MrGiggles

I was kinda surprised to find fish in there. No bait or anything. But they were there, on the bottom or close to it. Sometimes scattered and occasionally in a small bunch. I'm back home now. Not sure if I'll be back to TR anytime soon. I do want to fish Bull though.

Booked one of those big lodges on Indian Point for our Thanksgiving get together, I had to bring the boat. I put in at Indian point marina Tuesday morning and fished some for a couple hours. Struggled to find much life anywhere. It's a very different lake than Stockton or Pomme, way deeper and the submerged forests are pretty interesting. I've never tried to fish a treetop that was 50ft deep. I went back to the lodge and had lunch, went back to fishing solo afterwards. Checked a few different spots and couldn't find much again. I was trying to apply the Stockton walleye pattern without much success. Come to find out the walleye population isn't quite as big here. I didn't have any brush pile waypoints loaded for table rock either. I stumbled into what I guess you would call the auxiliary dam. Marked some fish near the bottom in 45 feet. Dropped a jigging rap down there and hooked up pretty quickly, one spot one smallie. Hooked several others but never boated them. Took another break and went back in the afternoon, the fish were still there but not active. Didn't hook any. Rode around for a little while, checked out the main dam and saw the Belle leaving her dock. Pretty cool. Returned to the aux dam and hooked another spot. They were a little more active but still pretty finicky. I'm not really a bass fisher but it's still fun to catch those healthy fish. The smallie especially was a pretty good one.

You need to have a GPSMap unit with HDMI out. They will also mirror to a tablet/android device, if I remember correctly. The $700 93SV doesn't do any of that. I can't imagine that you are going to gain any resolution, whatever you get is going to be the maximum that the graph is able to produce. So if you scale it up quite a bit screen wise, image quality will suffer, but I bet you could go up to the size of an average computer monitor without sacrificing too much quality.

I think "warm apple pie" would be more appropriate.

I'm partial to Lightning Rods too . I think I've got three of the 6' 6" now, two have the tips broken off but I still use them, and one 6' old model that I got at the outlet store. The broken tips stiffen up the action just enough for jigging raps.

I've been going here and there lately. Sunday 11/6 I had nice 8pt at 15 yards. He was just about to cross into the opening where I could shoot, and stopped and went the other way. So yeah, they're good at not dying. When I climbed down I noticed the tree I was in was skylit pretty badly. Live and learn I suppose. I haven't seen a whole lot for acorns this year. Red oaks have plenty that are good sized, but the white oaks are tiny and hollow, if they have any. My turnip patch has been more or less untouched for the last month or so. Which is typical, it'll come alive first week of December. Just been hunting sign and acorns where I can find them.

I've never seen a blower used like that but I bet it works. I have seen someone essentially make a shepherds hook out of 1" PVC with a 3/4" hose adapter on the bottom, and walk along spraying the gutters out that way.

There used to be one on the counter at our MFA. Everyone used the crap out of it, I think they must have gotten tired of buying belts for it or something and canned it.

I have Vortex, they do just fine. I've been thinking about trying out Hawke, have a couple of their scopes that are pretty good. Binos aren't nearly as important as your gun optics, something mid-range isn't really a big sacrifice. I have never been able to sharpen anything with a stone. I use one of those carbide deals that you pull the knife through, cheap and it works. Some people say that they're hard on the knife and they remove too much material, but I say if you aren't removing any material, you aren't sharpening anything. I always thought the Worksharp deal was probably the best sharpening device that I've seen, aside from a full blown belt sander setup.

I went ahead and took a Rona test, came back negative. So just the flu I guess. Still had a bunch of people call in.

Anyone else caught whatever sickness has been going around? I took a part time job carrying mail in Bolivar a couple months ago. Was in on Tuesday for a couple hours, felt great. Regular carrier called in Wednesday. I was able to function but not in a quick way. Pressure headache that got progressively worse, everything hurt, no strength or gumption. Split my route and went home. Carrier called in again on Thursday. By this time half the office was out. Had other carriers in from Stockton to help out. One of ours got bit by a dog and is out for the week now on top of all that. I felt better though, no headache, still a little sore. Woke up sweating and went to bed shivering. Today is one of the "regular" days that I work every week, felt better yet but still have the sweating/shivering stuff going on and a pretty good cough. Still had a couple regulars out sick. Weirdest thing to me is that I never had a sore throat. Still can taste and smell fine. I imagine someone in the office has been Covid tested and I probably would've heard if it came back positive, but it is the Post Office after all. I haven't knowingly had Covid yet so maybe my luck ran out. Kinda feels like the flu to me, like I had in 2019 and 2018. If anyone else has or had it, it sucks! And for anyone that gets mail from Bolivar, best disinfect it.

Looks good Ketchup, all things considered. Assuming there's some kind of wheat in there, it may surprise you. Fall plots are always a gamble.

I haven't seen a box of rifle ammo lately for under $25, of any kind. I bought a box of Federal .270 and it was $30 after tax and everything... That same box was like $14.99 not that long ago. Shotgun shells surprised me too. I don't see how a guy could afford to shoot clays anymore at 50c a shell for target loads. But I guess this is the new "normal." If inflation isn't enough alone, some asshat will swipe it first and try to sell it to you for more.

I had an 83 25hp. Bought it in KC for $200, just had a couple minor issues. It was a good little motor. Pretty unrefined and loud, but dependable. Mine didn't have a through-hub exhaust, that one might. I think it should be closer to $600 but that's just me.

I have hunted a lot from the ground with a rifle. I can't fire a bow while seated on the ground, so I have never really done that. I have one hub blind that is the best thing ever for turkeys. I have used it for deer as well, but not in recent years. It's the place to be when the weather is nasty. 99% of the time I am in my Summit Openshot climber. It has pros and cons like anything. There is no wrap-around bar like most climbers, so it's much lighter and you can climb the back side of your tree and sit sideways, essentially hiding behind it. It's not nearly as comfortable as some though. I personally think it's safer and simpler than using sticks and a hang on, although it's much more limited in what trees you can climb. Heights don't really bother me that much and I prefer to be elevated.

Must be a big boat if it takes a F450 diesel to pull it. 6.7s have some odd design choices. The cylinder heads are backwards, the exhaust manifolds come together in the valley, and the intake ports are on the outside. The "intake manifold" is cast into the valve cover. On top of all that the turbo is kind of like two in one. There are two compressor wheels on a single shaft and exhaust turbine. They do have some problems, but that goes for all modern diesels with VGT style turbos. I have never worked on one. But from what I've heard Ford made a lot of changes so you can do pretty much everything aside from engine removal without pulling the cab, so hopefully they won't beat you up too bad on labor.

I noticed it too when I put it at Masters a couple weeks ago. Nasty looking water. It was a little better up by the dam but still pretty dingy.

I don't think any of the electric steer trolling motors are good for bank beating. They aren't responsive enough. An Ultrex or the new Garmin give the best of both worlds but they aren't cheap.

I don't have any experience with Motorguide. I know @dan hufferd uses one and speaks highly of it if I remember right. Minn Kota is usually pretty good about supporting their products, but the older Powerdrive (not the V2) foot pedals are notoriously crappy, no longer made, and next to impossible to find. Same with the parts to convert it to remote. So if you go shopping for used motors, avoid them.

Kinda makes you wonder why it took so long to get caught if the guy had been weighing 20" walleyes that weighed 5lbs a piece. Those were big weights. Guess it's safe to say that guy should start looking into other careers.

I went last night to Master's. Definitely people still fishing. The parking lot was probably half full. I don't know about catching. Caught a few white bass but they were pretty scattered and hard to stay on. The water was really dirty and stained which I thought was odd. Pretty early for turnover so I doubt that has much to do with it. I can't comment on CC since I've never been there.

You can set up a transom mount motor to deploy off the transom just fine. You'll need to build a pretty strong pedestal/plate for it to sit on that is slightly higher than the transom. However, they work much better on the bow. Trying to be precise with a transom motor can be like pushing a rope sometimes. The cable on a Powerdrive pedal is like 18ft long. Same with a Terrova. You can run them from anywhere in the boat. Both can be outfitted with Ipilot (remote operation and GPS capability, spot lock etc.) if you choose, however the Powerdrive loses the foot pedal when you do, a Terrova can use both. I second Marine Repair center.

I know you've heard it all before but a lot of it really is being in the right place at the right time. And the in-between seasons are toughest. These reservoirs are unforgiving and take a lot of time to learn. I'm hopefully gonna run down to Stockton this afternoon and see if anything is going on there. Haven't been in quite a while.

Kinda like flies in a vehicle.. I don't know why, but open your doors for more than a second at the feedlot and a small swarm will zoom right in. They will leave a literal fly paradise to buzz around my truck, where there's nothing at all for them.