Builds An Accidental Frame Off.................. (13 Viewers)

[FloridaLife]

Cruiser things.View attachment 3937597View attachment 3937598View attachment 3937599

View attachment 3937601

OK OK... No fair!

Man, that looks awesome. I'm going to show my wife your pics in the morning, she's asleep now. Growing up in South East Georgia on the water, she had never seen or experienced real snow until I was transferred to the mountains in 2014. I'll never forget the first time of her seeing snow in her 40's outside like a little kid, experiencing snow for the first time. I hope I win the lottery so I can buy us another home in the mountains and see her smile like that again!

 

[FloridaLife]

On a side note, I was hanging out a the fly shop today gathering some TS/SCI info from some local trout bums, looks like I'm going to be down by the river chucking dry flies for the next few weeks.

Might need to burn a sick day or two.......

Turns out that here you don't even need to go fishing. They just fall out of the sky when a bald eagle or an osprey flies over:

 

[FloridaLife]

Turns out that here you don't even need to go fishing. They just fall out of the sky when a bald eagle or an osprey flies over:

View attachment 3939248

Or if we get a hurricane it can rain fish. LOL

 

[FloridaLife]

Turns out that here you don't even need to go fishing. They just fall out of the sky when a bald eagle or an osprey flies over:

View attachment 3939248

I need to train them to drop some when they see me sitting in a lawn chair with a cold drink in my hand.

 

[Catching Neutral]

They drop rattle snakes also.

 

[flee]

They drop rattle snakes also.

Thems are good eatin'!

 

[charliemeyer007]

Prairie sausage

 

[FloridaLife]

I wish I had a dollar for every time I've seen a bald eagle or osprey with a fish, either catching it, flying with it, or eating it. It never gets old! I miss the beauty of the mountains, and having 4 seasons, but the wildlife here is beautiful. And you can't find a cockroach or spider around my house to save your life. The lizards and the geckos get them.

@rkymtnflyfisher did you get to spend a couple of days (possibly sick days) enjoying the tranquility of fly fishing? I absolutely LOVE fishing, but I have never experienced fly fishing. Every time I hear or see something mentioned about fly fishing it makes me think of the movie "A River Runs Through It". Beautiful and amazing to watch, so I can only imagine how wonderful it would be to do it. And like the old saying, "A bad day of fishing beats a good day at work."

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

@rkymtnflyfisher did you get to spend a couple of days (possibly sick days) enjoying the tranquility of fly fishing?

I'm on day 3 of a 26 day stretch of some awesome things. Rumor has it there's a 6 day, 60 miles float through some of the most remote wilderness in the lower 48 happening sometime soon. Then there's just the normal daily fishing, and driving around aimlessly going on. We just got home from a drive up along the river, just a good random drive.

 

[FloridaLife]

I'm on day 3 of a 26 day stretch of some awesome things. Rumor has it there's a 6 day, 60 miles float through some of the most remote wilderness in the lower 48 happening sometime soon. Then there's just the normal daily fishing, and driving around aimlessly going on. We just got home from a drive up along the river, just a good random drive.

I am super jealous. When I was 18 or 19 my dad took a friend and I up to

Lynn Cotton

Lynn Cotton

I'm on day 3 of a 26 day stretch of some awesome things. Rumor has it there's a 6 day, 60 miles float through some of the most remote wilderness in the lower 48 happening sometime soon. Then there's just the normal daily fishing, and driving around aimlessly going on. We just got home from a drive up along the river, just a good random drive.

That all sounds fantastic. My neighbor LOVES salt water fishing and goes out on some of the 36 hour trips, and once a year he goes on the 72 hour trips, but he ALWAYS comes home with a ton of red snapper and other fish.

 

[Catching Neutral]

My 17 yo is crazy about all things fishing. He is spending his summer getting his PPL, working at the local Bait and tackle store, and deck handing for offshore trips. He has been saving money for about 2 years now. My wife and I pitched in to help him get his first boat. Look out red fish.

 

[Chungas Revenge]

My 17 yo is crazy about all things fishing. He is spending his summer getting his PPL, working at the local Bait and tackle store, and deck handing for offshore trips. He has been saving money for about 2 years now. My wife and I pitched in to help him get his first boat. Look out red fish.

Highjack Alert

Lance, PM me the company/charter info.

Highjack Concluded

 

[Helipilot]

I always carried a collapsed rod in the cargo hold of the Bell 206L4 Jet Ranger on the forest fires in the north west. Very peaceful . When offshore I lived two weeks at a time on a rig 123 miles offshore in 180' water. Had an Ugly Stick with roller tip and a Penn 6-0 reel. Caught some nice Red Snapper we grilled up after work. I prefer fly fishing for the pure poetry of it and the sound of a bubbling creek. Good times. @rkymtnflyfisher has the ideal set up.

 

[FloridaLife]

I always carried a collapsed rod in the cargo hold of the Bell 206L4 Jet Ranger on the forest fires in the north west. Very peaceful . When offshore I lived two weeks at a time on a rig 123 miles offshore in 180' water. Had an Ugly Stick with roller tip and a Penn 6-0 reel. Caught some nice Red Snapper we grilled up after work. I prefer fly fishing for the pure poetry of it and the sound of a bubbling creek. Good times. @rkymtnflyfisher has the ideal set up.

Fishing that deep would be some nice big reds! My neighbor that loves to go saltwater fishing in the 150-200 depth came over and asked me to order him a new reel and a battery pack (and I said "huh?), and gave me the cash so his wife wouldn't know, LOL. When he gets a fish on he just hits a button and the reel quickly pulls the fish up. He said he can usually get 3 or 4 to everyone else's 1.

Amazon.com : Daiwa Sea Borg 400J Electric Reel : Sports & Outdoors - https://www.amazon.com/Daiwa-Seaborg-400JL-Electric-Various/dp/B0C6M6GYTX

https://www.amazon.com/BatPower-Fishing-Battery-Leobritz-Electric/dp/B0BZ2RSHQG

 

[MatthewMcD]

I always carried a collapsed rod in the cargo hold of the Bell 206L4 Jet Ranger on the forest fires in the north west. Very peaceful . When offshore I lived two weeks at a time on a rig 123 miles offshore in 180' water. Had an Ugly Stick with roller tip and a Penn 6-0 reel. Caught some nice Red Snapper we grilled up after work. I prefer fly fishing for the pure poetry of it and the sound of a bubbling creek. Good times. @rkymtnflyfisher has the ideal set up.

I worked at a fish hatchery in Alaska after college. We harvested and grew Salmon. All...day...long... Nobody wanted to eat salmon when you've been standing in it, killing it, bucking it, and trashing it all day long.

So, my buddy and I would row out into the sound and drop lines to 140 to 180 feet and pull up Ling Cod, Cabezon, and Snapper. Occasionally, we'd hook a halibut. That would slow the operation down, because you had to get it close enough to the boat to determine its size. Under 60 or so pounds and we'd let it go. Over 60, preferably 80-100 pounds, we'd get it close to the gunnel and dispatch it with a .45 acp before bringing it aboard.

Favorite meals while working there? Grilled Halibut steaks, grilled Ling Cod, Red Snapper Tacos, and Moose Chili.

Much later in the season we did a dive to ~140 feet (the bottom of a section of the sound) and the dead salmon on the ocean floor was a creepy iridescent white layer on the bottom. Working through the gore were huge halibut.

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Most people here on mud probably know that I'm a stickler for knocks, rattles, clunks, and any other noises that are annoying in my 40. For the last couple of years I've had an annoying knock, a very light hollow knock is about the best description, from somewhere around the driver knee area, sometimes it sounded like it was at my feet, sometimes it sounded like it was behind the dash. Usually always at idle or low rpms.

I've done all kinds of crazy things to identify the source of the sound.

The hood hinges? I put some rubber pad under the hood side to eliminate any play. No dice.

The edge of the hood vibrating against the front apron? Some edge guard rubber along the apron. No dice.

After months, if not years of trying to pinpoint the source of that annoying sound, I may have lucked out.

Today I spent some time digging around under the hood, and under the dash.
Two possible things came to light, one was part of the wiring harness right behind the fuse block "may" have been vibrating against the body.

The second suspect, which I believe to be the one, was the speedo cable, and the parking brake cable, ever so lightly vibrating against each other and resonating through the firewall.


Some zip ties on both possible culprits and some test driving, and it seems like the sound is gone.


Now it's time to get busy livin.

 

[RevISK]

Most people here on mud probably know that I'm a stickler for knocks, rattles, clunks, and any other noises that are annoying in my 40. For the last couple of years I've had an annoying knock, a very light hollow knock is about the best description, from somewhere around the driver knee area, sometimes it sounded like it was at my feet, sometimes it sounded like it was behind the dash. Usually always at idle or low rpms.

I've done all kinds of crazy things to identify the source of the sound.

The hood hinges? I put some rubber pad under the hood side to eliminate any play. No dice.

The edge of the hood vibrating against the front apron? Some edge guard rubber along the apron. No dice.

After months, if not years of trying to pinpoint the source of that annoying sound, I may have lucked out.

Today I spent some time digging around under the hood, and under the dash.
Two possible things came to light, one was part of the wiring harness right behind the fuse block "may" have been vibrating against the body.

The second suspect, which I believe to be the one, was the speedo cable, and the parking brake cable, ever so lightly vibrating against each other and resonating through the firewall.


Some zip ties on both possible culprits and some test driving, and it seems like the sound is gone.


Now it's time to get busy livin.

I’ll bet when you’re driving along, you’re like, “valves 3, 6 and 8 are a couple thou too loose”

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

I’ll bet when you’re driving along, you’re like, “valves 3, 6 and 8 are a couple thou to loose”

Maybe a few zip ties will tighten those valves!

 

[RevISK]

Maybe a few zip ties will tighten those valves!

Freshly snipped with side cutters

 

[rkymtnflyfisher]

Freshly snipped with side cutters

At an angle of course.



I just taught a guy last week how to twist zip ties off, he had been cutting then with his linesmans as flush as he could forever, after I showed him how to twist them off it was like he entered the world of the unknown!