[15' Al Weld Jon/motor/trailer/dropdown]

$1995.00

25 Hp Mariners, stainless prop.

Great Trailer, single axle, boat guides with light up high.

Winch, jack, hitch lock, spare, bearing buddy's, all in great condition.

PayPal or Cash only please.

[Alaska Trip 7-10]

We were up there at the same time.

I was up in the interior near Kroto Creek and Moose Creek drilling a water well.

We went fishing from time to time. Caught some nice Rainbow.

The Creeks were loaded with Salmon. We had to stop fishing till they went by.

It looked like Rush hour at the Submarine Pens.

If you get this little shore video, its what the interior west of the Hiway looks like. If I know how to stitch Video together, I'd put a pretty good movie together.

[A reel small subject to discuss.]

I need a little Hour/Minute, 12V, Red Led clock for my little row boat. I fish at night. I need it where I can just glance at it for the time.

We used to make those out of kits some years ago, but have been searching for a couple days now and only find the Micro controller kits and a lot of other marvelous stuff.

I just want that litle simple Red LED clock we used to make for $3 bucks or so.

[Fishing in Bear Territory]

Nice pic, but where was moma bear?

Not far away.

I just came back from AK. We fished Kroto Creek, and Moose Creek, near the mouth of the Deshka. All we saw of Bear was some huge Black Bear tracks.

Salmon coming up stream like a Submarine Rush hour though.

[Everyone still have all their fingers... and hearing?]

The ends of my fingers are still numb from holding lady fingers till they went off. But that was 60 years ago in Southern MO.

[old gas removal]

You don't have to do all that. I don't believe in Stabil anyway.

Just add some fresh gas and go with it.

I was given a 32 Plymouth that had been in a garage for almost 20 years.

It had a half tank of gas sitting in it all that time. I believe the tank may have been full when parked but lot's of that Gas dissipated.

I added two gallons of fresh gas, squirted a bit in the Carb, and it started right up and ran fine.

[Fishing in Bear Territory]

[somebody is breaking into my boat.]

The kind of alarm you need is gonna be expensive. I think its a Phone dialer that calls your Cell phone or maybe the Cops or the alarm company.

One of my customers had one that opened a Mic to the Shed. It would dial her phone and she would listen for a minute or two, to see what they were doing, and then scare the crap out of them by speaking through the Alarm unit.

[Trailer tonge Jack needed.]

For my Bass boat. I bent this one, I need a replacment.

about any jack for 4" to 6" square tubing and a 20" lift would work

[Winds out of the East, Fish bite the least?]

That's a phrase I learned in Louisiana.

Is it true?

What's the theory behind it?

It refers to the fact that you are probably under a high pressure condition which is not as conducive to fish feeding as a changing barometer. If you are from Louisiana you also know that the fish are eating if the cows are standing.

LOL, I heard that one too.

The Hi pressure thing sounds reasonable. I'll have to pay more attention to the weather.

[Winds out of the East, Fish bite the least?]

That's a phrase I learned in Louisiana.

Is it true?

What's the theory behind it?

[tight outboard steering]

An Evinrude 35 got that way. Loose with no load, tight with a load.

It was the Synthetic sleeve the shaft rode inside. I replaced them and it was a good young engine again.

[baseball "Rubbing Mud"]

The Mud is special. It comes from Jimmy Hoffa's grave!

[Snake skin]

Somewhere I have photos of a Big Long Black snake going right up the side of my Bass boat.

he left a big long skin and some other smaller snake did too.

They leave as soon as they can see though.

I never found signs of Mice in that boat.

[ReelBoating Super Bowl Contest]

I dont care about feetbalz no way, but I'll take the Saints because I've been told to!

4th quarter runaway. Colts lead from the git-go but let it get away in the 4th.

2 point spread, Saints win.

Dick.

[My little tin Rowboat for sale or trade.]

I want a jon boat, so I'll trade. Otherwise this one's for sale.

Boat and trailer. Cullman AL, 35057

[Boat Song]

What was that joke about the Cop that stopped the biker. The biker said his name was Emeroy.

That cop asked about his last name? "Emeroy" just Emeroy!

Then the Biker starts this long tale about all his accomplisments in life and then gets toward the end and says; "the AMA took away my MD, then the ADA took away my DDS and VD took away my Johnson so now I'm just Emeroy!"

[Ice fishing in Alabama]

The cold weather originates in Siberia and Alaska

It is only in transit through Canada on it way to you

Nice photoshop

LOL, I copied that from a bunch of Ice breaker photos.

It don't matter how technical you get in your denial, that cold comes from the Knucks!

Everybody knows they invented Ice Fishing and are the Best Hockey players in the world!

Whoever's doin it, enough alreddy!

Dick

[Ice fishing in Alabama]

The Canadians have been kind enough to send us some winter down here.

Thanks Guys, I've had enough thank you.

Here's some Winter Ice fishing down here somewhere.

Jeemeny, its only 15 degrees here. What the hell happend to the Sunny south?

[Seattle Boat Show]

Boy I wish I could join you guys.

When I live in AK and had a Commercial fishing permit I used to fly down for the show.

One time my IRS guy told me if I went and didn't buy anything, the trip was NOT tax deductible. Crap!

I went to the Seattle Boat shows from the 50's when I lived in Seattle to the 90's when I left the Pac NW on my Retirement journey.

I really like the Seattle boat show and I'm still having withdrawals.

[Cajun's fishing at night]

I just wonder if we could actually make this work somewhere in the U.S?

It's a night fishing video.

OK, I give up, how do I send a Video link?

[Learning: A lifelong series of Shocks, Disappointments and narrow escapes.]

Learning: A lifelong series of Shocks, Disappointments and narrow escapes.

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Wisdom, education and a life time of memories is what you get from going out on your own and doing ‘it’!

When I lived in Seattle as a youth, it was a great place to be. I fished everywhere around that place. Rainbow and Salmon for the most part. I never kept anything else.

Fly Fishing was so much more fun than Meat fishing with messy bait, clanging noisey hardware and messy baits and those Backlashes. Lordy why?! It'd take A Ream of good white paper to tell about it.

I grew up Salmon fishing and sometimes when the Silvers were in we'd troll with big Green n' White Salmon flies. That was a hoot too. There was a Boat House off the end of Harbor Island where I’d use a big Salmon fly and catch Ducks, Gulls and occasionally a Salmon.

One day someone suggested going down the Hi way I (before I-5) to fish for Crappie.

"Fish for What?"

I went to the library and looked it up.

It was a Deep South thing!

They mentioned one Crappie lake in Washington State. I can’t recall the name of that lake now.

It was close enough for a one day trip. So I put the Wife and kid in the Pickup and went off to some lake down past Chehalis, and way out east of the Hiway.

Jeez, it was full of Stumps! It was more like a Swamp than a Lake.

What the heck! That ain’t what a lake is supposed to look like! Who can fish in a Brush pile? What fly to use in the Woods?

Ignoring my shock, I put the boat in the water. Rowed around casting where I wouldn't get snagged etc. Typical kid with great Gear sans smarts. Nothing!

I must have been pretty noticeable too. About like an Arab on a crowded commercial airplane. Everybody kept their distance.

Finally I began to watch other people. They would pull softly up to a stump, and drape the fly over the other side of the stump. They all used long fly rods, but just had a short piece of line tied to the Tip??? This is Fly fishing for Crappie? How exciting!

Then if they could reach another stump, they'd drape a fly softly down near that stump.

Shhhhhh..... they weren't talking either. There wasn't a sound coming off that lake, and there were probably 20 other boats there. No motors to be heard.

My Seven years old and I were probably an annoyance to the rest of those Library denizens out in boats.

Boy was I disappointed.

I'd been to Green Lake, taking Dawn Holbrook's classes on Casting for distance. I was pretty good at that, but this was more like fishing in a North Bend area Clear cut.

Eventually the boy wanted Mom to fix him a Hamburger so we headed back. At the shoreline someone was cleaning fish and I sat alongside to learn.

He was a Boeing Import.

A Cracker from Marietta Georgia. He was so disappointed at the poor state of fishing up here in Washington.

Jeez what a shock that was. There are all kinds of fish in every mud puddle over the whole state. "How'd you miss all that?"

That poor guy was as set in his ways as I was in mine.

"Naw" he says. He was used to Crappie and Bass in every mud puddle in GA.

"Really?" I said, "No Rainbow or Salmon?" I was shocked.

"We don't fish for stuff like that. We Eat our Cat's, Crappie...."

I thought he came from another universe.

I learned a lot from that poor guy. I doubt if he learned anything from me though.

I live in Alabama now. I don't fish as much as I used to. I know the Crackers side of it and for the most part, fishing is still fun, even down here.

But boy do I miss the Pacific North West, BC and Alaska..

I still row. Still fly fish, but it’s not the same as pinpointing a fly delicately near a brushy overhang.

Another one, in moving waters, was getting the fly to land gently above a slight disturbance in the stream. The pure adrenalin rush when that 'slurp' takes the fly under and the game is on. Boy oh boy do I miss that Rush. The experience is absolutely Salable to those who have little time.

As hard as I've tried, you just don't get much surface feeding in Crappie waters.

They like Jigs. I've seen seven lines out of a boat and only one guy in the boat.

The only rush you could possibly get out of that would be at the Dinner table.

For me, my lifetime of different kinds of fishing has been a fun ride. I'd do it all over again!

[3 Hp Evinrude for sale]

I hate to let anything go. This one in particular. It's been my buddy for Five years now. Ive had it since 02. It spent most of its life in a Barn up in Missouri. Another old guy who got it late in life and ran out of time.

It just hasn't been used much in its whole life.

Its a 1960 Evinrude 3 hp.

It pushed my Aluminum skiff along about 5 mph on flat water.

Starts very easy when cold and mostly on the first pull when warm. Even a slow pull.

Fresh oil in the lower unit.

This one uses 24:1 mix. I have a little plastic one Gal (aux pwr supply) that goes with it.

I'm in Cullman AL, 35057 I want $395.

[I need a small diesel 4x4 pickup to pull my boats.]

I'd like to talk with some body who might know where I could find a Ford Ranger with the 2.3 or 2.5 diesle, extended cab 4x4.

Or.....the Dodge D-50 or Mistubishie mighty max in Diesel 4x4.

Let me know about any thing you might know of.

[Looking for boats for sale?]

I'm looking for boats for sale. Actually, I'm going to get a decent quality and priced boats. I have no clue what model and I don't want to be reap off.

I have a fixer-upper.

A 06 Ranger bass boat. 85 Hp Johnson and a great Dilly trailer with Buddies and Boat guides. I have all the paper work too.

groaner@hughes.net