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The biggies for me are Home Depot and Lowe’s, fishing purchases pale in comparison.

Pretty much the same as the OP. I start paddling back to the launch site after “last cast” is called. A 10 or 15 minute trip may take an hour, the real last cast is normally a couple hundred feet from the launch, however long it takes me to get there.

Sometime reflex just kicks in, consequences be damned.

sure, but it posts messages when it can’t see your face. On occasion I drive with my hand at 12 o’clock, blocking the camera, it gets mad. The camera is mounted on top of the steering column, just aft of the wheel..

When I was younger I’d go out as long as there was no ice, granted I didn’t catch any fish, but it’s always nice to get out. 30 years later, FUGETABOUTIT.

mediocre at best The ponds I’ve fished for 25 years are getting more and more pressure, with the expected results. I do okay in numbers but the biguns are in hiding or just plain gone. Health issues closed my season for the year in August.

Just got a 26 Camry “hybrid”. Arch Enemy, driver monitor camera that you can almost turn off. small stuff Lane change assist, flat out useless, worse, it gets in the way. I get alarms for unknown reasons, by the time I look down at the gauges the alarms gone. How the heck do you use the radio, regular old am/fm radio??? So far the auto wipers are not worth using, they seem to keep sensing rain after it stops. I’ve only driven it at night once so far but the auto brights seems to work better then the 2020 Honda we got rid of, time will tell. I preferred non auto on the Honda.

I’m on my 3rd occurrence of trigger finger but no mallet finger, yet.

Suppose you could hold it underwater and find out, it’ll cost you a re-arming kit to do so. Kind of like a parachute, you don’t really know till you actually need it. i use both, the inflatable in warm weather, the foam one when it’s colder.

I’ve tried a few kinds of polish on old t shirt material, on dull or dirty blades they all work, if it doesn’t I replace them.

I got one of those heebee geebee feelings just thinking about it. Proud member of Wimps anonymous.

Yep. Can’t count the number of times I’ve gone back to the same spot 2 days later with the exact same baits at the same time of day and got nada.

Best I can do is know where they were last time.

Other then the odd noises that get you when by yourself out in the dark I had some sort of snake trying to get in the canoe, darn thing was lifting it’s head up near high enough to get over the gunwales. All I could think about was what the hell do I do if it gets in.

I can get away with mulching the smaller leaves but once the oaks start, forget about it. It’s like trying to mulch paper plates.

I have a Huskvarna 580BTS, biggest I could get, I suppose it would be considered heavy. Yes, it does a great job, however it can be a hassle to start if you don’t do a yearly PM, and after an hour or so my neck starts to scream. I do appreciate the power, I’ve got a lot of trees that seem to drop leaves over a prolonged period. For my needs I wouldn’t go smaller. i do have a Stihl BGA86 battery job that I use all year, works well for little jobs but no way it could do the whole yard. Cons: it’s all plastic, meaning the switch is cheesy. I have to take it in for cleaning once or twice a year.

I find a Get-A-Grip indispensable in the canoe or golf cart.

In the $20 range, surf casting big swim baits and such. More then once the lure flew a lot farther then the line, you generate a lot of torque winding up and tossing a 4 oz bait with a 12’ rod. Blues steal a lot too. Don’t have any $$$ lures for freshwater.

Sort of the same, I bought 2 of them, the one I use a lot is having a hard time cutting braid after maybe 3 years. I use them on the water April thru October roughly once a week. The best part is they are impossible to lose.

I’d sure be more comfortable. More fish?, who knows, though after spending that kind of $ I’d probably spend more time on the water.

looks like Pennywise. Scariest was some sort of snake trying to get in the canoe, hard to run if it gets in. 2 mink playing on the waters edge about 10’ away. 4 otters at one time, in a small pond. A log that I pushed away with my hand to find out it was the biggest snapper I’ve seen.

In the same boat I let out roughly 3’ or 4’ after it hits the bottom, works for me. When I drop the anchor I want to stay where I am, not 20’ away.

If I didn’t use an anchor, and yes sometimes 2, I wouldn’t fish. I use shot filled pvc to avoid getting one snagged. Of course I’m in a canoe so I have room for such.

As a kid we had a gas reel type, had to wrap the pull rope around the spool to get it running. It was power driven and would eat anything it ran into, you had to push down on the back to lift the drive wheels so you could drag it backwards. I tried looking for pics but didn’t turn up anything. Used a manual reel when we lived in Omaha, the yard was less then a 1/4 acre. 60 years later I use a Bad Boy ZT, I actually enjoy cutting the lawn again. i used to be pretty anal about a green weed free lawn, then the town started banning water use every summer so I gave up. A guy down the street tried having a well put in so he could water, no luck.

Nice going. I wonder how many years it takes me to catch 1000 fish.