so waht ya doin today?

GLAD TO SEE YOU GUYS MADE IT HOME OK.
NOW STAY THERE FOR A WHILE. Take it easy.
Don't be givin' them a reason to drag you back to the M*A*S*H* Hut.

What Mitty said, for both Ian and Jon B. Good seeing Jon report in, for sure.

I am also glad ya'll are doin Well & back home !!

summer has set in here, fishin is not to good around where I live , so it's yard work & go out back & shoot !
Wife & I are stayin on a kind of lock down here.....she has to have open heart surg.---yet to be determined but very soon-----so just her & I ---& dog hangin out ..... well we do get to go to the dentist today

Jeff

if it's that hot go fish at night.
bout everything but Trout seem to be night feeders.

hey Jon.
a half bottle or so of champagne and one of those oxy's should have you sleeping in your chair just fine.


looks like rain out there, I guess I'm takin everyone down to pokey for the day.

fiver said:

everything but Trout seem to be night feeders.

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Smiling, let you in on a little secret, the biggest and baddest Brown Trout are on the prowl and feed at night.
The Hex hatch runs late night and brings all the fish to the top feeding. I will be spending a few all-nighters on the river in a week.

Had lower back surgery disk removal in the 80's. Did the cutting in the early afternoon woke up in the early evening, nobody around, kind a groggy, but feeling pretty good, needed to use the head. So I swung my legs out on the side with the IV tree, grabbed the extra hoses and wheel it to the head with me. When I got back to bed I was sweating a bit and dizzy. Very shortly after that excursion the floor nurse came in. She took one look at me and my tubing and said "what has happened here". I also screwed up the IV needles in the top of my left hand. I had blood traveling back up the tube. So the nurse took a big syringe full of saline and forced all the bloody fluid back where it came from. Man that hurt! Nurse said that's what I get for being bad.
But they gave me two pills for pain at that time, first pills after surgery. Couple hours later the nurse was back to check on me and I said the pain medication was marginal and " more please" so she gave me two more. Doctor George came in to check on me and before he left I asked about the pain medication as it seemed marginal. Doc said the it was aspirin and that was all I was going to get. I was impressed, with the low level of pain which was quite manageable, as a matter of fact I felt good, very good compared to the pain I came in with. I had disk problems for a year or so but was out cutting and loading 8' green spruce logs into the truck and crushed out all the disk material in 4 & 5 L, and it jammed my nerves. Away surgery was a major release from pain. Four months later I was carrying 2 quartered up Caribou a half mile on a freighter frame to the plane on Brown Grass lake up north.
Later George did a compound fracture of my right leg and in a cast for two years. An other Doctor did knee surgery on my left knee. The knee surgery was a pain as it affected mobility so much and recovery took time, I did not have being a repair shop business owner. The back surgery was almost instant increase in mobility. As a matter of fact I felt so good I was back at the shop working full days on day three.
Knees, hips, ankle, foot problems are difficult. If I can stay on my feet, I can work. Or, well I used to be able to. Now l have the luxury of whining and getting away with it.

Fishing is just fine around here.



24" and fat 30" Striper.........................threw a smaller one back. Twenty inches is the minimum. The larger one didn't want to come up from the depths. Caught trolling on artificial baits.

Had a short list of things I was going to do before work. Just spent 2 hrs stringing wind chimes instead.
Women.

Wine lover, Nice!!

That big one looks full of eggs. Nice fish, John.

Any of you guys fry up fish roe? Man When I was a kid My Dad saved every unbroken egg sac , Bluegill, perch etc and When we got Shad from the Delaware River they were huge.
Used to be my favorite part of the weekly fish fry!
Then moving ahead about 30 years our Fish Commission warns us not to eat freshwater fish roe! And also only have one meal of fresh water fish each month!.....guess it is fish for sport instead of table anymore

When I was a kid my Dad and I always saved the roe if we found it from black bass and perch. Usually if it was a bass and looked ripe when caught it got released to spawn but perch never went back in the water. He would lightly fry the roe in butter, tasted like fried grits, a true delicacy.

Sitting by the banks of "Lake" Tannecomo watching the water flow by. Not really a lake, it's the old White river bed sandwiched between two dams 22 miles apart. The upper dam is Table Rock where they've had anywhere from 2 to 4 generators running all week. Lower dam is called Powersite and also runs generators while feeding into Bull Shoals lake. Water has been too swift for decent dock fishing, too bad since this is one of the better tailrace trout fisheries around.
Took a boat trip up close to the dam into the "Trophy area" with my son and both Grandsons. Cast 1/8 oz jigs while drifting a mile to mile and a half downstream, then run back up and repeat. Son and I and the older grandson caught 7 or 8 apiece that went over 17" . I caught 2 over 19" but didn't reach the 20" level for a trophy certificate. Younger boy reeled in several after we hooked the to keep him interested.
Just got a call from Bass pro's Outdoor world repair shop where I'd sent my 25 year old Shimano spinning real for repair. Said no parts available, you'd think bearings and such would be fairly universal. Guess I'm in the market for a replacement. Will be used on a 6 1/2' M /L St, Croix Premier rod with 6 or 8 lbs line. I'm heaing the Phlugef Presidents aren't as good these days as the older models so will be looking around for something else without having to take out a loan to pay for it

Winelover said:

The larger one didn't want to come up from the depths. Caught trolling on artificial baits.

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Me and my brother used to troll for stripes and hybrids.
When you caught a small one, it would come to the surface quickly and just surf on the top of the water. You knew when you had a good one, because they wouldn't "plane" up quickly.
Our standard joke was "Charlie don't surf!". Not in reference to the movie, but in reference to Charlie the tuna.

Celebrating the 27th anniversary of my 21st birthday . Summer classics . Corn , tater salad and brisket .........I can't get this smoked thing right ......... Appearently I am a Yankee . Got about an hour left for the meat then 30 min to dry up the soup and a little more oak ....

Glad to hear you are recovering Ian.
I might actually get to try the die out this evening. I finally cast up some of the wasp waisted MP 300 blackout bullets. I can’t help but this this bullet isn’t gonna work every time I look at one.

Happy birthday, Rich!

I go on vacation and everyone gets out of the hospital. Guess I need to go more often. Glad to hear you guys doing well

25 year old Shimano spinning reel - I got one of those, they are really good (trion? model). Finally tossed the mitchel 300 as the bearings froze. Never going to get rid of the G 3000. Seems like stuff is cheaper and cheaper these days. But cost more $. IIRC pflueger sold out to China.

Syncopate? model. Was a good one for a lot of years. Got to where it has an intermittent audible growl and vibration. I’ve had it apart for lube and clean but couldn’t get it fixed. Repair place says parts are discontinued. Sure would of thought bearings and bushings would be fairly common stuff