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[Jigfishn10]

15 hours ago, CountryboyinDC said:

I hope you work hard all week to deserve all this galavanting all weekend!

He locked up a couple of threads last week and got free tix from bass resource..  

 

[BassNJake]

On 2/28/2022 at 7:59 AM, Jigfishn10 said:

He locked up a couple of threads last week and got free tix from bass resource..  

 

[Log Catcher]

[Jigfishn10]

It was bound to happen...

My county is the 2nd red. 

[slonezp]

Mother nature doesn't like bbq. Don't know if we had a micro burst or just wind last night. Was woken up in the middle of the night by a "freight train" sound that lasted less than a minute. 

 

[Way north bass guy]

29 minutes ago, slonezp said:

Mother nature doesn't like bbq. Don't know if we had a micro burst or just wind last night. Was woken up in the middle of the night by a "freight train" sound that lasted less than a minute. 

 

Maybe you have a vegetarian ghost in the neighbourhood ? 

[Jigfishn10]

Cold day yesterday but a great day for a bean pot slow baking in the oven. Here’s the last of it:

 

[12poundbass]

3 hours ago, slonezp said:

Mother nature doesn't like bbq. Don't know if we had a micro burst or just wind last night. Was woken up in the middle of the night by a "freight train" sound that lasted less than a minute. 

 

I can’t imagine it was just the wind, those (as you know) aren’t light! 

[slonezp]

43 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

I can’t imagine it was just the wind, those (as you know) aren’t light! 

I have to imagine with a full hopper and the propane tank for the sear box, that set up weighs over 200lbs. I've had some 70mph winds out of the south/southwest in the past that never flipped the grills. There are 6 townhomes as part of my unit and everyone's grills were flipped. The pellet grill seems like it still works. I got everything dried up. and fired it up. The hopper cover is bent but I can live with that. There's grease on the inside the cover, I can clean that up once it gets warmer.

[12poundbass]

1 hour ago, slonezp said:

I have to imagine with a full hopper and the propane tank for the sear box, that set up weighs over 200lbs. I've had some 70mph winds out of the south/southwest in the past that never flipped the grills. There are 6 townhomes as part of my unit and everyone's grills were flipped. The pellet grill seems like it still works. I got everything dried up. and fired it up. The hopper cover is bent but I can live with that. There's grease on the inside the cover, I can clean that up once it gets warmer.

I’d guess it was a micro burst and maybe it got between the houses and was amplified like a big wind tunnel? I know in downtown Grand Rapids the wind gets between those big buildings and the pressure has nowhere to go and it seems to be more intense down some of those streets. 

[slonezp]

Just now, 12poundbass said:

I’d guess it was a micro burst and maybe it got between the houses and was amplified like a big wind tunnel? I know in downtown Grand Rapids the wind gets between those big buildings and the pressure has nowhere to go and it seems to be more intense down some of those streets. 

You need to come to Chicago. When the wind is blowing off the lake and gets funneled thru the skyscrapers, it can get quite blustery. Especially during the winter. 

There used to be a row of trees behind the house. The removed them because of Dutch Elm Disease. They planted new trees 6 or 7 years ago and it's going to take another 6 or 7 years to get shade and some wind protection from them.

[slonezp]

Anyone need a mask?

 

[12poundbass]

2 hours ago, slonezp said:

Anyone need a mask?

 

Street cred! 

[GreenPig]

I'd rather be in my boat.

[12poundbass]

4 hours ago, GreenPig said:

I'd rather be in my boat.

Well it’s better than throwing square bails around. I never had the luxury of a tractor and round bails. It seems that the hay would always show up on the hottest most humid day too, all 300 of them! I don’t miss that. 

[TnRiver46]

25 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Well it’s better than throwing square bails around. I never had the luxury of a tractor and round bails. It seems that the hay would always show up on the hottest most humid day too, all 300 of them! I don’t miss that. 

I’ve seen photos of @GreenPig in his playing days, I think he throws those onto a trailer like a sandbag one handed 

[bulldog1935]

We had a great weather window at the end of last week before the next freeze hit., and it will be warming up again this week. 

Here's the '85 Merc I show above, rebuilt to fit my 36" inseam, on it's maiden 24-mile break-in ride. 

My bike and kayak fishing buddy Lou has finally retired from the business world, and taken a part-time job with city parks, riding the greenways in 4-hour, 20+ mile shifts.  I met Lou at his shift-start trailhead and followed him.  Stopping at all the trailheads to check for vagrants, graffiti and broken glass made for both a good pace and good distance for my break-in ride, getting to know a new half-step triple on the grades, brakes, fit - all that stuff.

 

First couple of weeks, riding 25 miles on consecutive days was really hard on Lou - especially, there's so much terrain covering the expanse of the greenway system.
San Antonio has always been flood prone, and all the flood plains are park land, connected by trails that follow the creeks.
It's so neat, how close you can be to neighborhoods, malls, and downtown, and not be able to recognize it from the wooded trail.
There are 4 trail stewards assigned to every 10 miles in all daylight hours. Minimum wage, but a great part-time job.
I was impressed the other day how strong he rides now for 72-y-o.

Part of the job is talking to people, helping them with repairs. The trail stewards have to attend online classes for first aid, CPR, bike mechanics, etc. Garrulous Lou fits right in, interfacing with people is his best skill, and he loves it.

[GreenPig]

6 hours ago, bulldog1935 said:

We had a great weather window at the end of last week before the next freeze hit., and it will be warming up again this week. 

Here's the '85 Merc I show above, rebuilt to fit my 36" inseam, on it's maiden 24-mile break-in ride. 

My bike and kayak fishing buddy Lou has finally retired from the business world, and taken a part-time job with city parks, riding the greenways in 4-hour, 20+ mile shifts.  I met Lou at his shift-start trailhead and followed him.  Stopping at all the trailheads to check for vagrants, graffiti and broken glass made for both a good pace and good distance for my break-in ride, getting to know a new half-step triple on the grades, brakes, fit - all that stuff.

 

First couple of weeks, riding 25 miles on consecutive days was really hard on Lou - especially, there's so much terrain covering the expanse of the greenway system.
San Antonio has always been flood prone, and all the flood plains are park land, connected by trails that follow the creeks.
It's so neat, how close you can be to neighborhoods, malls, and downtown, and not be able to recognize it from the wooded trail.
There are 4 trail stewards assigned to every 10 miles in all daylight hours. Minimum wage, but a great part-time job.
I was impressed the other day how strong he rides now for 72-y-o.

Part of the job is talking to people, helping them with repairs. The trail stewards have to attend online classes for first aid, CPR, bike mechanics, etc. Garrulous Lou fits right in, interfacing with people is his best skill, and he loves it.

Nice. The rods holders on those bikes are very well concealed or don't exist and that just ain't right. I did see water along that trail, Right??

[bulldog1935]

@GreenPig unfortunately, that particular creek has been San Antonio's sewage and cholera route for 300 years. 

 

Here's my bikefish bike, for parking at county road crossings, elsewhere in the hill country, where cars aren't allowed to park. 

 

 

 

 

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, bulldog1935 said:

@GreenPig unfortunately, that particular creek has been San Antonio's sewage and cholera route for 300 years. 

 

Here's my bikefish bike, for parking at county road crossings, elsewhere in the hill country, where cars aren't allowed to park. 

 

 

 

 

Ok you’re the math guy, wasn’t San Antonio called Mexico 300 years ago? 

[bulldog1935]

@TnRiver46 it was still Mexico when John Power brought 400 families from Ireland and became the first impresario of Aransas and Refugio counties - half of them landed first on San Jose Island after running aground on the same shoal my dad has planted his boat a couple of times.  It was still Mexico when Jean Lafitte used to scrape off the Mexican Navy by sailing up my Cedar Bayou. 

 

My dad said, we'll fish here - the tide will be back. 

 

 

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and since a new page needs a photo - my dad, his boat, and San Jose Island. 

He shuttled us across big Aransas Bay to kayak Allyn's Lake while he drifted St. Joe shore, and picked us back up at noon. 

 

2nd cast of the morning - 1st cast was a bigger spec that tore the hook out on her second run

[BayouSlide]

 

A couple of biguns sharing a sunning log

[A-Jay]

 Yippee First Day of Spring ~ !

Wait what now ?

A-Jay

[12poundbass]

Not sure why we even bother making our bed. 
 

14 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

 Yippee First Day of Spring ~ !

Wait what now ?

A-Jay

Are those ATV’s out there? 

[A-Jay]

7 minutes ago, 12poundbass said:

Not sure why we even bother making our bed. 
 

Are those ATV’s out there? 

Yes it is  . . . 

The Perch Patrol in Action !

A-Jay