Long Mike

I use a 7' ML BPS Carbonlite rod, coupled with a Pfleuger Model 6720 President reel. It's a sweet combination for a very reasonable price.

You're almost right. The White River has its origin in Arkansas, but then flows Northward to Lake Tanneycomo and then into Table Rock lake; Both in Missouri. Table Rock then flows back South to Arkansas's Bull Shoals lake. We will be fishing Tanneycomo. I was incorrect in my OP.

According to the Mayan calendar, the end of the world will occur on December 21st. In preparation for such a traumatic event, Ghoti, RW and I are going trout fishing in Arkansas. Are any of you other folks making preparations for Armageddon?

Traveler, Bassin is Addicting is looking for a roommate.

WOW! We've got fourteen confirmed attendees, and we are still six months away! This could turn out to be the biggest turn-out in Road Trip history!

Great idea, but very few of us have a router.

My astral projection tells me that this thread is closed.

Wish me a happy anniversary. Forty-three years of nuptual bliss today.

Chips, glad to see that you two are going to try to make it. You'll have a blast!

Chips, it's up to you. If you want to fish with your wife, that's great. If you want to split up in order to meet and fish with more people, that's great also. One rule we insist on is that there are few rules.

You're going to need a bigger boat.

Man, that's a tough one. I guess I will have vote for OU. Landry Jones is playing like a man possessed, (550yds and six TDs last week-end.) Plus, OU has the home field. But, when those two teams take each other on, you just never know.

Whoops, I misread. Tulsa beat Houston the week before and beat UCF the week-end. Regardless, all of my teams won. If you want to include my error then 80% of the games were played this week-end, not 40%.

LSU beats Ole Miss OU beats Texas Tech OSU beats WVA TU beats Houston AND BEST OF ALL THE SAINTS BEAT THE RAIDERS! What a great week-end!

I'm very interested. PM sent.

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If you have no way of having a mechanic check out the outboard, don't touch it.

I'm part Native American, other than a hat, I seldom use protection.

Keep StarTron in the fuel tank. Put the water mufflers on the motor and start it every now and then. If you have an on-board charger, keep an eye on the water level of the batteries. And above all, trim the motor all the way down after every outing to enable all water to drain out of the motor. If the lake is frozen, don't bother going fishing. It there is two feet of snow in your driveway, and your snow-mobile doesn't have a tow hitch, don't bother going fishing.

My wife has been telling me for years that my tension knob is set too tight.

OK guys, we've beat this thread to death. Good night Irene.

Well, opinions are like a-holes. Everybody has one. For what it's worth, the Lowrance SI units use three separate transducers to obtain their sidescan and downscan images. The 'bird uses software to derive their downscan images. The Lowrance comes with the Fishing Hot Spots topo maps, but a number of other add-on options are available, including the Navionics high definition maps. I've seen comments on this board that the 'bird is easier to use, but it didn't take me long to come up to speed on my HDS-8. One of the things I really like about the unit is that you can network your bow and console units, so that if you set a waypoint on one unit, it shows up on the other. The other neat feature is that you can also network all the essential features displayed by your console gauges to display on your Lowrance head unit. Plus you get such neat stuff as fuel level, miles per gallon, gallons per mile, distance til empty. Of course you get an accurate GPS speed reading. My only complaint is the Lowrance has yet to come up with a device that will replace the console tachometer. Last, but certainly not least, are that the sidescan and downscan images are truly awesome. This technology completely obliterates standard sonar images while fishing.

Ghoti, you are always confused. http://www.tn.gov/en...ex.shtml#cabins

The Marine (in uniform.) There's also a double entendre here.

Root Beer, there's a chain of very well managed convenience stores here in Oklahoma by the name of QuikTrip that pretty much sets the gasoline price here and around Tulsa. They sell 2% of all gasoline sold in the U.S. so they have a more than significant clout in the market. A year or so ago one of the Principals of that company was asked why the gas prices were going through the roof. His response. "It's the speculators - the basstards!" It seems that the "natural" drivers of of gas prices, i.e. supply and demand, have completely broken down. These days, it seems like every time an OPEC member farts, the speculators land on it like flies