fishinwrench

Speaking of that, I have a gumbo recipe shared to me by a drunken Marine......Man it's good, but you'll have it exuding from your pores for 3 days afterwards.

Not when you have a piece of foam shooting off forward at 45° to your hook eye.......I mean Jesus Christ, it doesn't take an aerodynamic engineer to see what's making it spin !!!!!

Who's writing this story ? 🙄

Well understand it, Ol'boy. Any old port in a storm, I always say ! If ever given the chance can you see if you can explain it to my sister..... she's a hardheaded twat 😅

Good words there. 👍 I'm trying to be too popperish with it I think. There's still the SPINNY on the cast thing though. How do you avoid that ?

My biggest hangup with Gurglers is that when I tie them to act the way I want in the water......they spin the leader up like crazy in the air. I'm more a fan of the Crease fly

I wouldn't put much faith in 1911 fisheries data from the muddy Mississip 😅 Jesus Christ, we were still screwing our sisters back then. And didn't know a flathead from a pollywog.

Oh c'mon now ! It won't sink a #16 Dalmatian Trude......but it'll keep a #4 Gurgler from working right? I might need Gurgler lessons 😉 Let's do that this coming May-June!

Oh Pffft ! When was the last time you saw a lead-acid battery have an internal short and start sizzling out of control? If I SCULL real hard I can get back to the time when I saw a lawn tractor get engulfed in a leaf fire, and the battery went "SssSsssttt !" Very unimpressive 🙄 😅

I certainly don't know of anyone that made the switch to Lithium.......but then went back. So there's that. My opinion of Lithium power cells is skewed because I've seen the aftermath results of 4 meltdowns, and so I'm a little scared of them. The last place I'd wanna be is IN A BOAT during one of those events. And if I ever am I hope it's during warm weather so I can immediately abandon ship. Something tells me that you DEFINITELY DON'T WANNA BREATHE THAT SMOKE !!!!!

Flatheads are native to the Mississippi river and all of it's tribitarys......as far as I know.

It has been my experience that once bullheads are established in a pond/lake/strip pit ......you can pretty much kiss the channel cat goodbye.

There IS such a thing as being OVERLY EDUCATED. I reached that point in several aspects of life.....and have had to reel myself back in. In this day & age most all of us have more time to STUDY than we do to actually FISH. And this can often do more harm than good. MDC biologists, doctors, climate control scientists, and fishermen are famous for being too smart for our own good.

This is merely something you've read in magazines, and thus are reacting to. #1. While it is true that fluorocarbon (once broken through the surface tension of water) does indeed sloooowly siiiiink. It doesn't sink hard enough to drown a dry fly. Not even a compara-dun style fly. #2. The tippet being UNDER the surface is far less visible than a tippet floating in the surface film. This is proven. So whatever you do DON'T apply floatant to your tippet EVER. You want it to sink 👍 I fish fluorocarbon tippet on dry flys, and I have experimented with it in the sink....and in the swimming pool. The belief that flouro seriously (and detrimentally) effects the floatability of dry flys is a huge myth. Just so ya know 👌

Frito Chili pie.....for the win ! 💪

Everybody crows about how long the lithium batteries last, and how they maintain voltage until they just suddenly die.....but I'm not seeing it. Sure their performance will TEST good but in the real world......and under a load...... I'm just not all that impressed. They are DIFFERENT, but the actual usability doesn't match the hype or the price in my opinion. There's no free lunch when it comes to portable power, that's the cold hard Truth of it all.

Yep. I've wrestled big bass over old rusty cables with fluorocarbon and just knew that 5' of that line would be totally trashed.....only to run it through my fingers afterwards and not be able to find a single frayed spot. 👍 It's good stuff !

You might THINK you did well.....but let's wait and see 🤔 If she does like MY kid you'll end up teaching, and buying rods, waders, and licenses for numerous future boyfriends who won't ever give 2$#!ts about fishing. And you'll never get that time & money back. 😂

Well anyone who believes the bible could potentially believe anything. Why even complicate it to THAT degree? Just claim that God put them there....and consider the issue solved 👍

P-Line CX Premium is what I like to use, but it's getting hard to find. The CXX is a bit too stiff and wirey for my taste.

Heck I've seen little shallow puddles built for nothing but holding water for cattle....and they'll have green sunfish and bullheads in them. I don't believe anybody ever put them in there, they just somehow got in there, as if blown in by the wind.

Here on Lake O back when Trilene XT was the toughest line you could buy.....it definitely was a factor around dock cables. P-Line fluorocarbon solved that. I haven't broke off on a cable in YEARS.

Excellent! Looks like y'all had the place to yourself. Love it🙂

Pffft, that's nothing 🙄 The leashes to my pet White bass cost 100.00 apiece. And the cost to get them ON THE LEASH.....

True. Ain't nobody hauling in green sunniest and bullheads in buckets.....Yet they seem to end up in isolated ponds just fine.