Fishing Rhino

What happens when you start getting mail sent to Mr. or Ms. Lund? I knew a fellow many years ago whose name was Tobin Lund. He owned a Chris Craft. True story. My best friend's father owned a boat dealership. He sold Scott Atwater outboards. Tobin Lund and one of his friends would hang out at the boat shop after work. Scott Atwater's, until 1959, were notorious for devouring water pumps. For some insane reason, the pump was located at the top of the lower unit, where it was subject to the hot exhaust gasses. The real problem was that the pump would run dry until it lifted water to its level. Add the exhaust heat to that, and it was a recipe for destruction of water pumps.

Okay you local MA fishermen. Here are the weekend dates available for our meet greet and eat. Jan 7th and 8th, 14th and 15th, 21st and 22nd, Jan 28th and 29th, Feb 4th and 5th. After that I'll be gone until the beginning of March. Let's see what date will be the best for the most people. The Red Wing Diner is one of the Phantom Gourmet's hidden jewels.

Go ahead, rub it in. I'll keep this post in mind if you ever get up this way again. I'll take you to Wallum.

I don't know what I did, but local s a w m i l l came out as " local saanother sitell" I tried editing it several times but when I spelled the word without the spaces, it kept coming up saanother sitell.

Yes RR, I did write it. Thanks for the compliment. But, I doubt I have the patience to write a book. If I do, you'll be the first to know. I'm more of a hands on guy. I like seeing the progression of a project, when at the end of the day I can see what I/we have accomplished. Take the picture of the Christmas tree I posted. That is in the living room of our home. My wife grew up on a dairy farm, and that room is dedicated to her history. I got the stones for the fireplace from her parent's farm. There were a couple of stone walls in disrepair. They provided all the flat(ish) stones for the fireplace. The wall on each side of the fireplace are faux barnboards. The came from a local saanother sitell. The owner had a stack of weathered white pine. When he found out what I wanted them for he gave them to me as a house warming present. They were naturally aged to the silver gray. I half lapped the boards and stained the surfaces where they overlapped so that bare wood could not be seen between the joints. The boards are fastened to the studs with cut nails from the Tremont Nail Company in Wareham, MA. The room is a dark red, similar to the common barn red with white trim. The only thing that I did not do was to install the carpet. My wife has wanted to take the barnboard down and replace it with sheetrock. It's one of the few times that I have vetoed something that she really wanted. I have too much labor and emotional investment in that room because of what it stands for. It's my tribute to her. Should she survive me, then she can do what she wants. Fifty two years together and still going strong.

How come a cold front can freeze your rear end off?

My kind of guy. I'm not quite as ambitious as you, but I agree that I'd rather put down one rod and pick up another rig than having to retie to change baits. In my paddlin' canoe I can carry ten rods, the one in my hands and nine in the rack and ready to go. Truth be told, I should have made the rack to hold eight rods. Wouldn't have to stagger the reels with a bit more spacing. Notice all the rod tips are below the small foredeck and rails. Cannot be snagged by brush or weeds.

Santa doesn't have to worry. His gang of elves is always nearby to provide protection. Bet you didn't know Santa had his own secret service. My eyes are getting old, along with the rest of me, but it looks to these facial orbs that Santa's image is superimposed on the gaggle of fans. Upon further examination, it looks like the Raiders fan to his left appears to be restraining Santa with his left hand on Santa's left shoulder.

Yes, there is. If you are going to fish six different baits, then seven rods is too many. The rule of thumb (just made it up) is one rod more than the number of different baits you'll be fishing.

Never heard of pouring oil on troubled waters? The spillage of oil into the sea hasn't had a good press in recent years following the many ecological disasters caused by wrecked tankers discharging thousands of tons of crude oil into the world's oceans. In earlier times, the pouring of modest quantities of oil into the sea was done deliberately in order to forestall rough seas. This phrase alludes to the calming effect of that oil has on wave action as it spreads over the surface of the sea. Very small quantities of oil can cover a surprisingly large area as it spreads into a layer just a few molecules in thickness. The surface tension of the oil layer has an effect similar to that of a thin skin and is highly effective at calming 'troubled' water. 'Oil spread on water can become as thin as a few hundred nanometres. The calming effect of oil was known to the ancient Greeks. In 1762, Benjamin Franklin repeated an experiment first performed by Pliny, which he reported in A Letter from Benjamin Franklin to William Brownrigg, 1773: " The use of 'waters', as opposed to 'water', began in the late 18th century; for example, this piece from Benjamin Rush's Essays, literary, moral and philosophical, 1798: "

You are giving them the benefit of the doubt, I see.

I hear you. But for me, it's different. In February, my wife and I head south. We drop our pooch off at our daughter's place in GA, then we mosey on down to Daytona for the NASCAR races. We spend about two weeks in FL, and when the racing is over, we head north to spend a couple of weeks with our daughter. We usually get home in the first few days of March. That puts spring less than three weeks away and the worst of winter is usually behind us. We can still get accumulations of snow when we return, but it doesn't last long. Come March, the ground is usually pretty well thawed out, and unless it's been an unusually cold winter, the ice is off the ponds sometime in March, at the latest.

I'm not sure Santa is a Raiders fan. Granted, there is a fan behind him wearing a Raiders jersey, but Santa's glove being blue and white? Looks more like a glove the Giants or Bills might wear.

Thanks for reminding me. Merry Christmas to all. I intended to include it in my original post, but nostalgia caused a brain ****. Yes, I did use the asterisks intentionally.

In the northern hemisphere today is the shortest day of the year. For the next six months, the days will be getting longer, and, in a couple of months, they will be getting warmer. There is an old Yankee proverb, "As the days begin to lengthen, then the cold begins to strengthen". January and February are the two coldest months of the year. I have noticed that, for me, as the days get shorter, my ambition wanes, kind of like a bear who hibernates in the winter. The lengthening of the days stimulates my ambition. Maybe it hearkens back to my days as a commercial lobsterman. As the end of the season neared, with the days considerably shorter, and cooler, my enthusiasm to get out there and tend the gear waned. Production would seriously decline in late September, early October. The gear was also further from the beach. thirty to fifty miles offshore. Combine the raw chilly days, with smaller catches, and the result was a loss of enthusiasm. It became more of a job, and less enjoyable. The highlight of the late fall was the final trip of the season, when the last trap was on deck, the boat was loaded, gear tied down securely and I pointed the boat in a northerly direction, headed for port.

I agree that a weekend would likely be better for most that work. Any day is fine by me. I'd guess that Saturday might be the better of the weekend days. We'll see what others have to say. Dogbone is a fireman so he works on some weekends. I think his schedule goes out a few weeks, but he is also on call. Students might prefer a weekend day.

The content is what makes the forum, but a change of scenery now and then is nice. **** job. Keeps us old timers on our toes. Why does good show up as **** ?

If just the two of you are sharing the cabin, you should see what the nightly rate is at the lodge. It might save you a few bucks. They start at about 75 dollars per night. That would save you 150 dollars provided the room meets your needs.

It will work great with a buddy system. It takes two to fish it/them efficiently. You take the two hemisphere boats and join them with a hinge so they can be folded together making a ball. When you get to the water, you pull the hinge pin, separate them, and each can go your separate ways. Being a ball, it will roll equally well in any direction on level ground. The only thing you have to solve is how to secure all the peripheral gear so it doesn't all get scrambled together. Hey, I came up with the hinge idea. Someone else can figure out securing the loose gear.

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to fellow MA anglers. Two and a half weeks, and the holiday season will be in the rear view mirror. It will soon be time for our meet, greet, and eat. We can meet up at the BPS by the big fireplace at the entry. Depending, we can mill around the store for a while then head a couple of miles east on Rte 1 to the Red Wing restaurant. What day of the week is best? Thoughts?

Too bad Paul Harvey is no longer with us. Then we could get the rest of the story.

I've dumped over twice in my two canoes. The first time I was trying to poke at something with my paddle. I reached too far over the side. Uh Oh. I knew I was going in, but I tried to prevent it which succeeded in swamping the canoe, and dumping a tackle box over the side. Fortunately it floated, I wa in shallow water about four feet deep. I retrieved the tackle box, waded to shore and bailed out the canoe. This was the canoe in my avatar. The only thing I lost was a little pride. In my aforementioned unplanned swim, I remembered the lesson from my first experience and just fell over the side. I ended up in the drink, but didn't swamp the canoe. The first episode was in 2008. The second in 2009.