TFLEX

I'm cautiously optimistic here in Central TX- hate a weekday opener though. I'm a FB coach- won't get to hunt until the weekend when everybody's already been blasting for 4-5 days.

Seeing lots of birds around town though.

They are awesome. Good buy!

I've always thought they were great, just never had a life situation to get one.

Its a super refined 4runner with a v8, way more luxury upgrades and all the offroad capabilities.

Man that was a heck of a day.

Years ago- family trip with Ex and ex inlaws to South Padre- fishing on beach, got popped in the foot right off the beach.

Drove to IGA- got meat tenderizer and a 30 pack.

Went back to condo- applied meat tenderizer, sat on floor, soaked towels in water- heat towel in microwave, wrap foot, drink beer, start heating another towel when one on foot cooled, repeat for hours. Brutal for about 6-8hrs i think.

Got antibiotics and cleaned really well just in case.


I'll put that up there with all my broken bones and tears as far as pain.


Funnier part- I had a live thread on TBH going when it happened. I kept posting updates, people said I wouldn't fish again the next day- we did and limited on trout.

Drive back to waco- go to my dr, tell them I'm there because of a Sting ray sting for antibiotics, my Dr comes in and says man- I've been following this thread on TBH a guy got popped by one yesterday at SPI! I said you're looking at TFlex in the flesh!

I still absolutely love the old OMC motors. Have since I was a kid.

Me being a nerd I've kind of gone down the rabbit hole of what happened. Its kind of a combination of blunders made by the guys in suits at BRP.

The big ficht motors got a bad rep immediately, the smaller ones 4cyl down were actually solid and reliable.

Then- emissions- 4 stroke- marketing- ads saying to stick with the times and everybody seeing promo stuff of how great 4 strokes were.

Next step was they lost some of their big contracts with boat companies- if i recall it was because they thought OMC was such a big brand- people would still just buy a hull- and go to the Evinrude dealer to get a motor fitted- as we all know- average Joe wants to buy a turn key rig from a one stop shop.

The final Gen etecs were actually amazing motors. Powerful, reliable, smooth, light, greatness.

But at that point- they had missed the boat. And chose to shut down and retool- which eventually turned into- BRP makes way more $ off all the side by sidez atv, and sled and ski sales. And then boom- the legend is gone forever.

Nothing better than hearing an OMC 2 stroke idle, and then hit the powerband.

We had a great trip. Caught a ton of fish in Hackberry.

Best week of fishing we've had on the lake in years.

Huge fish fry on 4th of july. Had 20 plus people at the camp, no leftovers.

Man West Cove on July 4th may be an adventure.

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I hope you truly believe the saying “A bad day fishing is better than a good day at work”. It’s rough right now

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I mean- i've had some days I felt like I should have just stayed at work! Haha

But in general yeah. We're on vacation. Going to try our best to get some filets to eat on. May work our way down to hackberry.

If its anywhere near as windy down there as it is in TX right now today would be brutal.

Sent you one the other day brother!

My old 6.2 drains off about a 1/2 quart every 1000 miles, so I change filter and everything every 10k.

Mobil One Truck/SUV 5w30 with Wix XP

I love in Central Tx now. But our camp is on the calcasieu. BR is a bit of a hike.