Fishing Rhino

Upon further reflection, I will amend my answer to yes. It will not effect how much I fish, but some will have to cut back if not eliminate their fishing. That will reduce pressure and, hopefully, make fishing better for me. Yuh gotta look for the silver lining of the dark cloud.

Not a wise move to wait until the last minute. The further out you buy them, the better deal you get, as a rule.

If it ain't broke, don't fix it. You can easily judge the interest in a thread by the number of replies.

It will not limit my fishing, but it may limit where I fish. Boat fuel is no biggie since most of the ponds I fish are small. Very little time is spent zooming around on those ponds. Travelling 30 - 40+ miles to some of those ponds will get expensive. Used to fish four or five days per week, and burn a couple of tanks of gas in the process. One fill up of the 45 gallon tank in the boat lasts two to three weeks. I have a great pond that costs next to nothing to fish. Problem is it's a small pond, and in spite of the great fishing, it gets boring. I know how to fish it, and while I can still learn new things, it really doesn't pose much of a challenge.

unless you want a roaring fire. If you have a fireplace, and have an occasional fire, do away with the grate. Not only will you use less wood, but, if you tend to the embers, and keep them together, you will end up with only ashes, no charcoal-like chunks. There is a safety factor to consider. Without a grate to contain the burning logs, they must be placed going from front to back, not side to side. You can also cut or remove the legs from the grate if you prefer. The trick is to restrict the flow of air to the bottom of the fire. You'll burn half the wood, maybe even less with the fire right on the hearth.

I'm not sure how you got your first reading. Did you have the Lowrance unit powered on, then test across the fuse? If so, that could account for your "creeping voltage" since the current would pass through both the fuse and your meter, each carrying a part of the total current. To test the voltage available at the sounder end of the fuse, the meter should be contacted to the ground block, and the sounder end of the fuse. No need to power up the unit. That will show you the voltage output across the fuse.

What voltage do you get when you test the main positive and negative leads?

Looks stout enough to me. If it should start to wear the holes in the seat, you can always enlarge the holes and put a bushing in the hole which will distribute the force over a larger area.

Braid is great in lily pads and other vegetation, but around rough rocks it will part like sewing thread. The best thing for cutting braid is not braid scissors, though they do work quite well. The cutter on a spool of dental floss cuts it quickly and cleanly.

Myself.

In Montana, it is illegal for married women to go fishing alone on Sundays. And it is illegal for unmarried women to fish alone at all. This law is so critical to the upholding of ethical behavior in the state that the Billings Convention and Visitors Bureau featured the tidbit of information on its website. http://news.travel.aol.com/2011/02/23/the-worlds-10-weirdest-laws-not-to-break/?icid=main%7Chtmlws-main-n%7Cdl7%7Csec1_lnk1%7C203940

I'd trust the manufacturer before a "guy at work" when it comes to engine operation. Adding oil to the fuel only insures one thing, more oil getting dumped into the waterway, and fouled plugs. OK, that's two things. Want a third? Increased operating expenses due to the first two. You've run it for seven years, as recommended, with no problems? Why change what has been working so well for you?

Well Fish Chris, thank goodness for fishing and photography. Here's something for you to think about. Saw this years ago, and it might explain your difficulties. The left side of the brain controls the right side of your body. The right side of the brain controls the left side of your body. This means that only left handed people are in their right mind.

While it may feel free to your hand, I wouldn't rule out that there could be a bit of a bind, or a lack of lubrication. Haven't fiddled with a starter in years, but we used to use a bit of lithium grease on them. Put a small dab of the recommended lube on the shaft, work the gear by hand to spread it evenly. My guess is that might solve your problem. Unless your starter is turning slowly, the gear should climb the shaft when the starter turns.

That kill may make the fish more aggressive feeders when we arrive. Part of their food resource will be gone. It may slow the bite for a day or two after the shad kill because of the easy pickings. Seven weeks from now there will be nothing left of those shad on which the bass can feed. I don't know how long bass would be interested in the dead shad after the kill. Catfish, turtles and other scavengers would continue to feed on them but bass...............?

Several, and with different baits before I move on. How many times have you been into fish on every cast, then nothing for two to five casts, then start catching them again? Imagine if you had gone to that area, made a couple of unproductive casts, and moved on. You also may need to cast to that spot/area from different angles. One of the benefits of fishing from a canoe, kayak, or other boat that does not cover a lot of ground quickly is that you learn to work areas more thoroughly, and fish more effectively. A half mile long pond is huge when you have to paddle or row your boat.

With a Texas rig, the fall rate is the same, from top to bottom, since the bait is linked to the sinker. With a carolina rig, the bait will fall at the same rate until the sinker hits the bottom, then the bait sinks at its own rate. Also, if you are fishing where there is any current, with a C rig, the bait is free to wash around in the current, even though the sinker stays in one place. With a T rig, not so much, if at all. Carolina rigging has been used for decades by surf casters. Pyramid sinkers are usually used since they hold position better than the common bank sinker. One other thing to consider. The fish will "feel" the sinker as soon as it hits a T rig. With a C rig they will not feel the weight of the sinker until they take the slack out of the line. Further, if the fish hits the bait, and swims toward the sinker, you may not feel it. With a T rig, if the fish takes the bait and swims toward you, you will feel the line go slack. Each presents the bait in a different way.

Here's what I'd do. Get everything hitched up, and buttoned down, with the strap over the lever. Drill a hole through the strap and lever that is large enough to receive a lock. You'll accomplish two things. You'll be sure the coupler cannot uncouple on its own, and it would make it a bit more difficult for someone to steal your trailer from your tow vehicle.

I harken back to the cane pole era myself. Kite string was the line of choice. A cork, sliced halfway through lengthwise was the bobber, and worms we had dug on the way to the pond were the bait we used. I remember catching a monster (16") pickerel, but not with the pole. While we didn't have a live well, we improvised. We used a stringer, made of what else, kite string. A four or five inch twig was the other component. Tie the string around the middle of the twig, and you were good to go. Push the twig into the fish's mouth, through the gills, and out. The twig would turn sideways and thus the fish could not escape. We liked a long stringer, to allow our catch some freedom to move about. On the day of the monster catch, the first fish to go on the stringer was a shiner about five or six inches long. The fishing was slow, and we caught nothing for the next couple of hours. We were in the process of retrieving the shiner to release it when we realized it was putting up a heck of a fight. To our amazement, that 16 inch pickerel was on the end of the line. It had caught, and swallowed the shiner. As we were walking home with the pickerel dangling from the string, the shiner must have turned in its gut, and slid out of the pickerel's mouth. We took our prize home, filled a wheelbarrow with water and put the pickerel in the makeshift aquarium to show our parents. The next morning, we found it had survived the night so we returned it to the pond, alive and well.

I posted a few months ago about the Pepsi Refresh contest our younger daughter had entered. She did not make it that month, but she finished high enough in the standings to be in the competition the following month. In all, she was in the competition for three months. Each time she learned different strategies, and about forming coalitions with other competitors. In January her efforts (and those of many others) were rewarded when she finished in the money and was awarded a fifty thousand dollar grant by Pepsi to help fund her Lab rescue project. http://www.refresheverything.com/lifeislabs

If I'm not mistaken, that "strap" that goes around the front of the coupler in your photo, should pivot upward, holding the release handle in place. The "lock" probably keeps the strap from falling back in front of the coupler. I'd have to look at the mechanism to see just how the lock works.

No generating plants on this small pond. The open channel drains from the pond. I'm reasonably sure the warmer water moving below the ice is what caused it to thaw. Being shallow, the sun will definitely warm the bottom, which in turn will warm the water. I'm anxious for ice out. Going to bundle up and do some jig fishing on the outer edges of the perimeter shelf on a nearby pond.

The first Robin? Nope. How about a grey heron? I would never have expected to see one in this area, at this time of year, especially when most of the ponds and lakes are icebound. I'm not sure I've seen them before April, but today I was passing by the launch area for Sawdy Pond on Rte 177. There is a channel which leads south to the main body of the pond. There is a small, shallow body of water separated from the main pond by a marshy, bushy, brushy area. The channel winds through this stuff to the main pond. While the main pond remains iced over, the channel of this area is now open water. As I drove by, to my surprise, there was a grey heron standing on the ice at the edge of the open water, obviously fishing. I'm hoping this is a good sign that the ice will soon be gone, and that the small fish are getting active.

Did you try refreshing the website? It has several answers to the question. The cleverest is, "Rehab is for quitters."

One might as well ask "Why has Nike paid such lucrative contracts to Tiger Woods and Michelle Wie to wear their logos?" The answer to that is the same as the answer to the title of this thread, because a large enough percent of the consumers in any sport think they will do better, or, they are groupies, wanting to emulate winners. Who knows? Maybe KVD would have caught more fish with a wood clothespin adorned with feathered treble hooks.