MacGyver

I think the KME is the best buy in the sharpening business. They make a great product that will sharpen everything you've got. If you're looking to spend a little less, a Spyderco sharpmaker and a decent strop will serve you well. Frankly, for S30V - so long as you're not abusive - you should be able to keep it popping sharp with a strop so long as you keep up with it.

It makes me nervous every time one of those comes after my lure.

Oh, I’m so sorry. Know that y‘all are in my prayers.

I talked with the butcher not too long ago. The meat market is weird right now. He said they were over supplied on a lot of stuff and were grinding up nice steaks and turning them into ground beef.

That is a Bowie straight up in the way James Black and Jim Bowie intended it.

Yeah, all you need to do is visit some of our surrounding states to see how good we’ve actually got it with the TWRA. We’ve gotten some world class fisheries under their watch that didn’t exist 20 years ago.

Sometimes it’s healthy to just take a break from things for a bit. I heard from him over the holidays, and he was doing fine.

That’s a neat sheath.

Solingen has been making great blades since the Middle Ages.

I noticed it last week. Even up north of the bridge, there were a few that were a few hundred feet out of place. One in particular would have put you in knee deep water. Somebody must be moving them. Glad they’re being placed correctly.

This is a good point - even if it's temporary while you run power. In the kayak, I run my 7" Elite Ti on a cheap 12v9AH battery and it'll last all day.

Fishing cables through hulls is never fun. I wouldn't be surprised if that Lowe doesn't have a pull string already up there somewhere.

I've been thrilled with Lowrance's Elite Ti series. Coupled with a TotalScan transducer - or whatever they're calling it now. It's been great. I only run one - but I've got a friend who runs a 12" in the cockpit and a 7" daisy chained up front. I've got one in my center console - and I like it so much I run one in my fishing kayak, too. My uncle runs Simrad - but he's got it hooked to one of those new MinnKota iDrive units. Since he fishes by himself a lot - he can get close to a start point - hit a button on his unit, and the trolling motor coupled with the GPS just takes him right down the path he's set up - maybe 50 feet of the bed at about a 1/2 mile an hour. He calls it the milk run.

There are also financial advisors that you can pay on an hourly basis like you do other professionals. It's totally worth paying for a few hours of their time to help develop a plan for you and your spouse - and then maybe check in every so often or when something changes. Greg is right. There are low cost ETFs that are appropriate for most of the population. But, if you've got questions, there are options that don't involve putting all of your money with someone who may or may not have your best interests first.

Lowe makes a great hull. They're super strong - and yet maintain the performance of a lighter boat. I hope it puts you on a ton of fish.

More importantly, what kind of boat did you get?

I found it - it's in the TWRA app on the register boat page: Following the Governor’s Executive Order, the TN Fish and Wildlife Commission has authorized Agency personnel to temporarily forgive those whose boats aren’t registered because of county office closures and the need to pay taxes on new boats. As such, it is advised that you keep a photo copy of your bill of sale in your vessel until such time that clerks reopen and taxes may be paid. This will allow you to present proof of ownership to an officer should you be stopped.

I just renewed - and it took a couple of weeks. That's a hassle - sorry. TWRA has said in an email somewhere that they're giving some grace about stickers. I'll see if I can find it. It was frustrating that when I renewed, they changed my hull number - so new stickers.

It looks like your gmail address is the one on file. Feel free to shoot me a note and I'll look into it.

Cool. Congrats!

There’s a lipid(fat) layer that surrounds the virus. The ethanol in hand sanitizers - and soap as pointed out above - does a good job of breaking that down and killing the virus.

Cool. I’d stock up - because who knows how long they’ll make it. Plus, if you ever decide to sell, I bet it would fetch a higher price with ammo when it’s something rare like that.

It’s so worth it with the MPX.

The sad thing is - is that it didn’t have to be that way. But the GOP sure seems intent on pushing as many people out of their tent as they can. Maybe they need to be defeated so soundly that it really is the end of the modern Republican Party. Because I’m afraid that’s the only way we’ll find some folks who can express what a conservative vision of the future looks like that’s more inclusive of what America actually looks like in 2020.

You may have seen in the press a couple of weeks ago where a couple of hair stylists in Missouri tested positive for COVID-19, and there was a big outcry about all the clients they had seen and how many would get sick. Both the stylists and the clients were wearing masks at the time of contact. The incubation period has now passed, and none of the 140+ clients have tested positive. That by itself is a testament to masks - maybe not being perfect - but significantly lowering the risk of transmission. So, I look at it two ways: 1. If you are in at at risk population - definitely wear a mask. 2. I look at it personally in terms of compassion - I'm going to wear a mask - because even though I'm generally low risk - I don't want to spread it to someone who may not be.