Tennessee Boy

There’s a wildlife lesson here. Bears may look and act cute but they’re still dangerous. ?

I remember the good ol’ days when it took skill to find and stay on offshore spots. Sometimes I feel guilty when using my electronics to easily do what used to be so challenging. I get over the guilt quickly when the fish start biting. ?

Good advice from @looking45 and @WRB. How long has it been since the motor last started?

I enjoy watching the pro tournaments. I find the business side of it to be disgusting. I’ve known several good people with poor business skills that borrowed an insane amount of money to chase the pro angler pipe dream.

Also, it takes a lot of oil to grow the corn to make the ethanol. Makes no sense.

The simplest answer is it’s complicated. ? Check out pondboss.com. There’s a lot of good info there. There are so many things that have to be right to grow big bass in a pond. Hot water is good for forage but not for bass. A large pond might provide more diverse habitat for both. Other than that I don’t think pond size is that important.

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If I can go back to the original problem. You want a truck but are concerned you can’t keep a rod in the truck for occasional unplanned bank fishing. A simple solution would be a two piece rod.

When the pipeline company got hacked a few years ago it affected most if not all brands of gas in our area. So all the gas is probably coming from the same refinery. I’m thinking that any differences in brands must be due to additives. It might make since to buy the cheapest gas and then look at adding you’re own additives. I’m sure the gas companies can buy additives cheaper than we can so cost would also be a factor to consider.

I wouldn’t think it was marking fishing spots since most people are using GPS for that these days. If I saw enough of them I would probably put a lot of effort into trying to figuring out what they are marking because I enjoy solving puzzles. A spot that I have fished for at least 25 years has three large PVC pipes sticking up out of the water. They are lined up and equal distance apart. The center one sticks up about 20 feet out of the water. The other two stick up about 15 feet. I still stay awake at night wondering why they are there. ?

Yeah and dolphins have had forward facing sonar for a long time.?

Very well said. Curiosity makes life worth living. It's the reason I fish. It's darn near impossible but we're not trying to do that. The issue at hand is how does the geometry of the rod (the diameter of the rod compared to the diameter of the hole that goes through the rod) affect the stiffness of the rod. Calculating the actual stiffness of a rod is very complicated. Calculating the role that geometry plays is not. We got here when someone said "Thinner wall Always increases geometric stiffness" and posted a formula to prove it. That seems to go against conventional wisdom and doesn't match with what one observes when walking down the plumbing isle at Home Depot. The problem with the posted formula is that it is the formula for mass moment of inertia. It includes mass in the calculation. There is no mass in geometry. If you use area moment of inertia then you can calculate the roll that rod geometry plays in the stiffness of the rod. Put in the diameter of the rod OD and the diameter of the hole in the middle of the rod ID into this formula for area moment of inertia and you can calculate the geometric effect on the stiffness of the rod. It doesn't tell us how stiff an actual rod is. That depends on many factors. It does allow us to compare geometric effect of a thick wall to that of a thin wall. Outer diameter of 5 and inner diameter of 3 (thick wall) = 26.7 Outer diameter of 5 and inner diameter of 4 (thin wall) = 18.1 The rod with the thicker wall will be stiffer. Just like we all thought before this thread started. I'm not an expert on rod blank design. Someone correct me if I made any mistakes in my calculations or if you disagree. It won't hurt may feelings. I welcome the opportunity to learn more about this kind of stuff because I'm curious.

It is very exciting to see these first images. It’s like your first time on the water with a new fish finder. ?

We may all be trying to say the same thing but we have probably confused a lot of people in the process. As @QED has shown a solid shaft would be stiffer than a hollow shaft if they are the same diameter and made of the same material. A rod with a thick wall will always be stiffer than one with a thin wall if they are the same diameter and made from the same material. The thick walled one will weigh more. The thin walled one will be more efficient in providing stiffness for the amount of material used. There is a reason rod blanks are hollow.

I'm very sorry for your loss. Thank you for the words of wisdom.

You're a mathematician, does a thinner wall increase stiffness or decrease stiffness in the blank?

@bulldog1935 It's been a long time since I studied this but I think when you calculate stiffness you use the area moment of inertia which would increase when inner diameter is smaller. All things being equal, when area moment of inertia increases, so does stiffness. Here's an article which explains the concept https://www.fictiv.com/articles/how-to-design-for-stiffness-using-a-geometric-approach

Very sorry for your loss. 63 is way too early.

When I drop my trolling motor, my 360 imaging transducer starts spinning, MEGA Live starts pinging, the 2D sonar built into the TM starts pinging, and my trolling motor prop starts spinning. Do the fish know I’m there? I have no doubt they do. I recently watched three fish on MEGA Live leave the cover they were on and swim 15 feet directly toward my trolling motor. I guess they wanted to see what all the commotion was about. I wouldn’t be surprised if some of the smarter ones swam in the other direction.

A wet lure will catch more fish than a dry one.

Yes and I find musicals on stage more appealing. Les Misérables on Broadway was amazing.

Yeah, I have to agree. A good movie is realistic. The characters seem real. Nothing is real about a musical. How often in real life does music start playing from nowhere and everyone around you starts singing and dancing. I do like a good soundtrack in a movie. American Graffiti is a great example.

The question is jig vs t-rigged craw not generic t-rig. I always have a jig with a craw type trailer tied on. I always have a least one t-rig tied on but not usually with a craw bait. I can’t have every lure in the boat tied on ready to cast so I usually fish other soft plastics on my t-rigged rods just for some diversity.

I noticed yesterday that E85 was only 30 cents cheaper than E10 at the station I was filling up at. Gas is down below $4 a gallon around here.