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Long Wader

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About Long Wader

  • Birthday 10/14/1952

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  • About Me:
    Old guy with lots of fishing experience
  • Interests (Hobbies, favorite activities, etc.):
    Saltwater and Fresh Water Fishing, hiking, dogs, history, Scifi, and natural science
  • What I do for a living:
    Small Business Owner

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    MD & PA LIne

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  1. Yep, Manchin has the political acumen of a Gnat.
  2. Good point Buddha. I have not ice fished in a long time, but that sure would help you avoid drilling a lot of exploratory holes in the ice. Ice fishing can be seriously deadly because most fish group in in small areas of the lake during the Winter. While warm water species don't feed often during the Winter, they won't pass up a tasty meal presented right in front of them. Cold water species are another story and fish like pike and walleye actually gain weight during the Winter while they actively feed under the ice.
  3. You could go as far back as Buck Perry with his books on how to use the first flashing units to identify fish and underwater fish holding structures that most fisherman miss. The old flasher units that are still in use for ice fishing were the first fish finder sonar units available to fisherman. I started with the LItttle Green Box from Lowrance, and those units were soon followed by the first LCD screen fish finders. As the new fish finders became more capable, they also needed more sophisticated and powerful transducers to reveal more underwater detail. As the sonar pulses became more powerful the fish seemed to notice them more. The fish seem to be especially affected by the new megahertz units IMO. If the fish has a bad experience like being hook and landed in association with sonar pulses it becomes a negative conditioned behavior. While fish are not very smart, they are very good at developing conditioned behaviors that help them feed successfully and avoid danger. Young fish are very inquisitive and adventurous, however the ones that ones that continue to survive and grow become more selective and wary.
  4. The way this threat information is slowly being leaked right after the Tucker interview with Putin makes me think this maybe a psyops operation designed to herd the Congress and the voters into supporting more funding for Ukraine. Sort like Intel Community's warning of WMD in Iraq. I hate to be so cynical, but this Administration lies about everything. If it is nuclear hypersonic missiles that is old news and if it is a threat in space that would be ironic after the Brandon Administration mocked Trump's Space Force initiatives.
  5. Fish populations respond to fishing pressure in a number of different ways overtime, and I got to experience this process on a new lake in the early 70s. I experienced this process on a new fertile new lake that was heavily stocked with a number of species and remained closed for a number of years until it was opened for fishing and other recreational activities. Initially the lake was uncrowdedand the fish were naive and easy to catch on a wide variety of lures at just about any time of day. It was like my own private Idaho. Over the next 25 years the fishing pressure got much heavier and sophisticated as word spread about the fishing resource and as the fishing tech and techniques improved. At first I noticed that well known popular lures seemed to lose their charm and the easily to access and easy to identify fish spots were no longer as productive. Over time as the shallow areas got pounded, fishing deep and on less obvious spots and structure seemed to be more productive with novel lures and presentations. Fishing scents got popular and while they initially worked great after a number of years after a number of years I found that I caught more and bigger fish on un-secented lures. The fish populations were slowly but surely adapting to the fishing pressure and getting harder to catch. After about 15 years I found that my best fishing times were when the fishing pressure was lowest like at night during the middle of the work week with lures that were larger or smaller than what most people were using. After over 20 years of fishing this lake I noticed that the fish were scattering and, or stopped feeding when I went over them with my boat even when the water was very deep. Initially I figured it was my electric motor sounds and, or vibrations so I carefully balanced my electric motor prop and got the quietest motor I could find, but that was not the entire issue. The fish were seemly becoming turned off by the sonar pulses from my fish finder. I found that if I located fish on the sonar, turned the sonar off and let them rest a while they would start biting again. As sonar units got more powerful and their sonar pulses moved into the megahertz range this effect became even more pronounced. Even Bass Pros are now talking about finding fish with the sonar and then turning the sonar off if the fish fail to respond to their presentations. Like everything else there are advantages and disadvantages to overusing any fishing tech or technique on pressured fisheries. The best fishermen are the ones that are observant and flexible and adapt as the fish adapt to the fishing pressure. This is especially true with catch and release fisheries where fish have more opportunities to develop these conditioned behaviors.
  6. Not only is Potato Head totally corrupt he is also decomposing in public while we watch.
  7. The fact that Fani is an obviously corrupt, unethical, incompetent and politically motivated DA trying to try someone else for their politics makes this entire farce laughable. The Dem media types are besides themselves because Fani's case was supposed to be the strongest case against Trump and now it is looking like the weakest.
  8. The White House is like a retirement home for clueless Leftists. The can't get anything right and everything blows up in their face.
  9. The Establishment types must be schitting a brick over Potato Heads literal Decomposition while he is on the campaign trail if they are pouring that much money into Haley's coffers. It won't do they any good after Trump takes South Carolina. Recent polls show that Trump still ahead of Haley by 29% in her home state.
  10. That is the exact opposite of what the polls show. Over 70% of the typically more Liberal New Hampshire Republicans voted for Trump and most of the votes for Haley were from unaffiliated voters looking to derail the Republican Primary process. The New Hampshire Governor and media's support Haley apparently did not have that much influence on most of the registered Republicans. By the way, a recent poll showed that the small percentage of folks that actually approve of Potato Head's leadership and policies are mostly from the 1% that can game the system due to their wealth.
  11. I guess our troops no longer fight for the USA and are Potato Head's DEI Pretorian Guard.
  12. According to the polls there is literally no grass roots support for Haley in the Republican electorate. The folks supporting her are the big Dem and Rino donors that want races like Bush/Obama where both candidate are guaranteed to support the Establishment and the wishes of their donor oligarchs.
  13. Credulous simps like FM that willing to believe the Potato Head with little or no evidence are what is wrong with the country
  14. Its over 25 States now and 10 have committed to sending their National Guard to Texas. Potato Head is in a really bad place, its a lose lose no matter what he does and it is all his fault. The unsecured border and the illegal mass migration debacle has become a transnational issue with the vast majority of all voters in all parties. Only about 21% of voters are in favor of Potato Head's open border policies.
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