12poundbass

That sucks. Hoping the drive isn’t far, but there isn’t squat around you. I always had to go an hour into Grand Rapids for mine and I’m not as far out as you guys are. Hoping Her down time is minimal.

48 and raining all day. Tomorrow the bottom drops out and the temperature plunges to the upper teens with windchills around 2. I think I might break out the long legged under britches! ?

Glad to hear you got out on the water. Fishing always makes for good therapy.

This 430,000 square foot building went up in smoke last night. Ten fire departments responded. The fire will continue for another couple days. Last week there was a building that was over 120 years old that burned down. Our little towns aren’t used to this kind of action.

Mine wasn’t damaged on the outside. The crystals just went bad.

I’m not laughing at you, I’m laughing with you sir. ?

Here’s what mine looked like.

Posted the pic on the wrong thread. Mods can you please delete the pic?

I had the same image on a Garmin unit that I traded for this summer. The crystal is damaged.

Next time you arrest a drug dealer take his scale. Problem solved. You’re welcome. ?

It’s nice that they do provide them. I love my Garmins.

They make (or used to anyways) marker buoys with a blinking lights on top, we used those for walleye fishing.

Battling and beating cancer changed my whole life. I was 19 and lucky enough to be in the children’s hospital for treatment. The kids always had smiles on their faces, were always giggling, and playing. Almost all of them had it worse than me. Rarely do I get stressed, not much gets me down, and very rarely does anything or anyone get the best of me. My wife sometimes wonders if I’m all there upstairs. I just tell her I’ve been given a second chance on life and I’m going to make the best of it. So far after 18 years I’m doing a pretty good job of making the best of it. It sounds like you are too.

Well done sir!

The lake froze over last night and as you’ve posted we’re in for some frigid temps next week so 137 days (a little sooner for me) can’t come soon enough. As fast as the days and weeks are going by 137 days doesn’t seem so far away.

The decent temps were fun while they lasted. It’s to buckle down and freeze our hind quarters off.

Can they strike up a finalized deal like this in less than 24 hours? I honestly don’t know. You’d think something like this would take some time, negotiation, and lawyers to get it done. Matt brought it up Wednesday 24 hours prior. The timing of this does make you wonder, but I have to believe it’s more involved than just hit ‘print’ and sign said document.

They have no legal responsibility, moral that’s a different story. What about the Costa guys? Same thing happened to them, the college kids who earned their way, the international competitor. There’s more than just this kid. Where do you stop? I truly believe that’s their problem is where do they (MLF) draw the line? Yes there’s a bunch of billionaires who own this, but at the end of the day it’s still a business. It’s very unfortunate and hopefully they’ll make things right in some way shape or form, but it still isn’t their fault.

The older I get the less tolerant I am of winter, however I still can’t deny the beauty winter can bring. We got some freezing rain Sunday morning that switched to 4 inches of heavy wet snow that resulted in the snow covering the trees. Right out of a Thomas Kinkade painting.

“Fecal consuming smile” I like it, well done!

It sounds like they’re listening to the masses. I wonder how this will change the events leading up the the new event.

This could be interesting and change things up a bit. https://majorleaguefishing.com/featured/major-league-fishing-adds-heavy-hitters-to-the-2020-bass-pro-tour-schedule/

Basically he new during the second event he made a mistake and wanted out. He missed the five biggest format, the fans, being able to talk to his fellow anglers. It cost him (or his sponsors) $50k to get out of his contract. His sponsors supported him going to BPT, but we’re ecstatic he was going back to the Elites. BASS welcomed him back with open arms and MLF/BPT weren’t to happy about him leaving. When asked why he went to BPT he said a bit of peer pressure and the short time given to decide (I found that kind of a weak cop out). You could tell he wasn’t happy.

It was a pretty good interview. He made some valid points why he didn’t like it that I hadn’t thought of before.

Rub it in why don’t ya. ?