AwgustaDawg

Awful lot of "if it was my kid" group speak in this thread. The question that always comes to my mind is why, if you'd kill the person if it was your kid, wouldn't you do so if it was someone else's kid? If it is a heinous act its a heinous act.

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On top of that...It should be broadcast live on TV or tape delay for the news.

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This would be the best thing to happen in this nation in a loooooonnnnngggggg time. Public executions were a major reason the rest of the civilized world has moved past the state killing people. The reason they are not public in the US is because they wouldn't last a year. It is understandable that soooooo many Americans long to live in a nation comparable to China, Saudi Arabia, Iran and Iraq and view people being killed but those sick fricks can buy a plane ticket and watch as many people killed as they can stomach and the rest of us won't live with the knowledge that the state has executed people, in our name, who were demonstrably not guilty of the crime they were executed for.

I saw Merle Haggard, Ray Price and Willie Nelson on the same night at Chastain Park in Atlanta in 2006. Several years before Price or Haggard passed. It was a helluva show in one of my favorite venues. Saw Willie Nelson there just a few weeks ago....and that was a helluva show as well...

If you het it just right they will all have a case of tourettes or speaking in tongues....

Best thing that ever happened to me was becoming a father. Like most men I only wanted to practice roughing them in without any consideration for trimming them out but once I actually roughed in the first one I went all in on trimming him out and wouldn't change a thing. When the second one came, after soundly cussing our German neighbor, I went all in again on trimming her out also and so far so good. Most rewarding and frustrating and scary and fun and infuriating experience imaginable...and that can all happen in a matter of seconds. Good luck and have a houseful.

Sail cats are as good as freshwater catfish. Never tried hardheads but small ones fried they're probably fine. Hardheads are a rarity in a fish I haven't tried to eat....my try some next time I am unfortunate enough to catch a few, which will be just about anytime one is driving near any part of the coast in most of the south....

Time now but it wasn't always the case. I learned about 20 years ago that I was not ever going to be rich and, at 40, time was far more important. Sex and fishing are good analogies for life...you ain't got to be the best or have the best equipment to have a helluva time if you have the right mind set. Money versus time is a big part of that mindset. I sold a solidly profitable small business in the fall of 2006 because I had been working 12 or more hours a day 6-7 days a week for a little over 12 years. I have never looked back. I made a lot of money working like that but realized I was not going to get wealthy and decided time was far more important. I am 60 now and I haven't changed my mind a bit.

For bream any popper in about a size 8 will work. Chartreuese is the go to but any color will work. I cut about half the length of the legs off of almost all of them...it results in more hits and hookups. If for some inexplicable reason they are running up to it and not hitting it...it happens....I will tie a Betts Bee (hard to find) behind it and they almost never run up to the popping bug and not eat that bee. It works fine with the bug as well. Any sort of suitably sized fly that sinks will work in a similar fashion behind a popping bug.

I streamer fish a lot for bass.....just blind casting and start stripping as soon as the fly hits the water.....almost as exciting as straight top water and allows me to fish deeper and further toward the boat.

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Instead of starting a new thread, hope I can jump in and get some recs on a good starter fly rod/reel setup for pond bass and bluegill.

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8-9' 5 weight will do about 95% of what anyone could ask of it. Most combo outfits consist of a 8.5' rod and 5/6 weight reel and 5 weight level floating line. The reel can be dirt cheap....in that weight class very few fish ever get on the reel and even fewer ever get into the backing so the reel is only there to keep the line organized. Just about any combo in the $100 range at BPS will be more than sufficient. Even those in the $50 range will do the job but the more expensive ones will have slightly better rods that may (or may not) be slightly easier to learn with.

I seldom ever use anything other than 6 pound mono for leader material when fishing for bream and bass. With the larger flies typically used for bream and bass mono rolls over just fine....unless you are fishing for wild brookies in a pristine, gin clear stream and fishing a size 22 fly rolling a tippet over is not required to have a helluva time with a long rod. Bream don't care...they will hit the damn fly line about as often as they do the fly...to the point that my Uncle, who taught me to catch bream on a flyrod, connected his 10 pound mono to the fly line via a #8 long shank hook tied to both lies with clinch knots. He was fishing for meat and that hook caught about as many big old titty bream as the fly did.


Fly fishing, even for trout on most rivers (most of the time) is no where near as complicated as most fly fisherman will have one believe. As far as bream and bass go anybody with one working arm can do it. Its almost the same for trout under most conditions. Saltwater fly fishing is only slightly more difficult due to wind, usually stronger, and at times having to handle far more line than you do fishing for bream, bass or even trout (most of the time). There are times when trout require high level of technical efficiency but it is not the norm, despite what most trout fisherman will claim.

Lines that roll over and the ability to cast in a manner that allows the line to roll over is important when fishing in very shallow water....not for bream, they could care less, but even bass will spook sometimes and redfish and trout will light out if the line slaps the water 10 feet from the fly.....

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Georgia is the lowest because they put a temporary hold on the 30 cent gas tax. It will go up in a few weeks

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And when it does go back up...it was done to last through last nights primaries, it will go back to a price higher than it would have been without the tax cut AND the revenue from the tax cut is going to come out of the general fund....but gotta buy them primary votes!

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I’m gonna miss Kemp after this term. Whatever you think of him, you can’t deny that he firmly believes in giving taxes back to taxpayers whenever possible.

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Like that time last year when he sent eerybody who filed a return $500 without any regard whatsoever as to what anyone paid in? frick Kemp. Just because the dog don't shite in the floor everyday don't make him a good dog....