Will Ketchum

Are your sunglasses polarized sunglasses?

It's puzzling if the electrical system is only a few years old but you have two prong outlets. A lot of Rube Goldbergs could have had their hands in the house in 120 years is my guess.

In a b I take Doxazosin to relax the prostate and it improves emptying so you don't get the urge every 15 minutes.

I thought of two more. We used to gain access to the river by parking alongside a road that fed a rural area. It was one lane more or less because it was along a steep rock-cut in the mountain, and one lane was adequate at the time. There were pull-offs out of necessity so cars going the other way could pull over so that's where we parked to fish. (My father helped with the construction during the depression with the WPA so we called it Pa's road.) Eventually the Dept of Transportation decided to widen the road and took away the pull-offs as part of the new road. No place to park = no place to fish. Another place was a small spring fed lake with absolutely crystal clear water. It was in the woods but we had to cross the corner of a homeowners property. They never complained but their beagle did but he kept his distance. Of course the lake and some property was bought by a lawyer from Philadelphia and he erected a fence around it and that was that.

My guess is it's a weather balloon studying upper air currents. If it came from mainland China, it followed the same path as their fossil fuel emissions traveling to the U.S.

There are two places I can think of that are unavailable anymore. One is a former water company reservoir that was a backup should it be needed. It was lightly fished and the bass and bluegills grew to a healthy size. When the water company decided to sell it, a nearby private community at another lake bought it to construct summer homes. Gone. Another was access to places on the Susquehanna river. We got to the river at that time using the railroad company property. We could cross the tracks or drive down the dirt road they used. From illegal dumping and ATVs probably it's now gated. Gone. It seems to be the trend anymore and fishermen end up at public areas trying to fish with 10,000 others.

The Susky has a problem with black spotting on SM too. https://www.outdoornews.com/2012/03/29/black-spots-on-pennsylvania-bass-worry-river-anglers/

I have 8.1 on my laptop which I still intend to use. I bought a reconditioned desktop from a place in Texas through Walmart with Windows 10 for only $140 plus state tax. I'm happy with it. It will be supported till October 2025.

I recently turned 80. I feel like I'm sitting on the high perch of what's called time; looking down at those who are younger, and watching them doing the same stupid things I did and having the same attitudes, and I smirk. It's funny to watch.

I don't need anymore rods than the ones I have already. Some I have had for so long that there is a certain nostalgia connected to them. One in particular is a fiberglass rod I bought while in the service in the 60s that I landed my PB LM with. I still use occasionally. Others too I can connect with certain events.

It was around high school age or maybe a little later. Myself and a buddy got in a fight over I can't remember what. I remember getting it in the face and I got him, and then we went our separate ways mouthing off at each other. It didn't take long to get over it and still remained friends.

Many years ago the PA Fish Commission did a filleting demonstration with perch at a mall. I had read about filleting in fishing magazines, but seeing it done live and in front of me made it all seem so easy while the magazines did not.

With the prevalence of fallfish, maybe the bass are so full of fallfish that they see no point in going after artificials.

I wasn't sure so I looked it up. Therefore, gizzard and threadfin shad, being filter feeders, would out-compete bluegill for food, causing a decline in the bluegill population, both in number and quality, and a corresponding decline in the bass population.

Ray's Bait & Tackle was located in the next town. He had previously worked at another tackle shop which closed down, so he opened his own. He started small and expanded, and his mother Marge eventually spent the most time there when Ray found a more lucrative full time job. I still have loads of stuff I bought there. You all know how diverse fishing tackle is so I asked Marge how she knew what she had and where it was. She pointed to her head. Eventually they closed when many customers started going to big box tackle shops. She told me she herself went to Dicks to check up and found some of her former regulars. Marge had a going out of business sale and I bought what I could. I left trying not to tear up, no joke. Marge passed away and the store is back to being part of the residence as far as I know. There is one more around the corner where I live but it's primarily for live bait with a little tackle.

My goal is to re-visit some places that I have not been to for a long while. I've gotten in a rut just fishing the nearby river and the state park lake which are less than ten minute drives. The others are in the range of an hour's drive. Of course, that's what I said last year and didn't.

The hit he took didn't look that severe. There have been worse and the players got up and went back to the game. Maybe he has an underlying condition. Assuming he gets back to 100%, I wonder if he'd play again or even want to.

I started using reader glasses in my 40s but eventually had to get prescription bifocals. I had trifocals when I worked because I needed that intermediate range for the job. The good thing about an optometrist visit isn't only the glasses but getting checked for eye disease. I have glaucoma in the left eye and now take drops for it.

Welcome

I didn't fall in the water in 2022.

If you're fishing catch and release it's probably a good idea to go barbless. I know I wouldn't want all that ripping and tearing in my mouth.

"Deep water is the home of the fish" is basically a catch phrase. They could be feeding anywhere. I was fishing an exceptionally clear lake from shore and spotted a pair of LM slowly cruising the shallows and turning toward the weedy shoreline like they were hunting for something.

If there is no manufacturer's name on it, it could just be a cheap copy.

After ice out I'll see bluegills in the shallows but they won't bite till May when spawning. I'll be fishing SM in the river about the same time. I don't go for trout anymore. It's a zoo around opening day.

Are you tempted to try it out?