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Guess you're just bitter about having to drink from Boner Spring every day. Poo isn't too bad in comparison...gives the water a rich chocolatey flavor with nutty undertones.

There was a Coosa at Alpine Shop in Kirkwood a couple weeks ago. Someone should go snatch it up so I'm not tempted to drop the grundo on it.

I'll tell this story for the millionth time... When I was at Mizzou, a friend of mine did a field trip to Lake O for some class, can't remember which. Anyway, they were pouring some kind of inert flourescent green liquid into the toilets of the houses on the lake and seeing if and how quickly it would leach into the water through faulty septic systems. Minutes...the lake was flourescent green in minutes. LOZ is sooo polluted. Yeah.

Guess it's not a very good one then. There's poop in the water after all.

News flash...Lake O is polluted. Who would have guessed? Maybe if the EPA was allowed to do their job they could get people to clean up their disgusting toilet waste equipment. It's gonna take government regulation to fix the problem down there, and we know how we feel about those dirty words.

That sucks Joe. They got me in January. Such a PITA.

LMAO Mitch at your agenda. Classic. Uh oh, Mitch wants to share a tent...

I'm too lazy to give you a whoopin'. Cricket seems to have plenty of energy, though.

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I always leave all of my brakes in, but I hardly ever cast anything heavier than 3/8 oz. I use only the friction knob for adjustments. I think you're supposed to only use the brakes in opposite pairs, meaning if you put one out, you have to put the one on the other side of it out, too, to keep it balanced. I don't know that from experience, just heard it. Either way, you probably won't need to mess with them unless you're throwing big baits.

PBR sucks, and so does any AB product or Miller product or any other big-boy domestic garbage (except Sam Adams). But Jason's right that PBR is not as bad as some of the others. I'll drink Select if I'm going for all day hard-core guzzling just cuz it's cheap (enough) and it doesn't make you feel like raccoon roadkill in the summer heat. If I had to pick the best tasting crap beer it'd be the Champagne of Beers...that's right, the High Life. When I want a beer that tastes like beer, I go for any of the hundreds of top-notch microbrews that are out there these days. That's beer, not that watery waste you see in commercials during the ballgame.

Sounds good to me.

Shhhh.....

Awesome.

Are you blaming the schools or not? I must be confused, because I don't see how it's relevant in any way. Stupid people are born stupid, and then their stupidity is reinforced by their stupid parents. By the time they make it to school, their stupid is so firmly set in stone, no teacher can change it.

It's the teachers' job to teach reading, writing, math, science, etc...NOT to teach etiquette. That's above their pay grades. When a parent sends a POS kid to a school, that kid's gonna come home the same way, and that's not the teachers' problem. I don't expect an electrician to fix my toilet, and I don't expect a teacher to fix a stupid kid.

Same problems on LOZ this weekend. Didn't do much fishing, but just hanging out and swimming off the back of the anchored boat in a quiet cove was a challenge. Idiots would blow by on plane in 30 foot Sea Rays less than 15 feet away from us and throw off Bering Sea wakes. I don't know what that has to do with our "school systems" though. Like you said, even the "adults" are irresponsible, rude and self-absorbed. I don't think with our schools' current budgets "Boating Etiquette 101" is likely going to be a new class. It's the parents' fault. If you're an idiot, you're going to raise idiots, regardless of what school you send them to.

Won't be able to make that date. You boys have fun and I'll try to make the next one.

That nice new gut on Cricket is just bad karma for making fun of fat people for so long. I'd say you gained about as much as I lost over the winter. How's it feel jelly roll? Not too good LOL. Lay off the Twinkies fatso.

How do you skip something under some brush with a baitcaster? Once the bait hits the water you better have your thumb on the spool or it's bird's nest city. You must have some mad BC skills or we're talking about two different things.

A couple days ago I saw that it was 102 degrees in Minneapolis and 54 in Billings. Weird wild stuff.

Reels are tools, and for every job there's one tool that works better than another. You CAN split a rack of firewood with a maul, but a hydraulic splitter is gonna do the job more easily and efficiently. You CAN drive a 16 penny nail with a jeweler's hammer, but a framing hammer will do it much faster and with much less effort. There's a time and place for both spinning and baitcasting reels. If I wanna skip a fluke under an overhanging tree, there's no way I could do it with a baitcaster, but if I'm planning on making a thousand short, accurate casts with a spinnerbait all day, there's no way I'd WANT to do that with a spinning reel. There are times when a baitcaster is a more efficient tool, and while yes, you CAN do it with a spinning reel, why would you want to? With a little practice and your reel's adjustments set properly, the baitcaster actually becomes LESS of a hassle than a spinning reel. Line twist is a non-issue, fewer steps to make a cast with no bail to fumble with, greater accuracy casting heavier baits (I'd argue anything over 1/4 oz), and more control at the moment the lure hits the water, which is where you get a lot of your strikes with reaction baits. You can't really say which one is "better" in general...they're just different. But you can say pretty objectively which one is "better" for particular applications. It doesn't entirely boil down to personal preference. People just say that when they're less comfortable using a baitcaster due to lack of experience or having had trouble with one at some point and giving up on it. I'd be willing to bet that most people who have had bad experiences with baitcasters were either using a piece of junk, didn't have the adjustments set properly, or were trying to cast baits either too light or too heavy for the equipment.

Yep. It's skinny but floatable. Lots of obstacles. I'd start below the trout water.

That's a cliché, a stereotype, and quite frankly, an inaccurate interpretation of what liberal means. I'm a small business owner, a taxpayer, and a huge advocate of personal responsibility...and I'm a liberal. I could make some sweeping generalizations about conservatives that most likely wouldn't encapsulate you, right? You should pitch the tired old talking points in the trash can...they're clouding your perspective and making you sound foolish.