Quillback

I remember seeing somewhere a couple of months ago that appliances are in short supply. Haven't checked myself.

Way to go, some really nice fish!

Mike, the only gloves I wear while I'm fishing are sun gloves which are pretty flimsy, but help a little. I used to have a fingerless pair of wool gloves which work pretty well and you can get those little chemical pack deals and stick them between the back of your hand and the glove, they will warm the blood in your veins on the back of your hand.

I got to the ramp yesterday at 0830, went late in the hopes that it would have warmed up to near freezing by then, but it was 26 when I got there. This meme sums up my attitude about cold weather, well I'm not from Florida of course, but you get the picture: The Ned bite was fairly good for a couple of hours, deep fish, averaging around 20 feet down near rocks and timber, but once the wind started whipping up the whitecaps I just couldn't fish the way I want to fish that ned in the locations where the fish are, so things got tough. Threw some cranks around, but didn't get any bites on them. Caught 9, 3 were keepers, all spots except one meanmouth. The average size of the spots has been pretty nice lately, they won't win any tournaments, but fun to catch on spinning gear. WT 44-45

The IRS suspected a fishing boat owner wasn't paying proper wages to his Deckhand and sent an agent to investigate him. IRS AUDITOR: “I need a list of your employees and how much you pay them". Boat Owner: “Well, there's Clarence, my deckhand, he's been with me for 3 years. I pay him $1,000 a week plus free room and board. Then there's the mentally challenged guy. He works about 18 hours every day and does about 90% of the work around here. He makes about $10 per week, pays his own room and board, and I buy him a bottle of Bacardi rum and a dozen Budweiser's every Saturday night so he can cope with life. He also gets to sleep with my wife occasionally". IRS AUDITOR: “That's the guy I want to talk to - the mentally challenged one".Boat Owner: “That would be me. What would you like to know”?

A new teacher was trying to make use of her psychology courses. She started her class by saying, 'Everyone who thinks they're stupid, stand up!' After a few seconds, Little Larry stood up. The teacher said, 'Do you think you're stupid, Larry?' 'No, ma'am, but I hate to see you standing there all by yourself!' Larry watched, fascinated, as his mother smoothed cold cream on her face. 'Why do you do that, mommy?' he asked. 'To make myself beautiful,' said his mother, who then began removing the cream with a tissue. 'What's the matter, asked Larry 'Giving up?' The math teacher saw that Larry wasn't paying attention in class. She called on him and said, 'Larry! What are 2 and 4 and 28 and 44?' Larry quickly replied, 'NBC, FOX, ESPN and the Cartoon Network!' Larry's kindergarten class was on a field trip to their local police station where they saw pictures tacked to a bulletin board of the 10 most wanted criminals. One of the youngsters pointed to a picture and asked if it really was the photo of a wanted person. 'Yes,' said the policeman. 'The detectives want very badly to capture him.' Larry asked, "Why didn't you keep him when you took his picture ? " Little Larry attended a horse auction with his father. He watched as his father moved from horse to horse, running his hands up and down the horse's legs and rump, and chest. After a few minutes, Larry asked, 'Dad, why are you doing that?' His father replied, 'Because when I'm buying horses, I have to make sure that they are healthy and in good shape before I buy. Larry, looking worried, said, 'Dad, I think the UPS guy wants to buy Mom .... '

That's a hoot!

I'll get a food thread going this weekend, unless RPS wants to run with it. @rps

Sorry to hear that buddy, hang in there, and if you decide to move down here, we'll get together and chase some bass!

So.....does this make it OK to shoot kayaks? Just kidding of course (trying to head off someone losing it over this comment made in jest).

Makes me wonder what the process is for someone that has recently recovered from COVID, whether they should get the vaccine. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd need a vaccine if you've recently recovered from it, but I'm a layman and this virus is certainly different.

How 'bout that Rick Clunn? He is in the last Bucket, something like 45% have selected him.

When I lived in Washington State, PETA types let loose 10,000 mink from a mink farm. Close to one of my fishing holes. 10,000 mink released from Sultan farm cages | The Seattle Times

On an HD craw?

Baby ling cod.

And you make a good point, I'm down on the list myself, it's not like I have to make a choice right now. It is very likely I'll get it, but I'll look around and see how things are going when it comes time to cross that bridge.

BTW, where are you seeing hysteria? None around here, but curious where it is going on.

Well I don't see it as nonsense myself. It's only nonsense if you believe it to be so. People going to believe what they believe, I personally believe that I don't want to catch this stuff.

Appears to be a "thing". Here's a link, wish I could find one without ads. Viral Video: Man swims in Bass Pro Shops fish tank | | ktbs.com

You have to laugh at that. Hey I think that every time you go out fishing you should take a picture of a rock on the shore, post it on here so we can play the game, "Where was the BH fishing". 😄

Well it happened. But if that has no meaning to you, I'm OK with it.

Wife of a guy I used to work with just got out of the ICU after spending 10 days there. Didn't ask him if she had been on a ventilator or not, but now she has to go to both speech and physical therapy. What do we have, 340,000,000 people in the US? If everyone of us got it and the mortality rate is just .5% then that works out to 1,700,000 people dead. O course I wonder about the accuracy of that 99.5% number.

Used to be a bunch of eagles that wintered over at Swepco, not unusual to see 20-30 of them. Then a few years ago they pretty much all disappeared. Previously chicken farmers in the area would toss dead chickens out on the ground that had died in the chicken houses and the eagles would eat them (talk about nasty carrion). The state made it illegal to do the chicken toss and the eagles left.

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Well just about every competitive fisherman out there will get it and I would think most of them will be skillful in it's use. Then with everyone using it, fishing skill will come into play as the differentiator. I was watching the Texas Team Trail show the other day, they were fishing Rayburn, most of the boats had Livescope.