Fishing Rhino

Na na na na na na na na na, etc.

Those are the new, anatomically correct rage tails. You should see the size of the ******** on the Space Monkey! It's a family forum, some things have to be blacked out. Do they come in both male and female?

Let 'em laugh. He who laughs last laughs best. I wouldn't have given them the fish. I'd have told him that you can only enjoy eating it once, but as long as it is swimming, fishermen can enjoy catching it many times. It was a nice act on your part however. Particularly when they had been mocking you.

There are halibut on the east coast as well. Same fish, and that's no fluke. Flounder is the family of fish. All halibuts are flounders, but not all flounders are halibuts. Some flounders are sand dabs, blackbacks, yellowtail, dabs, and flukes.

I prefer to keep the slack out of the line, but with no tension, unless of course I am retrieving the lure. Many hits will come when you pause. If you have a belly in the line you might not feel it. If you feel a second tug right after the first, chances are its a fish. The other thing I do is move the jig with the pole and then take up the slack, similar to "pumping" a fish. Cranking with the reel will make the rod dip when the jig bumps an object, making it look, and feel as though a fish has tugged it. Be patient, focus your attention on how each thing feels. Eventually you will develop a sixth sense. For starters, it doesn't hurt if you try to set the hook for any contact even if it turns out to be a rock or log. The jig head is what makes contact, not the point of the hook. You won't be ruining your hook.

Whitehall Pond/Reservoir in Hopkinton is supposed to have excellent shoreline fishing. Either the town or the state owns most of the shoreline around the pond. This will help you for your area. http://www.boatma.com/pondsonline.html The site for Whitehall: http://www.mass.gov/dfwele/dfw/habitat/maps/ponds/pdf/dfwwhite.pdf

I don't know of any place they would be bad, provided you pay attention to the weather. I've fished a jon boat in Cape Cod Bay. I was younger then, and do not recommend such an activity. The wind can come up suddenly, and you'd be in trouble. I would avoid large open stretches of water, but would not hesitate to fish in sheltered coves or the shorelines from which the wind is blowing. They are at their best when you want to fish from shallow waters or need to navigate shallow water. Lake Whitehall is only a short distance from A1, and is fine for a jon boat. Lake Cochituate along route 9 in Framingham/Natick is another place that has plenty of sheltered areas with no large open expanses that you need to traverse to get around. It depends on your experience and the size of your jon boat. This site should give you plenty of places to try. http://www.boatma.com/pondsonline.html

Your assumption is correct. Mine is a desktop.

From the same movie. Hmmmmmmm.

I had the same problem which caused the computer to crash on a regular basis. I opened it up, and some of the heat sinks were plugged with dust. It seems to me that static electricity can draw it like a magnet. I know it does on my fiberglass molds. Makes pretty starburst patterns anywhere there is the slightest charge. I use compressed Gasbuster to blow out all the innards periodically. Some advise against it because the dust can be moved to other places causing malfunction. They suggest a vacuum made for sucking dust from components. I've got a battery powered vac with a flexible wand, but it doesn't do as good a job as the compressed gas in the hard to reach spots behind boards and other components.

I've gotten a notice that my name had been selected four times. Only twice did I have to report. Once I was in a group that was told we could leave, and once I had to serve. A young fellow had been charged with driving while under the influence, and underage drinking. In a couple of years I can tell 'em to shove any notices they send to me.

The title of this thread would make a good slogan for a salt company. What's that? It's been done already?

Ahhhh, the wages of sin. Fatty foods, good or bad? High cholesterol. That's me. Been on meds for years. First attempts. No butter on anything. No bacon. Eggs a couple of times a month. Fish, chicken, very little red meat. A minimum of fried food including potato chips. Along with the meds got it down to just over two hundred. Then I started to backslide. Bacon on Sundays. Butter on the rolls at restaurants. Sour cream on baked potatoes. Sausage egg Mcmuffins or biscuits when on the road in the a.m. A good steak once a week, and occasionally more. On vacation, really bad. Omelet everyday with five or six strips of bacon, and maybe a greasy sausage or two. Ten days of eating like this. When I got home, I was due for blood work, and was resigned to a lecture from my doc. A call from the doc's office with the results. I braced myself. "The blood work numbers are very good. Continue on your diet and exercise regimen." Uhhhhh, OK. So, I eat what I want. The numbers stay good. My wife, the nurse, is disgusted. She doesn't understand it. A strange thing happened. My cholesterol count kept declining. For the last three years, it has been in the 160s, with an excellent ratio of good hdl to bad ldl cholesterol counts. During the years of fatty food deprivation, we made a very interesting scientific discovery. Remember "Olestra"? Is it still around? Anyway, my deckhand and I (when I was a commercial lobsterman) were on low fat diets. We'd eat bagels for snacks. We also brought the no fat baked goodies to satisfy the sweet tooth. Seagulls routinely followed us around to feed on the old bait being discarded from traps. They became mascots, and we'd toss 'em the small trash fish that occasionally came up in the traps. They'd sit on the stern and the front deck and roof of the foc'sle. We tossed 'em one of the no fat, olestra, cupcakes. They examined it carefully, considering it from all angles, and took an exploratory peck and then, without fail, refused to eat it. Tried on several occasions, and never got a taker. When a critter who feeds at dumps, landfills, and will eat rotting and rotten bait will not eat a product, supposedly fit for human consumption, we decided we would not eat the stuff either. Oh yeah, about the question. Dough boys or fried dough with plenty of powdered sugar, or the Portuguese version, Malasadas (sp?) that ooze grease when you bite into them.

Enquiring minds want to know. When do you wear the "lame" stuff?

It would be perfect for A1. Not familiar with Chauncy. Oars or trolling motor for A1. You'll need to pay attention in the west section of the pond and the south portion of the section with the dam and the ramp. There are a lot of stumps just below the water line. If the water is clear you can see and avoid them. It was crystal clear when I fished it last year.

There's no record, because you haven't received shipment. Once you receive the shipment, then there will be a record. LOL. Once I receive it, I don't need a record. When USPS tell me they have no record of such a number, it makes me wonder where the vendor got the number, if not from USPS. Neither the vendor nor the USPS refer to it as a delivery confirmation. Both call it a tracking number.

I've had the same thing happen from several vendors. The first time I got concerned, and called the vendor telling them the USPS had no record of receiving the shipment. It bothered me until I received it. Since then, I've ordered and received several shipments with no record available. But, it's good to know I'm not the only impatient person when it comes to getting delivery. It's nice to know it left Oshkosh, and arrived in Bloomington at such and such a time, and is scheduled for an on time delivery. I'm always hoping for a day earlier.

Came across this site in a search. He might be able to help you out. Does all colors. Can supposedly match, but probably needs a sample. http://softbaitmaker.com/index.php

Next time, I'll also have a couple of poles rigged with topwater plugs, plus one rigged with a wake bait. The bigguns have to be somewhere. With a light, to use for rigging and unhooking, darkness will not be a problem. Oh yeah, and ear plugs for the peepers. They reach a deafening crescendo after dark.

Fishing has been slow lately, save for a couple of days. Late yesterday afternoon, with my wife's blessing, I decided to go fishing for the last couple of hours before dark. Got on the pond about six thirty, and paddled across to the opposite shore. Caught a couple in the first half hour on a Space Monkey cast into the hyacinth. Then caught another on a wacky worm in three or four feet of water away from the weed line. From seven-thirty to eight thirty the fish decided to bite. Nearly every cast into the weeds produced at least a swirl at the bait, sometimes more than one during the retrieve. In the weeds, or up to five feet away from the weed line produced fish. In one instance, I unhooked a fish, and dropped the line over the side. Released the fish, grabbed the rod for another cast, and another fish had grabbed the lure. Technically, two fish on one cast. It went on like this until I had to quit when it was no longer possible to see well enough to unhook a fish quickly and safely. Over twenty fish, in the last two hours of daylight. Most a pound to a pound and a half. Next time, I'll have a clip on visor light, and go hunting for the bigger quarry. Maybe this evening. I have no expectation that it will be like this every evening. But I got a taste of why some rave about night fishing.

All plastics are not created equal. Styrofoam is a plastic, yet fiberglass gel coat resins will dissolve it. The gel coat comes in plastic buckets. JJ's will dissolve or degrade some plastics. It ate up a trailer on my chatterfrog, but does not eat up any of the rage tails or *** on which I've used it. Regarding the cap being plastic. That is true, but it is a hard, brittle plastic, unlike the parts in a spray bottle. I did not say it "would" eat up the components, I said it "might". But, it is not a simple plastic cap with some type of cardboard "gasket". There is a special device somewhat like a diaphragm, that seals the contents. Whether it allows for expansion, or controls the pressure allowing excess to escape I do not know. My experience. I have gotten some on my hands, leaving pretty red blotches, which, for me anyway, disappear with the application of soap and water. My wife has said nothing about me smelling like garlic. I think some of the stories are the kind of stuff which becomes urban legend. I don't take a cooler with me. Four bottles sit in a cut down half gallon OJ container. It's impervious to water, costs nothing and is the right size when carboard dividers are placed between the bottles. The bottles are kept under the seat I'm on, and therefore in the shade. I see no indication the stuff is fizzing off or evaporating.

Which do you regret? Not looking good for the camera, or catching something you want to be photographed with. Well, we've all got priorities. If the fates have determined that you will catch bigger fish when you are less than optimum, it seems you have a choice to make. You can fuss and primp and settlle for smaller fish, but look better catching smaller fish, or catch bigger fish while not looking as good. I know what my choice would be.

After any particularly heavy rain, the pond I fish can rise by several inches. There are several wadis that feed into it during rainy times. A wadi being a stream, usually a desert stream, that has water only when it rains, or for a short time afterward. Even though it isn't like places where fish can spread out into new areas, I have found that the areas around these "streams" provide better fishing. I suspect it's because these streams wash worms, bugs and other feed into the pond. It may be that these attract the bass, or baitfish which in turn attract the predators. These streams run through pastures, draining swampland, are little more than rocky, grassy ditches and run clear, so they don't present the mud problem mentioned in an earlier post.

That is a bummer. But it will be a great story to tell in the future. Never, never, anchor by the stern, especially in sloppy weather. The football players that drowned off the coast of Florida were anchored by the bow. When they could not free it from the bottom, they tied it to the stern to pull it free with the motor. Waves crashed over the stern and capsized the boat. Where I fish, there is the ever present possibility of the anchor gettin stuck on the bottom. It did the other day. Fortunately it was in about a foot and a half of water. I was able to reach over the side, and maneuver the anchor out from beneath a couple of boulders. I have the anchor tied so I can pull a loop of line, freeing it form the boat. I also have a float on the end of the anchor line. If I cannot work it free, or it's too sloppy to try, I can leave it all there, and find it when conditions are better.

How soon we forget. Make him fish with the Ron Popeil pocket fisherman, using only the lures that come stored in the handle.