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A couple sparkling waters and some mixed nuts and dried fruit. Amounts are commensurate with how long I’ll be out. Sometimes I’ll have a shot of espresso in there too for a mid morning pick up.

You guys need to pull it together and fish when you can fish. Bring water. Wade. Swim. Take a legal amount of clothes off. Whatever you gotta do to git-r-dun!

That post made my morning - I used to do the same thing, back when Jerry Lawler and Jimmy Hart were local.

Our no-deadly-force problem is a big fat doe and fawn that eat the tops off our pollinator garden as it grows. They love the buds. The mom just sat there and looked at us as we pulled up the driveway last night - I could almost touch her from the driver side window. @TnRiver46 will Mole traps work on Voles or am I going to have to resort to weasels?

Hey @A-Jay - What’s the best placement for mole traps. I now have at least one that took out three beauty berry bushes like they were electrocuted.

I have a story on here somewhere, the short of it is I was in my kayak 20 or so years ago with a flip phone. Went to flip it to answer a call and flipped it right out of my hand, off the gunnel and into the water. Big quick reach to try to grab it dislodged my sunglasses from the top of my hat where I put them to see the phone and into the drink. The phone worked for as far down as I could see it…

In a small vessel it’s almost never leaks; it’s getting swamped by a rogue wave or other boater and/or having your propulsion die. That vessel still isn’t one I’d take out of a sheltered waterway.

@RRocket - I have a very similar set up, with some of the same plastics- what are you using for hooks/weights? I use mostly z-man Ned heads for everything from trick worms to swim baits to actual Ned’s.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/06/us/charles-gregory-missing-st-augustine/index.html Good outcome thanks to the Coast Guard…The boat was still floating great even though it was swamped. I wonder if he didn’t have a motor let go or something that left him drifting.

Lift and reel real smoooth - especially with the smaller and in some cases circle hooks. If the hook catches where it’s supposed to, they’re usually pretty well pinned. With the small hook though, sometimes the just don’t get a good bite in the upper jaw and they pull out. After that it’s just keeping steady appropriate pressure on them.

I think it’s air that makes you ornery…?

Come back to Makers Mark after you’ve had a few others. It’s actually an easy drinker. Not everyone’s cup of tea though. Jack Daniel’s tends to encourage similar emotions.

Initially I would say why get started drinking if you don’t like anything? It’s cheaper and healthier to abstain. Now with that out of the way, I like mine with one big ice cube. Woodford is a great suggestion. Elijah Craig Small Batch is another one that’s fairly easy to find. Michtner’s is another that won’t break the bank and is easy on the palate. There’s zero shame in a little ice or a splash of water and it helps open up the bourbon, even the trendy spendy ones.

Beahahaha!! I’m sitting here planning through fishing tomorrow AM and buzzing the yard after…thinking maybe the yard can wait til mid-week…

Actually that jogged my mind. I think Panera is the most overrated, overpriced place I’ve ever been, and that was well pre-Covid issues.

I agree with airship on everything but I still have both. My boat is similar to yours but with a 20 hp. The boat gets way more use.

We’ll beat Florida, Georgia, and Alabama this year and then blow it with Vandy. You hide and watch.

If anything is going to be immortal, it’s going to be a Shimano, not a Quantum.

Lake Xenderchux?

From reading all the replies, This is your issue. No way to fix that than to build confidence in them. If you don’t want to/need to fish them to catch fish, then don’t!

If I could catch white perch to two pounds I wouldn’t fish for anything else. The big one are a ton of fun.

That may be a little more impact than the ‘impact-resistant’ glass can deflect…

I have no problem catching them when I don’t need them for bait. Forget the bait and they disappear ? They’re everywhere in Wylie and Mtn Island.

Wooo boy, i tried Googling that model number and came up blank - what brand and model is it? For example, Abu Garcia Revo or Shimano Curado

What model baitcaster?