Nobody fishing?

dingbat said:

Should have seen the look on my sister’s face when the 13 and 15 yro nephews returned home with stories of uncle Dingbat teaching them how to operate a chain saw….lol

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I think I was climbing trees with a chainsaw when I was younger than that. We used wood heat and dad would pay us $20 a pickup load. Sometimes the best firewood was in a live tree especially when the stuff on the ground was frozen to the ground. I think he had us using a Poulan with a 12” bar. No PPE.

Fast forward 30 or so years and I was working as a tree trimmer being forced to wear hard hat and saw chaps along with a harness if off the ground. Made it a lot harder to work.

Well the plan worked out, we limited out on crappies and threw many back. The young lad also learned about what happens when you catch a mess of fish, you have to clean them. He learned to filet fish last night and got lots of practice we were cleaning fish for an hour.

Jeff J said:

I think I was climbing trees with a chainsaw when I was younger than that. We used wood heat and dad would pay us $20 a pickup load. Sometimes the best firewood was in a live tree especially when the stuff on the ground was frozen to the ground. I think he had us using a Poulan with a 12” bar. No PPE.

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You would need to know my sister and the boys to appreciate the joke.
Urban types…..oldest was 16 before he was allowed to operate the extension cord powered lawn mower.

Jeff J said:

Fast forward 30 or so years and I was working as a tree trimmer being forced to wear hard hat and saw chaps along with a harness if off the ground. Made it a lot harder to work.

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Know where you’re coming from.

Worked structural steel for a few years.
Railings on scaffolds? Tie off harness, what is that….lol

Having said that, I’ve worked heavy industry the past 40 years. Hard hats, fire resistant jackets and metatarsal boots are mandatory.

Hard hat has saved me from serious injury twice but I really need to get a pair of saw chaps. Would have done some serious damage to my leg had the chain not gotten tangled up and stalled by my insulted Carhartt and jeans. Ended up with a flesh wound as a lesson I’ve still not taken action on

View from the dark house 10' of water, slow bite the pike were not attacking just sucking the minnow in.

Went fishing with my wife right after she got home from work yesterday afternoon.

We only had about an hour by the time we got to the pond, but I caught my first bass of the year, a one-pounder on a Senko. Not long after, my wife caught a very nice 3-pounder using a live bluegill.

We were packing up to leave and my wife said "one more cast before it gets dark" then threw a bluegill out towards the middle with a bobber. But, she didn't watch it closely and I saw that bobber yank under like it was hooked to a whale! A second later, when I told my wife what had happened, it had sped towards the weeds at warp speed. She barely figured out what had gone on in those few seconds, but started reeling in.
Too late! The fish was gone and had taken the bluegill for supper!
Exciting stuff and gave us inspiration for a good year this year.