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Here's my baby. I made the lid and rod holders. I made a latch to hold it shut and another to keep it open. It holds my fish finder batteries that I also use to charge cameras and power my light. I may build a box from scratch using ABS. I have plans but not real motivated right now. My yak could hold a much bigger box so maybe this year I will. I want a box that is mostly light and water proof. There's no good reason for all the holes as far as I'm concerned The lid is a hard piece of plastic I found, cut and painted. Rod holders are black PVC with a Starboard mount. Was fun routing that groove in the PVC! I find the crates you can buy to be far too expensive for what you get and really not all that nice. If anyone is interested this is how I routed the slots in the rod holder tubes. Lotsa clamps and wood! Later I flared out the ends with heat and a wine bottle.

Well to get back to the subject, maybe as a hobby one could build a tiny scale model of a fishing pond. Make it an actual fish tank and fill it with some types of fish, maybe even baby bass. Put little trees around it and stuff. Docks, rocks. Then make some super-micro fishing rods and go fishing. Some people do model trains, why not model fishing ponds.....would be kinda fun to design maybe. I started this out as a joke but hmmm

I just lean one end against the side of my mini van (use a towel to protect the paint if you want) and slide it up, then spin it facing forward. No poles needed.

I guess the "Gla" is for glamour? Also called "luxury camping", glamping often includes a large extravagant semi-permanent tent with things like real beds, electricity, indoor plumbing, internet. Sometimes it's a cabin, and usually it's in some kind of a resort. One thing it really is not is "camping". They can be very expensive too. It's what yuppies (if that's still a thing) might call camping. I looked it up and some descriptions say "It's good for families". Uh ya, so is camping!

It's California-speak for red neck, kinda like staying in a cabin with cable TV and internet is California-speak for "camping". Or to use one of my current most-hated terms, "glamping". Gawd I hate that word, and everyone who does it.

Nevermind

A lot of fishing is cast and wait. Might as well bring something to do. I couldn't care less if someone saw me doing that and yelled out, "That's not fishing!" Neither is telling me I'm not fishing, jerk, so there!

I don't do hope and faith so I know what I would do.

I bring bananas all the time. Good source of nutrition and energy and easy to carry. Stupid superstition, but then fishing is a welcome home for superstition and BS. I hear from people complaining about having to take an unexpected dump while fishing as they stuff their face with junk they wouldn't normally eat at home. Dude, being stuck on a boat is not the time to experiment with your diet!

It doesn't seem like it would be difficult for a business like that to have people do that work from home. I know my insurance guy is working from home right now. I'm working more from home too. A lot of businesses started doing this over a year ago due to Covid so people could continue to work and the business could stay open while keeping their employees safer.

Thinking about using all of mine to make the world's largest senko!

I've been in boats going 100 mph twice but I am only old enough to remember one of them. Ya, screw child safety back in the day! First time was in a drag boat my Dad built. Flat bottom v-drive that was clocked at 106, on The Delta of all places. Not a good place for going that fast. He held me in his lap (I was less than 5) and the owner of the boat drove. He told me about this recently. He'd probably be locked up for that nowadays haha. Heck I was probably completely over the level of the gunwale. Had to be. I don't remember it. The second time was Trinity Lake in my step-Dad's flat bottom v-drive. I remember seeing the tach bouncing crazy between 8 and high 9s and thinking that was mph. I was still a kid. We were flat out though and the boat could go that fast. That was a thrill but it was also scary as all heck for a few seconds. I'll never forget how low we were to the water and how frickin' fast it shot by us. We were almost flying These were boats where if you sat in the back seat your legs were sharing space with the nice hot headers! Edit to add: moral of the story, don't go that fast!

I haven't driven a boat in a long time, maybe I'll take a free course too just for fun. Random story: Been in boats all my life and my Dad used to manufacture them. I've never actually taken a course come to think of it. One day I'll never forget is getting my Dad's small tri-hull family boat into a single slip in bad wind at Lake Shasta. There were big choppy waves rocking the dock and the boat, and the wind was blowing the boat really hard. He needed one of us to get out onto the dock and catch the boat as I recall for whatever reason. I said, "Go for it I can park the boat". I think I was 13 at the time. He looked at me for a sec, then said, "Okay", and he jumped out as the boat blew near the dock. I backed away, came at the dock at a crazy angle pointing far away from the slip at first. I then gauged the wind and current and slipped it right in there like I knew what I was doing, first try. My Dad was so proud! Looking back I'm surprised he let me do it haha. I'd trailered and even launched boats by then but this was crazy. Ya I think I will take a course what the heck.

Question still not answered I see, so I'd say take the free one and get your license. You can always pay for another one if you feel you need to. Better yet, go out boating with some experienced boat operators before and after you get legal. You'll learn more that way. And yay for your state requiring this!

Riiiiiight!

Greg Blanchard uses both routinely. He never says why, I would assume that some techniques are easier with one hand than the other. Jerkbait, topwater, etc. For me it's tendinitis. I switch hands when I need to.

Bottom of my Old Town PDL is contoured so that the prop will spin and slip up into the hull regardless of what position it is in underwater when you start to lift it. The website shows a photo of the motor in the up position. Seems to operate similar to my pedal drive.

Had a bad back spasm once after walking a mile and a half around a local lake. Fortunately I was eventually able to walk, although it was extremely painful and very slow going. Not much a first aid kit can do about that. However, a whistle or other noisemaker (which I had) could have been helpful if I'd been unable to walk. Fortunately I had a friend with me who carried my backpack. I have it all on video and it hurts just watching it. There are mountain lions on that side of the lake. They don't come out during the day, but if it had been evening I would have been a lot more worried. So when I bank fish I ask myself if I am prepared if I break a leg and am totally immobile. My phone is my best friend in that case, and my whistle would attract attention, at least at this particular lake. But mainly I tell someone I trust where I'm going and when they should start worrying.

One of the guys I work for (my boss) told me a few weeks ago that a guy he knows is in trouble for having thousands of catalytic converters in a warehouse, like over a million dollars worth. I asked where he got them and he says he gets them from various sources and sells them for profit. I forgot the details of his trouble, but I think proving where he got them is the issue. I told him about all the CC thefts and his eyes widened, you should have seen his face. He had no idea this happens. I DO NOT know any more than that. My boss is an honest guy and runs an honest business, but as for his "friend" or whatever this guy is....well I will try and find out more.

It's my secret recipe!

Too late for that! I like to carry plenty of food. If I'm having a tough day at least there's something to eat! I find it hard to take breaks when I'm fishing. I'll say "Break time, gotta rest the old tendinitis" then take a swig of water and get right back to it. In the yak I like to find a nice spot to park, maybe even get out of the boat, and make eating part of my day. Kinda make myself take a break. I find looking around at the surroundings, watching the water, etc is pretty cool. If I'm hungry I'm more likely to get frustrated, rush things, or even leave.

Ones I make myself, as much as possible.

Ok thanks guys. Guess you'd need a big freezer!

Why would anyone want so many crappie? Sell them for food?

It is now! I usually skip under tree branches where casting or pitching it would be risky. Love scooting it up under a tree like that. I'm not good enough to skip under someone's pontoon boat, not even my Dad's when it's lifted out of the water. I've only been off the banks for a handful of trips so I'm not comfortable doing it near parked boats. I'm even a bit nervous pitching near them.