Fishing Rhino

Anybody who's had a Chrysler or Ford product. Now, with that out of the way, it is a very clever ad.

You can tie an anchor to the line, but the best way to do it is to use a stainless steel thimble and an eye splice. You can buy them ready made at a marine store, BPS or Cabelas. It is attached using a stainless steel clevis. Remove the clevis pin/bolt, hang it through the thimble then attach the anchor by securing it with the pin/bolt. All are available in various sizes. Choose the appropriate size for your boat. 3/8" line is plenty for a 12 foot jon. Two anchors are rarely used except to keep the boat from swinging in the wind or current. Be sure to allow enough scope, length of line in relation to the depth, so the boat exerts more of a dragging force than a lifting force. The general room of thumb is three times the depth. You may not need as much in light currents and light winds and more in strong currents or winds.

Heck, statistically speaking, you have plenty of time. I didn't get a rig like that until I was 68 years old, and it is a Z-7. To be fair, until July of 2008, I hadn't fished freshwater for about 35 years. I'm just as happy fishing out of my canoe on smaller ponds.

My reason for stating that it will end up being used as revenue enhancement goes back decades ago. The registry inspectors used to be out on the roadways, enforcing traffic laws along with the state and local police. However, you rarely saw them except at inspection time. Back then your car had to be inspected twice a year, in April and October, if I'm not mistaken. On the first day of the following months, May and November, the inspectors and the state police were out in force, looking for cars with expired stickers. If caught, you paid a fine for driving a car without a valid inspection sticker. Since those days, the registry inspectors' job is basically doing drivers' license tests. You never see 'em lurking on the roadways looking for cars with a headlight or tailight that does not work, or loud mufflers. Since they went to annual inspections, where the month you have to have your vehicle inspected goes by the last number on your license plate, the practice of cops focussing on expired inspection stickers has vanished.

Didn't president Jimmy Carter get attacked by a rabbit when he was in a boat? Yes, and here's the photo from his presidential library. https://152616875388...&attredirects=0

My guess is that law enforcement will be out in force when the season gets underway in earnest, particularly at the more popular ramps. I'd expect them to go through every boat with a fine tooth comb, checking for banned lead products, as much for revenue enhancement as law enforcement. What I'd like to know is this. Does the mere presence of these products on the boat constitute "intent to use them" on Mass waters? How will it affect Wallum, which is in both Mass and RI, and as I understand it, governed by RI regs? I'll be getting a Rhode Island license this year. Even though my boat, trailer, and tow vehicle are registered in MA, does having a Rhode Island fishing license exclude me from the MA lead ban when fishing Wallum?

Why not unless you make it political? It dumbfounded me that these government agencies are so vulnerable to hackers. I'm not applauding the crashing of these sites. Personally, I found it incredible. Who knows what else they are capable of. It's scary stuff.

There are a lot of places where you can launch cartop boats, or boats in the bed of a pickup but do not have parking for boats with trailers. I love fishing out of the Bass Hunter our daughter has in the small pond behind her house, but I'm not sure how comfy it would be for two fishermen. I don't know what it is like in a slop because the pond is so small. It is indeed very stable, but I don't think I'd like to get caught in a blow, if I was any distance from the launching area. For an all around small boat, a jon is tough to beat. They are fairly light, and easy to load into the back of a pickup. It's not as stable as a Bass Hunter/Pelican style "boat", but I think I'd prefer it if I got caught in a windy situation. One caution about a jon. Some of them are light gauge aluminum. As much as possible avoid concrete ramps or rocky beaches. It doesn't take much for an abrasive surface to wear through the v stiffeners on the bottom of the hull. Been there, done that.

Just how secure are websites and computers. Apparently not very. In retaliation for the shutdown of the filesharing site Megaupload, Anonymous has been throwing a temper tantrum and has literally hacked and shut down the following sites including the Department of Justice, and the FBI. I tried to open both and got an error message in effect saying the site could not be opened. Here is an excerpt from the article. Megaupload Revenge Spree: DoJ, RIAA, MPAA, and Universal Music All Offline Anonymous has sure been quiet lately, but today's federal bust of Megaupload riled 'em up good: a retaliatory strike against DoJ.gov (and plenty of other foes) leaving them completely dead Update: Anonymous says they've also knocked off the RIAA's site—looks down for us at the moment as well. Update 2: Universal Music Group has also fallen off an e-cliff. Update 3: Goodbye for now, MPAA.org. Update 4: Affected sites are bouncing in and out of life, and are at the very least super slow to load. Anon agents are currently trying to coordinate their DDoS attacks in the same direction via IRC. Update 5: The US Copyright Office joins the list. Update 6: This Anon sums up the mood in their "official" chat room at the moment: Danzu: STOP EVERYTHING, who are we DoSing right now? Update 7: Russian news service RT claims this is the largest coordinated attack in Anonymous' history—over 5,600 DDoS zealots blasting at once. Update 8: the Anonymous DDoS planning committee is chittering so quickly, it's making my laptop fan spin. Update 9: Major record label EMI is down for the count. Update 10: La résistance est international—French copyright authority HADOPI bites the dust under Anon pressure. Update 11: The Federal Bureau of Investigation has fallen and can't get up.

I do have braid on some of my spinning reels, and all of my baitcasters. But, I use a fluoro leader because the braid and rocks do not play nice together. My four and six pound test InvisX stand up to the rocks in Devol better than fifteen pound braid.

I've sent an e mail to them. Got the contact info from here. http://guntersvilleresort.com/index.htm Apparently they have two websites. The odd thing is the one above tells you to contact their other website for more information. I also tried the two toll free phone numbers above and got the same fast busy signal.

Does that mean they aren't taking reservations until the remodel is complete? Maybe I'm gunshy but here's an experience from last summer. My wife and I had reservations booked at either an Econo Lodge or Days Inn in Kentucky. We were going to the NASCAR races at the speedway. The motel was at the next westbound exit about 14 miles from the speedway. We had confirmed reservations, and confirmation e mails. When we got there, we could not find the motel. We started asking around and finally found out the place had been closed for a couple of months. Apparently the owner had some tax problems and the place had been shut down. This was a national chain, and we had booked it on the chain's website. No notification. No nothing. Even calls to the chain produced no info. Our next thought was that someone had scammed us via our credit card. A call to the credit card company showed nothing amiss. I don't know what is going on at Val Monte, but the non-answering of a phone, even by a recorded message has me wondering. I reported their website had been disabled in a post on Dec. 8. Glenn called and they told him they were revising their website and had taken it down temporarily. That was six weeks ago, and it's still down. Glenn said their facebook page was still active. I don't do facebook. One way or another, I'm still going to be there. This is one weird way of doing business on their part.

Has anybody made reservations yet? I've been trying to call the number in Glenn's first post, and all I get is a fast busy signal, and their website is still down.

Almost as awesome as if it had a paddlewheel on each side.

Just read an article about this. Apparently it's big time in Indonesia and they are considerint hanging concrete balls from chains that just clear the cars to deter the practice. http://news.blogs.cn...ders/?hpt=hp_t3

That's not going to happen, but I would not be surprised to see a nationwide ban on lead weights, possibly on any type of lure or bait that contains lead. More states are banning lead, and more are considering such a ban.

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I don't have a problem with anyone who chooses to fish it. My experience using umbrella rigs forty plus years ago was enough for me. I can also understand why others may choose to fish with them. If anyone who fishes with me at Guntersville wants to tie one on, I'll be fine with it.

Did I miss something? Maybe he's paying cash.

I liked the "(not much of a day either.)" below the one day's catch of bass. Makes me wonder why they bothered taking a photo.

LOL. Actually, I prefer "custom blending" my own.

The green shirt is fine. Planning ahead with room for expansion. What caught my attention was his buddy sleeping at the stern of the boat. What's up with that, on what appears to be a beautiful fishing day?

I'm wondering why you used what I highlighted in red as part of your argument, since something has been done about it. The fact that it is illegal means that practice has been "pondered over" and addressed. It is now a matter of enforcement.

Well, that made my day, much like a couple of signs I saw a few years ago. The first was at Home Depot. It read thusly. Snow is forecasted for this weekend and not to be forgetting the rock salt. The second was at a cosmetic store. It read: Custom blended pure fumes

Here's a suggestion. There is another difference besides the swinging hook. Most jigs if not all have the eye configured so it is "off center" to keep the hook point up. Make your tying loop a little longer and bend it so that when retrieved, it will keep the hook point up. You may have to tinker with the length, and the final "height" of the loop that is connected to the line. As configured in your last photo, if it lands hook point down, that is how it will run. The craw type trailer will prevent it from rolling over. With the usual jigs, the drag from the line as the jig sinks will tend to right it.