I need to rake leaves, clean gutters, vacuum my truck...then I will test cast my new rod.

[Darth-Baiter]

last evening, coming home from a 2500 mile road trip, I saw my home.  it looked like the trees all puked on my yard.  epic leaves.  

 

I am just sipping my coffee until I feel I can fire up the leaf blower and not wake anyone up.  my truck?  yea.  we brought my dog along and the hair will choke a cat.  plus my wife had a potato chip "incident".  grrr.

 

now my rod.  MegaBass Triza Dragoon.  I am gonna put my Daiwa SV on it and let it rip with a practice plug.  it comes with two tip sections and I think I will try the regular taper tip.  I'm never going to buy a dedicated reel for the thing since it is my travel rod option, I figured I would alway poach a reel from another rod.

 

the cool sales person waved me off of the Triza StymPaleides after I told him I wanted to use it for Brazil.  when I asked when they would get more Dragoons in stock, him and his boss (in unison) both said, "hopefully this summer".  whaaaa?  they eyeball each other and one of the guys produced a demo rod at a steep discount.  SOLD!!  it is still pristine and one trip on my kayak next weekend will tarnish it anyways.  

 

it is a beautiful rod.   almost too good looking.  hahaha...I can't wait to cast the thing.

 

 

 

[Gera]

Lucky you, for me is 6 months of cold weather.. 

[Darth-Baiter]

i had no idea how much leaves were around my home.  luckily i got a chance to talk to the hot neighbor to borrow her green bin :D.  i stuffed her bin.  and that is not a euphemism for anything.  i had to climb into the bin to stamp down the leaves.  i was too tired to even reach for the new rod.

[king fisher]

I have never heard of hair and potato chips keeping a pickup from driving to a fishing hole.  Maybe the wind will do the job of the leaf blower, besides they will just fall again, the same time next year. Remember your priorities. You have a new rod, that screams go fishing. 

[WRB]

PW’d

Tom

[Darth-Baiter]

12 hours ago, king fisher said:

I have never heard of hair and potato chips keeping a pickup from driving to a fishing hole.  Maybe the wind will do the job of the leaf blower, besides they will just fall again, the same time next year. Remember your priorities. You have a new rod, that screams go fishing. 

there is that.  but i just came off a 2500 mile road trip.  tired.

 

why clean truck.  two reasons.  one, i might be OCD.    two.  i cant go to work the next day covered in dog hair coming off my truck's interior.  i wear a lot of black. 

 

while it is so true the cursed leaves will simply fall again, the next day and for sure the next year.  it is my cross to bear.  well, until i hire a yard guy.   my next house purchase, i am going to stand in the yard and do a 360.  i am looking for crazy trees from the neighbors. 

[gim]

3 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

while it is so true the cursed leaves will simply fall again, the next day and for sure the next year.

My leaves were so freaking dry this fall that they would crumble when I tried to rake/bag them so I completely gave that up and just mulched them with my lawn mower instead.  It was so dusty doing that I had to put a mask on.  Hope that never happens again, the drought was about as bad as I've seen here.

[Big Hands]

To say I'm not a big fan of trees and the leaves they shed would be an understatement of epic proportions. Whatever you do, I recommend not mentioning the leaves that fall from trees on or near buildings around me. I'm liable to go on a rant, LOL.

 

I'd rather spend my time . . . I don't know. . . . fishing than doing yard work. 

[MidwestBassAttack]

On 11/28/2022 at 4:02 PM, Darth-Baiter said:

i had no idea how much leaves were around my home.  luckily i got a chance to talk to the hot neighbor to borrow her green bin :D.  i stuffed her bin.  and that is not a euphemism for anything.  i had to climb into the bin to stamp down the leaves.  i was too tired to even reach for the new rod.

The last time I stuffed my neighbors bin it cost me 3 years of maintenance!!! 

[Darth-Baiter]

11 hours ago, Big Hands said:

To say I'm not a big fan of trees and the leaves they shed would be an understatement of epic proportions. Whatever you do, I recommend not mentioning the leaves that fall from trees on or near buildings around me. I'm liable to go on a rant, LOL.

 

I'd rather spend my time . . . I don't know. . . . fishing than doing yard work. 

I am in your camp.  all the leaves are coming from my neighbors houses.  I do understand the love for SHADE, but the fall puke is too much.  grrrr...

 

rain is coming tonight.  I got up there and double checked my leaf count, cleaned again.  I am ready. bring it clouds.  bring it. 

8 hours ago, MidwestBassAttack said:

The last time I stuffed my neighbors bin it cost me 3 years of maintenance!!! 

"set-serve". 

 

"SPIKE!" by MidwestBassAttack.  hahahhaha..

[TOXIC]

And I sit here frozen in anticipation of an upcoming end of January trip to Fellsmere/Headwaters/Stick Marsh in Florida.  Paid the neighbor kid $50 to blow all the leaves off the cliff my house is built on, took all of my reels to my buddy for cleaning and inspection and made reservations for 2 cabins.