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I'm doing my best to get to 500 clams for the season - should be able to do that. The last two tournaments have kicked my ass. I watch Tommy's video, make some notes and try to really grind but I just can't seem to shoot more than -10 or -11 which ain't gonna get it. Some of it has to do with flubbing at least one tee shot per round with a good/great hit where a perfect is needed, but some of it also seems to be I need a driver with more length off the tee. Pretty much everyone I get matched with has EM 7 or 8 while I'm still using a EM 5. The distance makes a huge difference on a couple of "must eagle" holes in every tourney. I still haven't unlocked the Big Topper either, which Tommy has called for on at least one hole in the last two tournaments.

Man, there was so much teeth gnashing and ink spilled over the unmasking "scandal" that it's pretty incredible it will die with a whimper. I wonder if the Federalist society will also quietly take down the entire webpage they had dedicated to explaining this BS?

Great stuff, thank you for sharing.

I’ve seen a lot of people paddle it out in a ‘yak if they are fishing with a heavy weight and bait.

$.40 in winnings for me in week one.

Those guys are animals. Paddle a float trip with some PITA clients for 5 or 6 hours and then head back upstream to put in again and fish with some buds under the moonlight. I go out and throw top water frogs at night on the lake I live on -basically fishing by sound only- and the blowups are infrequent but very exhilarating. I can't imagine doing that with trout, it's going on my bucket list.

These people are f'n weird. Attracted to Pence!? What in the actual F?

The guides in WY talked a lot about floating the New Fork and the Green at night, with a cooler of beer and some hippy lettuce, and throwing mice. Sounds terrible.

0%. We were with a local guide who had the lease. I think it was these guys: https://www.tworiversfishing.com/ I highly recommend them if you are in the area and need to use the John.

He’s not well.

I signed up as well using your link Eddie.

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She looks crazy af.

Two days stick out in my mind: -1995 or 96, down in Rockport. We put in at The Sand Dollar (Now Alice Faye's?) and went across to Paul's Mott to wade fish. We hopped off the boat with our bait buckets and scooted around to the back lakes to see tailing reds everywhere. Picked up quite a few good ones there before the fish scattered and we headed back out to the mouth of the cut. We posted up at the mouth just as the water started moving and caught a shit load of fish until we all rain out of bait. I think the biggest one I caught was 26" or so. I can't even remember what time of year it was, but we were free shrimping and I don't think I've ever been on a redfish bite that good since then. -August 2014, fly fishing on Faler Creek outside of Pinedale, WY. My boss grew up in Pinedale and had a high school buddy that got us on this small water out in the middle of nowhere. We had to hike across a bog for almost a mile to get to what looked like very small water to me at the time. It wasn't very wide, but it had deep cut banks that we threw streamers at all day. I was still new to fly fishing and didn't realize how kick ass of a spot it was - I caught 5 or 6 Rainbows over 20" with the biggest being 24"ish and missed god knows how many other fish. It was just one of those days, on almost every cast you'd see the flash of a fish screaming out from underneath the cut bank. If I'd have known more about how to present/strip the streamers I probably would have caught another 15 fish over 20". I've been fly fishing at least once every year since then and still have not come anywhere close to having another day that good. We are planning another trip up there next August/September and I'm hoping we can get back out on Faler Creek again.

This is spot on. Not only is he going to potentially torch one of the very few things he can tout - the stock market - he's also boxing himself in to make sure all of the blame lands at his feet.

So much this, wtf is he thinking!? In what world is this a political win?

For sure! I was planning on holding the exposed wires in my teeth while I jumped in to the water to set it up - with it plugged in, of course. The plan is to mount the box on a piling that is under a roof, run the extension cord that runs to the light down through the dock and out to where the light will sit. All of the cord that will be submerged is run through the water hose and is sealed off by marine/through hull sealant (and concrete on one end) as another layer of protection against fish hooks. Thanks! I thought about the potential for snags too, that's why I thought about the fish bowl instead of a cage. The spot where the light will sit isn't too far from where kids jump in the water and they can hit the bottom when the water is down, so I'd rather not have glass on the bottom if the light were to burst. It's probably overkill though. Thanks again for the idea, I never would have thought to go this route without your suggestion. Total cost of materials was less than $50, but I already had some stuff - extension cord, hose, box for the ballast, etc.

I’ve been messing around with this for a few weeks and am finally ready to set it on the lake bottom at my dock. I might mount a glass fish bowl on top of it, but glue it down with gaps so it can fill with water and won’t cause the whole thing to bob around. I’m a little concerned the bulb will get damaged by a fisherman without some protection. I mounted the bulb in a PVC sleeve but didn’t cement it in the coupling like you typically would - it’s waterproof but will still allow me to cut the glue and wire in another bulb when this one goes out. Thanks for the idea Smails.

Yea, seems like those would get ground down quickly with much use.

Yikes. (At both the video and the Wulaw blast)

Dumb question - do all of the towers on these boats collapse down? It looks like some of them do - I can see what looks like a pivot joint on that Wakesetter above.