Whatzzzzz up guys!

Hello friends! I miss everyone of you ugly ole slab junkies!

Yes I am alive and well and back in town to stay for awhile. Almost ready to kick some crappie butt.

I'm tired of work, computers, phones, traffic, the summer, and I'm tired of looking at my boat parked in the garage.

IM JUST ABOUT READY to cash in on my hard work and efforts........ That means fishing in my world. Even had a chance to upgrade the ole Slow Ride a bit and got me a few of them Spyderloks. Sofar WOW...... But that's just me sitting in the driveway with all 8 poles deployed for reference. Got a few strange looks from my neighbors.....and a symphony hug from the wife..... But hey! they just don't get it, and I just play along.

I'm excited for the upcoming season and have learned to enjoy every day I'm afforded the chance to turn off the dang phone and just breath.

Now if we can just get past this latest storm threat on the west coast ...... I'm golden to start my assault in a week or two.

Hope to see a few of you while out and about this season.

About 3000 work days left in these ole bones before I bail to that fabled land called "retirement"? So that being said.....

You retire farts make room..... Slow Ride coming through!

And the excitement continues to build.......

Plenty of room for the slowride.... Great to see your post! I do the pole thing in my driveway often.... It's perfect for making adjustments etc. And I just sit back and admire them to..... Awesomeness!!!! Looking forward to seeing you soon!

Did the same this weekend with mine. Except the camper was in the way for one side. But should only need minor adjustments to all come Saturday OTW.

I think most crappie fishermen do the same I know I do. I just sit on the front of mine and thank God for how blessed I am and for all the hard work I put in so I can live the retirement life I am able to live. May God bless everyone on CDC with full coolers and best friends during the upcoming year.

I've done that also. But I put up a screen so the neighbors don't see what I'm catching. They would be hanging their poles over the fence trying to get to my honey hole.:fish
Stu those spyderloks are so easy to adjust you don't need advance training. Good to hear from you. How's the water level in Groveland?

Hey Stu, good to hear your getting ready for some crappie action. I've been laid up for about 5 weeks, had my left knee replaced, but I did manage to get out on my birthday 8-30-16 and caught some nice fish. Looking forward to December and some Crescent lake action.

Highest water level in the chain in over 20-25 years? I mean WAY up. Like to the point of another 8-12 inches will mean flooded roads and lakefront yards. You can actually travel all the way from Louisa up into Cherry lake now.......so much water now ...... Way to much cover for the fish though. The fish can almost work their way back into the adjacent trees and swamps......and I mean way back into the trees.

A lot of hearsay as too why the water came about / returned, ranging from a Polk county farmer blockage cleared to the gates opened into the green swamp, to just rain runoff.

Either way we are now darn close to swamped with all the adjacent dried up swamp areas now being 3-5 feet deep themselves.

Talk about a complete reversal of a year or two ago. Amazing.

Doesn't setup well now for fishing ( though it has its days) but once the water starts to drop a bit? Game on!

The chain is as pretty as it gets for boat rides but also loaded with pleasure boats and watercraft yahoos right now and it's share of BLI's.

Sure enought they should be starting to get chased off the lakes the closer we get to cooler temps.

I'm pretty happy for now, but will really get excited once it drops a bit.

At 6am with the morning light just starting to crest the treetops...... It still takes my breath away.

I do love my hometown chain, always very relaxing.

Happy belated birthday Vic!
Send hugs to Eileen!

Good to hear from you stu. Sorry about the jay oh bee as one gewber I know would say it. 3000 days to get rid of that issue seems way too long. Sounds like you need a plan. Maybe something that'll help you divide that number by two or three. But in the mean time, a good fishing trip will certainly help a ton.

I think dem' ole bones can still hoist a few 2 #er's :Rofl , be looking for ya on the eastward swing...

Glad you stuck your head up for a howdy. Looking forward to seeing you and the crowd myself, don't get much time for myself these days. One day soon we'll see posts of Stu doing good here and better over there..........

Hey Vic belated Happy Birthday and Glad to hear your knee OP went well

Ronnie - in answer to your question - Spider Lock''s are really engineered good ( sometimes i think a little over kill) i use mine at rear of boat to
primary longlining- Once you get rod sets - to where you want them, very rarely would have to change anything.
Only problem i found, when using them upfront on Spider rig - if you took a hit, whole bar moved, all rods will shake
Tight Loc's with 24" T bar, you can tighten down a little more to get away from shake - and/or go the single pole set for what ever number of rods
you want and have no shake. (Big money guys all use this system) I'm on retirement and somewhat fixed budget and $750 for that i an't justify

I have noticed you can't set end position at 90 degrees without rod handle interference also.

Next time at boat will check that out --- you saying that you turn outside road holder at a 90 - rod hand will interfer with next rod holder, where you
actualy with a tite-loc you will not have that problem ?

With tite-loc 24" T bar, the way bar is drilled - you can purchase 2 more rod holders and mount them on top of T- bar thereby you can spider rig 10 rods
the holes are there and threaded

Just got to use my new Spyderloks for the first time not in the driveway.

A whole lot easier on the fine adjustments though a little bulky maybe, they sure look sharp.

The base plates lock'em in tight and they feel solid as a rock to the boat.

The height adjustment options are nice.

Very happy in the bang for the buck.

Yea having those independant pole holders would be nice but the cost X 8 is nuts for a working stiff.

Ordering from Gene here on the site was a breeze and super fast shipping. Top notch fellow that Gene and I tip my hat to him in appreciation. Can't go wrong dealing with Gene.

All in all a clear step up in equipment for my Slow Ride and a big smile on my face 😊

Gene puts out good product for price - equal to tite-loc's

I use my spider loc's out back - tite-loc's front - by have the 24" t-bar i can put 5 on each rack, makeing it a 10 tier up front.
Gene knows his stuff - at thought at first that he my over engineered tham a little bit.

Glad you like them