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Re: Pretty scary for a 17 year old girl

I never went through anything like that, but once when I was stalking this fat chick and burglarizing her car and house, her boyfriend chased me into the laundry room. I got away because he was too much of a wimp to open the door right away.

Fish Haid

Re: Re powered my Panga with new 25 HP Zuk I got a short shaft my mistake bummer.

kmagnuss said:

If you get a 6" or 10" setback on there you'll probably be fine... do it with a manual or hydraulic jack plate. The further away from the transom you get the prop the higher up in the water it can get.
Also... some props like to ride higher in the water than others, which will get you another couple inches. I bet you'll be fine and better for it when it's all said and done.

that much set back,it will create additional problems... smart play : trade that motor for the long shaft butchering up a boat,to make the motor work isn't the best option either... a short shaft motor : 15" - 17" transom height long shaft motor : 20" - 22" transom height

squidvicious

Re: Drift fishing and Charter boat enters same area and anchors

MRichardson said:

Rich M said:

...basically if they can see you you're too close.

Exactly!

Shoot, if you see my truck at the ramp you might as well turn around and go home

Reel Teal

Re: St. Vincent Island - Sambar 2019 Applications Closed Already??

It is commendable that the UFWS is doing this.

Think past your situation a little. Imagine that it was you last year - did they do good or did they mess it up?

Rich M

Re: Getting Married at 15 years old..

Well despite all ya'll crying and trying to analyze me they went ahead and got married ,
Made it 48 years married till she passed away from a Heart Attack 3 months after I was born in 1955.
Miss you Hattie May Lewis...Meadows Georgia ...Grandma to me.
Great Grandpa was 27 when he married a 16 year old.
Washington County Alabama..late 18 Hundreds.

Turner River Terror

Re: The decline of Hunting

Guys, stop the madness! If you want to recruit and retain people into hunting you MUST keep it cheap(er) and void of all unnecessary, and complicated red tape. I'm willing to bet we all know some ol timers who have stopped hunting because it's just not worth the hassle to them.

If you're going to require more pay to play requirements and more red tape for folks in the hunting community to participate, then you darn well better be illustrating some EXCELLENT habitat and wildlife management, which incidentally, Florida lacks. It all boils down to value. "What do I get, for what I have to give?" Every one of us has a "price point" that will break us down and stop us from going. This is much simpler than everyone believes it to be. Requiring all this money and extra crap from a few old codgers who spent their life paying into the system and still trying to get in the woods ain't gonna make your hunting better in the face of imminent over crowding and development.

Having said that, I do however think the state needs to up charge those transplants who haven't paid into the system for decades LIKE I HAVE, and they need to REALLY charge non residents heavily who take MY permits from the pool and come down to kill MY turkeys and MY alligators! Not completely unlike what they do to me when I go to their states to hunt or fish!

Big Mak

Re: The decline of Hunting

Glenn said:

Despite NPR coming out with this...I see it happening as well in my own family circle.

When I can’t hunt on nearby public lands for turkey and deer because of a heavy regulated quota system, why even bother buying new hunting gear?

Agreed. Not like people don’t want to hunt... more like we can’t hunt.

FreeLiner

Re: Anyone else having a poor turkey season so far?

Enjoyed the season! It was also a cooler season temperature wise, which made Spring hunting great for me. Didn't get a bird this season, but hunting them was awesome in my public lands areas. Also had a lot of fun catching up w public lands turkey hunters at camp. Shifting gears now - taking family to beach, fishing and scouting for bow season. I love Florida!

swampwalker

Re: Big DDT fish kill

Its sad to see people parroting the conspiracy theorists websites without doing any real digging on the use and effects of the overspraying of DDT on our food supply and the land.

Anyone here ever actually READ Silent Spring? Carson didn't say DDT should be banned, she advocated for a more limited use by people who were better trained to apply it. In fact, DDT continues to be manufactured, used in and exported from the US to this day.Only China and India make and use more DDT. (put your beliefs where your mouth is, for example, 36% of all garlic products consumed in the US come from China. where do your spices come from?)

The U.S. Government did not ban all use of DDT in the US back in the 70's, only on the application on our crops and livestock. And even that wouldn't have happened with out the consent and full support of Richard Nixon,that notorious tree hugging commie liberal.

All of the facts are readily available online but you will have to dig up the pieces and draw your own conclusions. I know, easier to parrot someone else's half truths,lies and damned lies.

But at least investigate who paid for the websites.

Bobber

Re: Do pond tarpon count?

A tarpon is a tarpon.

tankard