fishinwrench

Virtual driving.🙄 That's what happens when you navigate via the little red triangle on Navonics.

That was awesome ! 😄

Bet it was a 48". They don't take to being man handled very well (thicker aluminum, and quite a bit more of it).

Depends on how heavy it is. Dragging an aluminum 1642 with a 20hp outboard over a dry gravel bar isn't something you wanna do more than 3 times a day, but it isn't all that bad if you have some help, and it CAN be done solo if you're about half pissed and reasonably sober.

Happy fishing 😎

The bitches at the courthouse are just gonna act Put Out that you even asked, and then give you the business card of their favorite local law office.

Thank your lucky stars ! 😊

Look under the flywheel and see if there is any signs of the flywheel rubbing the stator. If so then your upper crankshaft bearing has failed.....and you can go ahead and start saving money right away. I have a crankshaft, stator, and a flywheel if needed. I also have a complete intake assembly that I can sell you.....since new reeds are NLA from Mercury, should THAT be the case. 😎

Here is how I attempt to explain it to my bobber drifting brethren: First off you pretty much need moving water. Nymphing in stillwater is a different game. The key is to stay tight enough to the fly (or split shot) that any interception of the fly immediately causes things to start tightening up. Think of each cast as "setting a trap". So that anything that picks up your fly immediately causes everything to start tightening up. Don't concentrate on the end of your fly line, but instead concentrate on the ANGLE of the fly line between the tip of your rod and the water surface. Remember that you are an "ANGLER" (key word there). Do your best to maintain that angle as the fly drifts....and anytime that angle changes, and things begin to tighten up....SET THE HOOK. As long as you are doing your part correctly the only things that can cause the line to tighten up are #1. Your fly has bumped the bottom. #2. Your line or leader has drifted across an opposing current seam. #3. Your fly is in a fishes mouth. So cast. Then mend to "set the trap". Then become an "angler"...in the true sense of the word. Follow the TRAP with your rod tip while maintaining a constant angle in the line between rod tip and water surface, and watch for something (uncontrollable) to change. If you are bumping bottom too often, or not often enough....alter your weight or your tippet length. If you are always getting swung into opposing currents....change your positioning, or get better at mending. Now that THAT is out of the way, my favorite method for fishing dead slick water behind boulders is to sight-fish it. Use a fly with a hotspot, or something you can see....and set the hook when it suddenly disappears.

Everyone's definition of a "squeak" is different, but since it is a Merc XR6 I would immediately expect either a broken reed valve or a failing upper crankshaft bearing. Better get it verified ASAP.

I run into this all the time. You'll never get it done "by the book" because DMV loves to overly complicate things. I can't tell you ON HERE specifically how to get around it...... but just use your imagination. 😉

Tell me about it! I sent him that pic the other day because he kept bombarding me with texts of fish and mushroom porn when I was trying to WORK. 😖

I haven't seen the midlake area in awhile, but up on the lower end we have the dreaded green slime that makes throwing Wiggle Warts and C-rigs near impossible. Spinnerbaits and Flukes are the order of the day if you have the slime.

I do this homemade "roundhouse double-haul" cast with Clousers. You're fairly safe as long as you stay on the left side of me. 😏

Very cool 👍 That water color is my idea of Perfect.

I knew it wouldn't take long for that pic to get spread around. 😅 The poor old warrior that stands and fights, so the rest of ya can fish and have fun. 😪

I'm pretty good at reading people and knowing whether they are spending money that wasn't truly earned......or spending money that they worked hard to get. I take no pride in hurting hard working people's bank account simply because they've been mislead.

A simple 200.00 LCR will find you brush piles, humps, drop offs, schools of shad, ect. I'm not saying that sonar is useless, I use mine alot. I'm just saying that spending 2 months wages on it, and taking up 1/4 of the real estate in your boat, will probably not improve your catch rate noticably.

Hmm, I'm gonna challenge that one. 😎 I have installed a bunch of awesome systems, and then kept an eye on those guys success for a good while afterwards. And honestly they don't catch any more fish than they did before. They do, however, log a considerable amount of more idle time on their outboards.

We had a tough day last Wednesday and everyone at the ramp that evening was standing around discussing what could be causing the fish to shut down so bad. The guys with empty fuel tanks and 6k worth of electronics on their boats didn't have any answers either, and were just as beat down and disgusted as us low tech guys. I've also noticed, at weigh-ins, that after the winners get done thanking their sponsors and all the folks who "helped make it possible".......they never mention Lowrance/Hummingbird/Garmin, ect. 😄

More like mid 60's now I'd say. But it's gonna cool a bit over the next week I think.

Williams Ford to Moon Valley is really good overnight float. A gal-pal and I did it once and had a really good time. No problem catching enough fish for 2 meals, and there is a "real" haunted house to check out along the way. Do NOT go upstairs ! 👻

For the cost of a release boat, and a truck to pull it, you don't think they could make it happen ? We're talking 60k here ! That's a pretty good incentive to change a format. It would buy a shitton of perfectly calibrated Bluetooth scales and develop an app that would be real hard to trick. Let's stop ignoring the fact that this is 2019 for just a minute. I mean, for 39.95 you can change the temperature in your home and monitor what's going on there, including your wife's heart rate and ovular contractions .... from the opposite side of the planet. 😄

Here ya go ... http://southwestpaddler.com/docs/missouri8.html

How long have you lived there?