pa mountain man

I just got back from Clarington(see: my biggest bass yet in the fishing trip section). I suppose that all of your gear can be fastened somehow, but now it just seems easier to have everything in it's place, stored and ready when you need it, rather than loading/unloading several times per trip.

I had the same issue, though no launch in my yard. > I drilled a 1/2" hole on the side my boat leans to in storage, took the top off of an electrical meter box, mounted/sealed it, and use a threaded pvc plug for the hole, cost me $2.50.

Before I got a trailer, I hauled it in the bed of a lifted Toyota(6 ft bed. It was a pain unloding the boat, then loading the gear, but as long as I was fishing, I didn't care. My main reason for getting a trailer: I was coming home from fishing one sunday, at noon of all times, and hit a deer, my head was almost removed by that eska when it came through the back window. Maybe a freak accident, but it was enough for me to stop boating until I found a trailer. I've been in a 10' flat bottom, and to tell you the truth, I didn't like the wobbly aspect of it, it may have been the length/width ratio of it, but mine is stable enough that I don't worry about my 4 year old son with me(PFD's on of course).

I still have my first boat(64' sears) 12' semi v I got 14 years ago($50). I started out with oars and an 5 hp eska(the oars were more reliable), over the years, I've made small upgrades to it, like a 6 hp Johnson, bow mount trolling motor, and I re-fabbed a trailer from a 16' fiberglass boat to hold it snug. I've thought about upgrading to a nice tracker bass boat, but for me, this is all I need, and I don't mind "weed wackin'" the trolling motor in 3" of water to get to the swwet spot that heavier boats can't reach. If your not in a hurry, and don't need to upgrade soon, you can outfit a tin boat to do what you want at a huge cost savings.

"Try the new Mcnuggets, now with crack!"

speedbead, I caught him at Chapman dam, about 15 miles south of Warren. It's a tiny lake, but it holds some very nice bass, and the campground is excellent.

My family and I went camping at a small electric only lake(68 acres) this weekend, and I never expected to catch my PB LMB. I fished that whole lake several times for 2 days, only catching dinks, but they put up a better fight in that lake, rather than the locals, so I was having a blast. I saw a canoe disappear into the feeder stream, and figured "no guts no glory", and ventured into the shallow(4-8") of water, until it opened up to a 12' wide chanel about 8-10' deep. I wasn't having any luck, and figured I'd turn around, but I seen a downed tree up ahead, and had to hit it. I pitched a worm there, and let it settle for a second, then started slowly retrieving it, and thought I had a snag at first, but it started peeling line off fast. I fought the good fight for what seemed an eternity(5 minutes), and finally got the beast into the boat. He was 21 1/2", and weighed 4.3 lbs. My wife had to fumble with the new camera for a few seconds before we were able to get 2 nice shots and release him back to his home. As soon as my wife figures out the whole digital camera thing, I'll post up some pics.

Update: I contacted the closest astronomer club, and had them look at it. It is a meteorite(sp?), and was offered a nice chunk of change for it. I'll get some pics of it before I sell it, I don't have a digital camera, or cell phone, and I don't know if my comp can handle it, it's older than my truck, and it's an 01' ;D. I'll ask a neighbor if they have one.

"Thats a space peanut" ;D Whatever it is, is metal, and looks like it was liquified at one point. It left a 1.5'x1.5' hole 7" deep in my back yard. I haven't touched it yet, until I can see if the college has a gigometer, I have enough tumors as it is.

If something were to land on my property, from a plane or space, can I keep it?

I think the site should be pulled...The speed limit on my street is 25mph, there is nothing at the end except for the country club/golf course. It isn't uncommon for people using that facility to be doing 55 mph down the street with kids playing on the sidewalk. Alot of county officals use the club, and never a patrol car on my street. :

I have just orderd some. Any thoughts as to presentation, or just play with it to see whats best? On a side note, I've caught my PB SM at 3:00am this morning there! 2 lbs., caught him on a kelly's pierboy special in red/white.

Hello all, I've been working at a lake(corps of Engineers) for 3 years, and due to alot of LMB waters around me, and outboard issues, I haven't fished my lake much. This lake has small mouth, trout, and predatory fish in it, it is 5 miles at summer pool, and averages 1/2 a mile wide. It is a deep lake(157' max), with steep banks. It has alot of boulders around it, with a rip rap embankment. Due to issues, it is drawn down about 30' for the next decade, so there is no shore line structure, and won't for a while. It is a fairly clear lake, I can see 20' or so. Here is my issue, I can't catch a SM for the life of me. I have a decent array of tackle(soft baits and crankbaits). It is a low pressure lake, I can see them, but nothing I throw will get their attention. I can slam walleye on rat l traps, and even caught a small muskie on a rapala countdown, trout love the mepps, but I want some SM action. I know I'm starting at a bad time of the year, but can anyone give up some advice? I've been reading posts on here for weeks, and I've learned alot, but just not quite enough. I have no idea how to post links, but if you go to the USACE website, under the pittsburgh district, and look at East Branch Lake, you can get some lake statistics if it helps. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I'll add one: "Never play leapfrog with a unicorn."

Never ever take a sleeping pill and a laxative at the same time! :-[

They could offer burial plots in the outer 15,000 parking places nobody uses, or at one of the 46 out of 50 registers that never get used. ;D

When I was working the gas field, we were always cutting pipe for one reason or another, and we used a piece of felt paper(wrap around) to make straight lines. One day a worm(newbie) was asking questions, and asked about the felt paper, I told him it was for making straight lines around pipes, and it was called a reach around. For a month, when someone was dragging the torches around, you would hear him yell across location "Hey_____,do you need a reach around?". ;D

The strangest experience... When I got out of the Army in 2003, I picked up an M44 Mossin Nagant (7.62x54R) on the way home, and I was set on using it that fall for whitetail. I adjusted the open sights in well enough that I didn't need the bayonet extended, and was pretty confident in it. Opening day came, and I had a terrible case of the flu, but in PA unless you're 6 feet under, you don't miss it. ;D I pretty much crawled to a blow down a few hundred yards from my parents house where a trail ran by a creek. I was fading in and out of it, about ready to call it quits, when a 7 piont walks into veiw on my left. He would look away, and I'd pull the rifle up a little, and we played that game for a while until I had it shouldered. So I'm sitting on this log with my back against the stump, and my legs crossed on the log about 3' in the air with the rifle pointed 90 degrees to my left. I was so excited, I didn't compensate for the recoil, I always used my 44-40, which kicks like a .22. Now I'm shooting something a little more potent than a 30-06 with an 18" barrel and a steel butt plate. When I touched the rifle off, the recoil knocked me off of the tree, and was way too much movement, and I puked all over myself as I lay on my back. My dad radios, and asked me if I got one, and I said I think so, but I need help. A few minutes later, he's looking over me and said "By god, that gun kills at one end, and cripples at the other", after I verified which end I was on, I found my buck exactly where he was shot.

Shoot, I'm still working on zelda (nes). ;D

wow, simply amazing on one hand you have a moron pretending to better peoples lives, and on the other hand you have morons learning they have been scammed, so they loot and riot. some poeple's babies..... :

Sheesh, we're to get 4-12" of snow in northern PA by saturday :-?. I'm glad the ground isn't frozen yet. I woke up this morning, and seen it snowing.

Me and a buddy decided to hit the lake for an evening venture, it all seemed to go very well until... We were having a good nite, not getting anything too big, but the numbers were there. It was really dark, and my buddy decides its time to raise the water temps a little, when it started. He leaned a little too far out of his 14' boat, and it started to roll, by the time I realized what was going on, my counter balancing act was too little too late, and we went in the drink. After I surfaced, and got my bearrings, I heard the last thing I want to hear while in the lake at night, "It's got me, it's got me! Oh dear god it's got me!". My buddy is now trying to make it to shore(75'), and I'm thinking about getting on the boat, so I don't get attacked as well, but against my better judgement, I decided to follow him to help kill the monster. I'm about 30-40' from shore when he makes it out, then all I hear is brush crashing, and blood curdling screams, and pleads for his life. At this point, I assume bigfoot has teamed up with the swamp thing to finish my buddy off. I make it to shore, and all is quiet, too quiet, so I call his name, and all I hear is a whimper. Several minutes later, I find him laid up in a blowdown telling me a snake has bit him, and it won't let go, so once again, against my better judgement, I start feeling for the snake, and I found it. Burried deep in his thigh was a treble hook from a mepps spinner. We laughed like idiots for what seemed like an eternity, and after sunup, we had a little swim to get the boat, and we lost alot of things, but we're alive, but since I didn't have a camera, bigfoot is still only a legend. ;D

Had it done last year, as soon as I got home, I packed the u-haul and truck, and moved to another town(work reasons, honestly ), and set up the new house...Stupidest thing I've ever done!!! I felt like I was kicked in the crotch for 8 months :'(.

Anything in Pennsylvania that is legal to hunt, and is good to eat. Really love squirrel hunting though, it just takes a dozen to make a good meal. ;D

Last summer, we had 2 guys in jump suits asking if they could see the gas meter in the basement, ours is in the yard, while they poked around the yard, I took down their plate # on their "official" caviler ;D, and had the wife call 911, while I grabbed the sks and my banjo . I leaned the sks against the car, while I sat on the hood I played my banjo. 5 minutes later the sheriff showed up, and what do you know? They pulled the same stunt on an elderly couple down the road, took everything that wasn't nailed down.