fishinwrench

I think those were tracked decoys.

They might like to shop at Walmart or Dollar General !

When cats show up around here they are 100% feral/wild. My customers boats always smell like fish, and I can't have them scratching around in there...... So they get one chance to scram for good, then if they return they get pelleted. I always feel bad about it, because they are just doing what nature intends.....but I just can't have that going on here.

Yeah a pee hole problem could definitely put things into limp mode.

Hell I was surprised that it picked it up so smoothly and just flew off with it. It wasn't really a full grown one.....but it wasn't a little baby by any means. Half the size of a 5lb. Coffee can !

The squirrels & rabbits don't stand a chance around here because the hawks monitor the roads and get them if they try to cross. Never thought about the turtles. I wish they'd eat cats !

Was standing on the porch watching a box turtle cross the road, hoping that a car didn't come down and hit him, and then ZAP........a stupid hawk nabbed it 😠 Hawks can eat a turtle???? Surely not ! Right ? 🤷‍♂️

FYI: The water pump intake on a jet pump will allow line to collect in the pump housing..... and chew your impeller into tiny bits, and those bits can get blown into the powerhead, blocking cooling water passages..... Requiring a complete teardown to clean out. Just something else for ya to worry about. 😅

On bodies of water that get a lot of fishing pressure..... especially since the popularity of braided line......these type of failures are becoming more & more common. I see it practically every single day Just look at the twisted splines & braided line on this 115 propshaft ! 🤑 That stuff eats seals like a hacksaw blade ! If you think that jet pumps can't be destroyed when they suck up a few yards of braided line, you're badly mistaken. 😉 So don't neglect to pay those insurance premiums, and be sure to do business with a cool outboard tech that knows how to convince any adjusters that damage from things like fishing line legally falls under the category of "IMPACT DAMAGE". 😊

Years ago some fisheries biologist examined a scale sample from a longnose gar captured from Lake O, and kept as a pet at "The Aquarium".......if anyone remembers that place, (next to the Wild Mouse)..... He claimed it was soon to be 80 years old when The Aquarium went out of business, and the old gar was allegedly set free.

Haven't fished it since the big flood, but for ME it is a One-Trick river. I either do good drifting/swinging a #8 leech pattern.....or I don't catch them well at all. One time there was a Caddis hatch going on (#14-16 white/green butt) and fish were rising everywhere. All chubs, not a single trout that I could tell. Switched to a soft hackle pattern...... NOTHING......Put the stupid leech rig back on, and Boom, nice bow within 10 drifts, and 2 more before dark. 🙄

When you eat a pretzel you know whether or not it has enough salt on it. 😉

Yep, all of those scuffs and scratches smooth right out instantly. Bigger gouges require a slightly more careful approach..... but it works just fine. We bought 6 old beat-to-hell Discovery's from an outfitter, for next to nothing, and had 4 of them as good as new in a single afternoon. 👍. It's been close to 10 years now and they STILL are fine. I don't canoe much anymore, but when I did I wasn't a fan of the "patches" on the keels. You can tell the difference immediately in how a canoe tracks if you do anything to blunt those keels.

I have no experience with the "Royalex" material, but the "Polylink" hulls can be brushed CAREFULLY with a propane torch and brought back to Good as New condition.

How do you say "Aoudad" without sounding like you're having a stroke ?

I was as deep as I could get in hip boots, about 30' off the bank when one came swimming by me about 25 feet away. I said "Hey Buddy" and it turned right at me and dove under ANGRILY in MY direction. I got out the water with a quickness ! 😅

I know of the description, and spent a period of time hunting/shooting them for sport...... which ain't exactly easy. They are pretty smart and pick up on danger as quickly as any animal I've ever hunted. You might pop ONE, but after that the word gets out, and you'll probably not get another shot at one. Even at long range. When we used to shoot archery 3-D events they always had a Crow target set up.....and I would always think "YEAH RIGHT"😅 Getting a shot at a crow, with a bow, has to be close to impossible.

I had a beaver come at me, like he meant business, when I was wading a pond flyfishing for bluegill. Quite a wakeup call ! Had a pelican try to attack my genitalia once too. I hauled off and tried to punt him across the lake......but it was like kicking a feather pillow. They are all head & feathers, no body, so I don't know how they can swallow any fish bigger than a minnow 🤷 I never considered otters to be an aggressive threat......but apparently they CAN BE. My grandma was petrified of CROWS her whole life because a crow attacked one of her cousins when my grandma was a kid. Tore his face, neck, and shoulders up bad. He lived his entire life without an eyelid because of it.

"Doctors and drugs are only there to amuse the patient while nature heals". 👍

Since I was too lazy to participate..... I'll gladly play judge 👨‍⚖️ #1 is a dead tie, between Lancer's Skating Caddis.....and Ness's Stimulator 🏆🏆 Good job all. 👍

Kinda like the fish that YOU caught, instead of the one some other jackoff drug in ! I get it. 😊👍

Are there not enough good pictures of Water moccasins & otters out there on the Internet already? What is it that's gonna be special about any pic that YOU TOOK ? 😅