Fishing Rhino

Okay, try this. When you are on the "View new content page", and have cycled through them, rather than hitting the back button on the page, refresh that page by pushing the F5 key on the top row of your keyboard. It should just refresh that page without going back or opening a different page.

We're trying to fill in when you are away. However, none of us is up to the task.

I'm not sure why you go through all that, or what you are looking for when you open BR. My computer is set up so that BR opens to the forum section when I click on the shortcut. Then I can easily scroll to the section(s, and topic(s) of interest.

I'd recommend a switch near the battery in the positive battery cable. Turn it off when the boat is not being used. It will also deactivate the trim and tilt on your motor, so no one can play with it, and it will prevent rain from getting into the tilt switch and activating it. That's poor wording. It won't prevent rain or spray from getting into the switch, but it will prevent it from activating the switch. You definitely do not want that to happen when you are towing the boat. The transom saver can drop from the trailer and act like a vaulting pole on the lower unit. That could be very ugly.

Where do you keep your boat? In a shelter, garage, under trees, in the open? The best thing you can do to make your carpet last is to keep it clean and dry. If you keep it outside, under or near trees, the black could be mold and/or sap. Your best friend is a wet or dry vacuum cleaner. When you've been fishing in the rain, use the vacuum on your carpet. It should leave the carpet slightly damp to the touch, not wet. If it's left outside, the sun can cause damage to the carpet. On a nice sunny day, open all the hatches. Bilges are usually damp places, and the best thing you can do is to ventilate them regularly. Bass boats typically get a lot of sand on them, which settles into the carpet's fibers. That's why vacuuming thoroughly, particularly when they are drenched, will remove a lot of that grit which can wear a carpet. Just think of the high traffic areas in your home that are carpeted. A boat is even worse because you deal with the elements more so than carpets in a home. Use the crevice tool or one of the smaller tools such as the one you'd use on upholstery, and move it slowly. It may take you a half hour or more to do a thorough job, but your deck carpeting will reward you with a much longer lifetime. I would not even attempt to affix a mat to he carpet in the areas that are most prone to wear. All you will do is create a moisture trap that will be near impossible to get dry.

Yep, Brian is the other. He got a promotion at work which has him out straight. We are going to try to get together for a long weekend at Champlain this summer.

Electrical tape can make a nice tourniquet or a pressure bandage. A bit of gauze over the wound, then a couple or three wraps of electrical tape, stretch it as you go, will staunch about everything but a hemorrhage. In that case, you can make the tourniquet.

Regarding a trolling motor on the bow of a canoe. I don't think I'd care for it, and here's why. On a breezy day it's very easy to hold position by putting the motor in reverse, and then holding it there by selecting the appropriate speed. In addition, it's also very easy to "slide" the canoe from side to side with a little steering input. The breeze sets the bow downwind. It allows you to cast totally unobstructed. With a trolling motor mounted on the bow, and you facing forward, you'll have to cast into the wind.

After a warm couple of days, and a warm rain last night, most of the snow is gone.

Manny? We have many fellows named Manny around here. It's a very popular Portuguese name.

I think you are referring to the canoe in my avatar. Yes, it hold eight rods, but six or seven would be better. The reels have to be staggered, and even then a handle can grab an adjacent rod. A cord attached to a tackle bag/box or two is used to retrieve them. They are then pushed forward with the paddle. There is more than adequate room beneath the rods for a cooler, tackle, and the fish finder. The rod tips all fit beneath the small foredeck and rails, so that you can run the canoe into the reeds and such without having a rod tip snagged and broken. Low hanging branches are another matter because the tip of a branch can find its way between a rod and its line. There are pegs situated between the rods and at the bottom of the cross member. A bungee can be passed over a rod, beneath the peg, over the next rod, beneath the next peg until all rods are secured. The forward rod support also has a bungee but it just passes over all the rods and is then secured to a low mounted screw. A word to the wise. If you do something like the canoe in my avatar, keep a bungee secured over the rods at the front of the cross member. If you do tip your canoe, you won't have all your rods on the bottom of the pond. You can trailer it or carry it in the back of a pickup with all the gear safely stowed in the canoe. That's my paddlin' canoe. I have a larger canoe with a similar rig, but since I fish quite often with another in the boat, I don't have it mounted. I have a trolling motor and swivel seats with backrests in the larger canoe.

I'd tell a story, but how do you follow up on that expedition?

Batten down the hatches. Put up the storm doors and windows. Then hunker down for the duration.

Doing the math, what really tells the story is how many cubic feet of snow you moved. That would be the 2040 square feet X 2 feet (average) deep = 4080 cubic feet. Now, that's impressive. Factor in the drifts and the amount of snow you actually moved is even larger.

Are you sure that Tabby didn't think he was removing clumps from the litter box?

In my best native American English, "How", which means hello, or at least it did in all the westerns I saw when I was a kid. Are Bryan and Cathy talking about plastic worms? If so, then yes, they are not all the same. I think you should check with Gary Yamamoto. He has made and sold more plastic worms than anyone else. Hope this helps. English is a strange language. There are all sorts of rules regarding the proper use of English. The problem is, there are exceptions to every rule. For example, in spelling, the rule is "I" before "E", except after "C", or when the word is pronounced with a long "A" as in sleigh or weigh, or when the word is seize or siege. The ei or ie is pronounced as a long "E". See what I mean?

You can never have too much information. Sometimes, it will save you money. My lobster boat had an 8-71 Detroit Diesel for power. The instrument panel had a fuel pressure gauge. Every hundred hours we'd change oil and all the filters. The fuel first entered a Racor fuel filter/water separator. From there it went through a two stage fuel strainer/fuel filter to the fuel pump. On the output side of the fuel pump was the connector to the fuel gauge. The fuel pressure would never drop in the first hundred hours. In fact it ended up that they only needed to be changed after three hundred hours. I installed a vacuum gauge between the last filter and the fuel pump. It was amazing how much vacuum the pump would pull before the fuel pressure would drop. The vacuum gauge was a much better indicator of the filters beginning to get clogged. When the pressure gauge started to drop, even just a few pounds, the end was near. When I realized that, I changed all the fuel filters as soon as the vacuum gauge began to rise. Depending on the fuel and how much fishing we did in hard weather (it sloshed the fuel in the tanks, putting sediments into suspension) the fuel filters got changed every three to five hundred hours. It cost about seventy five bucks per set of filters. In the course of a season, that vacuum gauge saved me about seven hundred fifty buck, plus the time it took to change them.

Sometimes, that works best. Apparently the exposure is center weighted, meaning that it makes the best exposure for the center. The bright sun reflection from the house automatically set it with a fast shutter speed, which is why the sky, trees and surrounding areas are underexposed. Apparently, you are like me. Take a lot of pictures and end up with a few good ones. In this case, an outstanding photo.

In two weeks, we're off to Daytona for the races, followed by a visit to our daughter in GA. When we get home, it will be about four weeks to my annual trek to Pickwick Lake with a fishing buddy. Those four weeks will give me time to get some yard work done, and to check on the local fishing. I'll be home May first or second. After that, it will be fishing, fishing, and more fishing. Hoping to get to go fishing with more of you, and to resume fishing with those I met last year. My two regular fishing buddies are out of the picture. One moved to South Carolina, and the other got a promotion at work which requires more of his time, leaving less for family and fishing.

It looks like that is a time exposure, taken on a clear night with a full moon. The lighter, far horizon seems to be the last vestiges of light on the horizon at sunset. It the source of light for the photo was the sun, then the surrounding trees would be lit up. But they are dark. The house and the surrounding snow being white does a good job of reflecting the moonlight. The trees, not so much.

Read the article. I'm curious about one thing. Why do they think snow gets heavier when it melts?

Put some lights on the house to go with the wreaths and you've got a Christmas Card, or a photo for a calendar (January or February).

Why no love for Hong Kong Phooey?

Yes, but you have to wait a while to get it.

How was I affected? I wasted a lot of time making preparations, just in case. The power never even blinked. We never lost the connection to satellite television. What did I learn? That the guy at the hardware store who told me that 1/4 twenty bolts could be used in place of the standard shear pins on my snow blower was wrong. Last year when we got over a hundred inches of snow, I only replaced three shear pins. I went through about ten standard bolts when I got into the slush (not frozen) that the town plows deposited in front of our mail box and at the end of our driveway. Alas, better too weak than too strong. Off to the John Deere dealer today for a supply of the original equipment shear bolts.