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How much are Hernia seats costing new ? I would yank the whole seat setup & put in a bow rider boat seat. Mine is has all 3 directions & a flip up front edge for docking or to change positions while running. You guys will be in wheelchairs & replacement joints later in life..........Fix the crap seat setups.

Could you show us what part of the EPA future changes you know will KILL E Techs again ? I know you know what you are saying since you are a sales manager for a boat dealer. But I still want you to show us how the Direct Injected 2 strokes are doomed.

My 4 day cold just broke. Feels great to be ABE. Normal...............

I am a old cranky Geezer !!................

I use a 5 turn Triline knot. New Cajun 4# & 8# slips a great deal. The 1/2 hitch saves me.

I simply put a 1/2 hitch on the end of the line. That DOES jam against any knot and prevent any slip offs. On my new braid I can just pull & jiggle the main line until the 1/2 hitch jams. done.

Shallow & weedy lake. In early spring? Going to be a parking lot on each weed clump. GPS On a paper map all the biggest weed beds With holes under them. The draw the best path to them with the least driving time. The guys should stir the place up if it is shallow enough.

Virus runs thru you. You either survive or not. Look at the massive side effects for any drug for anything. They take your money & tell you, you may become crippled or die for a skin fungus ?? Finishing up a nasty constant runny nose cold. Asked the dippy doctor for Codine to suppress my painfull cough. Crap I got was sugar water & no Codine. Wipe my butt with most doctors faces. Totally useless. $ 15 for nothing. Going to take the bottle back to the druggist & get my money. If he says she perscribbed that I tell her to pay me back. Tired of the white coated Witch Doctors screwing over me.

Get E R room treatment. Just like any illegal. Name & address only. Said I did part time garden labor for cash. I have balls.

First cheap little boat. Left the drain plug out on first launch..........It was by the hole inside luckily. AS the water came up thru the floor boards.

I am surprised at the # of people who trash good old reels. The only problems I ever had were Bail Springs & Bail bearings. That was it. I use the smaller spinners with 4# only all day everyday May 1 to Sept 20. Fished every free minute of my 77 years. Did I get the only good reels ? Had 1 spool wear out. That is it. Light fresh water duty. Salt water seperates the tough from the new & pretty in a hurry.

How many new 4 strokes will have ALL original parts 20 years from now ? 2 strokes ?

The wonderfull Yellow Perch . Easy to find, catch and eat. They have SHARP gill cover plates to cut your hand open. They are great above 10" long. Sweet white meat. I would add to the perch. The larger Walleye. If not the L & S bass. Then perch & walleye. Always

Gardnerjigman is close. I put into a freezer bag. 2.....1.5" rapala or Repela floater. 2 #2 Flicker Spinners. & a long doctors forcepe. ( Plier. ) So nice to carry in a pocket.

On some dark bottom bays they are biting very late. As long as bait moves in & out to feed. The bass will take top waters.

I Get carried away on learning something new. So I got the rythem down correct for me in open water. Then changed the trebles to weedless. More open water weedless practice. Then into pockets of reeds. The bass & pike were hungry . I used the 60# Ande mono. Had to lift the 9.9 hp & row or pole in to retrieve a lure with a hook stuck into a stem the size of my pinky. Well worth the retrival efforts. Note. The LM living at each reed pocket would bite anytime.

We have a back bay that was designed for L M. They are all over the area. Several different docks, weeds, dark organic mud bottom, reeds, Branches. Loads of Emerald Shiners there with other bait fish. The largemouths sit sideways to the early mourning sunlight. Pike smallie sunnies. Heck everything is just sunning. Until high noon. Then everyone disappears & you can catch fish on every cast for about 2 hours. Then it is all the survivors sunning under the docks again. No attacking each other.

The largest I have seen in a boat is a 6 in open water schools. The biggies are always under docks, boathouses & boats. Or backed into reeds. No way northern waters grow them as fast and big as down south.

You can do it with 1 rod & reel. Later in fly fishing I bought a 9 weight rod & a anti reverse, adjustable drag, Pflueger ? reel with 5 extra spools for different weight lines & different tip types. The #9 weight will handle standard sized pike & musky. By changing the tip type you can cast the lighter stuff VERY well in a breeze. The Winston #9 was pure pleasure to land anything in freshwater. Got antsy for saltwater Bought a #12 rod. Waste of money. I could do about 30 pickups at VERY short lengths. Almost no control of loading the rod. Found out The #12 is only for trolling. Buy & learn. LOOSE money. Gave it to a GORILLA who casts for stripers. Loves it. He casts that broom stick all day when the stripers are near shore.

In the Saint Lawrence River There are schools of Largemouths & schools of smallies. I leave the bass under the docks & boats & in boat houses for the Pro tournaments to catch. Deep lakes in N J also have schools of large mouths in open water. The first time I saw the 5 fish limit being dragged back to the boat launch I waved him down & asked. He said he regularly maxed out with the biggies. They only fed on the open water bait fish & would drive them to a raised mound in the center of the lake. We talked & he lalmost had tears when I told him about the big seaweed clump suspended With smaller clumps around it. He later taught me about deep water schools of large mouths.

Went to Rajeff for a explanation. Thanks for the technical wakeup . I use medium power & medium action in everything I buy. If available.

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I remember taking up fly fishing. Talk about spending money FAST. 40 years ago each tiny fly was $3 to $5. By the time you bought all *** most of the types & sizes you owned hundreds. Without anything for non trout fish. I still have 50 ? non trout flies. Thankfully I can tie up a Muddler Minnow in a 3" to 6" length. Funny . A game warden asked me if I was going to fish the Gorge regularly with a 6" Muddler. I said probably. Why? He said look at the end of the pool. Several big dead trout. Belly up. I asked what caused that ? I did. Was his answer.. Big trout are very shocky after a struggle on 4# test. I ramble terribly.

Remember all you old farts. The kids do not save money. So why should we ?

With braids. You need almost no hook set swings. Add in that I am barbeless. The fish is hooked easily. Keep a no slack line.. Rod vertical or bent back a little. If I lose a great jumper fish I accept that he was lucky or better than me. No problem & I enjoyed the contest. Catching perch for food. 10# test & big barbed trebles. Reel fast & in the boat. Cut the gill arteries to drain some blood out Into the big ziplock in ice water. Those are my 2 styles.