fishinwrench

Livewell valves have a habit of developing leaks. Any number of things can be the culprit. Just gotta go through the process of elimination, or remove stuff that blocks your view, put the boat in the water, sit back there with a flashlight and look for drips. My old Nitro takes on about a gallon every 2 hours if I have a passenger but stays dry as a bone if I'm solo. I'm not even remotely concerned about it.

I just make two quick slits and peel it out. Takes about 4 seconds per fillet. My dog loves to sit there and gobble the strips of red meat, and any eggs. Gives him some rank breath and wicked farts, but hey it's protien and Omega 3. Good for him.

Nope, not at all, very cooperative. He wasn't even that wasted. Just 20 minutes before being pulled over he was ruling the volleyball court at Coconut's. If you are sober enough to win 3 volleyball games in a row then I'd say your coodination is ok to drive a boat.

Apparently as long as one person considers it a trophy (or a Lunker)...then it is indeed. A 3lb. bass is a nice one, I'd actually rather catch several of those instead of one 6+ pounder, but that 3 pounder doesn't impress anyone regardless of where it came from.

That only applies to jerk-strippin big streamers. Nursing a crawdad fly through a tail out, or fishing a sneaky Pete with 12# is apt to get you skunked.

Totally understand.

You really don't have to shave off every bit of red, just carve out that dark strip of lateral line that goes deep into the fillet.

Yeah THAT'S fun. Cranking in a crappie as if it's a wet sock....over and over and over and over again.....Only fun if your drunk as hell and have someone laughing about it.

I'm just trying to get you Speck chasers fired up. I love a plate of crappie fillets, but my family can only eat so much crappie in a years time. The guys I intend to pick on a little bit are the ones that spend thousands of dollars on ultra high dollar electronics and thousands more on specialized crappie gear, and chase crappie all year long, all over the country. What the hell? They are addicted to that little "tick" and I feel sorry for them. That would be like being addicted to swatting flys. Actually swatting a fly is 60% more satisfying than catching a crappie. (My crazy addiction). Better than eating the stuffing out of your mattress I guess.

It's sexy, I'll give it that. Those pink sparkly niblets look like a jar full of stripper nipples. Gets me hornier than a pet coon.

I like those bugs. Especially like the CK Baitfish.

Crappie taste like whatever you coat them in. In other words...they have no flavor of their own. People who don't like fish eat crappie. If you closed your eyes you wouldn't be able to tell a bite of crappie from a bite of a hushpuppy.

The ironic thing is that the only person in that fiasco that did things right and proper was the VERY FIRST one to lose his job.

Things you never hear a crappie fishermen say: "Holy crap, that one hit like a freight train, almost jerked the rod outta my hand". "He's going under the boat". "Get the net". "Woah baby, he's peeling drag". "Dang it! He broke me off". "This 6# flourocarbon breaks on the hook set". "Think they'll hit topwater?" "No no baby, don't jump". "These minnows are too small". "You need to speed up your retrieve". "I can't fix this myself". Things Crappie fishermen always say: "Have you tried pink?" "You gotta use a niblet". "You need niblets with sparkles". "Let's try some slip corkin". "They're hitting on a 7 count". "1/16oz is too heavy". "When we was in Mississippi.......". "Let's pull some cranks". "Sickle hooks are where it's at". "Another keeper". "I can fix this myself". "I screwed it up even worse, can you fix it before Friday?"

I hear ya. Crappie fishing is for women and small children. They don't strike with authority, they don't jump, they don't pull hard. Just "tick" and crank 'em in. After about 10 it gets boring, so once I have enough to make a meal or two I'm done messing with them.

.177 just ain't got the killing power I don't think. That .25 will anchor 'em good no doubt.

That was NOT a gut shot on that Brach ! The shot angle was such that the pellet entry point insured an immediate heart explosion. That sucker dropped like a sack of hammers.

Awe, it's really nice of you to take the furry phantoms (or is it fandom?) fishing.

I don't think about it that way. To me a "trophy" is over 20". Some waters have trophy sized trout, and some waters don't. A 6pt. Whitetail buck doesn't get trophy status just because you shot it inside the city limits.

Not different, just a newer one. Both designs tend to leak around the stem after they have been put in and taken out a bunch of times. The screw-to-tighten style is for putting in from the outside of the boat. The flip style are for Jon boats, or boats where you can put them in from inside the hull. Everyone over-tightens their bilge plug, if tightened properly it won't hurt your wittle fingies. Just tighten it until it can't be pulled out and resist the extra 4 turns. Filling the hull with water and looking for a leak hardly ever works. Huge pressure difference. That method doesn't even work very good for finding leaky rivets on aluminum boats.

Speaking of dinosaurs, do any of you have a use for this ? If so I'll send it to ya. I'll never use it. A trigger either feels good or it doesn't, I don't care to know what its pull weighs.

Motor, or jack plate mounting bolts ? Take a paper towel and reach back along the inside of the transom. Any dampness indicates they are leaking.

The seal under the rub rail is suspect. As is the bilge plug itself, especially if it is either one of these... What make/model of boat are we talking about?

Being an amateur seems to be paying off lately. The guys that pretend to know it all (like me) can't catch them worth a crap. These mutts have some slightly different habits that I haven't learned about yet. I may need to take everything I know about actual White bass and throw it out the window.

I wouldn't be broke, and could buy a new scope....if I could put this thing down and get some work done around here But whatever. Look at the kill zone shot I just pulled off on this Brachiosaurus at 35 yards !