Flysmallie

Nice fish. Those are great spinnerbaits.

Yeah I’m going to have a heart attack or mental breakdown before this is all over. Tomorrow’s fun is cutting hours and furloughs. We are essential but our customers are starting to close their businesses.

Well they are in a lake upstream.

Yep Ness nailed it. Any kind of sports and your small camera sucks. Or low light. Or a subject more than 10 feet away, Or something for prints. But they have come a long ways. Like I said I’ve been doing a lot of video work with an iPhone and most of the time I get really good results. But I need more to get the quality I want. For most people that camera is going to be perfect. But I ain’t most people.

Smart phones are pretty darn good but zero comparison to a real camera.

Unless you creating some large prints or really cropping it down you aren't loosing anything. And if it's just for pics top post then it's great. Mine again was more for the video aspects but I'm kicking out some quality stuff with an iPhone right now so I can't justify the extra expense. My goals are small with good video. I have big meaty hands but for videos it will be on a gimbal. My biggest thing I guess is figuring out what lens I want. I know what I want but I'm not paying 2K for just a lens. I still like Sony. Or the Nikon Z50 is an option too and would allow me to use some of my older lenses. I don't need a expensive lens for my outdoors stuff.

Sweet! Been hearing good things about them. Let me know how you like it. About 6 months ago I almost pulled the trigger on a Nikon Z6. Something came up and I backed out and I'm really glad that I did. It's given me time to research this whole mirrorless thing a bit more but I have a hard time making up my mind. Was planning on full frame but now maybe not. Was going to go Nikon, then Sony, maybe Canon, Hey look Fuji has some cool stuff, wait maybe APS-C, then I start looking at lenses and finally I walk away for awhile. Plus my needs have changed in a year and video capabilities plus expensive glass are going to weigh pretty heavy on the decision. The journey continues.

I had to make a 500 mile round trip yesterday to check on things in some of my stores. It's really weird out there with a lot of places closed and very little traffic. I could get used to everybody staying home and out of my way.

Good evening Captain Stubing. How are Gopher and Doc?

You have to keep in mind that in our business if we quit then we don't make money. And if we don't then it's going to be hard on our employees. Plus we have customers that are relying on us so if we don't deliver to them then they don't make money and their employees don't make money and so on. And ALL of these people want to work and NONE of them are in contact with people on a regular basis outside of the group they work with which isn't even that close. Again I have to explain myself to the ignorant and that is getting old. You kids have fun solving the worlds problems on a fishing forum. Peace.

Well I don't necessarily think I have the responsibility to tell you everything that we are doing as a company to take care of our people. I didn't allow one employee to work from home. I made him work from home to protect the others. Others with similar situations in other parts of the country are doing the same. And it's really hard for you to be objective when you don't have a clue what we are doing. As I have told many others. Take care of your friends and families and don't be a douchebag. 99% of our people want to work and we are allowing them to do that.

The industry we are in has been deemed essential so as long as our customers are open and need product we are going to continue to do our best to supply them. And their business isn't slowing at this time. We have 200 locations across the country and haven't had to close a single one. Most of our employees have chose to work. They have the option to take off and either not be paid or use their PTO hours. We have had very few take us up on that offer. We also have very little retail business and all that can go as far as I'm concerned. But we do have a responsibility to take care of our employees and take care of our customers so they can take care of theirs. And the best way to do that is to continue working if we can. I did have to quarantine one guy. He's working at home doing the best he can. He has zero symptoms. His wife was tested but she's getting better and the results are taking too long to get back. We've been doing this a while. We know what we are doing. Plus we are in constant contact with CDC and local health departments.

I just wish the paranoia would end. Managing 8 stores that will remain open has been a total nightmare for the past few days. If I’m asked about a “what if” scenario one more time I will probably snap. Grownass men have turned into terrified children. You would think they would be happy to have a job that doesn’t have to close.

Not at my house. We are still having burgers and steaks and stir fry and tacos and there will be pizza this weekend. Tuna is never on the menu.

Yum! I went to the store today. Besides TP, paper towels, and pasta, I had no problem finding what we needed.

It was just basketball & baseball. No loss.

The truck or the wife??

That river is chugging along pretty good right now. It will get better. Still a bit early for the best bite.

I’ve had the same feelings about that lake before.

St. Patty is my birthday. Send gifts.

An Irishman, by the name of O'Malley, proposed to his girl on St. Patrick's Day. He gave her a ring with a synthetic diamond. The excited young lass showed it to her father, a jeweler. He took one look at it and saw it wasn't real. The young lass on learning it wasn't real, returned to her future husband. She protested vehemently about his cheapness. "It was in honor of St. Patrick's Day," he smiled. "I gave you a sham rock."

Oh I know it’s always about the money. I’m not an idiot. That’s all anybody wants from anyone. But a 40% tax on zero is still zero. So if they want the money they have to be smart enough to eliminate the competition. I’m putting my money on the competition in that particular state.

But the reason you legalize it is to eliminate the illegal trade of it. You can’t do that by pricing it high and then placing a 40% tax on it. More tax income could be made by being competitive. But again they have only been doing it for a few months so maybe they will get it figured out.