. The guides actually think that if they take the pic where it was caught that someone will recognize the area. Gimme a freakin' break! 🙄 Then just don't take a pic then. Is it really that important to prove that you caught a 4 pounder? Drives me absolutely crazy.

The new definition of "Being Taken Advantage Of": A person comes into your life, does nice things for you.....and then decides to leave before you want them to.

But wait.....You don't even know they exist until they do something stupid. 🤔

You make the guys sound like the evil ones. The guy NEVER comes out ahead in the end. THEY are the ones needing support and protection, it aint the females! 😄 I hooked up with a gal online, we hit it off real well. Next thing ya know I was mowing her rather large yard once a week, moving furniture, building fence, assembling a Bow-flex, installing a pool and a trampoline, entertaining her family and workmates, teaching her kids to shoot guns and bows, took them bike riding and fishing, replaced the gutters on her house, and even rubbed her fat little feet at the end of her shift. Then....she started skipping work and meeting a New Florence Cop. When her family and friends asked "What happened to Wrench", she told them "the relationship turned toxic". 🤔

I don't understand anyone getting upset about something someone says. If they actually DO SOMETHING that's one thing, but just saying or posting things is free range, and always has been. Stick and Stones, and all that. I don't wanna be shielded/sheltered by the things that are on other people's minds. The more I know about what you think....the better off I am.

True! Drinking too slow is a problem that hurts the economy. 😂

I'd blame Kevin before the canoe seat.

Responsible drinkers? The ones getting wasted don't bother with koozie's because the beverage isn't outside their body long enough to get warm.

Nah, he has pretty much ghosted me. Not in a bad way though, he's just a family man with his priorities where they should be.

I bet there's a fun story connected to that, let's hear it. 😃

You're never gonna ban (or throw extra regulations on) wake boats, so everyone needs to just get over it and learn to cope. Wakeboarding is a cool sport. Way cooler, and healthier, than fishing if you wanna know the truth.....but let's not go THERE. 😄 If wakeboats make it impossible to relocate fish from one end of the lake to the other, then good! Because there's too many people doing that anyway.

Today has been a bastard. Not even a hint of a breeze. It's frozen margarita time!

Because if you're fishing in zero temps it is because YOU'RE FREAKIN HUNGRY !

That's a very "cup half full" mindset, because I know who you're talking about.... and he took plenty of asswhoopins as well. 😂

It's always been like that as far as I know.

White bass are noticably effected by moon phases and very VERY subtle water level fluctuations, but I've never been able to recognize patterns like that with any other species that I fish for. Has anyone else ever noticed that when the fishing is really shut down hard, I mean when no matter what you try you can't hardly get a single bite.....the bite that you DO get will be a Drum ? What's up with that? Drum always seem to be biting the best when no other fish want to play.

Once on a spur of the moment trout trip I grabbed my waist pack, a 5wt reel, and accidentally grabbed the wrong rod tube (a fast 7wt.) Did I make it work and manage to catch some fish? Sure did 😅 and after an hour or so I realized that mending that 5wt. line actually worked alot better with a 7wt. rod. The only thing that bothered me all day was that the rig was a bit tip heavy. If I'd had some tape or a rubber band I could have lashed a rock to the fighting butt and been just fine.

From Rockbridge I bet they are pretty good. I know there's a night/day difference between the trout from Bennett's Hatchery, and the trout from Troutdale Ranch. These folks know how to grow FOOD.

I've always done best in the evenings regardless of the time of the year. I'm not so sure that it isn't because my concentration level and reflexes are best during that time of day. I just seem to think clearer, have more focused energy, and make better decisions from lunchtime until dark.

Depends on what "Missouri type" means to you I suppose. I throw pretty big stuff over logs, cables and around big rootwads and steel quite a lot. I have to be able to stick him and keep his head out of the jungle for a bit. The fast 7wt. that I use for white bass just won't cut it with the bucket mouths. A 7wt. is all I ever use for creek/river Smallies though.

I was whining about not being able to find a good bass bug rod that was truly fast and had enough balls to wrestle a 4+ pounder out of a rootwad. Trigg got sick of my bitching and brought me a Sage Bolt 8wt. That sucker will DO IT ! Sage calls them something else now, but the rod blank that was the "Bolt" a couple years ago is probably the extreme end of the "fast" spectrum. Before that I had a 9wt. St.Croix Avid that was a brute.....but I broke it and they discontinued those.