fishinwrench

The kid and I loaded the boat this evening. Beautiful evening to be out. Freezer is officially full now. Need to have a fish fry before the fall bite starts.

Now you have to change your name !

I love my job 😊 It's more fun than a game of slapjack.

Sight down your hull line and see if the motor can be raised a hole or two. Use a 3-4' piece of board if you have to. You can most likely run your cav plate 2" above the hull line, or level with the tip of the uppermost prop blade. Set it there and test run it...if it blows out on corners then drop down a hole. If it doesn't then try a hole higher. You don't have to have an engine hoist to raise/lower it, you can use the tilt/trim and a few blocks of wood.

It's pretty frustrating when your "client" (I hate that word btw) can't cast well, is too fast or too slow on the retrieve, can't seem to understand how to manage slack line, can't detect bites, or is just generally uncoordinated to the whole concept of fishing. Nobody enjoys a trip where someone is standing next to you constantly trying to give kind advise on your every move. I enjoyed guiding guys that were already decent fishermen but the majority of guide trips I had were with guys whose wife was here attending a meeting, or something, and they just wanted something to do for a day. Three years of that was all I could take.

The stretch from the toll bridge to three corners is my least favorite area of the lake. Whenever I'm in that area I can't get this song out of my head

They were a little less cooperative this evening, the bigger ones anyway. Caught plenty of 12 inchers, but I'm not keeping them that small now that I already have some in the freezer. The boat traffic was rediculous. 😬

Pay with a CC and if they don't deliver then you can get your money back. If they deliver yet the motor has "problems" then you have Tohatsu warranty to make it right. Just go to the nearest dealer. Potential hassles? Sure. But you either pay list price or roll the dice.

There's really no shenanigans to be pulled. If you pay with a CC and they send you a fresh new Tohatsu motor with a warranty..then you're golden.

Y'all must just hang out with a sketchy bunch. I know more guys/gals like Mr. Shorb than I do otherwise. The payoff for being a decent person far outweighs the benefit of stumbling across a few hundred bucks. You sleep better, eat better, love better, it's easier to smile from the inside, and walk around with your head held high. I think most people turn out good in the end, but honestly you have to experience what it feels like to shortchange someone before you realize how rotten it feels later on.

💪😎. Perfect! Thanks!

I've never caught one either, but I had a pretty big one attack a short bass as I was bringing it in I caught some big Pike in MN and I assume the strike and the fight is similar to Musky. Pike seem more appealing to me because they are more plentiful and more likely to bite. Plus pike are prettier. The Musky here in MO look kinda blah in comparison.

Absolutely would inhibit the exchange, but the slick would have to be HUGE to cause a measurable effect. In essence it wouldn't be any different than a floating dock, or an air mattress floating on the surface. An oil slick in calm water will actually defy gravity and climb up anything floating (sticks, logs, rocks, or anything dry it can come into contact with) like a wick in a kerosene lamp. Not sure how that works but I do it in my test tank all the time. I stand some 2x4's in my test tank and the next day there will be oil and crud 6" above the water line on those boards. That's how I clean it out. And no matter how nasty that water gets the tadpoles are always just fine. Any idea what the DO requirements are for tadpoles?

There was nothing but kitchen table sized schools of little 2" shad surfacing where I got into the good ones. But it didn't start out that way, I just kept moving around catching the occasional small one and eventually hit the jackpot. No rhyme or reason, the bigger ones just happened to be in one area of a 10' deep flat, in a 20 yard circle, and I started getting hammered by 15+inchers on every cast. Just keep moving around throwing past those rippling schools of little shad and I bet you'll find a group of big ones. Another mess today These guys showed up to help take care of the guts and heads

Good stuff. Thanks

I finally scored a nice mess of whites yesterday. After taking a beating trying to put together a pattern on green bass I started slinging a lipless crankbait at surfacing schools of shad and picked up a few juvenile white bass, I kept at it just because it was the only action I'd had all afternoon, and suddenly located a giant school of big ones. After several hours of little to no action I hit the right spot and loaded the boat in 15 minutes. One of my Whites was loaded with little black parasites. Looked like pepper in the fillets so I tossed that one, but the pepper was absent in all the others. I've never seen that in White bass here before.

Truth be known, she's probably the reason I'm such a jackass. I'd be more cooperative with everybody, would be proud of the MDC, wouldn't hate 4-strokes, wouldn't give biologists such a hard time, and I might even attend church if I didn't have to live in fear or HER. 😅

Not you. The OP just joined here a few minutes before posting.

That girl is on her toes 24/7, brother. You ever wondered what makes it worth it? 😁 So you're telling me that water with less than 4ppm can happen because of a little rain shower, or some inflow from a ditch that is not heavily polluted with phosphorus or nitrogen? And a fish that happens to swim into it, and can't escape it in less than 3 minutes, will perish ? What's the required ppm for sunfish ?

This thread is click bait.

Well if you have a meter then surely you have the data that shows how much % of oxygen each fish requires, otherwise what's the point of having a meter? Can you share it, please ?

The mention of Gar brought up yet another question in my mind.... I know of a half dozen areas (some shallow, some deep) that are ALWAYS thick with gar. Spring-Summer- Fall- Winter the gar are always there by the hundreds. What could it be about those spots that congregate and hold the gar there?

I haven't looked very hard, but I can't find anything that supports this. Not to the point of "fish kill" status. Obviously gar can survive in oxygen depleated or stagnant water by gulping air from the surface.....but why would they want to since theoretically there's nothing for them to eat there? It does show, however, that the fish KNOWS that it needs a shot of oxygen. Otherwise they wouldn't know when it is time to go grab a gulp of air. Can we get a chart that shows each fish's oxygen requirements ? There's gotta be one out there somewhere.

Does all of this not indicate that fish do sense "bad water"?

Alright then, who's gonna be the first to buy a DO meter? You don't want to be wasting time fishing in water that doesn't have enough oxygen in it.