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You didn’t say if you’ve been to your dr, if arthritis hasn’t been diagnosed i’d suggest that. For my issues the doc sent me to physical therapy, shoulder pain while trying to sleep, and another time for neck pain also while trying to sleep. One was a pinched ligament or some such, the other was a pinched nerve., both cleared with therapy. I needed to get a referral, hence the trip to the dr., not that I knew what the issues were. p.s., I have arthritis in my feet, not much I can do short of surgery to fuse the toe joints. A neighbor suggested THC laced salve you can get at a medical pot shop. As far fetched as it sounds it did seem to work, got to apply it 3 times a day, which isn’t easy to do. The pain went away after a month or 2. I stopped using it and the pain comes back and I start using it again. no idea if all the salves you can get are just a bunch of crap. I was skeptical before I tried it and still am. I’ve tried a few and this one may have actually done something. Of course maybe it was just staying off my feet.

How about this baby. https://altorlocks.com/products/icon-trailer-lock?srsltid=AfmBOorA89ZO2gTjS2J6c4tNW-QW2K9Jx_OrQP5NtTK1njRH6d8OB-w1 Just don’t look at the price.

To me (growing up with salt water) a cottage is on or very near water, a cabin is in the trees. I have noticed that Mainers call lake cottages cabins, so it’s whatever you want to call it.

Ditto,I’ve not caught when dragging on weeds, I do however get hits as soon as the lure comes off the weeds and sinks a little is an opening of some sort. I might drag the 1st 3’ as long as there are open edges to drag to. i use MH with 20 or 30 lb but would like to pick up a heavy, once they get wrapped around the weeds I can’t do much with a MH, especially in a canoe. the only hits I’ve had on a frog are in open water early am, I give up on them pretty quick.

Decent in the spring, then too many hot days and the weeds went wild shrinking considerably the amount of openish water. Had to have Carpal Tunnel surgery a month ago so that ended it for the summer, hoping to get out later this week. Can you get carpal tunnel from fishing too much? Overall, the usual amount of fish but as yet nothing big, all under 3 lbs, maybe 20 a day, daybreak to 10am or so. I am getting better with a baitcaster, I can now hit the water if I aim at it. Getting older and the 60 lb canoe is starting to feel like 100.

I used to enjoy fires, camping and in the fireplace. Once I came down with COPD that ended, I even have to close up the house when the neighbors light up their pits, what a bummer. We camped exclusively in the fall once the kids grew up and we didn’t need to think about school. Nothing like cool fall nights around the fire, at least till the back is frozen and the front is smoldering.

Sounds like a scene from a Stephen King or a Hitchcock movie. Glad you survived. Wishing you a speedy recovery.

Those Pall Mall’s would run you $17.74 a pack here in Massachusetts.

Past tense here too. I got into it a long time ago, I enjoyed the taste of top shelf cherry, not the cheap stuff at the grocery store. Both the wife and I liked the cherry smell. Got into carving my own for a while. Don’t recall why I stopped, may have just been the middle road between cigarettes and cold turkey. Like I said, it’s been a long time.

Most of the big sturdy full size kayaks I’ve seen weigh at least as much, if not more, than your boat. Think I’d do an internet search in your area and spend some time talking to a few dealers, worth a few phone calls.

If you re still interested… what are you looking to run with it? I’d suggest you end about MSW vs PSW inverters, I went with PSW so it’d run the electric blanket when camping in the cold, yes I’m a wuss now that I’m older, also for the wife’s hair dryer. The size is determined by what you want to run and for how long, the hair dryer on low is 800 watts, my 1000w inverter will just barely run it. Your batteries capacity will determine how long you can run. After a lot of reading I went with one of these PSW in the 1000w size, with 220 Ah of battery. https://www.magnum-dimensions.com/product-inverter/400w-12vdc-pure-sine-inverter-0 Originally I bought this little MSW 300w’er due to its quiet fan, which it is. Unfortunately I found MSW wouldn’t in the blanket and was way too small for the hair drier. Not a bad little unit. https://www.bestekdirect.com/300w-power-inverter big difference in $

Glad I ran into this thread, it makes me feel as if I’m not the only one where time’s taking its toll, me being 67. I fish a solo wooden 15’ canoe I built back in the 90’s, it weighed mid 40’s back then, add at least 6 double coats of varnish and who knows what it weighs now, at least that’s my excuse for it being harder to press. I carry it on the truck cap roof. With the addition of a thick gel cushion I fish about 5 hours from first light before my legs make me get off the water. I could probably get out and walk around some then hit it again, but there always seems to be other things that I want to do, 5 hrs is enough.

Back in the 70’s when I was at Lackland that also trained at least some security folks there. Had a couple guys in my flight that went from one side of base to the other when they graduated basic.

Where I fish that would be a beaver if it’s loud enough, at least all they do is scare the crap out of you. Otters on the other hand are bad news.

We had a team at work that went out a handful of times whenever it first came out. Everyone used guns handed out by the guys who ran it, boy did we suck. Thats what happens when you have all Air Force and Navy guys.

Every time. I fish to give me something to do while paddling around enjoying the solitude. Without fishing i’m only out for an hour or so, with fishing it’s most of the morning.

As a takeoff on the “how many rods, and what’s on them” thread, I’d be interested in knowing how many some of you own. I think I have 12, 4 of which are saltwater, oh ya, and 3 fly, so 15 total. And my wife busts my chops when I buy another. I get the feeling she figures 1 is all I should need.

For the most part I do not look them over. If I think they are over 3 lbs I’ll quickly weigh them and release. The only time I take a pic is if it’s a personal best, so it’s been a few years. I do take them of the grandkids if they get something decent. I don’t even keep track of how many I catch.

3 in the canoe, they change depending on the season, weather, and where I’m fishing.

Along with Deet, I carry a head net for the times the little buggers are terrible and nothing else will work. I use it a couple times a year. Head net

These. I did toss the sheath and the lanyard, they just get in the way when in a canoe. I wanted ones that would not rust, these are aluminum and “coated carbon steel” jaws, no rust so far. I do find the braid cutters are short lived so I don’t use them except to trim down plastics. When I need new ones I’ll get flat jaw, if I try to hold braid to tighten knots and such, it slides thru the serrated ones on mine. i had an expensive pair just like these, worked no better then these, and the darn jaws would rust all the time, oil or not. I’d only buy aluminum or SS.

You can buy the reels off eBay, something like $20 each, you could make a killing if you still have them. Although if you had sunk the $13 in the stock market in 1965 you’d have $13000, so maybe the reels weren’t a great investment.

I remember the old vinyl floor feeling tacky when my wife would spray the kids, in the kitchen.

I always carry a Deet product, never noticed the fish not biting. I am careful to rinse off my hands after using it, but that’s it.

And here I went from Leer to ARE for quality issues. Of course we’re talking 12 yers ago.