jdmidwest

Trim/tilt on jets are the berries. You can jack the motor up and clean the grates without getting out of the boat. Bottom of motor still sets below the boat line, so trimming it up while drifting helps the float. And, since the foot sets so tight against the boat, trimming it up gives you room to put the plug in. It does not really do much to trim the boat out on plane. And, if there is a cow on the bank, you can do a pump dump to wash it off.

We did a Nitro with a Keelguard a few years back. Two person job makes it easier. We did it on the trailer in storage unit. Still going strong. Take your time and prep the boat as the instructions say. Don't cut corners or rush it.

Shoot the deer or groundhog. Or Mexican immigrant that likes spiced lettuce! Cinc de mayo!

Slowed down pretty quick! Notice how he points the camera at hisself as buddy gets back in.

Oneshot, that wife of yours is a buzzkill. She sure likes to put a damper on all of your fun.

Big Boat. Other states have bigger lakes than ours. Need big boat to handle the waves

Yoga or fishing?

Funny, I never realized they managed Table Rock for bass. I was there last fall and all the fishing shops on the Gravois side had crappie fishing stuff. Could not find a decent Bass Lure in town. You would think it is only Crappie fishing there. Why would they even have a bass tourney?

Did I miss the part where you thought you broke your arm?

I used to tuck my shirts in all of the time until concealed carry came about. Now I let it all hang out. Its alot more comfy than wearing a tucked holster. With my small frame, I don't really have enough to conceal a tucked holster anyway.

Seems to be 2 types now. The guys with full body cover ink who wear nothing but a pair of shorts, and the guys who walk around fully covered like a raped Muslim chick. I thought the raped Muslim chicks were the ones that run around uncovered. Its the ones in the Harem that are fully covered I think. I bought one when the blast of radiation burned the melanin out of my pores. It comes in handy in cold weather since the areas are really cold sensitive. But I usually rub SPf 50 on the face and neck and wear a big floppy hat.

There is a public lake in town by the golf course in town. MDC stocks it with trout in winter. Don't know it's name, but not close to Seminary or Shrine.

Got into a swarm of biting flies today at Lake Wappapello, nasty sobs. Earlobe is swelled up twice normal size, lumps on neck, face, and arms. Only a 20 mph wind would keep them off of me. Fishless day. Could only stand it about 30 minutes. Ended up going for a boat ride.

I was thinking the same thing. Mine rings when I get a call, flashes a little red led when new text or email pops up. Has not really done anything all weekend to distract me. I have it trained well.

Its 4/20. They were looking for dopers.

I was wanting to hit Dale Hollow for Smallies this year.

I tried to explain that one time on here. Thats how all of the smallies get those marks that the giggers get blamed for. In that video, there is at least one trout that got stabbed and got away.

If he had been running a little faster, he may have made it!

Sounds good. People need more camping gear.

Needs a jet boat next.

Diamond plate aluminum sheets work good. Use smooth if you want to slide around.

That fish looks stream bred. It seems to have all of its fins and is shaped like a trout that has lived its natural life in a stream.

They are a real organized society. Fun to watch work. There are so many things to do with the bees besides make honey. You can make them draw wax and harvest it for candles or other stuff. You can harvest the pollen they bring in for sale. Or you can just make more bees and sell them to others. Or sell the bees to the ones that like to sting themselves with them as therapy.

Waded back in the bees today and made another hive out of one in the yard. When they make a queen, I will be up to 10. Weather was nice and flowers were blooming, bees were gentle and calm. I could have worked them today without a suit. Added supers and did some spring cleaning. Honey is being made and hives have wintered this year better than ever since I started keeping bees in 2013. Sometime between removing the winter entrance reducers and now, field mice have been packing pin oak acorns into 2 of the hives. Entrance reducers choke the hive entrance down to where a mouse can't get in during the winter. There were a few nights that the temps dropped below 40, bees clustered up and did not protect the entrance. Field mice packed acorns out to the entrance board and inside the hive. As temps warm up, the mice would have been driven out by stingers, but the nuts stay. The bees had pushed a few acorns to the front landing board. I cleaned out about 30 to 50 nuts on each bottom board. Busy little hoarders. You would think all of the feral cats around would control the critters! This year will start to be my fun year with bees again. I am planning on raising spare queens and making a few starter hives. I plan on expanding to a few more out yards and placing bees in several more locations. I have a friend that wants to host a few hives. I hope to spend more time with them and build up hive numbers. Maybe even make some honey. Yesterday, I had the opportunity again to visit a commercial bee keeper locally. My bee mentor needed a queen and he needed my help finding him. At 95 and over 40 years of beekeeping, he is still going strong. We pulled into the keepers house and drove past a cloud of bees flying around several hundred starter hives on the road in front of his house. I put on a lightweight suit in the truck before I opened the door. My mentor walked around un suited and never took a hit. I had bees bumping me the whole time. This keeper has hives in several states and trucks bees by the flatbed truck load. His son has become involved in the business and raises prime queen bees. His hive count is over 2000 or more in many locations. 100 starter hives were leaving his front yard after we left last night to other beekeepers. We picked up the queen and her attendants in a little wooden box and headed home. By the time we got home, that box was humming like a little engine, a combination of wings fanning and the queen making a strange noise. Spring is starting in full bloom. Hives today stunk of Bradford Pear, smells like rotten feet. Lots of stuff blooming, red buds, plums, danderlions. Soon the clover will bloom and the yard will smell sweet again as they make the best honey for my use.

Boss was working in shop today and met up with a king snake eye to eye. Squealed like a little girl and called me about it. Shame I was not there to catch it and show him closer.