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Thanksgiving on the French River

The ones I have seen still got 2 buckets and a console in between. My trucking days are over, all the window stickers have list prices more than I paid for my house, too old for sacking out on the bench at night 🤣

Whatever happened to 2 door pickups with and 8 foot box and a bench seat that would seat 3 or make a place to sleep on an overnite duck hunt or steelhead trip ?

Same fish, same weekend, different sink...nothing like a good fish fry !

run stabilized fuel through motor have fuel filled right to the top so no condensation happens change lower oil and seals change upper oil change oil filter pull plugs, spray fogging oil in, crank with battery for a sec take weight off tires with axle stands put motor in down position pull the batteries and store them indoors pull boat drain plug and have boat on slight angle so any water that gets in can drain tarp boat up at the side of the house and hope for the best (I leave motor "untarped" so no condensation forms) ...this has been working for me!

Finally we are getting that fall weather that sings, steelhead is in the rivers. Yes they are. A couple of nice eaters.

I've been eating plastic via Pizza Hut cheese for a while. I'm doomed lol.

I use a Turkey baster to pump plumbing antifreeze through my livewell and dump some so that my bilge can suck up some as well. spray fogging oil in the spark plug holes and blip the motor over to send it through the exhaust ports. lower end oil change and prior to the end of the year I ensure that I’m running 100% ethanol free gas at all times with stabilizer in it. top all of my fluids to the brim and then disconnect the batteries except for the charger. I then charge everything once a month through the winter. i keep myself sane by making projects for myself to give myself some boat therapy time. This year I’m going to do the water pump, and reconfigure the terminal ends of my electronics to put in a system of more accessible fuses and a total cut off for my electronics so that any time the boats in the garage nothing will be live on the batteries. last winter I swapped the vst filter, fuel filter and water separator. And totally rewired the electronics on the boat. Those garage sessions can sometimes be as therapeutic as fishing itself. of course I ice fish. But it’s still not the same as working on the boat.

I'm all for banning DDT, Roundup etc That stuff is going to kill us all. I watched a guy the other day claim that in some parts of the world now humans are consuming a credit card's worth of nana and micro plastic a week. The plastic can be detected in placentas and brain tissue in the consuming humans and their unborn kids. What is worse is that plastics use is increasing in leaps and bounds expected to double the current levels by 2030. That is a scary prediction to me.

We just booked a week at Kanipahow's Embarrass Lake Outpost. I will be posting a detailed report here after the trip.

Unexpected success this morning. Storm coming