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SirCranksalot

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  1. I am not sure what your kayak is like or how strong a paddler you are. My bud with a kayak has a much smaller range than we would in a tandem canoe. Others are suggesting going beyond Woods bay. That would be further than my bud could go w/o a great effort. There are other closer areas of course, eg, to the North. My bud and I were there in a canoe last fall for the first time and just caught 1 keeper bass each. I think we would do better the next time.
  2. I read somewhere that goretex will pass water if you are sitting on a wet surface. I don't know if that's true or not but my old goretex don't keep me dry any more.
  3. So the OP posted his question about a year ago and hasn't come back since!!. Sorry, but any more suggestions I might make would not be related to fishing!
  4. Looks like your 2 months of bad sleddin' are long gone!😃
  5. Yes--big diff. Bees normally don't sting unless provoked. Wasps are agressive and nasty, like to buzz around food, beer. etc. I got a wasp trap for my deck. I've had to dump it out a couple of times because the new arrivals were just walking on the corpses of earlier ones. I took a certain amount of sadistic pleasure in seeing them drown.
  6. “Farewell, Mr. Dave”: A hometown bids goodbye to David Lindley - Fretboard Journal
  7. We have a portable HEPA filter unit in our living area to help with my wife's COPD. We have a open plan so the kitchen and dining area are connected. It seems to work quite well. It has 3 speeds indicated by blue, orange, or red indicator lights. It runs continually on low(blue) and is almost silent. Sometimes when we are cooking, esp if we are frying, it will kick into orange or even red for a little while before reverting back to blue. I suspect that it does that faster than our furnace filter would clean the air in the whole house, which is about 3 times the volume.
  8. OK, thx. I am surprised that a plastic cutting board would take the edge off a knife but your experience suggests otherwise I guess. I will try doing my cutting mostly on the one board we have and see if it helps. Thx for the invite. Maybe I will come by.😄 Where do you live? 😄
  9. Thx for the comments, guys! I was a bit mistaken in my original post. One of my 8" chopping knives is a Henkel, prob bought from CTC as some of you have done. The other one is a Slitzer. AK---maybe you have identified my prob. I normally use a plastic cutting board. We have a few of them and often use 2 at a time. It would be a PITA to switch over to wood though in terms of use and wash up. The pic below shows what I use for sharpening. At the top is a 120/240 oilstone. Below that are 3 whetstones in 400, 600, and 1000 grit. I can get a very sharp edge using those----not just slicing thru paper on edge at a 90 deg angle but at small angles down to about 15-20 deg. I sharpen all the kitchen knives with those. Maybe I have become a bit compulsive about that. The other thing that I may be confused about is the idea that chopping knives have quite a lot of curvature on the cutting edge. Maybe I got that impression from watching clips of chefs chopping vegs, but when I Google 'chefs' knives' or similar all the knives seem to have a minimal curvature at the point end just as mine have.
  10. are those dry flies or wet flies? thx
  11. Lots of good bass in every shallow bay or passageway.
  12. Hey guys I know many of you do lots of cooking. I don't but I have been doing lots of chopping for my wife who does most of the cooking, at least for the fancier stuff. I am using what I think are fairly cheap knives with a straight cutting edge. I can make them very sharp but they soon lose their edge. I seems to me that a knife that has some rocker to the cutting edge would work better. Your thoughts?? TIA
  13. I'm not sure if I am reading this right. I have only tried mine once or twice and did not get a hit. My understanding of the 'proper' way of using them(if there is such a thing as 'proper') was to attach them a short dist from the bait---maybe 5-10 ft?----and that when you did a vigorous hook set they would slide down the line. I may well be wrong on that
  14. Sorry---I didn't realize you were fishing an area where bass season is open tear round. My apologies
  15. Just so that those reading know---targeting OOS fish is illegal
  16. My bud and I have not had much luck the 2-3 times we went for 'ice out' lakers. Is it best to wait a little while------ maybe 2-3 weeks------or go right after ice out? As a kid I fished a lot for specks. They didn't seem to bite at all when the ice first went out. Two or three weeks later the fishing was generally quite good. Do lakers follow the same pattern? thx
  17. If you have never fried it w/o batter i urge you to try it. I pan fry mine just lightly coated with flour. Nothing much to detract from the great taste of fresh fish. My bud is gluten free so uses no coating at all,
  18. Thx for that. I quite enjoyed it. Here's a tribute by one of people who knew him best and appreciated his talent, Jackson Browne Jackson Browne Mourns ‘Genius’ Guitarist David Lindley – Billboard No big surprise that it showed up 2 weeks or so later. I guess he took the slow and painstaking process approach that he takes to songwriting.😄 Here's a bit if trivia for you in case you hadn't already heard it: JB was taking so long to finish "Take it Easy" that his friend Glenn Frey kept offering to finish it for him, which he eventually did and made it a big hit for the Eagles.
  19. Thx for posting that. Here's another---starts about 1:12. A true eccentric by all accounts JB apparently encouraged DL to go out and have a solo career. JB was quoted afterwards as saying that was the craziest and stupidest thing he(JB) ever did
  20. sad news indeed. I am a long time JB fan. Lindley very much shaped the sound on some of JBs best songs----For a Dancer, Running on Empty. He played the slide guitar like no other. BTW---That was his falsetto on "Stay" on the "Empty" record.
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