TnRiver46

Awesome man! Thanks. We knew they were locked in somehow

We cut the heads off easily with angle grinder but they won't knock out . The second picture down is the rivets after we chiseled the wood away and cut the heads off

@Turkey sandwich, will you come fish out of my boat for a weekend?? Haha! Excellent analysis, I could learn a lot.

Only from the crappie fisherman that complain in winter when those big brown bass snap their bobber leaders! Haha

Awesome!!! Glad they turned on

I’ve had two and broke them both but I will never forget the flurry of fish that iaconelli caught with a DT6 in the bassmaster classic this year

I’ve seen those for sale before, no clue as to their purpose

Keep up the good work! So are you taking sandwiches out in the Lund with no bread?

When we first started dating my girlfriend thought my calloused hands were attractive. Fast forward 6 years and she always says "get those sandpaper hands off me!" Hahaha

Now that would be fun! I keep having homeowner related issues and it takes me forever to fix anything because I lack the knowledge that all my buddies have. Well that and I fish too much

@A-Jay, you are a machine. I bust those big round pieces once (or twice) with a maul before attempting to pick them up. Hash tag sports hernia haha

Exactly. I rented a primitive log cabin for 5 years with no central heat and only a wood stove. It was fun splitting it all but that's when back spasms began. Thankfully my parent wouldnt allow that! When we turned 18 she showed us the door and said " here's your hat, what's your hurry?" Haha. If my spine was broken or something she would allow it of course but her advice was always go to work and do what the boss says. Simple to me but hard for some

Ah yes but it does prolong my survival

Thanks! I'm hopefully staying put but you never know. I have several buddies that remodel homes and it's always crazy how much knowledge I can gain just following them around a weekend project. I guess I'm about to have to teach myself how to finish drywall. What kind of company do you work for?

Here's what me and my 30 something year old buddies did AFTER work the other day. My second favorite past time other than fishing. You'll have to ask Ryan why that one giant log was in the street 10 feet from his truck hahaha

Offering a different perspective: my boss is 65 (I'm 34) and it takes him the better part of an hour to park his van in a customer's driveway and get out and do something. Do anything! Literally one hour before he starts working in any fashion. I'm usually done with the project before he has his tool belt strapped on. He has earned it but it's been that way for over 10 years. Manual labor has always been my favorite form of work, the harder the better. If I could move a pile or gravel with a shovel all day, that would be ideal. I honestly enjoy sweating through my clothes before lunch, that stink is a badge of honor. Before all you curmudgeons blame all us youngsters for the demise of society, remember who borne and raised us all. Baby boomers spoiled their kids. They taught us from kindergarten all the way til senior year that our only chance at success was to go to college and work in a cubicle. Well everyone went to college and now are buried in debt. Thanks for the advice! The kids I grew up with that got into manufacturing after high school are making BANK. The kids that went to college are mostly in the red, with a couple exceptions. I have plenty of friends my age that absolutely work their tails off for terrible pay and no benefits. Now, there are plenty of today's kids that just can't manage to show up at work, and it's somewhat alarming. But just blanketing all of us as useless is far from truth. Trade skills were for "dumb kids" when I was in school and that idea was perpetuated by the previous generation, so we aren't completely to blame. Also, the previous generation took discipline and the Bible out of school, the result it what you see on the news

I swam under my dock the other day and was amazed at how much cooler the water was. Nice job on figuring out the pattern

So my shallow water boat is one that my grandpa gave me, a Cherokee aluminum 1957 model. I've always known this boat was as tough as nails, but I had no idea how truly tough it is. The wood in the transom has been rotten for about a decade but I just keep on fishing because there's no flex back there and it looks like a giant pain to replace the wood (I've replaced transoms before but the metal reinforcements on this boat are crazy strong). I saw on another forum where a guy had just replaced the transom on a crestliner deep v with 115 horsepower and I jokingly posted that he should help me with mine next. Sure enough he sent me a PM and said bring it over. He starts cutting the heads off these rivets and trying to pound them out and drill them out. 1.5 hours later we haven't got the first one to move more than a millimeter and there's 30-40 of them back there holding it together. He makes a comment that he has never seen rivets like that and asks me how many have come out since 1957. I answered one and he was completely shocked. He said his 90s bass tracker has lost a dozen or more. He says this must be the rivets that hold airplanes together. So I snap a pic and send it to my buddy in the air Force and he says "oh yeah those are cherry Max structure rivets and they are a huge PITA. They are on the planes I'm working on right now." Confirmed: my boat is as strong as an airplane. I also talked to an old timer that said a lot of companies that built planes in WWII switched to building boats after the war. Transom rebuild might get finished by 2022........ You can't even disassemble this boat with angle grinder dremmel metal punches and titanium drill bits....... Also: the original floatation is 100 percent intact under all 3 bench seats. This boat used to sit tied up to our dock 24/7 and was always full of rain. When I was a kid I would bail it out about halfway then start fishing. The phrase "they don't make them like they used to" is an understatement in this case So my next thought is try a smaller drill bit and just work on it for days and days. They aren't cupped so the bit kept jumping off. Any suggestions??

I'm not advocating this by any means but my buddies sank a Jon boat back on good Friday and as it was going down, one of them put on a life jacket and threw the other to Ryan and said "you're about to need this." It's a far better plan to already have it strapped on. I wear my styrofoam one in my kayaks all summer long, just think of it as a sauna session.... There's a lot of things out there in this crazy world that can kill us, I just try to keep my faith in the right place and use good sense as much as possible. I really don't even like paddling too far from the bank, flipping a kayak 1/2 mile from land seems like it would suck

I have been swimming about once every couple hours here recently, it sure helps. Until that pesky flesh eating bacteria gets on you......

It’s seems both will stay alive in bucket for a very long time but on the hook they always get eaten. It just seems the big brown bass really like to eat the stone rollers more

Kudos to you for turning him in.

The only way to know for sure is to ask the fish

According to his wife he is never sick. She also apparently was more effective than the doctors at diagnosing what was wrong..... A real shocker there...... I had a friend of a friend contract the same infection swimming in folley beach, SC recently

Chubs are good but stone rollers are better