Random Thoughts Thread

**Chinook SSSF** · 03-18-2009, 08:01 PM

Whats on your mind?

**Arctic** · 03-18-2009, 08:53 PM

Random thoughts eh? Well this is on the brain as of the present. I am building a trailer to haul around my side by side, a big tool box, a slough of gas cans, buncha O2, and Propane cylinders. But the way I have to position the UTV for easy unloading/loading makes the tongue weight on the lighter side of the scale. If any of you have ever towed an improperly loaded trailer, you know what I mean. So I am trying to just make this thing look like a decent trailer without having to mount the axle three feet from the rear of a 16 foot trailer with a 12 1/2 foot deck. Anyhoo, just brainstorming, but I am thinking I might have a weight solution, we'll see...But this is the random thought for the day. This and a 30 oz. slab of beef on a smoker.

Nice welds huh?!

**Shortbus** · 03-18-2009, 08:58 PM

I think I'm glad i fished today

**spactrukn** · 03-18-2009, 09:45 PM

I think I'm glad I fished for two hours before I went to work today...I do that several times a week. Makes for a really great day

**Chinook SSSF** · 03-18-2009, 10:36 PM

Refreshe with an e....

Purified Drinking Water
Enhanced with Minerals for Fresh Taste

**Arctic** · 03-19-2009, 09:47 AM

Does that "E" add another .50 cents per gallon Matt? Haha..

The thought today is Cheddar Cheese. Specifically, Extra Sharp...
Ouch... I'm holding a brick right now, and let me tell you, it is SHARP!

**giggsy70** · 03-19-2009, 09:49 AM

I am having to adjust from tying steelhead flies with size to them to tying size 12-18 midges and some nymphs. Have gotten it down but can't wait until the Deschuttes starts going off so I can go back to tying normal size stuff. By the way I was fishing the Crooked river last week and there was a guy and gal planting some chinnok smolt in there. They have planted steelhead in the past as they are building that fish tunnel/ladder at the dam hoping to bring steelies and salmon back to the Crooked. I don't know it seems like a waste as the pressure from the summer bait fishing and alll the fly pressure it gets makes ti seem like a wasted effort. It is pretty wild to drive into that canyon and fish 3wts for trout and whitefish. Must have 20 hookups with quite a few to the bank with the biggest being 12" Whitey. I see thes pics of the Sandy and hear of you guys having fum with bigger fish already has me missing PDX. Good luck and tight lines to all of you.

**seamslayer** · 03-20-2009, 08:05 AM

4 weeks . . . One trip to ther river . . . no fish . . . forgot what steelhead look like . . . past the point of insanity

**Arctic** · 03-20-2009, 09:23 AM

The brain drainer for today... All the questions that can't be answered are on the noggin this day. What tells fish to enter the rivers when they do? Do other factors besides the obvious determine what a fish does that day, or are they like goldfish... Just mosey whenever, and hope to survive? I can't imagine the latter, but these fish are pretty clueless it seems, on certain occasions. The unanswered...This brain barf thread is pretty good.