tjm

Any reel with the crank on the right side is best cast with the left hand, and vise versa. But I understand a lot of folks were taught to change hands, silly as that is.

Aren't they all?

Only if you show it to the rescue party, or if you happen to keel over in the Dr.'s office that wrote it for you? It surely can't be binding on the dozens of "good Samaritans" in your vicinity?

So, why are people still not doing this? I use Firefox on a desk top, but it must have something similar, because the only ads I recall seeing here were for Lilley's Landing, and not even those recently.

I'm not good with instructions and cheated with a search, too, and the group did one that I recall got a bit of air time locally ca'58-59, but I read a whole list of their hits and that was the only one I recall hearing them do. If you had given the group name and asked me I'd likely have said they only did one song. Smoky played it a lot one summer "this time tomorrow reckon where I'll be"

Probably if someone funded the building of a new pavilion they'd get to place a small plaque on it. The benches are an accepted way to establish a memorial though and can be placed where an angler might enjoy sitting a moment.

Or maybe just what station we listened to. Don't think I ever heard that song so it probably wasn't high on Smoky Dacus' play list.

The pump just says 10% Ethanol, any amount of isopropanol that's added is just part of the "blending", it doesn't change the amount of ethanol. I'm pretty sure you'll find isoproponol (perhaps by a different name) in more than one of those fuel additives.

And to think that man has drunk the stuff for eons, it's a wonder we haven't all dissolved.

Short shelf life is great from the government's viewpoint, it ensures that there will be no fuel hoarding by the revolutionist "preppers' and that when the "SHTF" happens the opposition will be out of fuel within the three week life span of ethanol. On the other hand since it is such a powerful solvent ethanol should keep the varnish out of the system until it does breakdown.

I've never used Stabil. Was curious what it is, just read the description of the "ingredients" and there's apparently nothing in it that can float on gas. That's why the floating bit caused me to ask. If the stuff does float on pump gas I'd question the SDS sheet they filed. If it does work, it would theoretically only work if mixed into fresh gas, so that it could bond with O2 molecules throughout the mix before the fuel molecules do. Ethanol adds a lot of O2 to the mix and is likely why modern gas breaks up so quickly. Have you ever used Stabil? I'll bet that if poured onto the top of gasoline in a clear container that it would not layer.

I'd like to see reference for that, because none the components listed in the SDS would float on gasoline at all. From the stuff it's made from it should disperse through the fuel with no agitation.

Are you aware of anything that can extend that life? or anything that can revive the deteriorated fuel?

Still doesn't explain how you never let fuel set for a week or more. Cars, boats, lawn mowers, tractors, etc. all have more down time than actual use time. And most have fuel tanks that hold more than is needed for a single use.

So do you just buy a half gallon at a time, or do you pour out the excess? where? There are weeks when my car doesn't use over a gallon or two of gas, so what should I do with all that is left over that week because I was stupid and bought a tankful? As far as additives being detrimental, I'd have to guess that must depend on the exact additive in question, because all pump gas gets a dose of additives before it comes out of the hose.

No, because once you set it you can go do interesting things. Unless you can teach me how to take them regularly on a fly?

I would have guessed Trotline.

The easy way might be to drop the lake level to the point that trucks and heavy equipment could work on it. Think what another 6" rain in Ks. would do with it ... And in comparison to the bridge span that looks longer than a mere 600' to me

I said I thought Feds would get involved because to me it looks like a hazard to transportation, it's pushing on that US Highway bridge in a direction that it's not designed for just like the container ship that took out that other bridge. I have no idea how much force is involved but it would be something like the speed of the current times the weight of the log jam. And it has the potential to move itself on down to the railroad bridge. GRDA doesn't own the bridges and from their viewpoint the log raft is posing no problem. Not a problem for me either, but it is interesting. Think that would be safe to do in the 10-50(?) mph current? The lower end is holding all of that, so would be like taking out a key that turns the rest loose to run down stream after the engineers? Toward the trestle.

Wonder what the twisted under currents caused by that are doing to the bridge foundations? No surprise that none of the agencies want to be first to say "we'll fix it". The key log that caught all that must be under enormous pressure and must be exerting pressure on the bridge structure as well. Large removal job and the cost won't be small, does Kansas pay? it's their debris and their rainwater. I'm guessing that the Feds get involved in the funding as a disaster?

Had quite a number of liberties in Palma in 1971-'73, but I don't recall noticing the ducks.

Praise the Lord!!! I can still get out.

Decades of watching my farm and roads erode. I can pretty much guess which roads will be passable by looking in a bucket left in the yard. Plow three days after a 10" rain and turn up dry dirt because it ran off.

Well that explains a lot, there never has been hook size standard except within a brand; but most are of somewhat similar size for a given number, although I think most modern hooks are much larger in the smaller dry fly sizes than they were 50 years ago. But then I have lot of #12 1/80oz jigs (unknown make) that I bought years ago that are just about the size of my #14 Mustad 94800. Kinda crazy. I've wondered many time how those "Hackle Gauges" are sized, what brand and model hook they fit?

that surprised me I would have guessed #8 or larger.