Everything posted by throttleplate
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Mowing: How it started & how it's going...
Crab grass has exploded in my front yard, i started in august taking a pitch fork and up rooting the big patches, then on my hands and knees and a garden trowell cut out smaller patches. From what i learned from reading is that the crabgrass dies off in the fall but the seeds it dropped will be back just as before. I also walk the yard and dig out all the dandelions, i spotted a few this week and along with the dandelions the mosquitoes were attacking me by the hundreds.
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Trailer Park Boys
Three weeks ago i for the first time watched an episode of The Trailer Park Boys, I have since recorded a ton of their episodes and have really gotten a kick out of the show. My favorite skits are when Julian and Ricky are in jail also Bubbles in jail or visiting using the 2 way phone. Anyone else get a kick out of the show? Also i have been swearing the f word more since i started watching.
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Would You Wear These?
I would only wear them at a vegan restaurant
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Pet Peeves
Carshield car repair insurance starring ICE T and other celebries
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Considering taking August off
I had to have my tendon on each side reattached, but one side was done well before the other side started to hurt which was 6 years later for the other side surgery. Before the surgeries my elbow hurt so bad as i was a mechanic that i couldnt shift the gears in my service truck or twist the doorknob of my home to open the door.
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Considering taking August off
Get the operation, you will heal faster than any steroid injection will last or pt. Use your vacation time to heal and you should be out of work 21 days and when back at work baby it untill you feel comfortable to put more stress on it.
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Considering taking August off
After golfer elbow surgery and then tennis elbow surgery the exercises you listed are exactly what PT had me do. I still do the stretching exercises.
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Anyone like the taste of Bluegill?
Please tell us what they are, maybe Buffalo head?
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I just bought running shoes from a running store.
While in the Navy Seabees back in the 80"s, our whole battallion was made to run a mile and a half in our combat boots which were made of nothing but leather, hard rubber and cardboard.
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Anyone like the taste of Bluegill?
I caught a handfull of rock bass a few years ago and put them on a stringer, some folks came by and seen our stringer and we heard them say " keeping rock bass?" I then released them after i read reviews on the interweb about rock bass meat.
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Anyone like the taste of Bluegill?
my dad growing up in the 1930s on familly farm told me he went out and caught bullheads just to have food on the table to eat. I enjoy walleye, crappie, and bluegill, but as @gimwrote after we slather them in batter and spices with sauce they all taste the same.
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Down On The Farm
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I just bought running shoes from a running store.
seems like all the shoe stores i went to now have the foot scanner, I always buy Asics shoes, i find last years top model on sale and buy them saving 50.00.
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Anti virus
on windows i just use what windows provides and all works well.
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Bluegills with No "Baits" - Only Artificials - General Advice Appreciated!
I caught these from the bank, i can see the weedline and i cast out well beyond it and with a bobber using a small 1/16 or 1/32 jig, I was using cooked shrimp, I then twitch the jig a bit, wait for a strike, if not then i twitch and reel in a bit untill i hit the weed line, i get the blue gill, pumpkinseed from way off the weed line up to the main noticeable weed line. I was using cooked shrimp, got tired of rebaiting so i went to casting ang jigging back a small white curly tailed grub and a silver sparkly grub and all i started catching was small crappie cast after cast, was able to catch 6 keepable crappie and threw the rest back in. I then got tired of casting so i put bobber back on and with same jig i put on a 2" gulp minnow and cast out and twitch it and then i was catching crappie, bluegills and pumpkin seed.
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Other Species Latest Catch Pics Thread
I caught these from the bank, i can see the weedline and i cast out well beyond it and with a bobber using a small 1/16 or 1/32 jig, I was using cooked shrimp, I then twitch the jig a bit, wait for a strike, if not then i twitch and reel in a bit untill i hit the weed line, i get the blue gill, pumpkinseed from way off the weed line up to the main noticeable weed line. I was using cooked shrimp, got tired of rebaiting so i went to casting ang jigging back a small white curly tailed grub and a silver sparkly grub and all i started catching was small crappie cast after cast, was able to catch 6 keepable crappie and threw the rest back in. I then got tired of casting so i put bobber back on and with same jig i put on a 2" gulp minnow and cast out and twitch it and then i was catching crappie, bluegills and pumpkin seed.
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Went blue gill fishin and found my new favorite bait.
went out on tuesday for gills using the cooked shrimp again and just smoked them, the bite intensified at 9 pm.
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2025 MN Fishing Season thread
- Love New Truck Day ~
- Other Species Latest Catch Pics Thread
I was told they are the # 1 tasting fish in the ocean?- Is it necessary to get a 3K-4K sized reel for larger pike (40”+?)
when i caught my muskie in the river along with the strong current, i had to play the fish till he wore out. He had the advantage as i was fishing for walleye with a 20lb fluoro leader and a 1/4 oz jig, bend the hook or bite the fluoro off or just snap the fluoro was my biggest concern. When i got him in i had no net, my wife stepped into the water and helped push him onto shore. The hook was bent and the fluoro broke off when we were dragging it to shore. When i put it back into the water i had to hold its tail and move him back and forth to run water through his gills, finally he took off and in the shallow water he hung around us for a few minutes like he was saying thanks for releasing me or he was to tired to move.- Is it necessary to get a 3K-4K sized reel for larger pike (40”+?)
I caught this on spinning gear, using 30lb braid, a 20 lb fluoro leader, 1/4 oz jig and a president xl reel fishing for walleye. @Swamp Girl is correct about using the drag which i was adjusting many times during my fight with this river monster in the river current.- How much has electronics changed your fishing?
Only electronics i use is my garmin gps stuck on my winshield of my car to find new lake locations.- Favorite knife to take fishing.
This is my favorite knife to take fishing, so my wife can clean the fish hahahha, love you dear just kidding.- Old Gear Causing Injuries?
I use a spinning reel and after a couple hours i switch the handle to the other side. I cast overhead, sidearm, and backhanded. When i put the rod down to rebait and then get ready to cast again i find myself grabbing for the handle on the empty side. - Love New Truck Day ~
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