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Smith Mountain Lake Beautiful. B-I-G!!! Many nice and safe places to stay. Lots of good fishing. Virginia DWR Brochure Look for these links: https://dwr.virginia.gov/fishing/regulations/ 2022 Freshwater Fishing in Virginia Digest Start on page 47 of this Digest for places to fish, ramps, restaurants, gasoline, etc. Good luck.

I think I used PayPal, too. Geaux Tigers!!!! Sam

Just had this pop-up on my Facebook page and was wondering if anyone out there had already heard of this legal action and if so, did you send in your infrmoation to join the suit? Seems the legal action goes back to January of this year. On one hand, my instincts tell me not to send anyone any information while on my other hand I am thinking of getting financial compensation, which I surmise is only a few dollars, if anything. https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2022/01/10/2364322/6819/en/Wolf-Haldenstein-Adler-Freeman-Herz-LLP-Sports-Warehouse-Websites-Data-Breach-Investigation-Alert.html If you cannot open the above link you can try Tackle Warehouse Data Breach. Just curious about my two queries and your input. Thanks in advance.

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Florida members check in as soon as you can. Tell us your stories and what is going on.

Funny, but true! I have everything that I wanted as a teenager, only 60 years later. I don't have to go to school or work. I get an allowance every month. I have my own pad. I don't have a curfew. I have a driver's license and my own car. The people I hang around with are not scared of getting pregnant and I don't have acne. Life is great. I changed my car horn to gunshot sounds. People get out of the way much faster now. Gone are the days when girls used to cook like their mothers. Now they drink like their fathers. I didn't make it to the gym today. That makes five years in a row. I decided to stop calling the bathroom "John" and renamed it the "Jim". I feel so much better saying I went to the Jim this morning. Old age is coming at a really bad time. When I was a child I thought "nap time" was a punishment. Now it feels like a small vacation. The biggest lie I tell myself is... " I don't have to write that down, I'll remember it". I don't have gray hair... I have "wisdom highlights"! I'm just very wise. If God wanted me to touch my toes, He would've put them on my knees. Last year I joined a support group for procrastinators. We haven't met yet. Why do I have to press one for English when you're just going to transfer me to someone I can't understand anyway? Of course, I talk to myself. Sometimes I need expert advice. At my age "Getting Lucky" means walking into a room and remembering what I came In there for. I have more friends I should send this to, but right now I can't remember their names. Now, I'm wondering... did I steal this from you, or did you steal it from me?

9:30 unless there is a game I am watching.

Welcome to the Forum. Keep us posted on what you catch and how your son progresses with his fishing.

H2O are excellent crankbaits. Have not seen or read anything about them giving up on the H2O line. If they do make the change, it will be interesting to see if the new line is as good as the old line.

Catt, after the storm passes you know we will have high, dirty water. But, we also have high water along the banks of our favorite rivers, marshes, bayous, ponds, creeks, lakes, the Gulf and the fishing can be pretty good. However, the best day I had fishing as a kid was at Audubon Park Lagoon in New Orleans when a hurrican was approaching. My two cousins and I caught so many bluegills, largemouth bass, Sac-a-Laits, perch, and catfish that we stopped counting. Their mother, my aunt, finally came and found us and told us to go home as the wind was picking up and the hurricane was supposed to hit us in a bout an hour or two. P.S. After Katrina when the press wrote and told us that fishing in the Gulf and the marshes along the Louisiana coast was destroyed, my cousing (one of the above) caught so many largemouth bass, redfish, drum, sheepshead, and speckled trout fishing the Biloxi that he lost count! He told me he had a blast fishing and caught something on almost every cast.

Rained in Richmond, Virginia, on Sunday evening and today is a blue bird sky day. However, in my infinite wisdom I decided to fish the ponds at a local country/golf club just to get out and wet a line knowig that the fishing would be difficult. The ponds were dirty, which I thought to be unusual, until I remembered all of the ponds are tied together by underground pipes and they are fed by the Historic James River at two intake creeks. But that did not deter me. I tried a shaky head and got a hit. A strong hit, too. So I let him run and set the hook. The fish jumped out of the water and threw my shaky head. Nothing unusual about that. What was unusual was that the fish was a needle nose gar! Yes, a needle nose gar in a golf course pond. He probably swam up the creek and into the pond system during the rain yesterday, if not before, and could not figure out how to get back into the river. No other bites and after 45 minutes in the hot sun I went home. At least I got to go fishing which was enjoyable even though not productive. You guys catch anything "different" in your golf course ponds, etc.? Let us know.

Heading to Walmart.

Just got home from a 330 mile round trip in our 2019 RAV4 and the gas mileage was 37.1 for the trip. Not bad for averaging around 70MPH on the Interstates and then having to drive slow in Morrisville area to locate the clinic and Subway for a late lunch.

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Yes, I get sea sick and that is why I do not go out in open salt water. I do not get sea sick in calmer fresh and salt waters, such as marsh, bayous, creeks, ponds, swimming pools, etc.

I lost it at the Duke Medical Center’s Morrisville clinic yesterday. Elaine and I went to see her back surgeons for her four-month checkup down in Morrisville, North Carolina on Tuesday, August 9th. We arrived early and after checking in we were directed to the usual waiting area. I started to read my Bathroom Reader while Elaine read her book on her iPhone when a skinny woman walked in wearing a bright chartreuse flowing outfit along with chartreuse leggings. And that is when I lost it. Just after she walked into the waiting area, two giant people came in to wait for their appointment. The man had to weight over 400 pounds, easy, and his wife checked in around 350. But the lady dressed in the chartreuse outfit looked like a spinnerbait with a chartreuse trailer. That’s when I lost it. I could not control my laughter. Elaine ignored me, as if she was not with me, as she knew the woman looked like a chartreuse spinnerbait with trailer. The fat man got up and came over to me and asked me if I was OK or if I was crying. I think he thought I was laughing at him and his wife. So, I showed him my Bathroom Reader and told him the book has many, many funny articles in it and let him read the article about putting entertainers in public bathrooms at state fairs, conferences, large meetings, etc. He was satisfied and went back to squeeze into his chair. But I continued to laugh behind my death cootie face mask. I could not control myself. First time I have ever seen a chartreuse spinnerbait walking on land. We were finally called to go wait in one of the exam rooms and I was still laughing. Elaine would not let me sneak an iPhone picture of the chartreuse spinnerbait lady, which is a shame as the bright yellow outfit was outstanding. I finally got control of myself in the exam room after about a minute, with bursts of laughter on and off during the meeting with the doctors. I know you guys can appreciate this story as bass fishermen. I am still laughing when I think of the chartreuse spinnerbait lady.

I have been told that E85 can damage a bass boat motor so avoid it. OK to put it in your truck or SUV.

Yes, Haley Toyota. We spoke wiht Bryce, who is now the general manager for the Haley Chevy franchise, and he said to bring it to him and he will take a look at it. So you are right on target. Thank you and the guys who helped me with this situation. Sincerely appreciate your feedback.

Thanks guys for the input. Seems to be the "background lighting" from the "sport" guage, as stated by you all above. Bob, the service manager at Haley Toyota on Midlothian Turnpike in Chesterfield County, Virgina, said he had never seen the red background guage lights before and he would research the problem and get back to me. Of course, Bob said the same thing this past winter when we had a glich with the RAV4 and he never called back so I don't think Bob will call back. Wayne, at the local Bon Air BP station, and a great bass fisherman, looked at the situation and he deternined that the background guage lights were from one of the "drive settings" but we could not get them to turn off. Since the lights do not interfere with the the engine or other aspects of driving the RAV4, we will just leave them alone. Big Rick, you nailed the manual pages, too. Thanks a milliion for the guidance. Captain Phil, thanks for the input. Made me feel better about the red lights. Maybe the background gauge lights will return to all white after the next service.

Wife's 2019 Toyota RAV4 guage cluster changed the guages' outline from white to red. So I put air in the tires and a new battery in the fob, and the lights turned back to white until I got home where they went to red again. The car sent her a message stating that she needed an oil change which I will handle next week. Anyone out there with any RAV4 experience know of why this occurred? Thanks.

Put Exxon in wife's 2019 Rav4 and we got 31.7 miles to the gallon driving around the local area. Cost per gallon was $3.95, twenty-cents higher than COSTCO but only two miles from my home.

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Richmond, Virginia has seen gas prices fall as much as $.13/gallon last week. I saw a WaWa and an Exon across the street from each other with regular at $4.04. Gas war!!!!

Dirty, first ENT I saw had no idea what was going on. It was only after I went to the "Dizzy Doctor" that we found the problem. You are right, to go another ENT for their opinion.

May I suggest you find your state's FLW or BASS federation web page and contact the federation executives directly about bass clubs in your geographical area. You can Google Ohio FLW and Bass federations and alos Google Pennsylvania FLW or BASS federations. Good luck.