Fishing Rhino

Does anyone remember Doug Williams the Redskin quarterback who led the Redskins in thrashing the Denver Broncos with John Elway. He set a Superbowl record leading the Redskins to five touchdowns in the second quarter. He was named MVP of the Superbowl. He had a losing record as an NFL quarterback, but in the game that counted the most he put on an unbelievable show. For that one game, he was the best quarterback alive. I remember watching that game. I don't recall a single article or interview where his grand achievement was minimized or downplayed. It was a performance to be appreciated. So was Tebow's last weekend.

Tebow had a quarterback rating of 125.6 for the playoff game. According to an article, that is a number for the likes of Drew Brees, Aaron Rogers, Peyton Manning, Tom Brady, and Roethlisberger. A perfect rating is 158.3, something which Kurt Warner achieved in three games. Only 10 for 21, with an average of 31.6 yard gain per pass. What has been said about Tebow needing the receivers to do their job can also be said about Brees, Rogers, Manning, Brady and Roethlisberger. Tebow had a great game, period. Why try to minimize it when it isn't done to the other quarterbacks mentioned above. Is he in their class? Not yet. Maybe never. But for the playoff game against the Steelers he certainly was.

I guess I'm more of a locationist, particularly on familiar waters. I learn what pieces of bottom are consistently more productive, and will fish those areas. Now, when I go somewhere new, to me, I'll look for the bottom that works on the waters with which I am familiar. If that fails to produce, I switch to the opportunist mode, and do something different, in an attempt to find the "pattern". There are occasions I'll be opportunistic, even on familiar waters, just in case. It is never good to get stuck in a rut when it comes to fishing. You can put me down for a blend of both locationist and opportunist, with the emphasis on locationist. Unless one has a mentor or guide to show them around, I'd guess we all start out as opportunists who evolve into locationists.

There is a reason many electronics carry a twelve month guarantee. The manufacturer has no control over the units once they leave the plant. Marine electronic devices will endure a lot of abuse before they fail. They live in a hostile environment, particularly those used on salt water. They operate over a fairly wide range of voltage, yet must have protection if the voltage exceeds or drops below operating specs. Some folks are meticulous in caring for their gear, others not so much. Two or three years ago, Lowrance had a problem with water/moisture getting into the units and wreaking havoc with them. If you can determine and document that water got into the units, causing them to malfunction, Lowrance may be willing to do something to help you out. It's worth a shot, if that is the problem.

My guess. You have water intrusion somewhere in the unit, be it in the motor, or the control head. Somewhere you have a short, probably not a dead short or the thing would not run at all, but a leak of electricity that makes it draw more amps than the wiring can handle. Obviously you do not have a circuit breaker or some other protective device that will shut down the flow of electricity from the battery to the unit. My question is why have you left it submerged for two years, rather than toting it back and forth. Nothing good can come from doing that. Even in fresh water, dissimilar metals can result in galvanic action. In addition, marine growth can chew away at the seals on the rotating submerged parts allowing water intrusion. If there is a shore line which runs electricity to the dock in the vicinity, electrolysis can take place. It's why outboard motors have sacrificial anodes on them even for exclusive use in fresh water. All you need is a trickle of electricity into the water, and voila, instant trouble. Even elecrical leaks from nearby boats can cause problems to other boats in the area. It is not as serious in fresh water, but still something you need to consider.

Thank you. I tried sending the info via private message, but the links would not work when I previewed the message. Interesting, the links would have worked on the forum. I copied and pasted a couple of the results, then previewed them, and they were clickable. I'm not clear on posting links to other web sites, so I was reluctant to post them.

I'd like to post a relevant reply, but I forgot what the thread was about.

Reviews by third parties are not promos. Well, they should not be. The first result I linked on ran the motor, and gave, what seemed to me, to be fairly objective pros and cons. It's not all that different from Motor Trend or any other car magazine test driving particular makes and models, then posting their take on it. What makes their review less than true? Reviews by owners can vary widely from five out of five to zero or one out of five on the same product. Some owners have much expertise in using a product, others have no expertise whatsoever. As Francho said, it hasn't been on the market long enough to expect much of a response from owners since there are relatively few of them.

Google "Mercury 150 four stroke reviews". You'll find plenty of reading material.

I first saw the name Shitta in Daytona Beach several years ago during speedweeks. We were staying at the beach and took Orange Boulevard to Nova Road to route 92 (Speedway Boulevard) to the track. At the corner of Orange and Nova was a clinic of some type. Two of the doctors, prominently displayed on the sign were named Shitta. The clinic either moved its facilities or closed because the sign has been gone for a few years. It was a "landmark" simply because of those names.

You'll need to measure the height of the fenders, and the distance between them. Let's say the fenders are ten inches above the bed of the trailer. You'll need to measure the width of the hull ten inches above the boat's bottom, where it will sit over the trailer's axle to determine how much clearance you will have at that point.

Dr. Yetunde Shitta Bey, MD, practices Internal Medicine in Burtonsville, MD Dr. Abiola Shitta-Bey, MD Obstetrician / Gynecologist in Chicago, IL.

Sure gives me something to think about. I doubt, since my rig is only two years old and only seen fresh water that the bolts should be bad. But they sure might have worked loose. Should have recalled my days of being involved with a racing team. It should be "nut and bolted" at least once a season. And that means every nut and bolt that holds anything on. Even a couple of times a year, or more, wouldn't involve much time or labor. Cheap insurance.

LOL, but it's actually better on horse buns.

Regarding Suh. I don't follow professional sports much, though I used to. I did catch Suh stomping on the other player, and agree that there is no place in any sport other than MMA for such actions. However, aside from that act, I've read much about Suh leading an exemplary life, giving much of himself to community service and helping others, as well as being a good family man, and that this action is not typical of him apart from the football field. Maybe he should be cut some slack. Sound familiar?

You mean like a penalty for excessive celebration in football, or raquet abuse in tennis when a player vents their anger/frustration by slamming their raquet on the ground?

Follow the manufacturer's instructions for cleaning your sunglasses. Depending on their composition and coatings, if any, it could be harmful. Why take that chance? .

Sorry, I don't have an answer, but you pose a logical question. In auto racing there are three types of weight/mass, sprung weight, unsprung weight and rotating weight. If you remove a half pound of mass from a race car it will go faster but not much faster. However, if you remove a half pound of weight from a flywheel, or clutch it will accelerate much faster. In rotational mass, it's called MOI, or moment of inertia. You not only have to get it moving faster in a straight line, but you also have to overcome inertia to accelerate rotation. Another factor regarding rotating weight. All flywheels, clutches, driveshafts, axles and wheels are not created equal, even if they weigh the same. The closer to the axis of rotation a weight is, the easier it is to accelerate it. How does that apply to a baitcasting reel, you ask? Say you have a hundred yards of braid, and a hundred yards of a heavier line, say lead thread, if there were such a thing. If the lead thread is put on the spool first, then the braid, you would be able to cast further than if the braid was loaded first. So the answer is how you load your spool will make a difference, and it would be measurable in controlled scientific experiments. Would it make a noticable difference on the pond. My guess would be no. But, you are paying attention to details that most would overlook. In the long run, you will become a better fisherman as a result.

I'm sure he was kidding, but I'd bet there are some who would love to commercially harvest fresh water bass, and would do so if given the opportunity. Lobsters are the spiders of the sea. But, the simple answer is that traditional lobstering is a passive fishery unlike gillnetting, longlining or dragging. The introduction of "escape vents", the required return to the sea of egg bearing lobsters and "shorts" (undersized lobsters) is a huge difference compared to the othe fisheries. Before the advent of escape vents traps full of shorts were not uncommon. I've often wondered what percent of lobsters who are tossed back are gobbled up by one of their natural predators such as cod or striped bass. Traps provide shelter for lobsters that enter them. They also provide food for lobsters and provide habitat for them. Studies have been done where lobster traps are particularly thick, and have found that the traps attract and keep lobsters in those areas. When the traps have been removed, the lobsters all but disappeared from that area. Because of the vents small (bumblebee) lobsters can enter and leave the trap easily. According to books and studies, over ninety percent of the available, legal lobsters are caught annually from the inshore (within three miles of the beach), coastal waters. In that regard, incremental minimum size increases (1/32") four times over an eight year period gave lobsters an opportunity to reproduce once or twice more before they could be harvested. Occassionally dead lobsters will be found in a trap because they get to scrapping with each other or fish like tautog/blackfish get into the trap and kill them. That does not happen with any frequency. With other fisheries such as dragging, longlining/tub trawling, and gillnetting many of the fish are dead when they are brought into the boat. Nets, be the towed type or the gillnet type are indiscriminate in what they catch. While a particular species cannot be landed it's impossible to prevent them from being caught in the nets. Frequently, they are dead when they are returned to the sea because of size regulations or closed seasons. There is also the matter of "ghost fishing" where lost or discarded (illegal by the way) gillnets continue to entangle and kill whatever gets trapped in them. The escape vents are held closed by biodegradeable hog rings. They will disintegrate in two or three months, and the vent will fall open, allowing even legal sized lobsters to escape. These would be replaced when going through the gear prior to setting it out for the season. After the gear had been in the water for a couple of months we'd tug on the vents to test their integrity and replace them when they got weak.

The woman who raised your wife. There are two mothers-in-law (notice the proper spelling of the plural of mother-in-law) in every marriage. The more appropriate would be 25% involving the wife, 25% involving the husband and the other 50% involving the two mothers-in-law. Raider, I'm going to make an assumption here. It is not the first time that MIL got obliterated. My guess would be that it happens from time to time. What's the old saying? "If more than one person knows something, it's not a secret." It's not uncommon for an inebriated person to become a blabbermouth. I understand your frustration. Don't be too harsh on the old ba.......er, mother-in-law. She may still wish your wife was attached to her apron strings. Consider this. A mother-in-law will always be your spouse's mother, but your spouse may not always be your spouse. The expression about "marrying into a family" is not off the mark.

That would mark the end of catch and release, and in no time at all, the end of the smallmouth and largemouth populations. Think about it, at about ninety dollars per pound, a five pound bass would be worth $450. A five bass limit of say ten pounds would be worth $900. I can only imagine how many more fishermen would be after them. You could pay off a forty thousand dollar bass boat in less than a year in addition to paying the bills and putting food on the table, but it wouldn't last long. It would be a short lived boom for the boat manufacturers. I've seen it happen with dogfish. One year they were worthless trash fish, clogging the gillnets of fishermen seeking cod. They vanish from this area in the winter, then return in the spring by the millions. Then they became worth ten cents per pound and gillnetters invaded from as far away as Maine, and from southern states as well. They would make a set during the night, then haul back at daybreak. Boats were coming in with twenty, thirty, forty thousand pounds or more for about six hours work plus another three to four hours round trip to and from the grounds. Dogfish were so prolific these catch rates were sustained for a couple of years. Of course, this attracted even more gillnetters and in a matter of three or four years they decimated the biomass of dogfish. It took the state two or three years before they began "studying" the situation, because no one worried about the dogfish. The powerful sportfishing associations paid little attention because it wasn't a species they sought. A few diehards tried to make a living at it, but the numbers were not there to make it profitable, plus regulations that had been enacted limited their catch and fishing days. In reality, the boom only lasted a couple of years. Then it was the monkfish the gillnetters went after. That was good for another couple of years 'til the environmental management departments cracked down on the fishery. Again, it was too little, too late. Made me glad I was a commercial lobsterman.

I'll see your Dickey and raise you one Pisarcik fumble. That just sounds wrong.

Cowboy fans don't know the meaning of the word "pain". I started watching pro football before there was an AFL. I was a Giants fan because they were on tv every weekend in our area of New England. I suffered through them losing championship games to the Packers, more than once, the Colts with Johnny U, and to the Bears who left Y A Tittle standing dazed and bloodied on the field. It was all downhill from there for a couple of decades until Bill Parcells came along, and they finally won it all, thumping Denver, then squeaking out a game over the Bills, and finally ruining the Patriots perfect season by beating them in the Super Bowl. I can still hear the Giants fans singing "Goodbye Allie" a reditiion of "Hello Dolly" at the end of Allie Sherman's coaching career with the Giants. I lost interest in pro football when the players went on strike and never looked back. Sentimentally I'm still a Giants fan, but I don't live or die by their success or failure.

I can understand catfish having kittens. But really, shouldn't dogfish have puppies. And, maybe groupers should have groupies. Sheepshead - lambs, etc. Do fish qualify as brain food because they are so often found in schools? Are monkfish celibate?

Smart phones. I like the name, but I'm content with my stupid phone.