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wwinnc

Very nice boat~no power poles?  Personally I never understood why folks feel the need to spend that much money or go that fast to catch a bass!  To each his own!  Tight lines!

DoubleEgger

wwinnc said:

Very nice boat~no power poles?  Personally I never understood why folks feel the need to spend that much money or go that fast to catch a bass!  To each his own!  Tight lines!

My lake is too deep for poles. I’d never use them. 

You gotta have some hobbies and I like to fish. 

alaskanassasin

wwinnc said:

Very nice boat~no power poles?  Personally I never understood why folks feel the need to spend that much money or go that fast to catch a bass!  To each his own!  Tight lines!

I think a bad day of fishing on that boat is a fahking awesome day on the lake.

johnmitchell

Beautiful Mike. Have fun!!!! That’s an awesome looking setup.

CPFC1905

It’s officially a three way battle for the title which is a significant departure from recent seasons and all the better for it.  The bottom two are all but gone already, with dire form added to meagre points tallies.   The final relegations pot is still very much up for grabs and at least three teams could succumb to it. Despite on field endeavours a points deduction is coming up on the rails for both Everton and Forest, although it’s far from certain when and how many.   But as angry as the fans may be, both those teams are playing badly and, arguably, they could be much safer by now anyway if they were any good. 

Saturday 

Man Utd v Everton, two debates on the bounce for Utd keep them inconsistent.  The Toffees are abject - so in fact this is big game for both.  I just can’t see an away win and so its a clumsy unconvincing 2-1 .

Bournemouth v Sheffield Utd, a candy-from baby 2-0 and the Cherries inch to safety.

Palace v Luton, there’s nothing less certain than an apparent certain win for Palace. Form and league position suggests a home win, but that’s not how we of the Mighty Eagles like to function.  But we dare to dream and to dare is to do.  Three points puts us over 30 points and 11 points from of the relegation zone which suggests the green shoots of confidence. 2-0.

Wolves v Fulham, both realistically safe and soon or later will just give up.  Feels a lot like a draw, so 1-1 it is.

Arsenal v Brentford, the Gunners just won’t be pushed in to the shadows.  Leading scorers in the league and pushing the top 2 all the way.  This should be a routine pea-shelling situation. 3-0 

Sunday

Villa v Spurs, apex Spursy Spurs recently and I think they’ll come undone at Villa Park.  There’s a reason the hosts are five points clear of their guests and looking good for 4th at 27 games in and it’s not luck.  2-1

Brighton v Forest, Meh 3-0.  Don’t want to talk about the filthy fetid wretches, other than their two recent and sizeable defeats that have offered minor joy. 

West Ham v Burnley, the Hammers have returned to form in time to sustain their Euro push.  The Clarets remain pitiful. 3-0

Liverpool v Man City, ooooh-baby,  here’s the one to watch this weekend. 1-3 with the Reds scoring late on after conceding three in the first half. Let’s be frank - City look nailed on despite being 2nd now.

Monday

Chelsea v Newcastle, tale of the two expensive but very poor teams of the season. The hosts can’t really make Europe - which puts a big spike in 

their financial forecasts.  Toon can,  but if they keeping letting in loads of goals, they won’t.  Could go in any direction. 2-2.

No, we’re not speaking of cricket - just in case you were wondering.  And the F1 has taken on a familiar hue already, too.

ColbyLang

wwinnc said:

Very nice boat~no power poles?  Personally I never understood why folks feel the need to spend that much money or go that fast to catch a bass!  To each his own!  Tight lines!

Bass boats are cheap compared to saltwater. For the record, we top out at 74 mph loaded. Cruise at 45. Not pictured, twin power poles cus they weren’t installed yet 

fishlessman

wwinnc said:

Very nice boat~no power poles?  Personally I never understood why folks feel the need to spend that much money or go that fast to catch a bass!  To each his own!  Tight lines!

i only bass fish a week a year, friend runs in a bass comp circuit and brings his boat for the week. fast is nice when you are doing 40 miles plus a day getting  to the spots to fish. cuts the time getting there from over two hours on my trolling boat to a little over a half hour on the bass boat. ive only done one comp event though on small water near home, i came in second out of about 50 bass boats, i did it in a 13 foot canoe....pissed off alot of people that were laughing at me thru the day, my german shepard, 1 fishing rod, a grill cooking, drinking beer etc.

Legume

Damn, you really are the fish whisperer.

DoubleEgger

bubbajack said:

DoubleEgger said:

Headed out to get a hook wet. I ordered this during my forum hiatus. Can I still be a member in good standing here? 

Let that bird fly!

Running 65 one handed with plenty left in the throttle. 

billt01

ColtsFan said:

Waiting for a monthly E-ISAC security webinar to start. Man, I need to close some browser tabs 😂

Used to deal a lot with NERC and FERC back when Enron, TVA, BP, Aquilla energy, etc. all had substantial trading floors

lousubcap

fishlessman said:

wwinnc said:

Very nice boat~no power poles?  Personally I never understood why folks feel the need to spend that much money or go that fast to catch a bass!  To each his own!  Tight lines!

i only bass fish a week a year, friend runs in a bass comp circuit and brings his boat for the week. fast is nice when you are doing 40 miles plus a day getting  to the spots to fish. cuts the time getting there from over two hours on my trolling boat to a little over a half hour on the bass boat. ive only done one comp event though on small water near home, i came in second out of about 50 bass boats, i did it in a 13 foot canoe....pissed off alot of people that were laughing at me thru the day, my german shepard, 1 fishing rod, a grill cooking, drinking beer etc.

Vacationed on a lake over an extended weekend with family-not participating in the not expected bass fishing tournament.  But Da-n those boats had only two speeds, Dead Stop and All Ahead Flank.  We were on the water at pedestrian speed but definitely alert.
@fishlessman - way to show them the value of patience.  

Canugghead

Descaling tankless water heater with DIY flush configuration retrofitted in hindsight.

kl8ton

DoubleEgger said:

bubbajack said:

DoubleEgger said:

Headed out to get a hook wet. I ordered this during my forum hiatus. Can I still be a member in good standing here? 

Let that bird fly!

Running 65 one handed with plenty left in the throttle. 

Sonar still displays at that speed?  If yes, that speaks to the $onar's Price tag.  :-)

GrateEggspectations

Just took a page from the @Canugghead playbook. Took a shot at repairing the impact wrench I use when changing tires (love the freedom of doing it at home on my own schedule). 

The wrench would work only intermittently, often non-responsive even when depressing the trigger. Thought it might be the switch but then suspected it the wire instead, so I disassembled it and cut out the section of wire I thought was problematic. 

Back in action. Not surprisingly, the failure was in the exact spot where the wire is bent for storage in its case. 

lousubcap

The learning/benefits accrued and the expenses also accrued from this place are noteworthy.  Now, if I were living in the benefits category...🥃

Canugghead

GrateEggspectations said:

Just took a page from the @Canugghead playbook. Took a shot at repairing the impact wrench I use when changing tires (love the freedom of doing it at home on my own schedule). 

The wrench would work only intermittently, often non-responsive even when depressing the trigger. Thought it might be the switch but then suspected it the wire instead, so I disassembled it and cut out the section of wire I thought was problematic. 

Back in action. Not surprisingly, the failure was in the exact spot where the wire is bent for storage in its case. 

Wimp! Mine is in almost new condition because I used it only couple of times all these years, manual wrench works just fine for tire changes. 

Now, get the gloves and goggles out of there 

GrateEggspectations

Canugghead said:

GrateEggspectations said:

Just took a page from the @Canugghead playbook. Took a shot at repairing the impact wrench I use when changing tires (love the freedom of doing it at home on my own schedule). 

The wrench would work only intermittently, often non-responsive even when depressing the trigger. Thought it might be the switch but then suspected it the wire instead, so I disassembled it and cut out the section of wire I thought was problematic. 

Back in action. Not surprisingly, the failure was in the exact spot where the wire is bent for storage in its case. 

Wimp! Mine is in almost new condition because I used it only couple of times all these years, manual wrench works just fine for tire changes. 

Now, get the gloves and goggles out of there 

You’re just talking smack because it’s too heavy for you. 🤭

RRP

alaskanassasin said:

We bought a brand new Maytag washer and dryer. 1 year later the washer computer went out, then the dampeners, then the gearbox was slinging oil all over the floor, meanwhile it beeped constantly and said rebalance load, which was worse and worse with the dampeners failing. 

 BBQ forum to the rescue we bought a Speed Queen, no computers love it. Dryer is next

In that same vein when our Maytag dryer's computer croaked and it couldn't be replaced I actually stuck with Maytag, but I bought a commercial grade with NO computer - just dials and knobs.

wwinnc

@alaskanassasin- I agree- any day fishing is a good day! And, another nice boat @Colbylang! Like the canoe @fishlessman!

WeberWho

Off to buy a lottery ticket.

I'll be the first one to admit that I don't baby my cell phone and somehow it has survived the last 2-3 years. A decent case and screen protector somehow keeps the thing held together. Yesterday afternoon I used my phone without any issues. A couple hours later I pull my phone out of my pocket and it's completely dead. Which was odd as I thought I had something like 80% battery the last time I used it. My initial thought was that my phone case maybe caught the phones power button and kept turning the phone on and off until it killed the battery. I plugged my phone in when I got home but I didn't get any indication that it was charging or the vibration I get when first initially charged. So I play around with my phone to see if I can get any feedback from it but no luck. So I bring my phone into a local cell phone repair center to have them take a look at it. The employee 10 seconds into it says, "You need a new screen." I told the employee that it was highly unlikely. He goes, "Look at your phone, it's curved and twisted." He wasn't wrong about the shape of my phone. It's every shape but straight and flat. Did I mention that I don't baby my phone? I still didn't believe it was my screen. My screen worked perfectly fine that afternoon and my phone should power on with a faulty screen. I thanked him and moved on. I stopped at a different repair center to see if he could figure something out. He goes, "I think it's your charging port." I told him that it wasn't my charging port and that he had to use my charger as it it's super picky and won't charge with anything other than the stock charger. He goes, "It has to be a bad charging port." I told him that I've dealt with a crappy charging port 6 months into owning the phone. He says, "Give me 10-15 minutes and I'll look into it." I stop back and he says he's getting a code that says it's a faulty screen." Which I told him that doesn't make any sense on why my phone won't turn on. He showed me on my phone where my screen is starting to lift up. Which is not all that surprising as my phone isn't very flat from years of use/abuse. So I thanked him and went home with a broken phone. Not sure what to do next. I could careless about the phone but it was years worth of family photos and videos that weren't backed up that I'd be losing. I also needed to recover 8-10 photos of dimensions that I need for an outdoor project here at the house. I tried playing around with the phone last night and again this morning with no luck. My phone had a system update done to it last week and I didn't think much of it. I started reading all these posts last night about how Google Pixel phones motherboards fry up after the phone installs the newest version of the system update. I had a feeling my phone saw the same fate. I tried starting it again this afternoon and out of nowhere a reboot screen popped up! Whoa! I hit the power button again and it came to life! I raced into my photos any yelled for my wife to grab her phone so she could quickly snap a few photos of the dimensions that I needed for my outdoor project before my phone crashed for good! Once I got the dimensions that I needed, I could take a breath and figure out how I could purchase additional storage for any unsaved photos/videos. The phone has been going on 5 hours now uploading photos and videos without any issue. What a sigh of relief!!! I'm glad I didn't take either repair centers advice with them telling me it was the screen. I knew that wasn't right! Why wouldn't they start out with the most expensive replacement part for the phone that had nothing to do with my issue! What a freaking joke!
     

JohnInCarolina

@WeberWho - you might want to go ahead and set up a regular backup while it’s working for you.  

WeberWho

JohnInCarolina said:

@WeberWho - you might want to go ahead and set up a regular backup while it’s working for you.  

For sure. I just added 100GB to the Google version of the Cloud and I will also backup to a USB drive once it's done uploading.

Canugghead

@WeberWho Always enjoy reading your adventure and happy ending. Never thought about backing up my cell phone stuff. Come to think of it though my emails and photos are always available on Google, can't think of anything else I'll miss if it dies.

Canugghead

Not as exciting as @WeberWho 's phone episode and no lottery ticket. Just the IP twins in action, potatoes on the left for vegetarian curry, milk on the right for yogurt.

lousubcap

@WeberWho - better to be lucky than good right there.   Great call especially after two techs offered the same solution.  Well done-dodged a bullet.  Time to celebrate.  

dbCooper

Canugghead said:

@WeberWho Always enjoy reading your adventure and happy ending. Never thought about backing up my cell phone stuff. Come to think of it though my emails and photos are always available on Google, can't think of anything else I'll miss if it dies.

@Canugghead - With email and photos you may have apps and contacts already in the mix.  Might want to verify they are in there.

Ozzie_Isaac

Canugghead

dbCooper said:

Canugghead said:

@WeberWho Always enjoy reading your adventure and happy ending. Never thought about backing up my cell phone stuff. Come to think of it though my emails and photos are always available on Google, can't think of anything else I'll miss if it dies.

@Canugghead - With email and photos you may have apps and contacts already in the mix.  Might want to verify they are in there.

Good point. Just realised most of my contacts are also in WhatsApp, FB and Eggheadforum, lol

shtgunal3

Enjoying some great charcuterie from an awesome forum member.

Canugghead

@shtgunal3
Bombdiggity!!