The fish (small) were biting this morning! My Son caught a baby large mouth bass, maybe 10" long, and 5 nice blue gills. His friend caught 5 blue gill, one was the biggest I've seen in the pond, maybe 8 inches long but super thick. I caught 4 blue gill. Tons of big hits but no one was able to hook a big fish. Our hands were frozen but the sun came our and we had a great time. One of my small blue gill:
The good people follow the rule of catch and release. A couple of Ahole poachers can totally ruin it for everyone else
This seems to have broken my owner's will to maintain the pond and restock it I get it, his money and he's too busy to fish it or jack with it anymore.
Right on! How can you go wrong with Mark Knopfler👍🏻
Few weeks ago the wife and I went to see Alison Kraus and Union Station. Freaking fantastic show.
Then this past weekend met up with a buddy up in Cincinnati to see Spyro Gyra. Another awesome show. The drummer and bass player both had killer solos.
I went fishing - as opposed to just going to a trout farm - just once, with an uncle in Port Philip Bay about 50 years ago. Up at 5.00am, freezing, out into the Bay in his boat to look for flathead, whiting and trevally.
Caught nothing for about an hour, then two flathead, which live on the sea bed: the Bay is fairly shallow so good access to those sorts of fish.
I then got extremely seasick and threw up over the side, which apparently made our boat very attractive fish wise, then caught two whiting and naturally, a poisonous toad fish which just about everyone used to catch.
Green and with a force 8 headache, we returned to shore a couple of hours later.
River and lake fishing must be more fun than that!
I've never been deep sea fishing so I have nothing to compare... but we have a lot of fun at the pond when the fish are biting. My Son is only good for a couple/few hours so when we go early (7 AM is early for him) we get home and I still have the better part of the day to get my chores done and then play with DIY speaker projects.
With that said, fishing is not my passion. But it's one more opportunity to spend time with my Son and have another thing to share and talk about. In today's world with the kids so glued to their cell phones, social media, and Mind Craft type online games I love anything we can do together. I'm taking him to the NHRA drag race in Joliet in two weeks so he can feel/experience the thrill of two 11,000+ HP top fuel cars roaring down the track.
I'm not much of a fisherman. Not sure why, but it just never interested me. When our youngest was in middle school we got into RC cars and then 1/10 scale crawlers. We had a ton of fun building and then breaking stuff. I even built a little track in the back yard. Anyone else remember watching Jang on YouTube?
Never watched Jang? But definitely still into RC cars. I'm at that age where growing up, went through the hay day of it. Had a Tamiya Grasshopper as a kid and that started a love I'll have till the end. In my 20's was racing local with a Losi XX4. Then once the scene kinda dried up I got an on road car, Associated TC3. Still play with that today. It's another expensive hobby...have avoided getting back into it. I have an indoor off road track 10min from my house that rents cars. I can have fun and temp fate anytime I like.
Brushless motors and lithium batteries have changed the world of RC.
I'll be heading to Road America with my son for IMSA weekend end of July, always a fun father-son, then to Chicago mid-October to cheer on my daughter running the Chi Marathon go-girl.
I grew up watching drag racing and dirt track fun. I have very fond memories of these activities and learned a lot due to my old man and quite a few of my neighbors all being directly involved in the hobbies.
Last time I went to the drag races the brackets were dominated by turbocharged LS swapped vehicles, including a late 80's Fox body lol. Interesting how times have changed from naturally aspirated SBC dominance. One 10 second S-10 was driven by a 17 year old girl - and she was not the only young lady racing that day. Never saw that 30-40 years ago, not really - not the 10 second streetable S10 or the young lady drivers.
@6thplanet said:
Never watched Jang? But definitely still into RC cars. I'm at that age where growing up, went through the hay day of it. Had a Tamiya Grasshopper as a kid and that started a love I'll have till the end. In my 20's was racing local with a Losi XX4. Then once the scene kinda dried up I got an on road car, Associated TC3. Still play with that today. It's another expensive hobby...have avoided getting back into it. I have an indoor off road track 10min from my house that rents cars. I can have fun and temp fate anytime I like.
Brushless motors and lithium batteries have changed the world of RC.
That is a hobby that has tempted me many times over the years and so far have been able to resist. Not a huge community here in the area, and that may have contributed to my ability to avoid yet another money pit lol.
@PWRRYD said:
With that said, fishing is not my passion. But it's one more opportunity to spend time with my Son and have another thing to share and talk about. In today's world with the kids so glued to their cell phones, social media, and Mind Craft type online games I love anything we can do together. I'm taking him to the NHRA drag race in Joliet in two weeks so he can feel/experience the thrill of two 11,000+ HP top fuel cars roaring down the track.
Fishing used to be a passion of mine, but over time other hobbies have kind of taken over. I figure it will always be there waiting for me when I want to get a line wet again.
@6thplanet said:
Never watched Jang? But definitely still into RC cars. I'm at that age where growing up, went through the hay day of it. Had a Tamiya Grasshopper as a kid and that started a love I'll have till the end. In my 20's was racing local with a Losi XX4. Then once the scene kinda dried up I got an on road car, Associated TC3. Still play with that today. It's another expensive hobby...have avoided getting back into it. I have an indoor off road track 10min from my house that rents cars. I can have fun and temp fate anytime I like.
Oh yeah, had local hobby shop that had a track in the back with races Sunday late mornings. Had a hotshot, but was stupid and clean my parts in gasoline once. Later an RC-10, but those were can of worms with all the expensive little upgrades could do. Then exited using kyosho optima mid, excellent but then lost interest as the hobby shop quit hosting races and all that was when 8th-9th grade. Would rotate from rc cars, to freestyle bikes (i was too fat to do any good tricks) then computers (apple IIe, c64, hacker groups). I had paper route that would burn holes in my pocket.
Hell yeah! I had a friend that had an RC-10, another had an Optima. I remember that chain drive 4WD system was so loud, but so frickin cool! I later had the Frog, then a Losi JRX ProSE (I still have that too). A Kyosho Big Brute was the only truck, it was ok, I definitely favored buggies.
I was hooked when a cousin brought over his Grasshopper. It was way better than the Tycos I had. I started with a gold chassis RC10 with the wiper speed control in middle school, but it didn't get used much. Got back into it in high school with a RC10GT Factory Team with a Novarossi C12. After that I bought a few more used nitro 1/10th scale that I would fix up. I really enjoyed putting them together, but it seamed I was always breaking something when I drove them. I never raced at a track, just bashed around. They have all sat collecting dust, but I think they will see a resurgence soon as my son grows up. We already have some cheap 1/18th brushless that sure can move and take a beating.
Since the Heils fell through for me. I think my PM180s have finally met their match... Didn't realize they would be JF's last pair.
Holding out to do a tower, but my wife might murder me in my sleep if I do another tower right now.. Sooo, probably need to store them until the right time comes. Should be worth the wait.
I built an e-trike for my wife to putt around the campgrounds when we go camping. However, I've got a rooftop tent over the truck bed so it won't fit under there. Planning on eventually building a trailer to mount the rooftop tent to and haul the bikes, but until that happens I needed a way to transport the trike. I slapped something together with spare 2x4s to attach to some square tube for the hitch receiver. Not quite done yet, but close. Planning on a couple cam-buckle tiedowns on the front wheel and one each for the rears.
The square hitch tube is from a hitch basket. I initially was going to bolt the 2x4s to parts of the basket but then I realized I could save the $$ in bolts by ditching the basket and build it all out of wood. Intentionally overbuilt for peace of mind so I shouldn't have to worry about it back there, at least for the short term until weather has it's way.
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The fish (small) were biting this morning! My Son caught a baby large mouth bass, maybe 10" long, and 5 nice blue gills. His friend caught 5 blue gill, one was the biggest I've seen in the pond, maybe 8 inches long but super thick. I caught 4 blue gill. Tons of big hits but no one was able to hook a big fish. Our hands were frozen but the sun came our and we had a great time. One of my small blue gill:
Lol is it still a pond if using football fields as measurement?
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Yeah just a little feller. Easy to fish it out ☹️
The good people follow the rule of catch and release. A couple of Ahole poachers can totally ruin it for everyone else
This seems to have broken my owner's will to maintain the pond and restock it
I get it, his money and he's too busy to fish it or jack with it anymore.
not really off topic, but a pretty cool music video
Right on! How can you go wrong with Mark Knopfler👍🏻
Few weeks ago the wife and I went to see Alison Kraus and Union Station. Freaking fantastic show.
Then this past weekend met up with a buddy up in Cincinnati to see Spyro Gyra. Another awesome show. The drummer and bass player both had killer solos.
I went fishing - as opposed to just going to a trout farm - just once, with an uncle in Port Philip Bay about 50 years ago. Up at 5.00am, freezing, out into the Bay in his boat to look for flathead, whiting and trevally.
Caught nothing for about an hour, then two flathead, which live on the sea bed: the Bay is fairly shallow so good access to those sorts of fish.
I then got extremely seasick and threw up over the side, which apparently made our boat very attractive fish wise, then caught two whiting and naturally, a poisonous toad fish which just about everyone used to catch.
Green and with a force 8 headache, we returned to shore a couple of hours later.
River and lake fishing must be more fun than that!
Geoff
I've never been deep sea fishing so I have nothing to compare... but we have a lot of fun at the pond when the fish are biting. My Son is only good for a couple/few hours so when we go early (7 AM is early for him) we get home and I still have the better part of the day to get my chores done and then play with DIY speaker projects.
With that said, fishing is not my passion. But it's one more opportunity to spend time with my Son and have another thing to share and talk about. In today's world with the kids so glued to their cell phones, social media, and Mind Craft type online games I love anything we can do together. I'm taking him to the NHRA drag race in Joliet in two weeks so he can feel/experience the thrill of two 11,000+ HP top fuel cars roaring down the track.
Hell yeah! Nitromethane FTW!🤘🏼😎🤘🏼
Yeah, the big boys are a life experience that's for sure.
I'm not much of a fisherman. Not sure why, but it just never interested me. When our youngest was in middle school we got into RC cars and then 1/10 scale crawlers. We had a ton of fun building and then breaking stuff. I even built a little track in the back yard. Anyone else remember watching Jang on YouTube?
Never watched Jang? But definitely still into RC cars. I'm at that age where growing up, went through the hay day of it. Had a Tamiya Grasshopper as a kid and that started a love I'll have till the end. In my 20's was racing local with a Losi XX4. Then once the scene kinda dried up I got an on road car, Associated TC3. Still play with that today. It's another expensive hobby...have avoided getting back into it. I have an indoor off road track 10min from my house that rents cars. I can have fun and temp fate anytime I like.
Brushless motors and lithium batteries have changed the world of RC.
I'll be heading to Road America with my son for IMSA weekend end of July, always a fun father-son, then to Chicago mid-October to cheer on my daughter running the Chi Marathon go-girl.
I grew up watching drag racing and dirt track fun. I have very fond memories of these activities and learned a lot due to my old man and quite a few of my neighbors all being directly involved in the hobbies.
Last time I went to the drag races the brackets were dominated by turbocharged LS swapped vehicles, including a late 80's Fox body lol. Interesting how times have changed from naturally aspirated SBC dominance. One 10 second S-10 was driven by a 17 year old girl - and she was not the only young lady racing that day. Never saw that 30-40 years ago, not really - not the 10 second streetable S10 or the young lady drivers.
That is a hobby that has tempted me many times over the years and so far have been able to resist. Not a huge community here in the area, and that may have contributed to my ability to avoid yet another money pit lol.
Fishing used to be a passion of mine, but over time other hobbies have kind of taken over. I figure it will always be there waiting for me when I want to get a line wet again.
Oh yeah, had local hobby shop that had a track in the back with races Sunday late mornings. Had a hotshot, but was stupid and clean my parts in gasoline once. Later an RC-10, but those were can of worms with all the expensive little upgrades could do. Then exited using kyosho optima mid, excellent but then lost interest as the hobby shop quit hosting races and all that was when 8th-9th grade. Would rotate from rc cars, to freestyle bikes (i was too fat to do any good tricks) then computers (apple IIe, c64, hacker groups). I had paper route that would burn holes in my pocket.
Hell yeah! I had a friend that had an RC-10, another had an Optima. I remember that chain drive 4WD system was so loud, but so frickin cool! I later had the Frog, then a Losi JRX ProSE (I still have that too). A Kyosho Big Brute was the only truck, it was ok, I definitely favored buggies.
I was hooked when a cousin brought over his Grasshopper. It was way better than the Tycos I had. I started with a gold chassis RC10 with the wiper speed control in middle school, but it didn't get used much. Got back into it in high school with a RC10GT Factory Team with a Novarossi C12. After that I bought a few more used nitro 1/10th scale that I would fix up. I really enjoyed putting them together, but it seamed I was always breaking something when I drove them. I never raced at a track, just bashed around. They have all sat collecting dust, but I think they will see a resurgence soon as my son grows up. We already have some cheap 1/18th brushless that sure can move and take a beating.
Since the Heils fell through for me. I think my PM180s have finally met their match... Didn't realize they would be JF's last pair.
Holding out to do a tower, but my wife might murder me in my sleep if I do another tower right now.. Sooo, probably need to store them until the right time comes. Should be worth the wait.
I knew I should have grabbed those, his price was definitely right.
Those were from my Do Not Sell secret stash. But things change.
https://www.jfcomponents.com/
Oh, I thought they were listed on your site.
They just recently were. Great tweeter but I have fallen for the ribbons lately.
https://www.jfcomponents.com/
I know the feeling.
Yup
I built an e-trike for my wife to putt around the campgrounds when we go camping. However, I've got a rooftop tent over the truck bed so it won't fit under there. Planning on eventually building a trailer to mount the rooftop tent to and haul the bikes, but until that happens I needed a way to transport the trike. I slapped something together with spare 2x4s to attach to some square tube for the hitch receiver. Not quite done yet, but close. Planning on a couple cam-buckle tiedowns on the front wheel and one each for the rears.
The square hitch tube is from a hitch basket. I initially was going to bolt the 2x4s to parts of the basket but then I realized I could save the $$ in bolts by ditching the basket and build it all out of wood. Intentionally overbuilt for peace of mind so I shouldn't have to worry about it back there, at least for the short term until weather has it's way.
Nice job! Very crafty👍🏻