Darth-Baiter

this year has been a solid "C" year. low lakes, more wind that i ever recall, and my best fishing bud moved to the midwest. BOO!

i wouldnt catagorize Merlot as sweet. jammy maybe. not the ones i get. less complex, but not sweet.

This is the kind of supervisor I am hoping to be. I took a promotion and left my office for a new one. one with a commute. I am fostering a new environment. I dont assign work that has little value. I hated it myself and won't do it to others. what they do needs to matter and make a difference and I never steal the credit. ever. . it is working. my old office wants me back as supervisor and some of them have even transferred to me. my old office is 7 mins from my home, so eventually I will be back. but it will be tough to leave my group and go to the one that has been dismantled. I hope to retire soon and leave all this behind me. my work is like Blockbuster Video. they refuse to change and IMHO it will leave us in a really bad spot.

Ditch' I'm not great at calling out specific wine labels. unless they are from my area. Sonoma/Napa. at the risk of offending my entire neighborhood: let me offer you this. look at Argentina and Italy. for some reason, their wines are inexpensive. an Italian Aglianico or Argentina Malbec is GREAT!!! I've had $12 bottles that blew air up my pant legs. very good. this one bottle of Aglianico I had at a restaurant. probably paid $20 for a glass. the waiter showed me the bottle and I walked across the street to look for it. it was $15. hahahha.. I felt dirty, but I bought a couple bottles for home. it is my understanding that an Aglianico or Malbec is the same grape as the Merlots we like. easy drinking, boozy, and full of jam. I dont drink much anymore, but I still like a sip here or there.

oh no!! the person that pulled out in front of you got out unscathed?! this is an awful situation. sorry for the troubles.

oh..i think the Pro knows the basic habits of a bass..plus they can livescope the area. me..i am fingers crossed, casting to things that look "bassy"

do you think a boat flip can hurt a larger fish? just asking, i like to net them all just because i have lost so many boatside.

my friend's pro angler developed a tiny leak. as the day went on his boat got heavier. it would handle weird. like it wallowed. it looked normal floating, but it got dangerous. it was easily tipped. i think Goldilocks and effed..is a fine line. hahah..

and..I slowly backed away from my computer. wow. what a slippery slope!! I kinda want a beefier handle with bigger knobs on my pitching set up. bone-stock Tatula SV TS. looks like we have to know the shaft size? I suppose I can get that from the owner's manual? (help?)

I would rather have that battery in the middle of Ironman's chest.

i think vertical jigging a spoon or blade bait would suck from shore, but the rest could work. oh..trolling from shore would be exhausting

Oh. I’m using flouro. Dang. I’ll look for a leak or something

I thought it suspends. did I read the info wrong?. I can toss it overboard and it will drag it and the line slowly down. all my Visions will stay afloat until I reel them under and in clear water they seem to suspend. or slowly rise. I was trying to spread my JB love, but did I get a sinker? or it supposed to?. I meant to ask my friend that had his Pointer rigged up but he never casted it while he was around me. just dug the box out of my garbage can. it is a Pointer 110XR. all the nomenclature is confusing.

I think the regular 110 swims better to my eye. but I dont have bass eyes. I like the Ito Wagasaki colors. simply because when someone asks me what color I throw, I can honestly say, "I can't remember". it actually might be the Ito Natural. "Ito something" I tried to find the Elegy Bone one in my stores but it is gone. they have the tiny one, and I think the color looks awesome. it is almost iridescent. again, I dont have bass eyes.

knife making? gotta any pics? asking for a friend. hahah welcome aboard.

excellent. I read it twice! my brother and I fantasize about such a trip. a trip like this would look like a different planet to those born and raised in a desert. hahah

I dont know why I never realized this. say your kayak has 400 weight carrying capacity, and your kayak weights 100lbs. you can only carry 300 more pounds. keep in mind most conventional thinking says we have to stay under 75% of our capacity. if the paddler weights 200 lbs... oh o. something to think about as you stuff gear into your boat. Hobie lists a passenger weight capacity. mine is 275lbs. my gear is light and I am a medium-weight, so I am okay for now. I actually looked up my old textbooks and looked into buoyancy, so I know it isn't cut and dry. as the boat pushes into the water and displaces it, the capacity actually goes up. I would love to put my friends pro-angler on a scale. we all pretend to go deaf when we hear him say, "hey can someone help me with my kayak?". carrying my half, it is easily 100 lbs, and I have the nose of the thing.

oh, coming home. if you get into the right hand lane, and peer over the grape vines towards the east sometimes you see it. the white shiny roof top of a Mexican food truck that services the winery workers. I SAW it on the ride home. I checked my coin jar and found $13 wadded up under a Bic Lighter. GAME ON. I peel off the highway and head towards the dirt road and ordered up a burrito. I dont even know the name, but everyone that eats there has rubber boots on, and a knife on their side for trimming vines. it is a nice treat for those Clearlake Skunk days. I dont eat on the water so I am usually starving. the guys there had to help me back my truck out since I had my kayak jutting out the back. it was embarrassing.

my mom is knocking on the final door. she isn't living her best life. negative and full of regret. it is sad to see. we thought we were gonna lose her and in an effort to keep her talking I asked, "do you have an advice for us kids?". she looked at me and said, "stay healthy" that was the best she had. stay healthy. I was hoping for some self reflection and she says, "Be happy, enjoy life, life life to the fullest..etc." nope, eat fiber, eat my veg, get exercise. hahhah.. my wish for my mom is a gentle, dignified exit full of love, peace, and happiness..and memories of the good days/stuff. it is all we can ever hope for as we age. it's GO-TIME!!! lets go! lets live this.

we pushed our in kayak into fog. cold. low 40's air temps? maybe. I have yet to buy navigation lights for my kayak so we stayed in the channel until the sun came up more. but the fog. the lights would have been a good call. (I'm gonna order the Kayak Guardian Angel version. $ick lights). water temps was either 67 deg or 62 deg depending on which fish finder you believed. mine or my friends. my goodness. the bait balls were huge and abundant. the bass didn't love our presentations. cranks, jerks, lipless. my elbow hurts from casting so often. I had a couple of baby hits on a worm, but it was probably a bluegill or something. we saw what we imagined where huge schools of crappie. we could see a few blow up on top, and they looked like crappie. my jerk bait and cranks would come back with tiny silver fish, (silverside minnows) skewered to the hooks. (by definition it might not be a skunk!) either way, it was a skunk. the rain came in at noon and ran us off. we had rain gear, but the water would find a way down our necks. oh well. I'll keep at it. since we dont freeze here in CA. I'll keep at it. we need the rain to deepen our lakes. I'll take a couch riding wet winter any day, all day.

hahha. back to topic. I found a KVD 1.5 in a box in my garage. and went to the store to find the last Lucky Craft. got my game face on.

hahhhaa.. let me make a wildass guess. you make a living as a motivational speaker?

how powerful do they make those servos? I think I would explore aftermarket cables. the ones that Hobie uses are like hunting bowstrings. super strong. and they dont fray.

all the reason to not waste the time granted us!!

I think I want to drop a few quiet Crankbaits into my box. any recommendations? medium depth? 5 footers? dunno. I suck with cranks.