MrGiggles

I found a little patch of it last year just north of the state park.

It's always good this time of year. Just circle around any cove and you'll find them here and there.

Saw one riding on the tractor hood yesterday. First I've seen here.

No. Stabilizers have their place I suppose. I have used them once or twice in the past, but not much anymore. I'm not convinced that an additive is going to do any cleaning to speak of, especially at such a low concentration. Gasoline is a pretty good solvent itself. Most quality mix oils already contain a fuel stabilizer. I started up a cutoff saw today that had been sitting since 2018, sniff of ether and a top-up of fresh premix, ran like a champ.

Same deal in Bolivar. Saran wrapped pontoons for miles seems like.

Don't bring a knife to a snorkel fight.

Usually when I am having trouble with an alberto, it's the line that's to blame. Braid will eventually fatigue from running through the guides and reel. Usually stripping off 20-30 yards of line will take care of any issues I'm having. I've had mono rot in my storage departments too, couldn't tell you why. Stuff doesn't seem to last long no matter what you do.

It's the trendy cattle dogs/heelers that I have the most trouble with on the mail route. Snarling, tire biting, sneaky, hateful critters. German shepherds are hit and miss. I don't run across pits very often, I think most owners with half a brain are aware of the liability and keep them locked up.

I've been seeing people catching them on the Sac river. Seems to be sporadic, it's been going on for a couple weeks now but low water was a hinderance from what I understand. We had a few inches of rain last week that should've filled things up a bit.

That's probably how he can run so fast, carrot-on-a-stick sort of deal.

I run mine on a $60 12ah lithium. Don't always gotta spend big money. 18-20v drill batteries are pretty popular as well. Most guys have a few of those laying around. I didn't like the hassle of charging them so didn't go that route.

Having had it both ways, I think it's better on the trolling motor. I don't have enough hands to run it properly on a stick. Spot lock is not precise enough to keep the boat from moving so you end up adjusting it constantly. I find it easier to just run the trolling motor manually with the remote, point at what I want to fish and make my casts. It is great for crappie fishing. Walleye can be so-so since they're often on the bottom and you won't see them. At times, I wish I had it mounted on a stick so I could spin it backwards to watch my bottom bouncers. It is not hard at all to hook up. Power, ground, and a communication wire.

Nice work, it's shaping up to be a nice spring, all we need is a couple warm rains to really kick it in gear.

Likely just a lipo battery with an inverter. They seem to keep the specifics under wraps and only give a 1000w/hr rating. Given that, you could put 250 watts into your batteries for 4 hours (at 12v that would be 20ish amps divided into however many batteries you have) with it. May or may not be enough to top up your trolling batteries, would depend on how many you have and how depleted they are. I was going to suggest a 100ah lipo battery, inverter, and a solar charger, which you could just plug your onboard charger into. It would also allow you to run some simple lighting or other electrical circuits in the building. The Jackery does two out of three and is conveniently packaged, plus has other uses, not a bad choice. You could save some efficiency losses by cutting out the DC-AC-DC conversions, but I don't know how you could do it in a way that would allow you to charge each battery individually in a convenient, neat manner. A multi-bank solar charger would be what you want, but I'm not that familiar with solar setups.

I was a little curious too. They're saying a 4 ounce difference between the first and second weigh ins. A 1/2" steel ball bearing would weigh about three tenths of an ounce. 3/4" would be about an ounce if my math is right. Sure seems like a stretch for just those two ball bearings to amount to 4 ounces.

I used to go about once a week but have been down to maybe once a month here lately. Another job and side projects are to blame. Fishing is on the back burner now. And to be completely honest, I feel like I burned myself out on it. Some time away helped.

Main lake is clear as a bell and still about 40*. Crappie bite is still good, still a lot of short fish though.

End of February at the earliest, and you will pick up stragglers through the beginning of April typically. Early can be bang or bust but your chances of catching the big fish are much higher. Spawn fishing can be bang or bust in general though. I've never had any luck with jerkbaits, usually just cast a 1/8 or 1/16 crappie jig with a good size swimming minnow type plastic. Slow retrieve. It's no big secret, this time of year there'll usually be a dozen or more boats around every point by the dam at dusk.

Oddly enough I've had several vehicles come in with misfires, hard starting, in general running like crap. Pull the plugs and you could just about pass a pencil through the gap, originals with 100k+ miles on them. They last so long people don't really think about them anymore, but they do wear out. It also doesn't help that manufacturers seem to be playing a never-ending game of "where can I hide this where nobody would find it," so changing them is labor intensive. I also had a run-in one time with some fake Denso iridiums from Amazon. The electrodes completely eroded within about 3 months time, those plugs should've lasted 50k miles or more. Don't buy parts from Amazon. I had a commercial pressure washer come in once with a 13hp Honda, would run for about a minute and shut down like clockwork. Went through the fuel system, had good spark when it quit, was just about to pull my hair out when I decided to try a different plug. Fixed, ran like a champ.

I went out tonight. Had a couple whites, half a dozen short crappie, three keepers, and two keeper walleye. All on deep main lake brush, #5 jigging rap. I did chase schools of shad for a while and caught the whites doing that.

I think my dad is still a little upset with me for dropping his Stanley thermos. Found out the hard way that they're lined with glass.

Stopped by Walmart yesterday in Warsaw, they had a bunch of coolers on clearance. Most were 50% off. I grabbed one of the 25qt soft coolers for 50 bucks, hard to beat. If you're in need, might want to stop by.

I usually start with about two rod lengths, gives you a dozen or so reties.

I may give that FG knot a try. Been using the alberto forever, but tends to snag in the guides, especially with lighter jigs. Very annoying and I haven't found a solution yet.

Even the gravel was bad this morning. Solid sheets. From what I've seen 13 has been moving along pretty well but the side roads are still bad. Tried to leave for work (post office) but decided to just stay in, not worth it. Our trucks wouldn't make it anyway. Triple mail tomorrow but better than being upside down in a ditch. It's melting off pretty quickly already, still lightly raining here off an on. At this rate I'd expect it to be mostly gone early afternoon.