TnRiver46

Hahaha! I see that a lot in crawl spaces, even mice will put little acorns anywhere.

That is awesome !

It was good and bad, I had deer and turkey keeping me company and it was near the water and boat ramps. But I picked two of the coldest years in the last 75 to live there and had to feed that wood stove non stop. It was shocking the place didnt roll away, the log portion was just sitting on stacked river rocks. believe it or not that place probably isn’t 5-6 miles from the Knoxville airport

It was a crazy place, my landlord collected log cabins that he found across the country, disassembled them, and put them back together on 160 acres . They were all crazy in their own way. It was a deep dark holler, I nearly froze to death living down in there

Total mind bender

I rented this from 2010-2015………… if a carpenter walked in there they would have fainted. If you dropped a tennis ball onto the floor it would roll of into a corner rapidly

It takes a man many years of experience to slay bass while wearing a crappie shirt like @Team9nine!! You are well on your way @DitchPanda

How did I forget that @Sam is more accurate than any television weather personality? Seriously I think you are usually about two steps ahead of most anyone

^mark as solution hahahaha

Kudos for making it out of those waves! Looks like a stable vessel you’ve got

Where the radar always tricked us was paddling the marshes of the low country SC. There was no real pattern or path, just extreme heavy rain blobs popping up and disappearing everywhere. You never hear so much about flooding in that area but by golly every time we go it’s crazy storms. I think they don’t talk about the flooding so much because it happens constantly! @Kozdodged them for a long time down there

All those carpentry blunders let varmints in the house. Granted, many times the varmints tear or chew their way in but when the roof decking never touches the fascia, they don’t really have to chew a hole in anything to get into the attic. funny but sad story: my boss took a bunch of pictures of all these carpentry blunders and how they let animals into attics and crawl spaces. He made a big slide show and everything, and took it to a local builders meeting and presented it, hoping maybe they would realize all the holes they leave are causing people problems. Well as you might have guessed, they laughed him out of the room. If the house sells, the people that build it no longer care and are onto the next house, building it as fast as possible. The moral of the story is as long as people keep buying the homes full of mistakes, the mistakes will continue. It’s similar to the weatherman thread. If we keep looking up the weather, they will keep selling adds and putting out inaccurate forecasts. The only way to prevent this is on the buyer’s end and………. well let’s face it……… we just keep buying crappy products and complaining about them.

My moms side of the family all comes from coal camps out that way

Turns out my cousin is getting married in feb 2023, woops!!!

It’s easier to remember which one happens more frequently, which is inaccuracy

Mono. Lb test would vary based on region, seems like you are in MN so I’m guess there’s lots of veg . 17 oughta do it! I use 12 down here because I’ve never seen a lily pad within 1.5 hours of my house. And there’s only one stretch of grass, the rest gets killed

Haha!!! That’s what we all have to look forward to one day

My coworker said the local tv people were about to wet themselves they were so excited when tropical storm Fred came through.

You’re like the rest of us, hopelessly addicted to the bronzebacks

Summer storms come from nowhere, it’s usually really hot before they hit. Sounds like your boat can really haul ***

That and batting 8th for the orioles

As long as people keep watching, they just keep selling advertising. It’s a vicious cycle

It sounds like you are temporarily snake bit. I recall the video you are referring to, you got the fish so that’s all that matters. I was fishing with a beginner for large trout a couple weeks ago and they hooked up on a nice brown trout. In my mind I was thinking the fight was lasting too long but the line was tight the entire time so I didn’t make any suggestions to pull the fish in faster, although it was running through my mind. Typically when you say “bring him on in toward the net,” that’s when the hook pops out and it seems like my fault so I kept quiet. The trout ended up in the net and the beginning angler was elated, that’s the important part. There’s more than one way to skin a cat! some people reel them in fast, some reel them in slow. In a BASS elite tournament earlier this year on northern smallmouth, most anglers were using braid with leader. Ito was using straight Floro and battling the fish for much longer with more drag being pulled out. All this to say I don’t know what your problem is but a stretch of recent bad luck has to be playing a part. Your theory definitely makes sense, especially with trebles. If you pull to hard they will come right out. And if the fish jumps they can come out no matter what happens

I noticed the standard clinch knot would slip off with thinner braid when I first started using it. I had to learn a few new knots actually, even several of my fly fishing leader knots would slip. The Palomar and improved clinch don’t seem to slip although I usually use 50 lb braid nowadays and even the regular clinch knot doesn’t seem to slip with 50 lb(but I improve it anyway)