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All the tackle I bring can fit in a backpack -- even when I'm on the boat. And even then I only use about a quarter of that on any given outing. You can tell when I start getting frustrated because I start swapping out lures like a zoo monkey. I try hard to cull down, but then I find a new shiny thing, talk myself into revisiting the tackle I carry around, and the whole process starts anew. It's a problem. Honestly, if I only ever took a spinning rod, some jigheads, and a pack of straight-tailed worms, I'd do just as well on any given body of water* with a fraction of the junk to keep track of. *This is not to say that I'd do well, but I'd do about as well as I would with anything else tied on. YMMV

Lady, having seen your work in this thread, I don't think you're missing much.

Short lunchtime sesh. I called my shot with this fish. First time that's ever happened. Then later I caught a ride with this guy. One last fish to wrap up the night. Now I'm sitting here writing a little code and watching the X-Files.

Teensy little birthday dink.

Bro everything lives near that steam plant.

I hope everybody that works in dealership sales or sales management gets an ingrown toenail that just won't go away. I hope they stub that toe on the same doorframe every time they get up at night to visit the head.

I've never caught a tilapia, and I don't reckon we have them up here (yet, or I expect that @TnRiver46 would've mentioned it by now). But I wouldn't eat them, either. Any tilapia I've ever eaten has about as much flavor as a sheet of cardboard.

The (factory) wiring in my C5 (which is 22 years newer than your Z28) is a bloodbath that I'm still working through. Rusted grounds, brittle insulation, bad/burnt sockets, burnt resistors in the interior controls, the whole bit. I don't say this to try to turn you off of your project, but to prepare you for what you might encounter as you tuck into the project. If I were you, the very first thing I'd do is take a dremel with a wire wheel to every single ground I could find in that car. Get all the rust off them, make sure the connections are tight, and then reevaluate. Electrical gremlins will ride you into the ground if you let them. 2nd gen F-bodies are rad. Be methodical, plan the work, and you'll be fine.

If the wind turns my fastball cast into a slider down and away, I'm just gonna go on to the house.

I have my doubts that there exists such a thing as a Youtube video that doesn't encourage the user to SMASH THAT LIKE BUTTON (and don't forget to subscribe) anymore. *horn sounds*

Might could be something in the tach wiring. Bad power/ground, bad filter on the wire set, stuff like that. It's entirely possible that the tach itself is bad.

Pretty sure it was before our time, now consigned to the annals of Wikipedia. That was also the second season in which the forward pass was a legal play.

They truly did, though. Outscored SIAA opponents 250-29.

Wasted effort. The kind of people that will listen to a technician's recommendations are not the kind of people that bring neglected or misused vehicles to the shop in the first place.

It's like reeling in a cinder block. I love catching them.

If you ever find yourself using a dropshot, the minnow would be a banger.

Wholly depends on the kind of day I'm having, and whether I feel like being stupid or not.

It's Ethan from Online Outdoorsman Fish Anything's little lure and jighead company. The Donkey Tail is my problem solver*, and I wanted to try the Jr. version for panfish. I haven't tried the minnow before, but I do a lot of fishing with short straight tail worms on the river, and thought it'd be a fun pickup. Check 'em out. *That specific lure, on a trip with @TnRiver46 during a white bass run is what put a boat in my driveway. SWMBO looked at me halfway through the trip and said "We should get a boat!"

The bait monkey doesn't have the hold on me that he maybe used to, but I did do a small bit of shopping the other day that's just come in.

Good. Bury them.

When I'm out fishing for smallies with my rod arsenal, I like to pack only sandwiches slathered with TRD™ brand NEDsauce (made with real elaztech). However, I've discovered that, if I apply the NEDsauce to the bread against the current, or with too irregular a stroke, my whole face just catches on fire. Anybody else ever experienced this? How do I keep my face from catching on fire?

I was just thinking about how jealous I was that I don't have the opportunity to shiver over a hole cut in the ice for hours on end.

They might have accidentally made a couple decent lures at some point.