Fishing Rhino

A stress crack can be the result of a too thick gel coat. Everything flexes. Nothing is absolutely ridged. I make fiberglass race car bodies. Racers want them as light as possible. That means that I must use the minimum amount of gel coat that will provide a good "hide". Some of my customers have a metalflake finish, which by necessity can be two to three times as thick as a solid color. The laminate is about a sixteenth of an inch thick, comprised of one layer of 3/4 ounce mat, and one layer of 1603 stitched roving. Some areas are reinforced to provide stiffness, such as the top of a roof. If you bend a panel with the gel coat on the inside of the bend, nothing happens. But, bend it with the gel coat on the outside of the bend, and you'll end up with stress cracks. The gel coat will withstand compression, but does not stand being stretched, so it results in hairline cracks in the gel coat. Those stress cracks do not compromise the strength of the panel. Fiberglass boats have a much thicker application of gel coat than I use. They are exposed to the weather and sunlight much more than a local stock car. Further, racers sometimes beat up their bodies and need replacement panels. Race car bodies, at your local short tracks, do not have a long life expectancy. Boats in some cases endure decades of exposure and can be subject to buffing to restore the finish. That necessitates a thicker gel coat. If those cracks in the transom do not go past the gel coat, they are only a cosmetic problem, not a compromise of the structural laminate.

I'll make a suggestion, based on my experience a few years ago when I caught bass right up to and including New Year's Eve. Think slow. Think very slow. I caught them on a wacky rig worm. Cast, let it sink and leave it alone for fifteen to twenty seconds, longer if you can stand it. Then move the worm an inch or two and let it sit again. If I did not get a hit in the first three or four feet of the retrieve I'd reel in and cast again. It seemed as though the bait had to land on the fishes nose and left to sit for a while. Sometimes they would take it before I began the retrieve, but they never move once they took the bait, until they felt the tug on their jaw/mouth. I tried other plastics without success. What I wish I had tried was a shaky head floating worm that would stand up on the bottom. Once hooked, even a five pound bass came to the boat like a discarded sneaker.

There is a public access at the south end of the pond. Go here: http://www.mass.gov/eea/agencies/dfg/dfw/maps-destinations/state-pond-maps.html When this page opens, click on "list" on the left side of the page, about half way down. When the next page opens, just below map and list, select 100, and scroll to the bottom of the list. On the right side at the bottom of the list click on "2" When that page opens scroll up to Little Herring and click on map. It will show the access and tell you about the pond. If you have a problem getting to the pond map send me your email via private message and I'll send you the file attached to the email. The web site is odd. You can open up the various pages and copy the URL, but when you get to the last step, the maps,it opens as a PDF file. Edit. Perhaps the easiest way to navigate this map is to zoom on the map of the first page to get separation between the circles. Put the curser on a circle and click on it. The name of the pond will appear and if you click on "map" the information about access, fish populations, etc. will open. It's the better way to search for ponds in the areas you want to explore.

You may be able to tighten up those leaking rivets. Get a helper, and have them hold the head of a five pound sledge against the head, while you hammer on the other side. Don't go crazy beating on them. Just tap, tap, tap, tap, tap, like you are driving a finish nail. Find a loose rivet and start there. Put some water in the hull and circle all the leaking damp rivets with a sharpie, or put a piece of masking tape next to it. Drain the water, and hammer the rivets tight. Then add water again and check the rivets you tightened.

Pressure treated planks? Pressure treated wood does not play nice with aluminum. The chemicals and metals in the pressure treating can eat up aluminum like candy.

I second the motion.

Like all of us did not already know that.

Hey DB, here's another pond you might consider. Little Herring Pond. It's an ideal pond for car toppers. It's in the Mass ponds site. It is just north of Great Herring and the two ponds are connected by a small brook/stream. Do not think it's navigable. I've heard good things about it, but for some reason haven't gotten around to trying it. It's ninety acres with an average depth of three feet. In the spring, some spawning herring pass right through GH and follow the stream into LH where they spawn. Check it out.

The pendulum swings, back and forth, back and forth. I remember the ultra high interest rates on loans when Jimmy Carter was president. Bad for those who had to borrow. Great for those who had saved all their lives and were now getting great interest on their savings. Now, interest rates are at record lows, good for the borrowers but bad for those who are now depending on their savings for some of their living expenses. When oil prices were sky high, it was bad for the consumer. Prices on everything went up. The trucking companies either raised their rates or added surcharges (it amounts to the same thing), that were passed on to the consumer. It cost consumers more to go to work and run errands, reducing their "disposable income", which in turn hurt the merchants. Now with prices low, we are told it hurts the economy. So, high prices hurt the economy. Low prices hurt the economy. I suppose it depends on whose economy we are speaking about.

A name? How 'bout McHales Navy, or maybe Redneck Navy. Not politically correct, but appropriate. Good luck, and have a ton of fun with her. A boat is a platform on the water to get you to where the fish are

I'm not sure, but I'll hazard a guess. Those lines are contour lines. The numbers are "elevations" which indicate the feet above sea level. Where the lines are close together the steeper the grade. You would be better off getting a map of Lake Lanier from a tackle store, or you can order them by phone. They would look like this, showing the depths and various features of the bottom such as standing timber, emergent vegetation and such. Like a topo map these also have gradient lines showing the depth in feet rather than elevations. The closer together the lines are, the steeper the banks. Where the lines are further apart, the more nearly flat is the bottom. You can order a map of Lake Lanier from here, and they are available in waterproof versions. http://www.atlanticmapping.com/ This is also interesting. You can download the maps to your smart phone, if it's an Android. It doesn't look like it's available for Lanier yet. http://www.atlanticmapping.com/androidcharts.html

It appears this thread is not long for this world. I think it will soon join Frenchy.

Both water and air are fluids. In any case, don't include me in the Y'all. I said that water has more drag than air in a prior post. Compare the red highlighted above to this from my post. So, in addition to the weight, the shape of the weight, (Think streamlining) is a factor to be considered. The trailer acts like a parachute. It has drag when falling through the water column. Water drag is far greater than the drag created by air.

Pulleys and the other stuff has to do with the physics of fishing. The title of this thread is, the physics of fishing. In a vacuum, a feather would fall as fast as a rock. And, without something attached which creates drag, a five pound rock will fall as fast as a one ounce rock. However, the "same trailer" throws a monkey wrench into the works. Just as a rock will fall faster than a feather, a jig head will fall faster than the trailer, unless the trailer is attached to the weight. So, the drag of identical trailers is the same as they fall through the water. If the trailer by itself fell at the same rate as the jig head, then the weight of the jig head would be immaterial. Water resistance is far greater than air resistance for falling objects. Question Do falling objects drop at the same rate (for instance a pen and a bowling ball dropped from the same height) or do they drop at different rates? I know a feather floats down very slowly but I would think a heavy object would fall faster than a light object. Thanks for your help. I have a bet on this one. Asked by: Terri Answer If no air resistance is present, the rate of descent depends only on how far the object has fallen, no matter how heavy the object is. This means that two objects will reach the ground at the same time if they are dropped simultaneously from the same height. This statement follows from the law of conservation of energy and has been demonstrated experimentally by dropping a feather and a lead ball in an airless tube. When air resistance plays a role, the shape of the object becomes important. In air, a feather and a ball do not fall at the same rate. In the case of a pen and a bowling ball air resistance is small compared to the force a gravity that pulls them to the ground. Therefore, if you drop a pen and a bowling ball you could probably not tell which of the two reached the ground first unless you dropped them from a very very high tower. Answered by: Dr. Michael Ewart, Researcher at the University of Southern California http://www.physlink.com/Education/AskExperts/ae6.cfm Compare the red highlighted above to this from my post. So, in addition to the weight, the shape of the weight, (Think streamlining) is a factor to be considered. The trailer acts like a parachute. It has drag when falling through the water column. Water drag is far greater than the drag created by air.

I don't need any more rods and reels. I don't need much more in the way of baits either. As for what do I want to try next year? It will be to fish places/ponds/lakes I have not fished before. I enjoy trying new places. Nothing like a change of scenery from time to time.

If it's a lever, is it a class one, two or three. Where is the fulcrum, and where is the resistance? We know the force is at the handle. Here's an old coffee grinder. Is the crank on this a lever, or a pulley/wheel?

That's simple. The drag on the trailer is the same for each weight, therefore the heavier weight would exert greater force on the trailer, unless..............the jigs are made of different materials. For example, a quarter ounce jig made of tungsten will have a much smaller profile than a quarter ounce jig made of lead. A jig head made of lead will be smaller than one made of bismuth (I think that's a metal used in place of lead) So, a tungsten head will fall faster than a lead head, which will fall faster than a jig head made of bismuth. So, in addition to the weight, the shape of the weight, (Think streamlining) is a factor to be considered. The trailer acts like a parachute. It has drag when falling through the water column. A heavier person will cause a parachute to fall faster than a lighter person, because the parachutes are the same size and configuration. therefore they have the same "drag". A fishing rod is a class three lever with the fulcrum on one end, and the weight (the fish) on the other. The force is exerted between the two. If I recall my physics correctly, a class one lever has the fulcrum in the middle, with the weight on one end and the force on the other. A class 2 has the fulcrum on one end, the force on the other, and the resistance in between. Then we have the reel which is a pulley, actually several pulleys when you include the gearing, which produces a mechanical advantage, either in speed, or power. Then on baitcasters you have an inclined plane which operates the level wind. Here's a question. Is the handle on a reel a lever, or, a pulley? I think that takes care of the three basic machines in physics, lever, pulley, and inclined plane. I suspect the original poster is sorry he started this thread.

I consider myself lucky to have not met him. RIP "Frenchy". "I will be putting together a celebration of the good in Frenchy's life sometime after 12/14." Be sure to get there on time. The celebration will only last for 15 seconds. "Wiseguys called him "The Keith Richards of the American Mafia" and JFK hero Jim Garrison denounced him as "one of the most notorious vice operators in the history of New Orleans" - but you can just call him Mr. New Orleans, baby. For over fifty years, Frenchy Brouillette has been on a sex, drugs, and rock 'n'roll bender that has made him the most notorious party animal and Cajun gangster in all of Louisiana folklore."

If big is what you want, I've caught about twenty of these. The second largest living fish, the basking shark. An adult can be 26 feet in length. But, I wish I had never caught one. One night, hauling gear about fifty miles south of the harbor we had to deal with six of these things, two on one trawl. They swim with their mouths open feeding on plankton. Occasionally, they will swim into the ground line. When they do, they start rolling and thrashing, trying to get free. The pot warp gets tangled up on their tails and fins. They will get wrapped in so much line that there can be two, three, and even as many as four lobster traps pulled against their bodies. The ones that I caught were dead when we hauled them in. It could take over an hour to get them untangled and the line and gear freed from them. A basking shark can weigh 8 to 9 tons.

I've seen Grampa's arsenal. They are not ultra light. They are buggy whips.

I had swelling/fluid, but no pain. On follow up visits to the docs, he removed the fluid which was a little uncomfortable, but not bad. If this surgery goes as well as the one several years ago, I'll be very pleased. I have no apprehension regarding the surgery. Surgery isn't what it used to be. You get "doped up" just before they wheel you into surgery. Chances are the only thing you'll remember is them wheeling you out of the pre-op unit. You won't even remember when they started surgery. The next thing you'll know, is when you wake up in recovery. When I had hand surgery several years ago, they gave me too much information. Info I could have done without. The anesthesiologist told be he would be wrapping an elastic band a inch or two wide (don't remember which) around my hand and arm. He would start at the fingers then work down the arm until he had squeezed all the blood out of my arm. Then he would fill my arm with novocaine, lydocaine, or some other cain to make sure my hand was numb for the surgery. I told him that was info that I did not need.

The main reason I quit fishing when the weather turned cold was because it was not a fair fight. A few years ago I set a goal to catch a bass every month of the year from a pond which has very good largemouth fishing. I caught three nice bass on Dec 31. It wasn't really fun even though they were between four and five pounds. They were like dragging in an old tire. They'd try to jump and could barely get their noses out of the water. It was not much better than dragging in dead weight. I went out on January 1. I got on the water and was not really looking forward to catching a January fish. It was more out of determination to catch a bass in January than to have fun. After about an hour, I realized that the goal of catching a fish in every month was rather meaningless when the fish were so lethargic. I went home and packed it in until late March. Small or large, no fight equals no fun. Not for me anyway.

Latex gloves stand up to acetone and lacquer thinner better than nitrile. They do not use latex gloves in health care because some are allergic to them, both for the patients and the health care providers.

I'd try a heat gun to soften the adhesive.

I've had surgery for two torn meniscus in my right leg. It was a piece of cake. When I came to, I had no pain and only four small bandages on my knee. Didn't need crutches. Didn't need the pain meds he prescribed. I have no doubt my left knee will need surgery for a torn meniscus. I had my MRI Thursday afternoon. My next appointment with the dock is for two Thursdays hence. On Monday I'm going to call the office to see if I can have an earlier appointment. It was scheduled for two weeks to allow time to get the MRI. If surgery is needed, I'd like to get it done the week after Christmas. We leave here on February 10th for speedweeks in Daytona. That would be six weeks after surgery. That would allow time for the three post op visits to the doctor.