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Now if you could cultivate Green river worms in salable quantities you could raise some serious road trip dough.

Well, they're half as long as a Canadian, so half the money. OTOH, they don't need refrigeration, so double that. Then consider the number of fishermen that pinch Canadians in half for various reasons, and a lively 3" crawler should beat a dead half of a 6" Canadian all to heck. Double the $/doz they get for Canadians in your area. Based on the odd habit of people selecting the higher-priced choice under the assumption of "better", it should work. You can always have a 'sale' if it doesn't. How many dozen can you produce in a week?

Gotta admit I appreciate it more now than I did at the time. (I thought it was a total cop-out then)

Yeah, potting a circuit in a box is great for vibe & enviro concerns, just don't include mechanical switches.

From my experience running a shop (20+ years ago), Japanese ECM failure was near zero, while Merc (and OMC to a lesser degree) electronic components were the bread and butter of the service department. Merc's reputation improved shortly after when they deployed Japanese ECMs in their outsourced models.

Awesome! Hope you kept some for the pan, those AR River blues are some fine eating!

Thanks! I'm trying to buy the house I've been renting and have a hot realtor coming for an evaluation that weekend. I could either get lucky twice, once, or not at all, but I gotta be here. 😉

That's pretty dam specific. Were you ever a stamp or coin collector by chance?

I gotta agree, and I'm not even going... anyone up for DoorDash-ing me a doggy bag? Added; Scratch that. Send it to Phil's food bank.

I'd solve that if I could afford to. Not sittin' out in the rain, but night fishing.

Not to mention mounting the transducer...

Yeah, me too! I had a better one though, I had the depth track & shore track features of the Pinpoint System basically figured out 3 years before it showed up. 😪 Then I spent 3500 @ dealers cost buying one. Still have it BTW. PFA. I did electronics school for a couple years, then got an electronics performance inspector job at Bendix in KC. Ran a lot of naval sonar components thru the wringer, even their older tube rigs were amazing. Trust me, the Navy had sonar figured out pre-transistor. Every improvement since has been in the filtering/interpretation spectrum, now with modeling software painting a picture of the return. The same information was available to that old Green Box, but your brain was the only processor. Added; no matter how cool consumer sonar gets, the USN has way cooler.

Just got to thinking... ~40 years ago I'd tape the transducer from my little green box to a broomstick and look all around with it. It required more interpretation, and if you glanced away you might miss something, but FFS nonetheless.

That could be a big help in the gator gar pursuit. Congrats!

So much wrong there... Going to fish from a big tiller boat by himself in that kind of water. Hell, that takes 2 guys on slick water. The aforementioned kill lanyard. And the pure Thank You Lord luck of the low, port side being in reach at a moment he could grab it. The other side would've killed him. (That makes me feel so much better about the stupid stuff I've pulled and skated thru.) Looks like the poster is a commercial fisherman, but this was his 'mate' (non-sexual Aussie slang, as in "Hey Mate"!) But my question is... why TH was someone on shore filming it? Was it a "Hey, watch me do this!" moment? That kinda stuff normally happens far out of sight of anyone unless... Then again, I have the same question about a lot of the stuff out there. I'm like, Yeah, that could happen, but how the hell did you happen to film it? Guess I watched too many episodes of Wild Kingdom.

Not required for fishing boats... in Australia.

Wow! 😲

Yeah, that's a real fishing boat!

I'm enjoying experimenting too. Of the 3 or 4 sauces commonly offered at restaurants, Cholula is my go-to now. At home my favorite so far is Melinda's original habanero. I love the habanero flavor, but most offerings are simply too hot. This one falls in the "tolerable and tasty" category for me. Allen's grocery has a whole 4-shelf selection of hot sauces, well over 100 choices. With most under $5 each it's not too pricey to experiment, though I'll admit to throwing away a few bottles after the first taste. I've given up on anything using ghost peppers or Carolina Reapers. If there's any flavor there, it's buried so far under the hot you'll never taste it. Added; Evaluating hot sauces is a long-term endeavor. Unlike many things you can try several variations of at once, hot sauce has such a lasting effect you need to stick to one per meal.

This is from that 20 below night we had a couple years ago. I'm prepared to do it again.

Don't think they could walk, but they were some finger-stabbin' little dudes. When the grasshoppers were thick all you needed was a hook & hopper. They maxed out around 3/4lb, but Mom would clean the bigger ones and they made a pretty good meal. A few years later Mom had to go to Mayo Clinic and I was left to wander (Rochester?) while she was there. There was a concrete-banked stream with several folks fishing, they were catching some really big bullheads and just tossing them up the bank. I asked a guy if he didn't know they were good eating and got a look like I was a walking catfish. 😵

We had a bullhead pond on my childhood farm in NoMo. Like Wrench said, it was just cattle water, Dad had no idea how they got there. I liked it, you could catch bullheads there anytime it wasn't froze over, unlike our stocked ponds where the fish were balanced, well-fed, and not particularly interested in being caught. Point of the story is this.... if you got a gulleywasher, you could go to any of the ponds when they started overflowing and net/grab lots of fish. Dad had us do this all the time on the stocked ponds, we put 'em in a cattle tank by the overflow and back in the pond when it quit. Fish definitely wash out of ponds regularly. If there's another pond in the outflow, some will stick there. In our case, the bullhead pond was high on a ridge, nothing drained to it but pasture & sky, so origin remains unknown. Sometimes though, they just come from up the hill.

I resemble that remark.

"Obie looked at the seeing eye dog, and then at the twenty-seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one, and looked at the seeing eye dog. And then at the twenty-seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one and began to cry, 'cause Obie came to the realization that it was a typical case of American Blind Justice, and there wasn't nothing he could do about it, and the judge wasn't going to look at the twenty-seven eight-by-ten color glossy pictures with the circles and arrows and a paragraph on the back of each one explaining what each one was, to be used as evidence against us. And we was fined $50 and had to pick up the garbage in the snow, but that's not what I came to tell you about."

You all-species guys are missing out IMO. You keep catching this awesome bait, but never use it for the greater challenge... catch a 50+lb fish on a bait you just caught. I've done that, twice. Feels really good when it happens.