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Dusted off a couple Commander Cody albums today. 'Member this one?

Saw my first redeye this week. Haven't heard a one, which means nothing, with tinnitus I hear crickets/locusts 24/7.

I think your green bean/jalapeno ratio in that pot looks just right. Add about a pound of bacon, chop, toss and pan fry... Ummumm.

Just fish for summer walleye. You won't be able to avoid the bass then. 😉

Funny how you always think your net is big enough... until it isn't.

Oh yeah, I agree. I was afraid to use the Anthrop... word, it's too often misconstrued. You said it for me, thanks. My current position is... Fish have teeny tiny brains. Compared to humans, they're PFD. Individual fish can learn. Really basic, fight or flight stuff. That sucked. Ouch. Yum. There's always more younger, dumber fish coming on. ********************************************************************************** Aside... someone's gotta derail Wrench's thread or he'll be psd. As I said, I've enjoyed my tequila tonight. In case no one knew, it's not the first time I PWId (posted while impaired). Hence forth, I intend to tag any PWI posts with an "I" at the end. BTW, whatever happened to JoeD? I

Man, that's deep. After a frustrating day at work today, I instinctively quaffed 2 shots of tequila and a beer when I got home. Then I read your post. My learned response says it would be better at this point to just have another shot and forget about it for today. Cheers! 🍻

Absolutely, but... they also have proven ability for learned responses in addition to instinct. Like the shock/reward process I mentioned earlier, or SeaWorld, and everything in between. I fondly remember my trip to several Canadian shield lakes that each saw at most, a half dozen anglers a year, if that. Those fish were so dumb...

Had to look that one up. 🫣

Congratulations Devan, you deserve that!

That's partly due to the limitations of his equipment, but mostly to pressure intensity loss at the air/water interface. His voice was first transferred thru air, then water. Everything else started in the water.

One place I tested that was pursuing flatheads caught on juglines. Any TM noise sent them running, even rolling in slowly from 0 with a Pinpoint, which was comparatively really quiet. You could paddle to them or power them down with the outboard, but forget the tm.

Does anyone find it surprising to learn that boat/electric/electronic noises sound pretty much the same underwater as they do above water (to the human ear)? Don't get me wrong, I support anyone's effort to pursue science. Heck, I did the same thing in ~'88 with a surplus navy hydrophone, and learned that, yeah, the above-water sound, less the losses and limits of the equipment used, = what you hear on the headphones*. That was pre-web, and my curiosity demanded action. Nowadays, it's way easier to look up what others have already learned, before you devote a day to a Youtube video, testing something that's been well known for over 100 years. I think the better question is what effect does our noise have on fish behavior. That too, has been studied for at least 100 years. The big problem is we have no idea what goes through a fish's brain. Since they don't talk back, we can only observe their physiology and behavior. Historically, it was a shock/reward routine, where one sound delivered a shock, and another delivered food. If repetition elicited a response without the shock/reward, it was assumed the fish could 'hear' the applied sound. Yeah, some folks have even surgically attached monitors to specific nerves in living specimens to observe electrical activity in response to various sounds. There's not many questions we might have that haven't been asked, with only a few answered definitively. If anyone is interested in this stuff, here's a place to start; https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C4&q=fish+reaction+to+sound&btnG= ADDED; *Forgot to mention that the audio of large schools of shad is... well... not The Rollings Stones, but it was amazing.

Man, that's a lunker silversides (compared to inland). 🙂

I've heard several Okies call blues 'white cats'.

Western Auto was where my childhood gear came from too. Purple Creme worm harnesses w/spinner & beads, Red & white Daredevil spoon (good for snagging snapping turtles) a small tin of Mustad hooks that rusted faster than you used them, a Hula Popper, and a floating Rapala. Zebco 202s on 5' 'glass rods. They worked. And I'll second the whole, skin-on bluegill as one of the finest fish to eat. Get it right and the skin, flesh and bone practically sort themselves. As close to fly rods I get are the pair of 8' 8wts I converted to spinning for slip-float duty. Work great for that, but unless I have at least a 1/2oz of terminal weight, I'd be lost. Now, wading around with a 15ft cane pole in the bushes is a different story.

Although bass were never my target, I was always an open/deep water/sonar fisherman. Bill's posts confirmed what I'd found, and added to it. Thank you.

Our company is doing the mechanical on a new $3.5M, 16K sq/ft Pickleball building a local racquet club is adding to their complex. Our part is only $200K, the rest is divvied between grading, concrete, steel erection, roofing, siding, framing, drywall, fire protection, communication, security, electrical, painting, landscape and asphalt contractors. Plus office/support staff at all those places (like me). If that's communism, count me in.

Dunno. Here's a clip from the Houston show a few weeks ago. I'm gonna say it's too bad to be fake. 😉 Cell phones do up-close video pretty well, but the audio sucks. Hope it's better in person. With a capacity of 18K at Thunder Ridge, and a guesstimate average of $600 a head, that's over $10M gross... Bet Johnny gets as much of that as they do.

I just checked again, the price range is now $439 for standing in the back to... get this... $12K for front row.

Why did the snakehead cross the road? To get away from the cameras...

Cool! I haven't been to Starlight since the Dead was there in '82. Dang, that's a long time ago... 👨‍🦳

Last time I asked a realtor to find me a place to rent, I told her that the "Peoff Rule" had to apply. Once I explained it to her (and after she quit laughing) she found me the perfect place.

I learned some lessons about how seriously dangerous chemo meds can be when we did the mechanical work on a new VA Hospital wing several years ago. In particular, the lab where they mixed and prepared the chemo admixtures had 3 exhaust hoods that served 3 workstations where they did the actual mixing/measuring. Each upblast lab hood fan on the roof directly above had to shoot the exhausted air straight up for a minimum of 30 feet (verified via smoke test) before the prevailing winds could move it horizontally. One of those fans; I never got to see that lab in operation, but I don't envy those workers one bit. Whatever they got paid probably wasn't enough. An unrelated, but interesting lesson, was the quench system for the MRI. Considering the MRI tube houses an electromagnetic coil that can pull over 200 amps, there has to be a cooling system in place in case of a short circuit in the coil that could quickly cook anyone in the tube. For that purpose, there was a 300 gallon tank of liquid helium on the roof directly above, with a 3" line piped to the MRI shell. Be careful with that stuff Oneshot!