jdmidwest

More info trickled in this week. Seems like they had been using the shortcut under the bridge for a while, but the lake was dropping. They had slowed down to 45 or so and seemed to know it was a trouble spot. Motor came loose on impact and swung around on connecting cables impacting Tim in the chest area. He was DRT, never knew what hit him. Boat driver was treated for shock, but no injuries. I feel sorry for him too. It was an accident, plain and simple. One of those things that could happen to anyone, any day.

Along with the title comes alot of responsibility, those that don't tow the line will have to walk the plank, eh. Guess you will have to build a gigging platform on your boats for that. Congrats.

My favorite little line regarding falconry came a few years ago on a weekly Hunting email from the AFGC. Falconry season - opens x date, closes x date "note, this does not mean you can hunt falcons" Seems like there may be some confusion in Ark regarding that sport and they were finding an excess of red tail hawk carcasses during that time.

A billion get killed running into windows? Where did that stat come from? Or does it include car windows and bumpers?

Cool looking old boat. Was it trimmed out right? Did it really power up and run good or was it sluggish? If water pump was bad, you may have a cooked cylinder. I bought an ole Johnson 9.5 that never seemed to have much power. I tried everything I could think of then took it to a professional. One cylinder was full of water and no compression. It had gotten hot and cracked the cyl wall. I sold it for parts. Check the heads around the spark plug area and see if it looks like the paint is burned off. I was told it is a good sign of overheating.

They kill alot of bees too.

There you go, after a brief period of global cooling, we again have global warming. Someone must have really put out the greenhouse gases today........

Frosty Night Tonight.

Around here, it was called carrying, not dragging. Better to leave the yak at home and just wade. Then there was the high water temps and the stagnation. And the fishing was not really that great on most of the local streams because of temps.

I think the bulk of them will be east of us this year. Too bad, I still have a box of those flys ready for the next big hatch.

Thanks for all of the support. I will probably learn more about what really happened in the morning when I return to work. The group of guys I work with are all friends with both of them and will have probably learned more about what really happened. I really meant this thread to go in another direction, a lesson in boating safety, or prevention like the break away motor. Or maybe how fast something we do everyday for fun can end in such a tragic way. Either way, I will definately be thinking about it the next time I approach any bridges or structures.

I predict there will be global warming after the frost tomorrow night. Based on the pattern of the last month or so, there may be another period of global cooling till the blackberries bloom. Then blackberry winter will be over. After that, probably a normal summer. Last year sucked for fishing. Low flows kept me off most of the streams that I normally venture out on.

Funny thing is I am copilot learning a new lake now with my good friend. He has a Tahoe and it runs pretty good. Makes me think about how well he knows the lake we are running.

Wow, they bridge has a screwed up design. Don't see many with the pilings running crossways of the supports. I see what he hit.

The Murray paper mentioned that they may have been out of the channel and cutting across.

Still hard to say what exactly happened. Don't know what kind of boat he was in or what happened to kick the motor up into the boat. There was a similar accident in the same spot last weekend during a tourney, the motor and transom were tore off and no injuries other than the boat.

Man, I thought this thread was going to involve a good recipe for fillet of trout and morel. Congrats.

A guy I have known for many years, the greatest UPS driver around this part, was killed yesterday in a boating accident. Details are still sketchy, but it appears that Tim and his fishing partner were heading back to weigh in and the boat struck a part of the collapsed bridge that was taken out by a barge on KY Lake a few years back. The motor flipped up and struck Tim in the head killing him on the spot. He was a great guy, always a good laugh. He will be missed. It just goes to show that life can end in an instant, no matter what we are doing. http://www.semissourian.com/story/1967973.html

Local diver use it alot for training. I have drove by the entrance many times but never ventured in. Might be a fish around there somewhere.

Yep, more tonight and going thru Sat now. I wish I was somewhere else. I am going to bite the bullet and go out Sat with rain gear on.

Looking at the butt section, I believe the grip flips around and Ness is right, it is a fly/spin combo. Appears to be in pretty good shape. Re glue the ferrule to the rod and address the wrapping and you should be good to go. The grip part with the reel seat is reversible. It may screw/unscrew to flip around. The cork will go to the rear if you use as a spin rod with the thicker tip section. Or leave it as is and use the thinner tip as a fly rod. Check for a threading on the butt end.

Some people have told me to quit coon hunting. It is not politically correct. I just trap them now.

What is this Facebook thing anyway?

Seems like they fixed that problem. Good buy.

We really need a dry spell, ground is so saturated that I see salamanders heading tor the high spots.. You guys must be really rotten on that side of the state to be getting all of that fungus to grow!