Fishing Rhino

When panfishing, crappie music works well.

I'm the best age, 69. No, I'm not saying that to be a wise guy. Check my profile.

LOL, yeah he is. You beat me to it. But it does explain some of his posts.

Awesome? Nah. Awful. J Francho should be banned for posting that, although the guy sliding on his beak was a nice touch. Personally, I preferred the guy stapling a dollar bill or whatever denomination it was to the bridge of his nose in "The Wrestler". Mick Foley rules!

Grass? Fishing? Why the answer is eel grass of course. Just being punny. ;D

Tradition? Ghettos? Here ya go. The fishing port of New Bedford, once the Whaling Capital of the world. Fall River, once the textile capital of the world. Brockton, about thirty miles away, the hometown of Rocky Marciano and once the shoe capital of the world. Fall River, the city of hills, mills, and pork pies. When the textile industry left for the South in the mid 1900s, the textile capital of the world became the you know what of the world. Kinda like what happened to Pittsburgh's steel industry. Fall River, where the textile mills were built from huge granite blocks cut from quarries adjacent to the mill sites. The section around the city hall was known as the "Granite Block" because all the buildings were built with granite. Durfee High School was built from granite. In Fall River, the Polish section has Pulaski Park, the French, Lafayette Park, the Italians, Columbus park. Did I mention that Fall River is also the home of the infamous Lizzy Borden. Fall River, where child labor in the textile mills was a way of life. Lizzy Borden took an axe and gave her mother forty whacks. And when the job was neatly done, she gave her father forty one. What's that you were saying about namby pamby Pittsburgh?

Haven't tried Chrome. Have tried Mozilla and Opera. Recently, I was helping our daughter with a project which involved making voting lists for the Pepsi Refresh competition. I would make a "string" of ten names, which when clicked on would open a page with the ten contestants on that page. Firefox would get bogged down when I would proof the string. IE opened each page in a blink. Mozilla was also slower on other processes. Our daughter ran into the same thing with the Mozilla Firefox browser. She suggested Apple Safari. I'm not used to it, but it seems nicer for selecting favorites. It is similar to Opera. Here's a screenshot of safari. Really nice on a 23" monitor.

No surprise when it comes to the France family. They are self-promoted. A few years ago I read an article that "Big Bill" France co-opted, or stole if you will, the idea that eventually grew into NASCAR. And, if I'm not mistaken, it was in the Daytona Beach newspaper. Several years ago, NASCAR sent a letter to ticket holders, asking them to donate to the Halifax Hospital's new pediatrics unit which is now known as Speediatrics. My wife, a nurse, sent a check for fifty bucks to the cause. I have to believe several race fans did likewise. Rather than the unit being named as a tribute to race fans, who provided the money, it is the Betty France Speediatrics Unit. Granted they promoted the charity, but it was others who supplied the dough, and they get the credit.

A bit about brand loyalty. Whenever possible, I avoid buying anything that is the official whatever of NASCAR. That symbol has nothing to do with the quality or usefulness of a product. It means the company paid a handsome fee to put the NASCAR name or icon on its product. Ultimately, that money comes from the consumer. Is it me or does anyone find it strange that the official soft drink of NASCAR has been Coca Cola, but until the past couple of years Pepsi was the official soft drink of the ISC (see France family, see NASCAR) tracks. About eight or ten years ago, UPS became the official package delivery system of NASCAR, yet our Daytona ticket packages were delivered to us by FedEx. I contacted UPS asking them how it felt to be played by the France family. UPS assured me that FedEx would not be delivering the Daytona ticket packages the following year. They were correct. We got the tickets delivered by the United States Postal Service. I took a perverse delight in contacting them, sending a copy of my first email, telling them they were absolutely correct. FedEx did not deliver them. Neither did they. They did not reply. NASCAR will take your money with one hand, and slap you in the face with the other. Due to a combination of things the chickens hatched by their avarice have come home to roost. And they ain't liking it.

Especially a dentist's income.

LOL. Looks like a cartoon character. Definitely not a human being. I'd rather have the body of a gymnast or a swimmer, plus their flexibility and stamina.

Harrumph! Harrumph! Young man, I'll have you know that I am far from a low class individual. I am a sixth grade graduate. I have almost seven teethes. And, I drink only the finestes box wine. In addition, when drinking the wine from my favorite coffee cup, I always point my little pinky away from the cup. For those of you who want me to define what a little pinky is, don't go there. ;D Coffee cup? You really have turned into a wine snob. Last year it was a plastic cup with the precise amount of ice to cool it to the proper temp. The rectal thermometer was a nice touch, one I'd never thought of before.

It boils down to what is more practical for you. No one seems to have mentioned the time, soap and hot water it takes to clean a regular coffee maker. We have the family Christmas dinner. Sister-in-law used to bring her 30 cup coffee maker to serve a half dozen cups or so. We got a Keurig. Three drank coffee and had decaf or regular, as well as a choice of types of coffee. That was much more economical than dumping twenty plus cups of coffee down the drain. Don't tell me to brew less. That has been a sore subject with me for years, just like boiling ten pounds of potatoes to make mashed potatoes, and using less than half of them.

NASCAR is desperately trying anything and everything they can to reverse their dropping ratings and to fill the stands. NASCAR shot themselves in the foot when they abandoned their long time, die hard fans to woo the wine, cheese, and croissant crowd. The found out those they wanted were fickle, and chased fads. They offended those who brought them to the dance. slapped them in the face, in effect telling them, we don't want you and your damned rebel flags. You don't do that to people without consequences. The point system won't change a thing. It's a distinction without a difference. Wanna make it interesting? Make every car qualify to make the race, like they do in the NHRA. None of this, the top 35 in points make the race regardless. Make qualifying mean something. That will put folks in the stands for qualifying. If the points leader just has to start the final race to win the championship, they might as well hand it to him. He's automatically in the race. But if he actually has to race his way in................

Color me a cheater. I use what I feel will produce the best. If it's a senko or similar, that's what I'll use. I find it humorous that some think using a landing net is not sporting, or that using a particular bait is cheating. Yet, some of these will have every electronic gadget known to man, plus state of the art nav/structure displays to find fish. Several thousand dollars in electronics, a boat that will zoom around the lake at speeds over 60, 70, 80 mph, and they will call a guy fishing from the bank, kayak, canoe, tube or wading a cheater. Unbelievable! I do not know a single fisherman who told me his goal was to catch fewer, or smaller fish.

Funny you mention that. In the 1960s my wife and I took a trip with my parents to St. Augustine, actually just a bit south of it. We stayed in a mobile home park across the road from the ocean. My dad and I spent some time fishing from one of the piers. The park was sandwiched between the ocean, and a marine estuary, where another visitor showed us how to catch mullet using his cast net. I saw silver fish sporadically jumping. I took my freshwater rod and started casting a small hula popper. In a few casts one of the fish took the lure. Turned out to be small tarpon maybe a foot to sixteen inches long. If memory serves, it was early fall, late September or early October.

I guess it's not to believe in "the rules of fishing". There will be no hard and fast "rules of fishing" until the fish agree to abide by them. ;D

It does look like some type of farm implement. I'd guess the tines stick out both sides so when one side got bent up or worn out, it could easily be turned over. It's possible that several of these could be attached to a bar of some type to cover a wide swath. If I had to hazard a guess, it would be some type of thatcher to rake matted grass, or possibly dragged behind a harrow, much like a section of chain link fence.

Want bigger of the side by side. I managed to find it.

Regarding the "flooded timber". It was just to illustrate that as you expand or zoom in, you get more details. It may be vegetation, submerged or emergent, creekbeds, submerged bridges, roadways, etc.

You'll like this about the Navplanner2 program. You bring up a shoreline on the map, then open google earth and it will display the satellite image and the map side by side. This isn't big, but it shows the feature.

I haven't played with it yet, but it comes with a card reader that has two ports in it. I believe it allows the maps on the hot maps chips to be displayed. I'm not sure about printing them. It will overlay waypoints which will produce a course. Again, I haven't fiddled around with that part of it yet. It does display the lat/long of the cursor. If you wanted the coordinates of that flooded timber, move the cursor there and record them It will interface with the storage chip and the navionics chip. When placed in the Humminbird or any other brand they will appear on the display. Again, that's my understanding. Haven't done that yet.

You can do it all from the comfort of your computer. Note the O'brien Branch (cove) in the first, then in the zoomed image. The flooded timber doesn't show until you zoom. Same with many things. You can print what you want, make notations on it and bring it with you. That's KY Lake. You can see a portion of the canal that joins it with Barkley at the top right corner.

Why are they still bothering with ethanol? Even Al Gore admitted it was a bad idea that should have never been tried. At the risk of being too political, could it be that abandoning the "ethanol project" would cost a bunch of hacks their jobs?