Guitarfish

I was walking the street behind us and found 3 syringes. Kind of unnerving knowing they are that close to home. Burglaries and car break ins usually follow.

Laughing with you, but darn that hurt me.

Related to the Kennedy clan. That family has regular bad luck.

But it's barbed.

Last year I made a mold for a 9" Sluggo. Then I dremelled it wider and fatter, then added a flat fin at the back. I poured a bunch until I got the right rainbow trout look I wanted. This is a big fat striper bait I hope. I still haven't fished it because I realized I'd snap the rods I have. This year I hope. We get striper boils in the summer time but I don't want the schoolies. I want Mogambo Mama hanging out under them. A few 20+ get caught every year on cut bait there. But I want to fool one.

Hey guys, I didn't want to make this important topic about me at all. I'm just an old guy that stumbled into a mess. After posting my recollection, I went back and looked it up in a local online newspaper. To my surprise it was almost 4 and half years. Oct. 2015! That's how fresh it seemed in my mind when I talked about it. I apologize. In reading I found that three others have drowned there since. None were wearing vests. Just wear the darn thing.

This is right, and easy.

Learn how to tear it down and lube, or replace. I agree that it depends on the kid. My son got slammed to the side of the boat by a shark when he was 5 or 6, wouldn't let go. My daughter felt the tug of a blue gill, freaked and threw rod and reel in the lake.

Spray them with brake cleaner ( sucks in your eye, so careful), or better yet Paslode electronic tool cleaner spray from Home Depot.(Not as stinky or dangerous). Spin the bearing lightly with compressed air to remove residue and then reapply the lightest oil you have. Good to go.

Wow, sorry to hear. I guess I'll wait to see how it turns out for you. Last year I accidentally left my electronic wire tracing equipment on a customers back lawn. The sprinklers came on overnight and put about 3" of water in there. I took it home, completely disassembled it down to the circuit boards and set it on the patio table in the summer sun. It actually worked when I reassembled it. But I didn't have a screen obviously. Best of luck to you.

I fished 3 lures for years. If I didn't catch them I assumed they weren't biting and went home. One of my lures was a Stanley 3/16ths rattlin' jig with a bluish black pork frog. I went down a tule line once, about as far as I could cast off from the edge. Splash down, one shake of the rattle, let it drop and wham! Caught 36 bass in about 2 hours. Next day doing the same thing I caught two. I stocked up and still have both to this day. The other two were a chartreuse with orange flake curl tail grub on a 1/8 oz ball head and a small strike king spinnerbait, white with a bit of blue. Still have both of those. Was simple back then. One box. Now I'm crazy with a rack of 3600 boxes full of any and everything. Pour my own baits, jigs and weights. When I go fishing my bag is heavy.

Absolutely love dry humor. Or slapstick, lol.

Discovered and recovered. That urge to suck in air is a reflex and you are lucky if you don't do that. I also got repeated requests from the District attorney to appear to testify, so I got reminded of it over and over. Charges were brought to the careless boater that over loaded his aluminum boat and had no life vests on board. The boater was moving a group back across the lake after a picnic. Didn't make it. Swamped and flipped. Group didn't notice anyone was gone until they made shore. He never came up, until I found him, four days later.

If we're talking money saving, ABU. The 400b has a much stronger frame obviously. The drags are pretty much equal size.

If you capitalize BS, it makes it so.

It is a viable method. If you notice in the video though, when he waves the reel around without his hand on the handle, the rotor spins. I got some real rats nests before I started paying attention to the weight of the handle making the rotor spin backward. I use it fishing salt water with a Penn Squidder too. Light line and a surging fish close to the boat will show you why. You can get in the habit of backing the drag way off when the fish gets alongside too. Then you have to remember to reset the drag again, or it leads to an oops hookset miss.

I reel down fast and make sure my hooks are sticky sharp. Still miss occasionally.

Yeah, I have spent hours perusing the forums as a newbie.

I put my pfd on before I get near the launch. If I have anyone with me they wear one too, or get out of my boat. I'm old now but jumped into a cold swimming pool when I was 20 something, the shock almost stopped me from reaching the shallow end. I remember that every time I'm on the water. I'm careful because that scares the bejeebers out of me. One reason anyway. (See below). I hired a well known bass pro to guide me one time. We launched, putted out to the main channel and he took off! I thought it was insane. Going 60+ with no seat belt, lol. Closed my eyes, they were watering bad. I recovered a body a year ago. I feel sorry for those first responders that do that all the time. Maybe they put it out of their minds, but it messed with me. The sheriff's dept. gave me the card of their in house psychologist, which I thought was odd at the time. A few days after I was wacked emotionally thinking about his wife and kids. Bad dreams, the whole enchilada. I would see his face again, vividly. He wasn't pretty after 4 days in the water. And I hadn't heard of a drowning, so the shock when I realized what I was looking at was pretty intense. Please find a comfortable one and wear it.

She will fondly remember fishing this day with Pops in the future.

A couple of things... - What is 'fizzing'? - Bass taste like dirt to me. - Why do we still see bass being jerked into boats and bounced on decks?

Sam, I'm not sure our vehicles had planned life spans 'back in the day'. I think materials technology has just improved engine lifespans. I still find it hard to buy a vehicle with more than 100K. I'm old and was raised to never buy a vehicle that old. Now I own 2 vehicles that are at 150K plus. Our 1-1/2 year old TV is already acting up. Our 5 year old fridge is moaning and groaning when the compressor fan starts up. I'm going to replace the fan myself. An aside; I paid a local mechanic for a complete tune up service one year. The next year the car lost power and was struggling going up hills. I pulled it all apart and discover his shop swapped the front three plugs, but skipped the back three. The still original plugs had zero tip left. I got the code for a problem with a cylinder on the back bank, which alerted me. I was not pleased, and never gave him another dollar. I took me all afternoon to pull everything apart to access the plugs, and then reassemble.

I would check and compare hull thickness too.

I'm no help at all but has anybody checked out the videos about smaller lithium batteries burning up? They burn like flares when they go off. Would be a nightmare in a boat. I have stacks of battery powered tools charging all the time and even that has me thinking.

I was running my daughter to work last fall when I spotted a gas edger sitting on the corner as we drove by. It had a free sign on it. My daughter was embarrassed that I stopped. Threw it in my van and took her to work. Brought it home, took an hour to fire it up. Runs great.