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Yep.

Yep. And a bunch of that clutter is alive... you can see it change depth at dusk & dawn with the change in sunlight. Where the tiny stuff goes, the little stuff follows, and the bigger stuff follows it.

That's a really important part of this picture.

Don't even need that unless there's a woman in the house. Just turn the light on before having a midnight snack of pasta.

Live bait rules!

But he hasn't yet broke out the twenty seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining the circumstances of 'the BFer did this' and 'the stabber did that'. ...or at least I assume he hasn't... I only see what you guys quote. Must be on quite a roll to have lasted 17 pages.

If they're still made just like they were ~20 years ago, they're "sort of" interchangeable. Close enough to do the job, but not as smooth in operation as when factory matched.

Or a couple dozen of these;

Blame it on Sams Club. Only $99 in store (limit 1). Expect to see them pop up elsewhere too... (from a user review); Exceeding expectations! Huge blast with this out on he lake! It recommends only up to 6 people on this float but we’ve been pushing it to the limits! Easily fit 10 of us comfortably on the float. Within the next couple weeks, we are going to attempt to take it down the river as a raft. Obviously it is not designed for this but we’re having a blast with it and I’d say I have already gotten my money’s worth! I will comment more after we finally take it on the river. I bought he Unicorn design btw. Only complaint I could think of is how difficult it is to blow up the feathers in the wings. Small openings between each individual color which air has to pass through to blow all of them up but other than it being more time consuming to blow those up, the float is absolutely amazing! According to other reviews, the cupholders are less than optimal... 😢

'Midnight Train' comes to mind. 🙂

aka, This is how fish with bones for brains end up as coon cuisine in a mud puddle.

AirBnB, Homestay, bookingdotcom, .... There's a lotta neat stuff on that there internet.

Figured you might like that. It's from a KC & Southern railroad publication from about 100 years ago describing in detail all the little towns along the line from Neosho to Ft Smith. Really interesting stuff. Evidently the "boulder hole" has been a popular fishin' spot for a really long time.

I know that spot.

We used to catch goldeye occasionally in the Grand river in north Mo. They made pretty good cut bait, even if they weren't a shad or skipjack.

Happy Bday Billethead! Had my 60th couple weeks ago. Still plan to burn out instead of fading away.

Now you know how he paid for them.

3 bills to replace a primer bulb ought to make it about right.

You got hosed. At some point someone replaced the OEM dual cap with 2 singles (as pictured). Nothing wrong with that. Charging you 3 bills to replace it was criminal...

Nah, he was just looking for some nec tar... 😎

Looks like a good place for a derail... Q. What's the difference between a lawyer and a carp? A. One is a scum-sucking bottom-feeder, the other is a fish.

Fish on the bottom usually mark in the bottom signal on a graph (unless your xdcr is directly above them and perfectly vertical). I'd have to draw a picture to show why. Fine tuning your sensitivity so they'll show up is required (usually turning it down from auto settings on soft bottom & up on hard). If you're old enough to have spent much time with a flasher you'll know what I'm talking about.

Silver Lining #2 The WayBack Machine from the Internet Archive has been crawling this forum for several years. I just did a quick glance at their copy of the "What's Cooking" thread, and there are a lot of pictures and avatars there. If you're familiar with the Wayback Machine you can probably find anything you really need to replace there except for anything posted since the last crawl. If you're not, I'll you should be. At the risk of repercussion I'll add that it would be polite and probably appreciated if users would refrain from including pictures in a reply. Pictures take up far more of Phil's server space than text, and it's really easy to backspace them out of a reply. Not to mention it's really annoying to scroll thru a half page of pictures I've already seen just to read the smartaxx one-liner at the bottom.

No need, it'll be self-evident after a few flushes if they melted. And if they didn't, it never got hot enough under the toilet to kill the varmints...