Dude you are so baller eating the pizza while flashing the #1 by your ride! Congrats on the win! Sounds like fun.
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Is that your Jeep? Thatâs a nice Jeep.
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Thanks! Sheâs a drinker, but I love her.
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Resting. . .
I twisted my foot on the street⌠danmâŚ
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Yeah, sounds like a real hoot there. Hope things stabilize for you guys soon.
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Went up to sunny (and eventually very windy) Lake Del Valle in Livermore, CA to go fishing today with my brother and one of my best friends. My brother landed 2 trout. My friend had a hard hit but it got away and I caught absolutely not a thing.
It wasnât a total skunk for me though as I was able to continue to work on my casting as a newb fisherman and try out some of the stuff I got for my birthdayâŚMy brother got me an Abu Garcia EZ Cast baitcast combo and out of the box, it had very stiff/what felt like thick lubed bearings. I threw some weights/plugs on it and just began casting while I waited for a bite on my other rod and seem to be getting the bearings to break inâŚreminding me of trying to break in yoyo bearings except Iâm not going to attempt to open up a reel and remove bearings to clean them. Iâll just keep casting til they break in nicely 
And then a gust of wind blew my chair into the lake along with my bottle of Dr Pepper and a foam noodle I use to keep my fishing leaders tidyâŚretrieved chair and sodaâŚnoodle got away and is floating out in that lake somewhereâŚtried to hook it but kept missing.
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was that you?
Anyways, I prefer hot dog juice for my yoyos and I still have all my own teeth tooâŚThankfully.
Thanks for sharing this classic tutorial. I like snap finger regenerations and glad to see the OlâGeezerâs not full of arthritis in the hands.
Went fishing once again today (Been doing this a lot lately) but once again no bite. Today was actually one of my more frustrating ones as I hit multiple snags, had a couple line breaks, lost a spinner lure I just bought (only casted 3 times). Anxious to try out my new baitcaster my brother got me for my birthday, turned out that the âEZ Castâ reel it came with is severely flawed. Could only cast about 20 feet on a good cast, spent more time undoing the âbirdsnestâ. And then it wouldnât evenly spool back up, rendering it impossible to use. It triedâŚ
Further insult to injury - had several strangers moving rather close in on the area I was at giving me little area to cover, kid kept throwing large rocks into the waterâŚyea, thatâll scare them off!
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Baitcasters take quite a bit of practice to cast well. Especially for lighter tackle, like what is typical for trout. The answer is to sell enough YoYos to buy some proper fly fishing gear!!!
This particular caster is supposed to actually be geared to kids (Abu Garcia EZ Cast), has a brake that automatically stops the spool when your worm/jig hits the water. An adult couldnât even get the thing to workâŚimagining how upset a kid would actually be if this was their first fishing experience. For some reason, despite the line guide moving left/right to evenly spool it, the line was getting hung up on this wire pin thatâs supposed to engage the brake. Poor designâŚwhen it birds nestâs upon retrieve instead of the castâŚ
When I got home, my brother gave me a normal baitcaster (as he upgraded his rod to a little higher end reel)âŚgot it dialed in and did some practice casts with a plug. Was a night and day experience, gonna take this back out tomorrow and put some time in on it Down the road Iâll upgrade to a little higher quality setup but for now, gonna put some hours in on this and actually try and catch a fish before spending anymore money.
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Just like in yoyo. The yoyo doesnât make you a great yoyoer, but some things just canât be done on some yo-yos.
Same with proper gear in any endeavor. Glad you got something that doesnât limit you!
I enjoy fly fishing in particular because you get the learn the aquatic insects that the fish are eating and create flys to mimic them. Tying flys and catching fish with them is like making your own yoyo and the string then learning a trick with it!
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Got ânopeâdâ by FedEx (First time FedExâs 2-day has failed me), package (Toonie) was supposed to show up tomorrowâŚ4 days later, FedEx still has it somewhere on the east coastâŚCanât fault YYE for this but this is unfortunately the first snag Iâve ever hadâŚUSPS wasnât exactly smooth either on the last throw I ordered. Guessing the weather back there/most of the US is still pretty bad.
Iâve been on a streak of bad luck lately it seems.
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The Greenhouse Saga continuesâŚ
Dangerous conditions for South Texas!!!
Five days of below freezing temperatures, two of those where it snowed for 10plus hours, and no power for most of the five days have led to a state of death.
My Red Sister Tiâs are ok(they went in the house), but today Iâll be assessing full damage and determining what may come back.
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Watching the rain. Two weeks ago my county suffered from ice storms that left 60 percent of the population without power. Yesterday we had the highest flood stage in 40 years and it is still raining.
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