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  1. MrGiggles
    My brother is in the Air Force, works on A10s. They had a little meet and greet sort of deal a couple years ago at Whiteman. Got to watch a trio of B2s do touch and gos for a half hour. Pretty neat watching them. They're gigantic up close, a lot bigger than I imagined. I see A10s flying over pretty regularly. Sometimes really low, heading to Whiteman I assume. Got one on camera a few months ago.
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    I've only ever caught one there on a crappie jig, despite my efforts. I've trolled Martin flats for hours, caught gar, crappie, drum, bass, about everything but a walleye.
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    Not sure if he was at Crowes Crossing or at the park in town. There's also Brush Creek off the highway a little ways.
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    A coworker put a hurtin' on blue cats on the bank in Osceola. Biggest was 40lbs and had a few more from 5-20lbs. Was using cut shad for bait. Truman is pretty much the gold standard for cats, but I'm not the one to provide the what, when, and where. Montrose lake is supposed to be pretty good for big flatheads and channel cat.
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    You'll have to get a test light and figure out what is what up there before going any further. Those wire nuts are for solid wire, and shouldn't really be on a boat. If you want a project, get a proper distribution block setup. If both the positive and negative were in the same nut, you'd have a blown fuse at best, a fire at worst. They will be separate wires.
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    Interesting that they say the lake is dominated with large black crappie. Almost all of what I catch is large whites, even when fishing heavy cover, where you would expect the blacks to be. I have caught way more blacks in Pomme than in Stockton.
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    Not many so far. Probably 1-2 in 10. Facebook is plastered with limit stories right now. Lotta fish getting hauled out.
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    If you find a GPS tracker on your boat, don't worry about it...
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    Keep an eye on those chargers if you leave them hooked to the batteries. Some of them will draw power when not plugged in. A scotch brite pad and soapy water will do wonders for cleaning the scum off of that factory matte paint.
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    Pomme is a lot smaller, rises quicker and more severely than Stockton. Not sure about rainfall amounts but that may have played a part too. I haven't been in a week, but you can usually find clear(er) water from Wheatland on up to the dam.
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    Could be the tires too. A lot of half tons come with P rated car tires. Swap them for real truck tires, LTs with E load range, and pump them up hard (50-60 psi). Makes a big difference.
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    My Silverado has 3:42s and tows fine. Had it loaded to ~5k or so and pulled it around KC, wasn't a rocket ship but never felt like I needed more gear. These new gazillion speed automatics are shifting all the time anyway. Rear end ratio has a lot less importance now than it did when 4 speeds were the standard.
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    Not sure how anyone can defend them with the trainwreck that was the Triton engine. There was whole spark plug debacle and the slew of timing chain/cam phaser problems. Great trucks, if you can keep the engine going. Glad to see them going back to basics with the big 7.3 gasser that looks like something straight out of GMs LS design playbook. Work trucks don't need overhead cams, never have. Ford seemed to have an obsession with them, caused a lot of problems in the 4.0 V6 (with a timing chain in the back of the engine) and the cam phaser issue I mentioned earlier.
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    Not really, there's a little here and there, but it's more about what goes into diagnosing and repairing a modern vehicle than it is Ford vs. Chevy. Scotty can pretty much be summed up with 94 Celica good, everything else bad.
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    He's a little bit of a knucklehead. I'm not convinced that his knowledge has been relevant for 30 or more years. He used to have a video of repairing brake lines with compression fittings, that's a big time no-no. I think even he knows it, and has dumbed down his videos to milk that Youtube money and appeal to the masses, instead of offering useful information. You want to learn something, check out South Main Auto.
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    They are moving shallow now. Caught 6 last nice, all less than 5ft. Be warned, the lake is a madhouse right now. Parking lot at Wheatland was full yesterday. Evidently someone's truck was broken into at the ramp, the police were there. Someone apparently forgot to turn at the first curve going into Wheatland park too, so there was a rollback dragging it out of the trees. It was a circus.
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    Saw it on Facebook. I suspect it may be at the Marina ramp and not the COE areas.
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    Hate it when those stupid slimy critters bite when you're just trying to wash a hook.
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    I went Wheatland this afternoon. Took a while to find them, but I did get a few for dinner. 21ft, 54 degrees. Water is way down from the last time I went. Surprising for this time of year.
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    Swapping the plugs made all the difference. No more missing and stalling. It still idles a little rough but that may be normal for these. It's still a little cranky and hard to start when cold, I'm not totally sure that the choke is closing all the way, still need to look into that.
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    Must've been the other "park", looks like the reverse lights are on to me.
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    Looks like a new belt to me.
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    Kind of inefficient to go from 12 volts, to 120 and back to 12. You could cut out the middle man and just run a set of jumper cables from the truck. Why not run the charger off a genny?
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    54 bridge towards El Dorado? Been there a couple times in the past but not recently. Floated it once further up from Caplinger to Blackjack (?), a buddy's bachelor party, although that trip was more about chugging beers than fishing. I have access to a few private ponds just a little ways away, those are my go-to for bank fishing, if public waters beat me up a little too bad and I want to cheat.
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    Got another one too, a newer model, probably mid 60s. My great grandpa bought it new. I have aspirations to build a river boat and put it on that, but I don't know if that will ever happen. Don't know crap about fishing rivers. Missouri's stupid title law makes it hard to register these little motors. Hard to find them with paperwork.
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