Hahaha EPG, too late.

Thats hilarious Randy, good thing cop had a sense of humor.

Years ago at a 1/8 mile dragstrip in Eddyville Iowa I met up with a very well known tractor puller owner from Missouri.
He had a Farmall M tractor with a supercharged small block chevy with a powerglide coupled to the old tractor transmission.
He said he was always curious what the thing would do on the open road especially seeing how fast the tires would spin during a pull at the track.

He took it out on the two lane blacktop not far from his house and turned it loose, about the time the rear wheels were starting to bounce a trooper came at him head on, lights and siren came on and the trooper spun his car around and pulled him over.
The trooper was livid screaming at Jim for excessive noise from 8 open exhaust stacks, and excessive speed in a 45 MPH zone.
The trooper handed him a several hundred dollar ticket for noise, unlicensed vehicle AND 63 MPH in a 45 MPH zone.

Jim said the trooper almost completely lost it when Jim said, Officer, you just as well tear up that ticket because no jury in the world is going to believe a Farmall M will do 63 MPH.
Trooper tore up the ticket screaming at Jim the entire time and left him sitting alongside the road, Jim idled the tractor back home.

RAM lives matter.

Stay.

9 inch tongue and can breathe thru my ears.

Free lance gynecologist.

Spent most of my life working in marine, auto, ag, and aviation arenas, small business owner now that services all makes and models of outboards and I/O engines/outdrives, we service about any brand or model of cars and trucks as well.
I am also a Suzuki marine dealer.

Cant quote Big_G

Ford, Frick’n owners real dumb.
Chevy, Cheap heap eats valves yearly.
Jeep, just empty every pocket.

Anymore I hate em all.

Here ya go walleyesforme, RAM stands for Rusty And Mushy.

Anything made by Ronco.
The toilet paper oil filter by JC Whitney.
Sea monkeys.

We wont know for a while,he was going to call them tomorrow but his phone is swimming with the fishes

Yes if its easy to get to.
Brake cleaner,make sure you get the stuff that says its flammable as some are not.

Is it turning the right direction??
Asking for a friend.

Gary Barnard, If you are the same guy I have quizzed in the past with my concerns about what our ethanol plants do to our aquifers at the consumption rate of 44 million gallons of water daily are doing to your lakes up there, welcome to IDO, you are a wealth of information.
The last few years with data centers being built left and right, that consumption has gone up substantially here.
We even discussed a certain lake or two up there that for whatever reason cannot maintain water levels even in wet years, if I remember correctly the average dock length was over three hundred feet on those lakes, is that issue still occurring ??

Back to adding to this discussion, what I have seen in put and take lakes is once walleye get to catchable size the lakes are overran with fishermen until the population decreases to a point where they are almost fished out, I see this on the smaller lakes and not so much on larger ones.
A lake I frequent has that problem, fortunately it is connected to several other lakes that walleye can get into and out of with ease and I want to believe the population changes due to them following forage in and out of those lakes.
I wonder though, is rainfall or lack of a factor? water temps? I know fish like to roam a lot and it could be just their nature to do so.
I also know fishing pressure will cause them to go deep, move on, etc.

One lesson I learned from Steve Fellegy is that stocked fry tend to roam the most of any walleye out there, it would be interesting to know how and why that is a factor, hate to use an old cliche but are fry lacking the ” herd mentality ”
Radio tracking here has shown that fingerlings tend to never leave where they settle in once stocked, and many of those dont leave their habitat even during spawn.
Sorry I didnt take this thread anywhere, just rambling.

Again, if this is the same Gary, I still owe you a day in my boat.

SHEESH! and I thought amazon was where you go to get some decent pricing!
7.50 here for a twelver, if it gets much higher I will start making my own or buy a dispensing machine.
I havent had a JP80 since Nov 3rd, funny how I cannot stand a regular pepsi now, but the real sugar pepsi I can drink easy enough and I dont drink a lot of it.

Thanks for thinking of me Randy !! it was an extreme pleasure meeting you and having you in our home!
I am sorry Lucy was cantankerous with you, she is not used to sharing ‘her’ sofa.

If the tattoo artist is any good I have some lures that need redone.

Honda has one major issue across every carbureted engine they produce.
Whether its an actual choke plate, enrichener or primer, they are too danged lean!
Their choke plates are cut so they cannot flood an engine, enricheners have too small of jetting which does not administer enough fuel to a cold engine.
Their primers are restricted as well as to how much they can squirt with each pump, or, if the primer is weak or plugged up the least bit cold starts become impossible in cold weather and the colder it gets the worse it gets.

So, what to do?? you can rebuild the carb and check the primer passages to make sure they are clear, or, carry a can of brake cleaner, ( I hate ether ) and give the engine a shot through the carb to help it out.
There are mods that can be done that requires modifying the choke/enrichener circuits but I wont type them here due to liability reasons as you are modifying a fuel system and thats a huge no no in todays world.

After all of this and its an injected model, check fuel pressures first, if its the least bit low, it will start hard especially when cold as it is running lean.

I get one week per year to go fishing in MN, if I can catch my limit allowed by state law, I will bring that limit home, I am the only one in the house that eats fish so I am able to stretch that out through the winter and I enjoy every bite pardon the pun.

So, with that, lets stir the pot a bit.

Could it be that the proposed decrease in the limit is to have more fish available for increased populations that eat fish?

Is it so that more lakes can be netted across a broader area and once again ‘science’ says we can share?

OR, is it so that Mille Lacs fisherman can say, Hey, we can catch half a limit?
I mean, when before you could only catch two compared to everyone elses five and that didnt seem fair, but now if statewide limit is four, it doesnt sound near as bad.
( assuming the two fish limit stands for any length of time )

Heck, lets take this way out there, IF we have more fish in the system that means more chemicals can be taken out of the system because they are spread out over greater numbers therefore reducing the amount of chemicals per fish making them safer to eat??
I tossed that out there because someday even with warnings in place someone is going to get sick and find a lawyer that will take the state to court because they got sick from eating too many polluted fish, in this day and age warnings mean nothing.

Carry on.

Keep throwing the dynamite B-man,we will keep lighting it and throwing it back!!

All good sir!!

Randy Wieland wrote:

For ICAST 2025 The new Racine County ice fishing space maker series dueling pistols

Thats better than a sword fight!
How about dueling augers?? first one to wrap up the others ice suit or shelter wins.

And we all know EPG gets different shots at that stop!!
Gotta have a few immunizations against snow snakes!!

And thats when the fight started.

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Reef W wrote:

My daughter is 1’5″ tall and weighs 18lbs. Do you think she can get the flu shot?

No shot for me.
Reef,thats hilarious,I wanted to reply on that thread but didnt just in case it was legit but seeing as how you opened the door,,,
I always felt sorry for short people,that girl especially,she would be the last one to know it when it rained.

Jack Daniels called in a welfare check on me.
Been dry since Nov 3rd of last year.
2 unopened fifths of it, one unopened fifth of Old Forrester prohibition at 115 proof, and two other gifted bottles of something or other in the pantry.
I see Pepsi is losing money too.
Now if I can get some weight off !

Congrats Jon !!
Heres to wishing you many happy years of enjoying the fruit of your labors!

Man is it ever foggy down here, I was talking to a local roofer and he said he nailed on six rows of shingles before he realized he was past the peak.

Merry Christmas to the most diverse bunch of misfits I am proud to call my IDO family!
To each one of you, I truly hope you have a great day, with the new year coming I hope each one of us can make a positive difference in someone’s life whether its as simple as a smile when greeting someone, or helping someone learn something new.
And remember to be thankful for everything you have, be grateful you can get up and go to work everyday to earn those things, be thankful you live in the greatest country on earth!!

Most importantly, remember the reason for the season, I know some dont believe but,
Merry Christmas anyway!
Sheldon.

No, not for your uses, a 20 mile round trip will coke up the turbo in no time.
Diesels are meant for pulling heavy loads all day everyday, then add the expense of DEF, treating the fuel, etc.
Consider the extra cost of diesel fuel while you are at it.

Can you cut the cords off and ship them to me?
I need a cord with male plugs on each end so I can hook my generator to an outlet.

Here ya go.

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