Cool write up on the deep fish!
Sorry about your rods.
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Cool write up on the deep fish!
Sorry about your rods.
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Thanks. I have already repaired the St Croix rod. My original GLoomis rod will be a little more difficult. It was one of the first rods i made over 30 years ago. This will be the fourth time I have broken it. The first 3 times Gary Loomis still owned GLoomis rods and they all came with a life time warranty. All anyone had to do was scrape the guides off of it and send it to the factory and they would send a new blank to replace it with. As soon as Shimano bought out GLoomis their first change was to stop selling blanks to custom rod builders. It was the custom rod builder that made GLoomis rods famous to start with.
I started the repair of my GLoomis rod. When I built the rod decades ago I used a 4 weight F1084 GL3 blank which produced an extremely sensitive 9’ crappie rod. As a starting point of the process of repairing a broken rod I should mention that as long as the broken piece is not lost the rod can usually be returned to its original action and sensitivity. Generally speaking if the rod is broken near the tip the tip end is usually lost. If lost the rod will never be the same. My rod has a clean break 7” from the tip which is repairable. From my pile of donated broken rods I cut a piece of rod 3” Long that will tightly slide over both pieces of the rod blank. After removing any guides that would prevent the patch from covering a sufficient area of the rod blank the patch is glued to the rod. See pic below. Once the two pieces are glued in place I will reattach the removed guide and the rod should then be able to provide it’s prebroken qualities.
Yesterday’s results
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Honey from a bee bee hive I have no business robing anymore.
Glad your still here! I love fresh honeycomb, usually sitting on a truck after robbing hives.
I have not fished much in a few days. A friend of mine bought a 1992 model Rangerboat and I have been helping him repair it.
Today’s efforts achieved due solely because of Sonnyboy’s advice.
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Nice on the boat repair, post up finished pics.
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I’ve got a long way to go. So far all I have done is get a good start on repairing the wiring. When I started not a single circuit on the boat worked. I’ve got both live well pumps and the bilge pump working along with the lights. I’ve also replaced the trailers original 2 bunk boards and installed 2 more. Replaced the easy loader boat guides also. I started on the boat 3 weeks ago and the owner is now understanding why I told him not to buy it.
How did you get that old carpet off??? Putty knife or power washer???????
The old carpet had been gone for years when the boat came to me. I just had to remove it behind the hinges. The boats in the past I have replaced the carpet I used a heat gun to soften the glue enough to get hold of it and then pulled it off like peeling an old bumper sticker off a car bumper. The other boats I replaced the carpet on were also aluminum so I just used a carpet glue removing solvent to remove the glue once I removed the carpet. The hatches on this boat were clean when I got it but the boat floor still has the glue and rubber backing on it. So I will let you know when I get the glue off. There is 3M Adhesive remover and Goo-B-Gone that can be purchased. If you want to purchase straight chemical there is acetone which tends to evaporate quickly or xylene which is used to remove formica glue from cabinets when replacing the formica. If using the chemicals don't let it stand on the deck for extended periods of time. Best if poured on a rag. Be sure and wear rubber gloves and be in a well ventilated area.
https://www.thehulltruth.com/boating...at-carpet.html
I found this utube video
I forgot to take pics till I was half done cleaning.
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I clicked on the carpet removal Utube link I posted and that is not the link I thought I posted.
Went yesterday and the fishing was a bit poor. The wind was shifting a lot and it was HOT with surface water temperature of 90* . Only caught 25 with 13 keepers.
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My guest caught the biggest fish and fish and was very happy about that. He even helped me set a nes brush pile.
Cleaned 18 of 43 today.
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90* surface water temp 109* ambient temp
New brush piles always good! Nice fish!
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Thanks. I placed a new brush pile every day this week.
Summer on Texoma. No fishing between holidays due to weekender hazards :). Went to new deer lease and moved the camper to new camp and recovered a few tree stands for new location. It's still a 4 hour drive. Left home at 5:00 ak and returned at 9:00 pm. I feel old todayn for some reason :).
I guess I was tired. I meant no fishing on weekends between summer holidays on Texoma. That would be Memorial Day and Labor Day. I went out last Sunday just to test my new speedometer and in the 20 minutes I was on the lake someone backed into my trailer and dented the fender and broke a bunk board. That's why no weekend fishing this time of year. The worst part is that I knew better and still went.
Sorry for the trouble Wrangler.
Some people don’t have any manners.
Since I’m not retired, I fish on weekends. On the water at daylight and off at 0930.
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That’s what I did when I worked
I went fishing with a new fishing buddy yesterday. I told him that there was no pressure at all but I was going to rate him as a guide in my report :). It was like being on vacation going in someone else’s boat. All I had to do was fish and harass him. It was great. We got on the water about 6:00 ish and by 10:00 am he was working on a solid F+ to D- rating but when it got hot enough that we were complaining about the heat he put us on fish and it was on! We left biting fish because of the oppressive heat. As a guide he recovered to a B+ by the time we left. No doubt we will fish together again.
I have not mentioned his name because he is a lurker on this site and I don’t want to ruin his cover by forcing him out of the posting closet as it were. If he chimes in we will learn who the mystery fisherman is.
I forgot to sake pics. Mystery fisherman caught the biggest crappie by far yesterday.
Need to get that lurker out of the shadows! LOL
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Didn’t work
I can’t explain it but the hotter in the day it gets the better the fishing is.
It was a hot day for fishing again. Cleaned 13 caught 23. Fishing partner got to hot and we had to call the trip early. Truthfully it was to hot for me also.
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I took Lurch the lurker out today. I must admit he can use and read a sonar unit better than anyone I have ever personally known.
I could conservatively give today's guide an A+ rating. He put us on catchable fish and was very entertaining and friendly for the entire trip. I remember now, I was the guide. No wonder the guide was so good. :)
LOL, I was the guide.
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NO!!!, I WAS!!
ALl those guides in the boat there was barely room for me :)
It was a fast trip today. Off the water before 10:00 am. Cleaned 20. Solo trip today.
Maintenance day. I removed everything from the boat and took it to the car wash. I am definitely carrying far to much stuff on the boat.
I noticed a loose seat base on the rear casting deck so I removed the factory screws and replaced them with bolts and self-locking nuts. Just replacing 6 screws was to much for me in this heat. Now I am in the house gasping for air. Geriatrics at it’s best. :)