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Not exactly tackle but I scored a great deal on the Simms Challenger Insulated Fishing Jacket & Bibs. I'm ready for early open water and no more freezing my arse off to fish. A-Jay

PSA ~ Cable Sissy Squats are pretty challenging. A-Jay

Have it here as well. A-Jay

Thank you my friend. I put most of these clips in the 'motivational' category. Still with the 50 - 100 views they each get and the 20k views on this thread, hope folks are getting something out of them. At 62, I know I surely am. A-Jay

I generally don't go straight overhead with my hooksets and I use a net more often than not. Some of that has served me well when it come to breaking rods but I've still blown up my fair share. Mostly travel rods though. In the clip below I 'hooked up' close by and almost directly under the boat. So a sweeping hookset to the side wasn't really an option. Still, I went way too far overhead with the tip and totally over loaded the blank. It failed. 100 % User error. To add salt to the wound, my giant bass turned out to be not that. https://youtu.be/1to6ti-tlZY?t=620 A-Jay

I just read that one too Margarita's & Double Digit Bass A-Jay

Thanks for that one. I laughed right out loud ! A-Jay

Even though the lakes up this way aren’t exactly frozen over yet, we do have 6 inches of fresh snow on the ground, it’s snowing right now and there’s another several inches on the way. Accordingly, there’s very little chance that there will be any boating happening. So dropping this one now still feels like good timing to me. In 2020, total open water happened on local Lake Menderchuck on 28 March. https://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/topic/233472-a-jays-3rd-annual-ice-out-open-water-countdown-thread-~/?do=findComment&comment=2693780 A record early date, in A-Jay history anyway. Love to see that happen again. However being perhaps a little more realistic and yet still somewhat optimistic, this time around I’m shooting for 07 April 2022 as The Open Water Date. That leaves 18 weeks, 4 days, 16 hours which I hope to use productively while I wait. https://www.timeanddate.com/countdown/generic?iso=20220407T12&p0=5787&msg=A-Jay's+4th+Annual+Ice+Out+%2F+Open+Water+Countdown+~&ud=1&font=slab&csz=1 So there it is. Right out there for the whole world to see. (Not sure why I wrote that) Either way I’m pulling for a ‘reasonable’ hard water season that includes plenty of sunshine, butterflies & rainbows for all of us in the great white north. As always, please feel free to add your comments, support, and yes, even the jabs; as I know they're inevitable & always quite entertaining. And for those folks that can & will get out on the water while I shovel my roof, don't forget to add a few pics of recent catches. All of which may help to pass the time while I day dream of doing this again as soon as possible. Stay Safe A-Jay

Yes sir ~ And it's especially memorable when that deal needs to be completed in reverse ! A-Jay

Do you get many bites in the bath tub ? A-Jay

Oh it's a bear my friend ~ LOL And you just haven't lived until you've shoveled a few feet of heavy wet snow off your roof ! Good Times indeed. A-Jay

Almost seems like the cost of doing business these days. If the Big Banks banks were pushing for some type of regulations that penalized the customers for each event, (like the auto insurance industry) then I'd say it was costing them. But they are not, so whatever it's costing them to pay for the scams as well as the preventative measures on their end, it must not be taking a big enough bite to matter. Sure they still don't like it but they continue to make their money. Over the years, I've had to 'get new cards' so many times, I actually lost count. A-Jay

Triceps, Biceps and some Abs this morning. Still Brig-20 inspired. A-Jay

Seems there are so many scams on the interwebs these days. And if you send me $29.95, I'll tell you how to avoid them. ?? A-Jay

Hope it works out for you my friend ~ Best of Luck moving forward. We'll be here . . . . . A-Jay

Traps & Shoulders this morning. Done using 4 of the Brig-20 recommended movements. Showing the last working set of each one in this clip. As I acclimate to this deal I’ll add resistance, but for now I’m keeping it moderate and getting the reps. A-Jay

In this case 'boring' may have meant mature and having an IQ larger than your shoe size. A-Jay

This goes on all year, but the hard water season allows me a perfect opportunity and plenty of time to 'ramp it up a bit'. A-Jay

Generally NOT a stick used in Bass Fishing. Certainly can be but not a remotely popular deal. With the recent surge in very light / small ultra finesse presentations for bass, this type of blank might be found at more bass fishing rod vendors. As it stands now, if I were looking for that deal, I'd be checking out rods usually used for trout type applications. A-Jay

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And that's not bass fishing now is it. A-Jay

When & If paddling or pedaling a kayak is the only physical exertion one participates in, then it certainly feels like exercise. Clearly duration, distance & frequency come into play. If you're participating in a schedule regiment of another type of exercise, that is done more often than kayaking, then the boating might seem more like recreation. A-Jay

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This should cover it ~ (underlined a few of my favorites) Won't belong before every birthday card you get will have at least one of these on it somewhere You Know You're Getting Old When... Your joints are more accurate than the National Weather Service. Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off. Your back goes out more than you do. The twinkle in your eye is only the reflection of the sun on your bifocals. You feel like the morning after when you haven't been anywhere the night before. You finally got your head together, now your body is falling apart. Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size. You wake up with that morning-after feeling and you didn't do anything the night before. You don't care where your wife goes, just so you don't have to go along. It takes twice as long to look half as good. Many of your co-workers were born the same year that you got your last promotion. People call at 9 PM and ask, "Did I wake you?" You can live without sex but not without glasses. The clothes you've put away until they come back in style... have come back in style. You look forward to a dull evening. Your mind makes contracts your body can't keep. The pharmacist has become your new best friend. There's nothing left to learn the hard way. You come to the conclusion that your worst enemy is gravity. You start video taping daytime game shows. You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room. Your idea of a night out is sitting on the patio. You look for your glasses for half-an-hour, then find they've been on your head all the time. You wake up, looking like your driver's license picture. Happy hour is a nap. You begin every other sentence with, "Nowadays..." You constantly talk about the price of gasoline. You don't remember when your wild oats turned to shredded wheat. You sing along with the elevator music. You are proud of your lawn mower. You wonder how you could be over the hill when you don't remember being on top of it. Getting lucky means you find your car in the parking lot. The little gray-haired lady you help across the street is your wife. Your idea of weight lifting is standing up. Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either. Your ears are hairier than your head. You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it. It takes longer to rest than it did to get tired. You talk about "good grass" and you're referring to someone's lawn. The end of your tie doesn't come anywhere near the top of your pants. You give up all your bad habits and you still don't feel good. Your childhood toys are now in a museum. You can't remember the last time you laid on the floor to watch television. You confuse having a clear conscience with having a bad memory. You frequently find yourself telling people what a loaf of bread USED to cost. You know all the answers, but nobody asks you the questions. You enjoy hearing about other people's operations. You got cable for the weather channel. Old Folks MTV! Your new easy chair has more options than your car. Your little black book only contains names ending in M.D. Everything hurts and what doesn't hurt, doesn't work. You find yourself beginning to like accordion music. You have too much room in the house and not enough in the medicine cabinet. You get into a heated argument about pension plans. "Getting a little action" means you don't need to take a laxative. Conversations with people your own age often turn into "dueling ailments." You buy a compass for the dash of your car. You take a metal detector to the beach. The car that you bought brand new becomes an antique. You are cautioned to slow down by the doctor instead of by the police. You realize that caution is the only thing you care to exercise. You don't remember being absentminded. You have more patience; but actually, it's just that you don't care any more. Your memory is shorter and your complaining is longer. Your drugs of preference are now vitamins. You tip more and carry less. You read more and remember less. You get propositioned by AARP. Younger women start opening doors for you. You begin to become invisible in the dating and mating game. The highway patrol sigh or shake their heads but don't give you a ticket. You scout for a warmer place to spend the long, cold winters. You are no longer 'promising'. Younger men ask you for advice. You work on your short game. Youthful injuries return with a vengeance. Youthful indiscretions harden into bad habits. You shop for health insurance the way you once shopped for a new car. Your medical expenses go up 50%. A 'late night' now ends at 11 pm. You learn where your prostrate is. You develop a knack for wearing hats. and finally, You know you're getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It's like, 'See if you can blow this out.' A-Jay

When I look back on my mid & late teens, "Ten Foot Tall & Bullet Proof" comes to mind. Growing up in the 70's was like a free for all. Besides that, I'm certain mature adults had no problem associating the words disrespectful and selfish in my general direction. And I earned it. I am honestly embarrassed by much of how that deal went. Thankfully, I somehow managed to surround myself with folks who epitomized the polar opposite of all of that. Final realized that the world didn't revolve around me. #changedman A-Jay