fishhugger

@TnRiver46 yup.... glad ya quit, w cancer lurking around in general... cute cabin. @Choporoz yes... i wondered, i guess, if pipes would be cheaper than cigars. i guess you have an outlay for the 'equipment' (pipe), but the tobacco is just tobacco. a cigar there'd be more steps in the making of one, esp a good one, and you'd pay for that each time. i guess i need to relax, and maybe i'll try pipes... i love the smell of coffee.... can't drink that due to caffeine.... whiskey, i can indulge in that.... but a pipe.......the smell of really good tobacco would be appealing...... hmmm.......... seems like pipe smokers sort of like the ritual and all of a nice smoke occasionally........

for some bizarre reason, i've been watching youtube videos on pipe smoking. my dad's generation - many smoked cigars, pipes, and of course, ciggies. we're talking 1950's. but now, cigars are mildly in, sort of, ciggies are looked down on, and i never run across an actual pipe smoker. are they all hiding? and what is the pleasure in it? here's some old guy who apparently indulged... am i pretty dumb to be looking into a habit involving tobacco...... it's supposed to be very relaxing, or so the youtubers say, and a wonderful experience. i wouldn't be interested in cigarettes due to negative health effects. but, pipe smoking seems different, i guess less habit forming.....

i actually don't no that much about hedy lamarr the actress... but, yes, her backstory... she was a genius. i know she designed some sort of frequency hopping signal.... i forget exactly why, but think it had to do with world war 2? but then i think the same theory is used in today's cell phones, when they're changing frequencies (or something) so they're more efficient....

it's bigger than him, and nice catch! fishing before or after church sounds terrif. when i go fish for a short period, i try to just keep it simple and fun, and i don't have to catch a fish to have a good time. and it really helps that the lake i fish is very beautiful and quiet........... if only the darn otter would keep away. i don't like that guy.

i live in california. no such thing as a lonesome lake.......... just wishful thinkin'.............. man, i wish it were different. but i'm older now, so it's definitely harder for me to get out to some lonesome lake, plus my new (to me) car ---- no spare tire! wow........ many cars nowadays do not have spares, even mid sized ones. crazy, i say. here's marlena to go along with greta..... and she's in uniform......

no way i'd bother with the sharpie trick. who ya gonna listen to, me or roland martin? but........... i figure it's a detail thing... like, details matter, and to mr martin, i guess it sure did.

not in fishing. i'm not nearly good enough, not by a long shot. i'll have spots where i think bass or fish may be, but that's not intuition. that is a combination of guessing and logic. intuition is different. i think it's when you do something you just know it's right, but you can't really explain it. yeah, it's your gut instinct, etc. it just feels right, and u no it. you're in the zone.

ty... see --- she did it, i can't even get the requirements right! actually, her dad and her combined to catch 54 species of fish. a sort of personal goal of theirs, says the washington post.... but in doing so, she satisfied the requirements for the master angler milestone. or is it millstone....... she did get a check to spend at bass pro shops.... https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/08/05/12-year-old-maryland-fishing-award-first-female/

did anyone read the washington post today ? "Lucy Moore became both the first female and first child to receive Maryland’s Master Angler Milestone Award. She was just the 10th person to win the award." she began fishing when she was 2. her dad said she just took to it. you must catch 60 different species of fish --- each of which must be at least a certain size. i hope i have that right... she's the first juvenile and first female recipient of the award. you must advance from angler, expert angler... and ultimately master angler. 10 master anglers so far in the state. she already has chosen a college major: marine biology.

i try to never use those round split rings... i'm afraid the line will get caught where the ends of the wire of the ring are, and damage the line. i happily use snaps, even on the split ring. i've never thought about my setup affecting the crankbaits i use.... i guess retying is good - but i guess i'd worry more about my leader to braid knot, than my lure knot...

we love our pliers............. i just use kast king.... if i can't find them for some reason, maybe my skeletool, which has a sort of needle nose plier. so there's these pliers... i forgot the brand (i'm 68)... van something? from europe? $700???? van stahl? um, ok

i don't really.... i guess i look at them before i take them out of the water. then, i kind of just want to get them back where they belong.... poor guys.......

out here in california, we drained all our natural lakes. then we built dams, simply to provide water and power. then we wonder why our fishing reeks..... now we're tearing down some dams in an attempt to restore the great fisheries that once existed here......... oh so long, ago. actually, only about a hundred years ago, i guess.

just figuring out the cadence of pulling in a crankbait, trying to imagine what my lure looks like down there, kind of me connecting right to its actions...... feeling how the lure acts underwater, and watching what my line is doing. that's y i crank, instead of slower methods where's there more waiting involved

is the biggest potential negative with cheaper reels a bad drag system??? i guess i'm thinking of the larger size reels --- 2500 and up.... i figure with the smaller ones, the 1000's or so --- i assume if you latch onto a big bass the little reel will maybe just die a violent death? but i'm guessing with the smaller reels, you're really going for panfish. but yean, spreadin' the love for the sienna...

i've got a cute sienna 500............. i don't really use it. i think i got it to catch panfish, but it seems like a 1000 would've maybe been better. but gtk they are good reels for the price. i do have a couple sedonas that i like, a 1000 and 4000.

youtube is gr8 for that stuff............... i like the shade-tree guys, or any youtuber - the ones who want to give good, useful information ------- having an 'index' , those things where you can go right to where you need to in the video, is super convenient.

i like the skeletool.... i don't carry it, but i keep it handy. it's so comfortable, and has a 'minimal' set of tools... i like having a comfortable plier, which the skeletool definitely has. when those leathermen first came out, i thought it would never last, lol........ doh!!! one of my many homer simpson moments. i like the skeletool.... i don't carry it, but i keep it handy. it's so comfortable, and has a 'minimal' set of tools... i like having a comfortable plier, which the skeletool definitely has. when those leathermen first came out, i thought it would never last, lol........ doh!!! one of my many homer simpson moments.

i like the skeletool.... i don't carry it, but i keep it handy. it's so comfortable, and has a 'minimal' set of tools... i like having a comfortable plier, which the skeletool definitely has. the handle in plier mode is more comfortable than the original leatherman pliers. when those leathermen first came out, i thought it would never last, lol........ doh!!! one of my many homer simpson moments.

when i started bait casting, i started with mono cause i heard it's more forgiving on bait casters. i think it's harder to untangle braid than mono................ i'd go with mono if that was a concern. i use my thumb pretty consistently with my bait caster. it seems pretty intelligent; it can just tell when something is amiss, and it takes corrective action - ie, dampens the speed if the line seems to be loosening off the spool, etc... maybe i'm doing it wrong, but that's how i do it.

not sure what you mean... what sort of ingredients? i mentioned my original peeve cause i had seen a stanley tucci video on making pasta con aglio y olio??? that's my butchered italian for pasta with garlic and oil. those are all the ingredients, and he mentions how his father would make it when it was his turn to cook. then i watched several other videos of the same recipe.... it was pretty cool, such a simple recipe. sorry - i forgot which recipe, or even if it was this exact dish, where the presenter would toss in an ingredient in just one spot and just barely stir it in...... that seemed so illogical. maybe this is tmi....... but try that recipe! it is pretty good

Hope you enjoy the #6. You may already know it's the smallest 'lockable' opinel. Locking meaning you can slide the rotating ring to Lock the blade open when in use ... Or closed, such as when it's in your pocket. A necessary feature... To me.

Opinel carbon steel #6. Very easy to carry and easy to keep very sharp, and easy to sharpen. Unlike the stainless versions.

all i can say is omg............ the man. i love julie andrews, but.........

i'd suggest you teach your son the improved clinch. to me, it's the standard. it just always seems fine to me, esp with mono. i used to teach kids chess. as long as they were five, i'd teach 'em. i always kept it simple, but solid fundamentals. i wasn't trying to teach future chess champs. i wanted kids to have fun, but be independent and value their experience of learning. just like fishing?