Darth-Baiter

i loosen my drags universaly when i am in my friends bassboat. usually reminded to do so on the first fish. in my kayak, i am in it for the ride. i have taken a 6lb bass, and more recently a big stiper that had it's way with me. it dragged me to the weeds. fun. it is quite honestly one of the charms of kayak fishing. even a smaller fish will move my kayak some. i think i fuss with my drag more often. my boat friend has commented before. i think it is a habit (bad?) to mess with the drag when i am in my kayak. i dont adjust like Blanchard..he is always messing with it on his videos.

I got a box. I’m gonna wait until the 25th.

That’s a robust V8! My mechanic loves them.

mmmm...Tamales!! well, actual tamales and NOT the euphamism tamales referenced by Alabama.

i never nose-hook. i use the same 1/0 hook most times, but at Clearlake, i found the 2/0 to be more fitting for the regularly larger fish.

sadly. me too. a two pound spot is very impressive. the hit is so fast. none of that slow inhale..just BAM!!! "what was that?" if you ever visit. give me time to hire a guide. mahuuuawahhhaaaa..

mine might not be a risk..but more of a tough investment. i was working. but going NOWHERE. retail, etc. i dropped everything and went back to college and got a civil engineering degree. i was 28 years old, and my future was kinda bleak. but i survived and now i am the civil engineering king-pin i am today. haha... bottom line, i am risk adverse, and it gets tougher as i age. if you have anything resembling youth..go for it. time is your friend.

i'm gonna visit a friend to see about a large Smallmouth. the videos look downright violent. having said, that i have had some largemouth fool me into thinking it is a giant. the fish in Clearlake and the CA Delta have some extra level of attitude. the pull is strong enough to spin my kayak around (i work kayak drag into the total fish fighting drag equation :D) but i wouldnt call it violent.

here was dinner. we called them chinese hamburgers, but it is legally called a Gwah Bao! braise pork in a steamed bun.

this is actually a very valid question. my truck is also a 2006. 212000 miles. i would hardly call mine "just breaking in". it is VERY smooth running, and still gets the same MPG. but it is deep deep into "patina" territory and is totally broken in. i have the stack of receipts and i went thru some of them yesterday. it has been pretty trouble free. i had to change a failed power steering pump, and two wheel bearings went bad 100k miles ago. that's it. not to bad since i consider the life i have put it thru.

Daaanggg! My package shows DELIVERED! now I can sleep. Haha.

i could probably write a sentence neater and clearer with my feet at this point. i dont know what the heck happened to my handwriting. it is awful. fun factiod. my handwriting is much better and easier to decipher if i use a pencil. super odd. i would like to apologies to my Fishmas recipient. i penned a note and put it into the box. good luck reading that abominantion.

my EU2000. well it is the new model EU2050? i forget. i can run it for 9 hours on a single tank of fuel. less than a gallon if i remember correctly. it is pretty quiet. i paid $999. having said that, my old boss bought the Yamaha 2000 from costco, i have to admit. i think it is quieter. he paid $450ish.

right or wrong, i chose a Okuma Salmon rod. 9' long, and it is two piece rod. i can cast crazy far from a beach and with a 3000 Penn spinning reel, it has not given me any grief.

Driving a beater Has its charms. I had the roar of a front bearing going bad. Mechanic used a stethoscope and found the front left making noise. I okayed the Repair. He called. Oh-o. He said, “front noise is gone but now I can hear the rear”. Grrrr. And he doesn’t have the press to do the rears. He suggested a differential shop around the corner. I drove over there. I made an appt. Yea I can hear rear bearing noise now. Very subtle. I’ll let them suss it out. This is not an easy job for me. The new mechanic suggested (strongly) that I do both sides since it’s so involved. good times. I hope I get it back by Saturday. I wanna fish oh well. I pulled all my receipts today. I’ve been very lucky with this truck. Very little has failed. I’m not mad , not mad at all.

Summary. There is no right or wrong answers. Seems everyone is correct.

nice!!! what powertrain option? is it a hybrid? hahha... my mechanic called me and commended me on my ears. i nailed the problem on my truck. front drivers side wheel bearing needs to be replaced. the financial reaming was surprisingly gentle. i'll live. i long term plans are to keep this thing running until a Tacoma Hybrid option is readily available. maybe next year or the following? i am on the foolish wait list for the CyberTruck. but that is a fools dream at this point. i bet that thing is north of $100k

I would have crapped myself...in glee, of course.

My package is on the move. Hope it doesn’t leak.

okay. i was maybe 20 years old. i drove a Jeep Cherokee that i slightly lifted. i thought my poop didnt stink. haha. i was at a gas station filling up. a young lady pulled in, and i absolutely puffed out my "plummage", and started working the system. i was talking and talking. she was laughing. in my stage of...errr..rut. i forget to remove the gas hose from my jeep. i was trying to follow the girl!! she was moving her car, i was moving my car..and i hear a weird noise. it sounded like rubber stretching. i see her look back at me, with her eyes wide and huge. right then the nozzle comes out of the filler hose and like a stretched out rubber band, slings the nozzle into the soffit/canopy. it explodes a light. the gas station manager runs out screaming. the girl laughs and drives off. the hose didnt break. it stretched a lot!! the gas station guy tells me to find gas elsewhere forever. i have never felt so stupid in my life. thankfully, while i have had moron moments..but that is my only "the moron moment".

for the record. my biggest moron moment EVER didnt involve fishing. I still blush when I think about it decades later.

i know this. i am Chinese..we will put and X next to a Z and make it a T sound. i get it. but i gots jokes. which that one was...or attempted to be. and we have homophone and homographs...good times, the english lingo

okay..hate to be that guy. but here goes. WHY? if a reel is functioning properly, the owner's manuals give us the lubrication/maintenence instructions. if it is running janky, or making some noise..yea. crack it open, or have a shop do it. i fly on the "anal" side of keeping things. (<---this is NOT a euphamism for anything). but i still dont see the need to pull a perfectly running reel apart. that's like instead of changing the oil on my truck, i drop the motor, disassemble it, so i can wipe the parts off and clean them. (okay my example is an exaggeration). i full on admire the guys that pull things apart and can do it proficiently. i think i can as well, but oddly i havent needed to. my reels zing and zang baits like they did the day i got them.

figures coming from a company that puts an "P" in front of an "F" for the ffffuuuu sound.

I friggen love that dish. love love that dish. (work on your lighting. haha...no shame in taking the dish out into sunlight..shhhh)