Darth-Baiter

Venison street tacos. Zero added fat. Loaded with natural deliciousness. I’m officially out of venison. But I’m locked into a deer hunt on my brothers property. Target is a fat doe.

Ants boat cover? Like a colony swarm? Or scouts looking for food? Ants have two cycles. Sometimes they want sweet, sometimes protein. I like a a poison that doesn’t repel them. They get it on their bodies, track it home and it collapses a colony very quickly. I use Phantom ant spray.

my big takeaway from this ordeal is your ability to work the problem and figure it out!! WELL DONE! all the PFD chatter has been said to death. again. Well done Sir!! now you know what to do, next time if needed.

I've been playing with the dose. I have it down to about 58 grams of coffee for 1.25L of water. my new coffee machine is fantastic. it heats the water to just 195-205 and the coffee is delicious. I didnt think it would make that big of a difference, but even my non-pro level coffee taste buds can tell the quality improvement by not over heating my grind.

It popped up to my port side and poked out its fin. I’m not gonna guess its size because they are all big to me. We were on kayaks in the Pacific. It came up twice. The second time we could see the whitish lower body half. We elected not to bleed our fish for about an hour. Thankfully I sucked at fishing yesterday. My friends did okay but left the fish on the deck and not dangling in the water as we usually did. Then a whale surfaced and took a deep breath near us. And it took a dump because we could smell it. It was not describable. Like fishy kerosene maybe. I don’t have the best sense of smell, but I did catch a whiff. My friends said it was whale poop. This ocean kayak fishing is wild! So interesting. A boat would be nice some days. 😊

I think they move tight to structure.

I love the French press. but cleaning the thing afterwards isn't fun or worth it for me.

NRS neoprene booties or Simms flats waders boots. Sun burn on my feet are unacceptable.

I rarely buy coffee out. it is expensive to make that a habit or any type of routine. so I home brew. for the last decade, I get up in the morning, do my things, and just before I jump into the shower, I get a electric kettle boiling. get dressed and make two coffee pour overs and take one to my wife. it would be much better if I had one of those fancy pour over purpose built kettles with the long pour spout - for targeted and controlled pouring. but nope. my cup is okay. my family is coming to visit and I cannot make multiple cups, or do I even want to. so I dove into the rabbit hole and studied coffee makers. SCA certified? the heck is that?. there is an upper tier of coffee makers. I bought one. USED! cleaned it up. descaled it, and finally made a pot of coffee. I was not expecting any thing special. but it is profound. no burnt flavors. perfect temp. I even taste floral notes!! so good. the magic is proper water temp. proper extraction time, and for me, no hot warming plate to overdo things. I even weighed my beans. :D. not something I will do all the time but I have a visual on what my load of beans should look like. introducing my new coffee cooker. the Technivorm Moccomaster. from the most coffeeingest-drinkingest place on earth..the Netherlands. totally rebuildable. all parts are available and unchanged. I can send it in for repairs easily, so I dont have to subscribe to the disposable mindset. and a single on/off switch. no multiple modes to scroll thru.

Like everything in life it takes practice. There are rarely any shortcuts. You didn’t start off good from shore. I love my kayak. It’s fully replaced how I think bass fishing should be for me. I do not even want a bass boat. You’ll figure it out. You will soon realize how it works. Have fun, be safe, and don’t go buy everything 😄

that's your fishing jetski?? so cool! I want one, but it isn't good for my parts since I am surrounded by protected reefs. if I lived further south, I would buy one. coolest video on the YT. some of those guy are insane.

my wife literally got a GOLD star stuck to her sweatshirt on the way out the door. hahah..I was...WTH??

my dentist showed me early on in my life that I have a few unfortunate molars. normal molars have deep roots that splay out. like how you would stand with feet apart when you are about to fire a big bore rifle. for balance and support. I have a few molars were not only are they shallow..the roots taper inwards towards each other. "feet together". crap support. genetics. at least I turned out really good looking !. hahaha..I kid. I would like to add: we are blessed to have modern medicine and Science. incredible. back in the old western days, this is almost a death sentence. hahah..infections killed plenty.

Put on gloves and pull on it. I bet it will be pretty obvious which side of the fence it’s on. You know, for science! 😀

^^^^ sir!! hahahha

I had my post installed today for my future implant tooth. I had cracked a molar badly and there was no saving it. For the past several months, I’ve been missing one; waiting for the bone graft to heal. Today was phase two. It was easy going but traumatic simply from the sounds! Drilling, digging, tapping. Being a shade tree mechanic, I knew what was happening in my mouth. He had to actually back it out, retap and send it down deeper. He said my bone was very robust. A good thing. It was incredible. He lost me at the stitches. His hands were moving so fast. I was crossed eyed trying to keep up. Afterwards I asked questions and confirmed the procedure. In four months I go back and he tests it with this tiny tiny tiny torque wrench! Today, he ratcheted the post down w a mini wrench. Zero pain now. I’ll keep it clean and avoid nachos. I don’t expect trouble. I wish I could go back in time and tell my young punk self to stop chewing ice and biting on hard things. Grrrr. The worst part of today was the wife and I met her brother and they had a delicious lunch. Me, I sipped water and tasted blood in my mouth. Hahaha. Good times!

I’m using j-braid right now for ocean stuff. Dragging it thru reefs. Zero issues. But I’m no braid aficionado, they all seem fine to me.

My biggest bass losses are all from a boat. Half from my friends zigging when I am zagging with the fish. Yup. Bad net jobs. The rest are simple hook pops out. In my kayak I’m good. Really good. Yes, a bass will move my kayak, but it’s a simple slow rotation or something. I’m not getting towed. I’ve caught huge ocean fish and those don’t tow me around either. One day I will be towed. Hopefully a tuna or rooster fish. Or a huge GT. I don’t find my hookset power absorbed by the kayak’s movements either. It’s floating my fatass, it can handle all my hooksets.

I went fishing yesterday with two other people. they both had similar kayaks. they were long, sleek, fast. I took my Hobie Outback. I had a few problems. 1st was the long 1/2 mile hike in to the beach. double BUMMER that I had to drop an elevation of 140 feet. down was easy. 2nd, the overly exciting beach launch. waves were hammering, and I had to study the waves for a while before I figured there were two basher waves followed by 4 survivable smaller waves. I stowed my rods inside my friends kayaks to retrieve out in calmer waters, past the breakers. I didnt flip. 3rd. out in the water, they were so much faster!! they could cut thru waves at 4mph without effort. it was sick to watch. coming in from the ocean, they both landed first and met me at the edge to help me. no yard sale. I had my rods inside their kayaks anyways. safe. now I want one. a Stealth Kayak. a non bass fishing kayak. purely for the salt. fast, long distance, stable.. I would have to pull it into my garage rafters for storage. but easy since it is so light. dragging my tugboat up that hill almost ended me. I swear I saw the light at the end of my tunnel. it was ugly, and I jog 3-miles everyday. I was tired like mountain climbing, elk bow-hunting tired. I see this in my future. figuring out the fish finder transducer will be interesting. but I know people do it. I already have a name for that boat. "Angler Management". hahahaha

agree. many many times I get the bite when I am sitting there eating a sandwich, contemplating if I should pee, etc.

100% sure I stand alone on this. but the MB BanderSnatch is outstanding for me. soft tip, great sensitivity so I can feel even smaller bladed jigs vibrating at the end of the line. when I feel the blade stop because it hits grass, the rod backs that soft tip up with some backbone to yank it thru. it is also great at working lipless and crank thru grass. same reasoning. soft tip sends them way downrange on those far cast to far targets.

Don’t neglect the powerful option of the dead stick. Sometimes less is more. And patience. I have a bud that forgets to let it hit bottom.

My go-to rifle is my old winny model 70. I don’t even have the desirable pre64, but mines a tack driver. Mine is scratched and the scope has a tiny dent. I fell off a mountain with it strapped to my pack. Yup. 30-06. The ONLY downside is it’s boring as heck. At camp nobody asks me about my rifle. I mean nobody. It’s taken so much game. Boringly:). It’s like sliced white bread

Anapodoton was the last word the panel taught me. Haha. It’s burned into my brain now.

I jog on the regular. My cardio is fine. I can double step it up six floors and not think about it much. Flexibility? Boo. I need improvement. I plan on taking back mobility. Remind my body what it used to be able to do. Kayak fishing leaves me w a tender lower back. Time to do something about it. I hit the basics. Like a deep squat. I got that down. Feet flat, deep squat. I take work calls in a squat position. Forces me to keep My conversations short and efficient. 😊 I’ve added a squat walk. Kick a foot out and move. It’s brutal and humiliating. Crab walk? Yes. Hands and toes shuffle without letting my knees touch ground. All to build my core. I’ll improve shoulders and hand strength dangling from a Bar Stay flexible team!