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I've been carrying a spare prop (and one for the trolling motor) and plastic prop wrench for years. Haven't had to use it yet. But one time, after changing a prop at home, I added a small 2x4 block to the boat's tool kit... it was needed to jam/stop the prop so the nut can be loosened.

This was open water yesterday...

We bottomed out at -16˚F. Nearby Glens Falls (which is south of me) hit -22˚F, according to the National Weather Service webpages. It's supposed to be single digits today, but then back up into the high thirties all next week. We've had a very warm winter. Last night was our first below-zero weather for the season.

I've winter camped in New Hampshire's White Mountains before (snowshoe backpacking in Lincoln Woods) and I'm glad I'm not there now! Currently -14˚F at my location with winds gusting to 31 MPH; forecasted to hit -17˚F before starting back up into the positive single digits as tomorrow's high temp. ? Every time the furnace kicks on, I hear my supply of $5/gallon heating fuel going up in smoke... ☹️

I'm about 75 miles north of you in Whitehall.

The forecast for my area: This Afternoon Mostly sunny and cold, with a high near 3. Wind chill values as low as -26. Blustery, with a northwest wind 18 to 20 mph, with gusts as high as 30 mph. Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around -20. Wind chill values as low as -39. Northwest wind 11 to 17 mph, with gusts as high as 36 mph. -20˚ sucks. Plain and simple. Add wind up to 36MPH and it really sucks.

You prefer your sushi NOT to be fresh? ? ?

I "discovered" fish sauce recently and now use it often. I also learned that it is a lot like balsamic vinegar as far as quality/taste goes... there is the cheap stuff, which is "OK" and the good stuff, which is "Great!"

I live in a small town with only a few pizza joints. When one of them had first opened, I called to order a pizza to go and included anchovies as one of the toppings. The girl who was working that night told me if I wanted anchovies on my pizza, I'd have to go there and put them on myself, because she wasn't touching those gross things. ? (That place has since gone out of business.) Like fish oil, anchovies can be a great "secret ingredient" in lots of recipes.

Anchovies! I love them on pizza but hate paying so much for a tiny two ounce tin of them. A restaurant supply company moved into our town and I now buy a TWO POUND tin of anchovies for less than twenty bucks. Pretty much unlimited life the refrigerator. My home-made pizzas are now covered in anchovies! ?

Funny seeing this thread... I took a long look at canned mackerel in the grocery store this week, wondering what it was like. I've never tried it. I love tuna, sardines, kippered herring, pickled herring, etc. etc. As a matter of fact, I love pretty much everything. ?

How about a western with a twist... not a movie but a series of six vignettes that get progressively darker. Done like only the Coen Brothers do... The Ballad of Buster Scrugs. When I mention this movie to friends, it seems like none of them have heard of it, let alone seen it. According to the Wikipedia entry, it earned a bunch of awards: The film premiered at the 75th Venice International Film Festival on August 31, 2018, where it won the Golden Osella Award for Best Screenplay. After a limited theatrical run beginning on November 9, 2018, it was released on Netflix on November 16. The National Board of Review named it as one of its top ten best films of 2018. The film earned three nominations at the 91st Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Costume Design and Best Original Song ("When a Cowboy Trades His Spurs for Wings").

I get it! I always consider The Good, The Bad and The Ugly to be one of my all-time favorites but, when I watch it these days, it d....r....a....g....s along slowly; way more than I remember. Once Upon a Time In The West also does but to a lesser extent, I think. Still love 'em.

I'm surprised no one mentioned Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West or Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch...

I've been killing deer for forty years now. Where I hunt, the Winchester 30/30 I started with is all I would ever need but, as a shooting enthusiast, I eventually used a whole bunch of rifle and a few pistol calibers, as well as compound and recurve bows. As I get older, I want it to be easy. I have grabbed the Browning BAR in .270 for the last several years. When that gets too heavy, I might go back to the old 30/30! I do think the .270 is one of the ideal deer calibers (and there are many!). It's capable of some very long range work but yet won't blow them to pieces when shooting close in. The BAR gives me rapid follow-up capability when I'm swinging on that buck that goes roaring by, chasing a hot doe, and I shoot the first two trees that jump into the scope picture before I settle down. ?

I have an over-sensitve sniffer and cologne, perfume, scented soaps, scented candles, etc. make my head hurt! Back in the days when most laundry detergent was powdered and came in a box, I could hardly stand to walk down that aisle in the grocery store because of all that overpowering scent. When I was about twenty, a particularly hot and unknowing girlfriend gave me a bottle of Karl Lagerfeld. I tried wearing it a few times and remember getting complimented on it, but I didn't do it for long. As a matter of fact, that bottle is still in my bathroom cabinet, forty years later! I don't know why I haven't tossed it... maybe because it's fun remembering that girl and being in my twenties!

They are a huge favorite of mine and the change to take it from the Havoc line and put it in the Powerbait line surprised me. I wonder why? Why I am even asking... must have to do with profits somehow.

There is potential for a combination thread... "I asked someone about the big mole on their face and we got into a fist fight."

Gosh... I think euthanasia is the only course of action in that situation. Put 'em out of their misery and get 'em out of the gene pool! ? (I live in northern NY near a popular vacation lake. It is practically a normal occurrence to see vacationers fishing in the lake with giant saltwater spinning outfits, held upside-down. I'm used to it. Doesn't even make me twitch.)

Two fights in 61 years. ? I grew up as the baby in the family, with three older sisters. I did not get the extensive training in fighting when growing up that some friends who were also the babies of the families except who had older brothers got. First fight was about second grade or so. Local troublemaker showed up where my friends and I were playing in my folks' driveway. He started trouble and we started swinging wildly. I remember the surprise and the strangely satisfying feeling I got when one of my wild swings connected! Just then, the mom next door came over to break it up. The troublemaker told her, "Shut up you old bag!" and the rest of us almost fainted! We couldn't believe he said that to her! (My, times have changed.) He ran for home before she could get her hands on him. Second fight, I was in the Navy, in training at Ft. Ben Harrison, IN (Defense Information School; joint services). I was returning from the gym with my girlfriend when an Army guy said something rude to her. I told him to mind his manners. He said, "What are you going to do about it, Bozo?" I took care of business. Of course, I ended up in front of the Command Master at Arms. The problem was, the guy I took care of was of a different race, and his superior reported it as a "racial incident." Luckily for me, the Leading Petty Officer of my detachment witnessed the whole incident and cleared things up. And, as luckily, my girlfriend and I had just served as bartenders for that Command Master at Arms' wedding a couple of weeks previously. I dodged Captain's Mast on that deal. No problems that I recall in the forty or so years since then! Fun thread, DitchPanda!

I do almost all of my cold water fishing with a fly rod and most of my warm water fishing (70/30?) with bass tackle. I'd say I run into the same amount of elitism in each. That surprised me, actually. I guess I always expected some elitism on the trout streams, but I didn't expect it on the bass lakes from a few of the guys with big-dollar rigs, for instance. In either case, it's minimal and never bothered me much. As you get older, you realize that there is a certain percentage of people who spend their life trying to be seen as something (and "a real outdoorsman" seems to be a popular persona for these types to shoot for) rather than doing something because they truly love it. They want an image more than a hobby. You see it in hunting, the shotgun sports, fishing, etc. The folks who truly love the pastime are the ones who are fun to be around!

Jeff was one of a kind. RIP. And the way Tal used to fit around that bass is spectacular. ? Her current music doesn't appeal to me all that much, but the woman can play!

I have a hard time fishing slow. A 5:1 reel helps me do it when I need to. And a reel like that makes deep cranking easier, too.

Just plain awesome. ? ?

The local pickerel can't seem to resist small spinnerbaits. I love fishing the old Beetle Spin on BFS gear for panfish. I buy them by the carton because they get eaten by pickerel regularly.