Darth-Baiter

it Taiwan. they have a saying (it sounds way more eloquent in Taiwanese), "the best life is a simple life" basically, they dont fish much in Taiwan.

gah!!! my dream is to have a good friend with 50 acres with a pond! BFF!!! i'll bring beer and chips to the first party.

d**n. those gas station wines are poison. my MD2020 hangover had me praying for the sweet release of death. never again did i subject my liver to crap booze. if i was gonna go out, i was gonna go out in good taste.

i ordered some jig heads. some Dirty Jigs version. 3/16 heads. i picked all natural shad colored baits. but i got a package if yellows ones. i think all natural colors with a chartruese kicker bait. for the added plummage. thoughts? in CA, i am allowed 3 hooks. my A-rig already dedicated the hook positions. but do you usually have hooks on the perimeter? i can almost taste the Striped Bass fish tacos as i am typing this out.

drop shot. (wait..is this a trick question? :D) of course DROPSHOT the small megabass hazadong shad as the bait. well, one of the baits.

you remind me of a good point. i think i would freak at many levels it if was my child bleeding. wow. i would put on a helmet first before rendering first aid..just in case i fainted. hahah.

asking because i dont know. while i dont typically fish beds, i have taken a fish from them. usually blind casting. when i release the fish, they go right back. in a tourney, you put the fish in a livewell, and cruise off. there is no way the fish can get back to the bed right? they arent homing pigeons. the nest is unguarded in whatever stage it happens to be in. that has to be detrimental right?

i was once bobbing around in my kayak. fishing. i was tired from the long stretch to get there and i would by lying if i didnt say i wasnt distracted from the long haul back. CLEARLAKE: all day i was hearing a lady chainsawing and raking. i was fishing off her back beach. she would drag a garbage can back, dump it and bring it back for a refill. every time i saw her, i would yell, "hey that looks heavy!!! you need help?". she was an older lady. my buddies commented, "oh, Mr Niceguy!" a nearby bassboat laughed at me. i mumbled back, "hey, imagine if we could park in her driveway and launch our kayaks right here!!!". everyone: "oh..shrewd..." hahahha.. i am gonna keep at it with the old lady. hahh

polarized readers? wont they interfere with things like reading a smartphone or the display on older cars dashboards? when i have my fishing glasses on, i cant see the display on my truck radio.

my sad face from my last fishing trip (skunk) allowed my wife to lower the shields, and the bait monkey hit me with a space torpedo. i now have a Umbrella rig coming to me with ALL the chingaderos for the dangly parts.

i would have to poop gold bars to buy a second property. the math just doesnt make sense. buying the place and paying for maintenence for something i dont stay at full time is not right for me. i would rather take that same money and vacation at various places. i'd AirBNB the place next door. plus, i think i would get bored of the same thing over and over again. renting it to only have to work on it for the occasional fishing trip. hard pass. that's like a timeshare

I'm okay at it. mixed emotions. I do get woozy sometimes. real blood, not Hollywood blood. last night my wife cut herself with a bread knife and it was all hands on deck. I was cleaning the wound and bandaging. not sure how I kept it together:) I felt she could have benefited from stitches, but she fought me on it. we got halfway to the ER before she finally waved me off. I was worried she cut a tendon or something. her finger moves now. phew! It is fine. man..I think BLOOD was my Achilles that made sure I never became a doctor...or nurse. I assume you get used to it?

best tire I have ever owned has been Michelin LTX MS. they are kinda boring looking which is doubly bad because they LAST FOREVER. they were out of stock everywhere for about 2 years during the pandemic and I bought Coopers in the interim. they are okay....but I am going back to the Michelins when I get the chance. (from Costco) super grippy even in snow. I was the only vehicle that could make it up a driveway in Tahoe. I ended up being the luggage mover, while other guest had to walk up the hill. hahah. super quiet, greatest MPG of my truck's life. I hunted AZ and Idaho with those tires and did some crazy things with my rig.

I drive over the Napa river every work day. I think that channel will have stripers. it is near the mouth into bay. I assume that is one of their entry points.

hahahha..this didn't help.

road trip!! 2 hour drive according to the Google. but a single car accident there, crushed it..and a multi car crash on the way home really really crushed it. I stopped for a bowl of Laotian noodle soup to restore my soul. the fish HATED my gear. I was casting reaction baits like I was fishing for musky. WE visited a new spot on the California Delta. in the warm months where you are punching and pitching for the edges, it looked like it would be fire. (mental note to go back - we found a hidden lagoon I dont think the bass boats can get to where I bet the bass spawn and pre/postspawn). I said these words to my friend the night before, "hey, dont forget your A-rig". recent rains and cool weather had the floating mats all broken up. it was floating everywhere. everywhere. fish were mid channel mostly. the a-rig was the magic bullet. he kinda crushed it. striper and largies were swiping at his presentation. he got 8. hahhaa.. I need to buy an A-rig..or sell everything and take up golf. on the bright side the cute young Laotian women were really flirtatious.

do they hammer you with shipping?

we got a very rare 4 days of rain. sunny and cold today. by cold I mean high 40's. sweater weather for most of you here. for me, it's batten down the hatches!! I hope to be fishing tomorrow. see what the cold fish are doing. say hi. you all that live in cold climates: do you just keep food in the garage to stay cold? like you dont even need to keep beer in the fridge? must be so nice to be able to cool down large stockpots of hot broth before storing in the fridge. I have to use ice over here.

and tiny tiny fingers.

That’s the OG ! Called PST or something. I have one around here. Unused. Crazy how that thing launched an industry.

I found a Leatherman SuperTool 300 in the water at the boat ramp. it was severely rusted. I sent it to Leatherman in case they wanted it for some abused display box. (the store in Portland has a display case with all the poor broken ones). they thanked me, and sent me a replacement even tho I told them I FOUND IT! I was dumbstruck. it rides in my dry sack in my Kayak. way too heavy to carry, but it has fixed so many kayak issues!!

I keep a SwissTool in my "man-bag". it gets used more often than I ever imagined. mostly the scissors. cutting threads on my sweaters, opening candy wrappers, or chip bags. etc. I work heavy construction as an Engineer, so on the job site it has come in handy. last time I pulled a bolt out of tire so we could stuff in a plug quickly, so we could make it to the tire shop. my sister lives on 60 acres in the middle of nowhere and it totally surprised me that she carries a Leatherman in her pocket. world travel? I carry a CHEAP leatherman Fuse. knife, scissors and pliers come in handy on those impromptu fishing trips that always seem to happen in the jungles. My brother is a cop. in his town the TSA dumps all the confiscated knives at his office. he says he has a box with EVERYTHING. I blurted out, "grab me a Leatherman Surge"...seriously? I need another MT like I need another rod/reel combo. sorry for the rambling ons.

I opted for the promotion because I was simply getting older. climbing up huge walls of rebar to get to the tops of bridges, lifting big heavy construction samples, night work.. it all kinda beat the snot out of me as I aged. I was tired. I figured I could promote, and teach younger engineers tricks of the trade, etc. on the fence right now if it was a good decision or not.

I once launched near Franks' tract. in my opinion, a very intimidating section with the current. my friend got left behind and I went back to look. he was spinning around and around in a whirlpool. laughing. he said, "now I know what a turd feels like in a toilet". he paddled out and we went back to fishing. I would have casted near that whirlpool, just in case. I think bass like current for the most part.

I hover at the various sites hawking this fun reel, but I never know "which one"? it might be easier at this point for me to actually wait to buy one in Japan from a dude that doesn't speak English. using rudimentary universal sign language motions: I can point at lightass lures, and point very far away...or bust out Pictionary Just kidding. I file this all under "someday"