Fishing Rhino

I believe it's the same as A-Jays, 15.5 feet. My recollection was about 90 pounds empty, but could be more. It's an Old Town/Johnson. They could be bought for about five hundred dollars on sale, which is what I paid for mine. If you go to the Old Town web site, they still make a canoe with the same hull. They have three seats, web style across the hull, but no storage spaces and cup holders built in. They are also a lot more money, over fifteen hundred dollars. A-Jay was correct on the weight 113 pounds. I'm thinking you can find them on sale and save a few hundred dollars if you search around for them. Here's a link that includes the canoe. http://www.oldtowncanoe.com/canoes/discovery_series/

Pond prowlers are nice little boats. They are definitely more stable than a canoe. The seating is comfortable and easily adjustable. The swivel seats are very nice, but you can also rig them on a canoe. One of the downsides is that anything you keep on the sides of the boat can easily find their way overboard. Rods, gear, etc., can be stowed inside, below the rails of a canoe making them nearly impossible to end up in the drink. As for the fishing I enjoy fishing out of my canoe as much as I do with my bass boat. There are places where the canoe has the advantage, and places where the bass boat has the advantage. My canoe is the same as A-jay's, with a square stern for the trolling motor and a forty plus inch beam. I can stand in it, but prefer to sit. It's not light, about ninety pounds. I did wrestle it onto the top of my cap which had Yakima roof racks. Not easy, but doable with the proper technique. When I got my new truck, I did not want to put roof racks on it. I opted for a bed extender that slides into the trailer hitch receiver. In most cases, where there is a decent ramp that is easy to get to, a trailer would be easier. To load the canoe, I first empty it, then sit it in place. After that, I put all the gear in the boat except for the battery which is placed in the truck bed. When I get to the water, I unload the trolling motor and the bucket that has the anchor, marker buoys, and fish finder. The rest can stay in the boat while I launch it. A trailer would eliminate all that unloading and reloading gear from the boat to launch or load. Still it's not such an aggravation that it deters from my fishing. Would you like it? That's for you to judge. When another person goes with me, it's much easier. We each take a side and slide the boat out of the truck and into the water. All the gear stays in the boat. All that is left is to clamp the trolling motor to the stern, put the battery in the boat, hook up the battery clamps, and go. Much easier with another to share the load.

4" senkos watermelon w/blk and red flakes or Watermelon/copper/orange/red. Rage tail menace, craws, structure bug, space monkey favorite color pumpkin w/ purple, gold flakes, Strike King/Zman elaZtech four inch finesse worms for shaky head coppertruese or pb&j. 2 3/4" Lunker City Grubster Clearwater color. Fat Albert/Rage Grub watermelon w red/black flakes and in the Rage Tail, again Green pumpkin w/purple and gold flakes. Keitech Swing Impact fat Bluegill flash or Arkansas Shiner. There's more, but that's enough.

I was going to guess Mick Dodge.

Back to the topic. If you think he knows too much now, wait 'til he's a teenager. As a rule, little kids think their parents are the smartest people in the world, then the body begins producing hormones, and all too soon, they will think you are the dumbest person in the world. Enjoy this while you can. In a few years he'll have you tearing your hair out, and you'll long for the good old days.

This from someone who is a Raiders fan, and flees from a ladle like a scalded dog? You may be correct when it comes to spelling and grammar cops, but your judgment ?????????

Hey, someone has to step in for Long Mike, only temporarily, I hope. Long Mike was not only a moderator, but he was the resident grammar/spelling cop on the site for years.

He ranks right down there with the "Hey Dude, you're getting a Dell" guy. To me, the guy seemed like a punk. My wife got a kick out of him. While those were regular ads, the "Dude" guy became the face of Dell for a year or three.

This saltwater fish is what prompted me to try the clear water color. It's a silverside, and much of the body is clear. When I was a kid, we used to get them for bait to use for catching Snapper Blues. Snapper blues are young bluefish, about eight to ten inches long. They'd come into the river in schools and when they were running we'd make what amounted to a pillow case out of metal window screen with a coat hanger bent to keep the open end spread. We'd get a can of King Oscar sardines, and smear a few of them inside of the screen bag, then toss it in the water at the Town Dock, and watch. Once they started entering, we'd give it a few minutes, then haul it in. It would have hundreds of these. As you can see, the body is pretty much clear except for the silver lateral line, the belly and the head, with a black tinted back. There was a Portuguese farmer who made baits for these out of clear Bic pen bodies. They were about three inches long, and he'd use the tapered end. He'd insert a piece of Christmas tree tinsel into the hollow body then run a piece of wire through it. Then he secured a treble hook at one end using the wire and form a loop at the other to tie it to the line. The snapper blues would fight each other to get to the bait I do not remember which end had the treble hook and which end had the loop for tying the ling. My best guess is that the loop was at the tapered end. From certain angles, the silverside were nearly Invisible, but when they changed direction, they would flash. Juvenile freshwater alewives are similar to the silverside with some transparency at the belly, with a smoky black back. For whatever reason, the forum distorts some images, stretching them vertically (see the penny). The grubster has a thicker profile, more closely resembling the alewife than a silverside.

They've come in all sizes, shapes and colors. They all touted products that would make our lives better, that we just could not live without. Some were get rich quick promoters, how to make big bucks without investing a cent of your money. Then those whose products or plans would give you the body of a gymnast exercising only fifteen minutes per day using their product. You can cook like a chef. There were also those aimed at fishermen or would be fishermen. Car cleaning products that would take a car from the salvage yard to the showroom floor. On and on. The list is endless. Who do you miss? Who do you wish would go away? Who made your skin crawl? Who made you laugh? I'll start with two. One I consider the king of infomercials and the other the Godfather of infomercials. My choice for king is Ron Popeil. No one else hawked such a variety of products. Lets start with an appropriate, for this forum, product. The Ron Popeil Pocket Fisherment with lures in the handle. Spray away your baldness products. Knives. Food dehydrators, pasta makers, rotisserie ovens. You name it, he made it. He could be annoying, like a fingernail on a blackboard, yet he was always amusing and clever. But wait, there's more. For Godfather, I nominate Chris Nahant. Most of you have probably not heard of him, but he was one of the first if not the first to successfully take advantage of the opportunities presented by television. He hawked Salad Master. Chris Nahatis. Read about him here. http://www.telegram.com/article/20120429/NEWS/104299775/1052 Your turn.

I'm glad that it wasn't a heart problem. I find it incredible that they let you sit there for so long. If you go into an ER complaining of chest pain they will put you in a wheelchair and take you right in, before they have time to complete the paper work. For future reference. Any time you have symptoms of heart problems, stroke or any serious symptom(s) do not drive yourself or let anyone else drive you to the hospital. Call 911 and do not minimize your symptoms. An ambulance should be there in less time than it would take you to drive to the hospital, and they are prepared and trained to handle emergencies. Not only that, they are prepared to administer clot busters in the case of a heart attack or stroke. Equally as important is that they will notify the hospital that they have you in transit, will electronically or verbally transmit vital signs, and EKG readouts. When you get there you'll be admitted immediately. Minutes and seconds count when it comes to saving your life, and minimizing the damage that can get worse as seconds and minutes pass. You really should notify the hospital administration of the facility that let you sit there for hours. That is inexcusable and unacceptable.

I don't see folks fishing something like this very often. But it is a killer, small bait. The body is mostly clear with silver flakes and a black tinted back. I fish it on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round, tungsten jig head 2/0 or 3/0 hook. It's a 2 3/4" Lunker City Grubster. The tail is its weak point but it's not an expensive bait. A ten count bag of the 2 3/4" Grubster is $4.49. Six count bag of the 4 1/4" is $6.99, and a 15 count pack of the 2" is $3.99. You can swim it. You can fish it like a wacky rig or a shaky head. You can mix your retrieve. It's like a wacky rig because there seems to be no wrong way to fish it. I say there is no wrong way because it frequently gets hit on the fall. It's available in three sizes 2", 2 3/4" and 4 1/4". For some reason they do not make all three sizes in all colors.

Largest largemouth 4" Senko watermelon with black/red flakes Largest smallmouth Shaky head 4" ElaZtech Strike King or Zman, on a Vike 3/16th ounce tungsten shakey jig head Here's another of my favorite baits. You don't read much about it, but it will catch the heck out of largemouth and smallmouth bass. It's a Lunker City, 2 3/4" Grubster Clear water color. I fish it on a 1/8th ounce Keitech super round jig head with a 2/0 or 3/0 hook. The downside is that the tail is feeble, but that's part of what gives it its action. The upside is they are comparatively cheap.

Been thinking about this. Are the brake and turn signal lights okay, or are they dim too? If they are good, then it has to do with the circuit on your truck that feeds the running lights (tail and side marker lights). The brake and turn signal lights connect are part of the same circuits. The only difference is that when you turn on the signal light, it runs the brake light through a flasher which causes your signal light to blink. Search for the fuse panel layout for you vehicle. For example google "fuse panel layout 2007 Ford F150. You can then see which circuits are for the trailer lights and then for the brake turn signal you'll find something like left, lft, L brk/trn, or right, rt, R brk/trn. They abbreviate them differently. You will also see something like trl to denote trailer. Here's an example. See numbers 5, 13, 17

Take her to the vet. That is not normal behavior. If she doesn't mess in her kennel, keep her kenneled when you are away. She may be bonded to your girl friend and experience separation anxiety when she is gone. That is also why some dogs chew things including the clothing of the person whose absence is troubling. They equate the scent with that person. One thing you should do is watch her like a hawk, and keep her in your presence. As soon as she starts to go, tell her to stop and whisk her outside. Confine her to the room where you are. Baby gates are a great invention to contain dogs to a certain area. You should never "correct" a dog for any behavior after the fact. They need to associate the act with displeasing you. By nature, though it doesn't seem that way, dogs crave your approval, and behave accordingly. Punishing them after the fact only confuses them. For instance, you enter the house and see the dog has made a mess, chewed a chair leg, pulled a hunk of meat off the counter, etc. The dog comes running to greet you and you scold them for what they did in your absence. It won't be long before the dog stops running to greet you. They will associate your scolding with your return.

The problem is with your vehicle. I agree that the most likely culprit is a poor ground. The trailer frame provides the ground for the trailer lights. But you have a ground wire in the plug on your truck which goes to the truck frame. From the plug on your truck, the ground connects to the plug on the trailer. A wire from this goes to the frame of the trailer, making the frame the ground for all your lights. Try connecting your jumper to another part of the truck where you can make good contact, and connect the place where the ground from the trailer plug connects to the frame. That has to be a good contact since it works on other vehicles. I'm guessing the ground contact on your truck is poor since that is where you connected your jumper. A side bit of information. Most newer vehicles have a dedicated circuit for trailer wiring so the trailer lighting is isolated from the vehicles light system. This prevents a short on the trailer from blowing a fuse for the tow vehicle's lights. You could have corrosion in the truck plug which is preventing a good ground. For future reference, apply some dielectric grease into the female receptacles on the plug. It will prevent a multitude of problems caused by corrosion in the plug.

Every year should be so good. Started out with a trip to Pickwick for a couple of weeks. Had a great time with my buddy, and we caught a lot of fish, of nice average size. When I returned, I hit up a few of my favorite haunts on the Cape. All but one of them with disappointing results. Then I hit up a small pond five minutes from my door step and lit 'em up big time. May and June were incredible. Fishing from my canoe, there were days when I caught over a hundred bass, smallmouth and largemouth, but predominantly largemouths. I'd launch in the dark and pick my way through the narrow, rocky, winding channel out to the main pond. There were days I was not hoping to get a bite. I was expecting to get a bite. In five or six hours it was possible to catch around a hundred bass. From its peak in May/June it began to taper off. Took my nephew from Florida with me on the week of the Fourth of July. He fished an unweighted Rage Tail Craw and nothing else. He had 28 hits, and boated 25 of them, mostly from one weed bed. I caught more, but I also got hung up more fishing wacky worms, Rage Tail Menace, Lunker City Grubsters, Fat Alberts, etc. He'd fish the craw until both claws were gone. A single clawed craw seemd to work as well as a two claw. He's used to econo fishing where he has to fish a bait for as long as possible. I told him to replace a damaged bait, but he wouldn't hear it. I fished a few of my other haunts, some in central Mass with another friend, but they did not measure up to previous years. The other close to home ponds that I fish with my bass boat were disappointing, except for one that provided steady action, though it was slightly down for the year. If it hadn't been for Pickwick and the canoe pond close to home, it would have been a disappointing year.

All right!!!!!!!

Worm hunting. I remember those days. You could tell where to hunt on lawns by the piles of worm dung at the entrance to their tunnels. The more piles the better. Regarding flashlights. When your eyes get accustomed to the darkness, you want to look for worms at the outer edges of the circle of light, where it is dimmer. If you hit them with the bright center of the light they are extremely quick to scurry back into their burrow. The dim outer edge did not evoke the same reaction. When they were mating, you'd often get two worms for the price of one. As I recall, they'd "link" up in several places along their bodies.

It varies from course to course. The piles of processed compost from the worms at the entrance/exit of the holes is generally not appreciated by golfers on the fairways or greens. The greens in particular do not putt well with small piles of worm turds all over them. Worms generally do not do well on some courses because they are treated with herbicides and insecticides to eliminate the critters that could damage the grass. Unfortunately, they often take the worms as well. But, since most courses are well watered and fertilized they do not need the services of the worms to aerate and fertilize their grasses.

Did you say "Big Wheel"?

What a heart wrenching tale. Condolences.

Well, this thread confirms what I've already believed, that college football is the equivalent of religion in the south and the west. Come any game day in season cars are adorned in the colors of the various colleges. And fans are adorned in their team's colors. And it doesn't seem to matter if fans have attended or graduated from the college they support. In the Northeast there is no such obsessive allegiance to college football. Not saying it's good or bad. It's just the way it is. Back to my opening statement. It appears this topic (college football) could easily join religion and politics as a banned topic. Passions were running pretty high.

Haven't had that problem..................yet. Now I will. Shouldn't have said that.

The tradition includes teams being like gypsies. Teams have been moving for decades. They've been doing it, and will continue to do it. It's nothing new. Remember the Boston, oops, Milwaukee, oops, Atlanta Braves. Then there was the New York Giants baseball team that moved to San Fransisco, and the Brooklyn Dodgers who moved to LA. We also had the Washington Senators. Did I mention The Philadelphia Athletics who are now in Kansas City? In football, the St. Louis Cardinals moved west, and the LA Rams moved east to the city that the Cardinals abandoned. Al Davis played hopscotch with his Raiders team. So, the Milwaukee Braves in the National League moved to Atlanta, and another team from the American league, the Brewers opened shop in Milwaukee. This is just skimming off the top of my head. Heah, heah, get your programs. You cannot tell your teams without a program.