Long Mike

I was bed fishing with Muddy at Lake Fork. I wasn't as lucky as him. All I caught was this:

My Easter bonnet is going to have ear muffs. ;D

Dateline: Tulsa, OK, April 6. 2007. APRIL 6 FERCRYINOUTLOUD, AND IT'S SNOWING! Three days ago I was fishing and the temp was 88. For the next few days temperatures will be in the twenties at night. Despite covering them, I figure all of my tomato plants will be lost. Muddy, it's all your fault. :P

Rap and HipHop are out - period! Other than that, any band whose lead singer does not have to make up for his lack of singing talent by screaming.

I have the Lowrance Lakes chip and like it very much. If you fish the more popular lakes, it is well worth the money. The popular lakes have very high detail and show things like boat launches, submerged roads, trees and vegetation. When I compared the map from the Lowrance to the paper Lake Fork map I purchased from BPS, I found the paper map contained slightly more detail. On the other hand, the ability to zoom in with the Lowrance map greatly offsets the disadvantage of minor lack of detail. Be advised that less popular (smaller) lakes will show bathymetric contour lines only - or - nothing at all. I think it depends on whether or not the USGS has bathymetrics on a particular body of water. One more thing. If you are using a hand-held GPS unit with the Lakes chip, I would suggest that you also purchase MapCreate 6.0 for another $100. It's worth the money if you are planning to fish a number of areas on a particular lake. You can upload the Lake Maps to your computer, plan your route on the big screen and then download the waypoints to the handheld. MapCreate is a "nice to have" option, but by no means a requirement. The Lakes Chip is a "must have."

Yep. Wouldn't miss it.

Riskkid, I never thought of that. I don't think I could keep any food on my stomach if I saw Muddy in a wet T-Shirt, or God Forbid, with no shirt at all! It's bad enough just to look at him when he is dry. ;D

We Tulsa cajuns held our "invitation only" crawfish boil last Tuesday. All the bugs and beer you could eat and drink. We cooked over 200 lbs of crawfish and hosted about 60 people. The unusual thing about the get-together was that it was men only. The guy with the deep pockets, from Rayne, LA, hosts the same party every year from his airplane hangar.

Catt: Merci beaucoup, mon ami. I'm so dumb I didn't even know I was taking the test I guess I'm well qualified to be a Mook. SIGN ME UP MUDDY

I told my wife I would cook dinner tonight. Her face lit up. And then I said April Fools. It went over like a fart in a spacesuit, so I cooked dinner tonight. >

A limerick: There was once a young lass from Godizes Who had breasts of two different sizes One was so small, it was nothing at all But the other was large, and won prizes

I'd like to join, but I don't think I dumb enough to be a Mook. Do you have to take some sort of dummy test to qualify? ;D

BPS hands down over Academy.

Nice photo, but I think you caught a crap. I mean carp. ;D

Kent, I have tried to PM you but you seem to have blocked access. Have you had so much demand for your chili recipe that your inbox has been overwhelmed?

Norman, I am truly in awe of your writing ability. I wish I had your gift. Hemingway wrote "The Old Man and the Sea" Perhaps you could write " A Couple of Mooks on Lake Fork." BS aside, I thoroughly enjoyed reading your post. You are indeed a class act.

Let's see here. My rods are all spooled with a minimum of 30lb braid, with 12lb fluoro leaders. I'm not a tournament fisherman, so unless and until the braid starts to dry-rot, I figure I will never have to change it, but I probably will every five years or so.

Omar Bradly for me. That's good. I've always admired him.

That one sentance got me to laughing so hard my stomach hurt.

ATTABOY RUSS!!! Great job as usual. Sorry about the lost footage. Is it somesthing we can blame on Alpster? ;D

Ronnie, you may not be aware of it, but it's very easy to get tainted by the Mooks. In my part of the country you would be called "Good Ole Boys" If you befriend a G.O.B. you pretty much have a friend for life. Based upon my recent experience, Mook = G.O.B. = a friend. That's enough for me.

Thanks for the memories. I really miss No. 3.

I'm with Muddy. I have tried all sorts of lures, and none of them keep the rain off you. ;D

My H2O came with a cigarette lighter plug. I went to Radio Shack and bought female half of the plug, ran a couple of six foot leads of it and attached aligator clips. When I'm on the water, I simply attach the leads to my trolling motor battery. No more worries about AA's.

Senile1, what a coincidence! A couple of days ago I discoverd Atlantis in Lake Manitoba, as I'm sure you did! Do you think we should go public with this doscovery?