For as many years as I can remember, salmon fishing was a matter of trolling, trolling, and more trolling. Then, somewhere in the early 80's, butt fucking was introduced to the Central California coast. This technique proved itself to be popular not only with fishermen but with party boat skippers as well... and why not? Unencumbered with the need for giant cannonball sinkers to get the bait down to where the salmon are feeding, rods and reels changed from the big saltwater outfits capable of landing a marlin to the much lighter rods and reels typically used for steelhead in rivers. This allowed for a much livelier tussle from the hooked salmon. Skippers liked the fact that since the method involves drifting, their fuel bill is reduced considerably.
For a few years, salmon fishing took on kind of a split personality; there was the early season trolling bite that went from opening day until Memorial Day, and then there was the butt fucking bite that went from Memorial day until the season's closure. This split personality had sort of a biological basis for it. It was reasoned that the early salmon were rather scattered and require lots of bait dragging to encounter them; thus, the troll bite. Memorial Day usually signaled the arrival of massive bait fish schools into the area, setting up conditions more suitable for the butt fucking bite.
The problem with this scenario is that so many people have fallen in love with butt fucking that there has practically been a boycott of boats that cater more to the trolling aspect of the sport! It has become somewhat of an "if I can't mooch, I ain't fishing" attitude. These people would rather catch zero fish butt fucking than a limit trolling. Skippers, desperate for a paying clientele in the early season, had to find some way to get these people on board. The answer appears to be, at least for the time being, deep butt fucking.
The practice of deep butt fucking no doubt had its roots with rockfish fishermen as they would "accidentally' catch salmon while working shrimp fly rigs near the bottom in deep water. I was able to get quite a few salmon to hit pink and white, or green, blue, and yellow shrimp flies right around the end of January. One year, on a rockfish trip one week before the season opener, the boat hooked and released 14 salmon on shrimp flies. On opening day, using traditional salmon techniques, the boat landed only three salmon fishing in the same general area. Obviously, something was going on here!
To understand the differences involved with the deep water butt fucking techniques, we should first review the standard butt fucking rig as used throughout the latter part of the season.
The standard butt fucking rod runs between 7'6" and 9' in length, and is represented quite well by the "standard" medium power steelhead bait rod. Look for a 8 - 17 lb. test line rating on the rod, and a rather even parabolic bend to the rod under flex. This flex is important because there has to be some sort of shock absorption built into the system or a lot of hooks will be pulled out of the salmon's rather soft mouth structure. With the standard forty or so feet of line out on a typical butt fucking depth, the line itself isn't going to provide a lot of stretch to absorb a salmon's powerful head shakes. The third major source of shock absorption, an angler's ability to lower the arms in sync with the salmon's movements, can only come with practice and after quite a few lost fish. It's hard to keep a cool head when there's a hot fish on the end of your line!
Tackle for deep water butt fucking is decidedly more powerful than that used for standard butt fucking. A large part of this no doubt is due to the larger sinkers needed to get down to the necessary depths . Whereas the standard sinker used in butt fucking will run from two to six ounces, sinkers for deep butt fucking will start at six to eight ounces and will go up to about a full sixteen ounces. Sinkers of this size will double over the typical butt fucking rod.
Buttfuckers will have a forest of rods to pick from when it comes to a standard butt fucking rod, in both graphite and fiberglass. When it comes to the bigger weights, most graphite rods will tend to be on the too stiff side; but this is the nature of the graphite beast. I find that properly designed fiberglass rods are vastly superior for this particular deep water work. It should have a light but not soft tip, a firm but yielding midsection, and a little bit of an authoritative butt. It should have a fast rather than parabolic action, and all transitions should be smooth.
This may sound like a hard item to find, and for many years it was, because it didn't exist. Those rather clever rascals over at Hi's Tackle Box in San Francisco felt the need for such a blank so they took it upon themselves to design it. The result was spectacular. Built by Cal*Star in Southern California, the resultant eight foot blank is named the T608 in butterscotch yellow and BT608 in black. It was designed so that as much as two inches can be trimmed from the tip and four inches taken off the butt, for a variety of subtle variations. Another tremendous stick is the PT80 designed by that fishing guru Tony Andreini and built by Seeker. A third option is a blank that is designated 196-8 and is available from several different manufacturers including Cal*Star, Fenwick, and Daiwa. The 196-8 is not quite the rod the other two are (if you are really picky) but is generally a little easier to find, and will do a good job, nevertheless. If you are a graphite buff and can't or won't be caught dead with a fiberglass rod in your hand, then consider the G*Loomis HSR 1021 C or its shorter brother, the HSR 981 C. These are absolutely fabulous rods guaranteed to lighten up your wallets a little bit, but are definitely worth it, true stand outs in a graphite crowd.
The change in rod designs from the parabolic to the fast taper has a lot to do with the depths fished in deep butt fucking. With forty feet of line out on the typical mooch, assuming a 30% stretch factor for mono line, there will be about twelve feet of stretch to contend with, a distance the typical salmon can cover in 1.5 seconds. If the rod didn't give a little, you would be losing a lot of fish. With 100' - 120' of line out for a deep mooch, the typical line will give you 30' - 36' of stretch to play with... plenty of safety margin. Now you need a rod to help control the fish; therefore, the need for the fast taper rod.
It should go without saying that any reel used should be in top shape with a butter smooth drag. Here too, is a subtle but important difference between reels used for standard and deep butt fucking. While standard bait casting reels and their wider brothers (such as the Ambassadeur 5600-C3 and 6600-C3, and the Shimano Calcutta 250 and 400) are fine for standard butt fucking, a slightly larger reel gives you a lot more control with all that line out. Although it doesn't have a level wind, the Penn 501 has been the reel of choice for a lot of people. Its narrow, tall spool picks up line quickly. Level wind fans can look into something like the Penn 310 GTi, Daiwa SG 47 LC with its line counter, or the Shimano TR 200G. New from Shimano for 1996 will be a big brother to the Calcutta line that will be known as the CT 700. Equipment buffs, start your drooling!
When it comes to line, I like to keep it simple. Standard diameter, salt water lines work fine. They don't have the stretch of the thin style monos and are much more abrasion resistant. Advantage, Ande, Maxima, Berkley Big Game, Izorline, and P-Line's CXX X-tra Strong all have strong followings and rightly so. Modern line extruding machines are producing quality lines unthought of only ten years ago. What about the new super-braid lines? I haven't used them yet for salmon, but then, you already know how I feel about stretch and how it can land more fish for you.
There are subtle but important differences between rigs for standard and deep water butt fucking. The standard rig (fig. 1) consists of the main line (A) going through a sinker slydo (B) to which is attached the sinker (C). The main line is then tied to a good quality snap swivel (D). The six foot, 10 - 15 lb. test leader (E) has a loop on one end, and a 1/0 - 4/0 octopus hook (F) snelled to the other end. The bait, usually an anchovy or a small herring, is threaded on to this leader by use of a bait needle. Sometimes a small orthodontic rubber band is slipped over the gills to prevent the from flaring open.
As mentioned before, standard mooch weights hover around the four ounce mark. Deep butt fucking weights average 10 - 12 ounces, and are heavy enough to detract from a salmon's fight. Last year, I introduced the use of trout sinker releases for deep water butt fucking and the results have been very good. I also introduced a two-piece rig and it has also met with success.
The deep water butt fucking rig (fig. 2) consists of the main line (A) tied to a trout sinker release (B) to which the sinker (C) is attached. The main leader (D) consists of a four foot piece of 15 lb. test mono to which there is a plain snap on either end. This leader is threaded through several beads along with a one ounce egg sinker (E). The short leader (F) consists of a two foot piece of 15 lb. mono with a loop on one end and a 1/0 to 4/0 octopus (G) snelled to the other. The bait is threaded on to the short leader the same as above.
These subtle differences are important in deep water butt fucking. The trout sinker release disposes the weight with a mere 1.25 - 1.5 lbs. of pull, as opposed to the standard salmon sinker release's 3.5 - 5 lbs. of pull. The egg sinker on the main leader helps to keep the bait from spiraling up and tangling on the main line when dropping the rig to depth. Should the bait spiral up, the short leader is not long enough to reach the sinker, and will fall harmlessly past the round egg sinker.
I used to never worry about it, but now I won't fish without some kind of scent on my bait. For some reason, the Dr. Juice Trout and Steelhead scent has been working better than the Dr. Juice Salmon scent. Last year, for whatever reason, a 50/50 mixture of Pro Cure's Shrimp scent and Pro Cure's anchovy or herring scent just drove the salmon nuts!!
If you are like thousands of others, you will be fishing out of a party boat and will have nothing to say about where you go to fish. The last few years, however, have seen the early bite first developing at the Deep Reef. This big ol' slab of real estate in located roughly eight miles west-south-west from Princeton Harbor. Much of the action seemed to center on the east side of the reef, but this year may be different. How deep should you be fishing? Suffice to say that last year several salmon moochers were surprised to find a ling cod on the end of their lines!
SIDEBAR: Unlike many other fish, the salmon does not have a large air bladder. This is significant in that should you desire to release a fish brought up from down deep, you may do so without damage to the fish IF you do so correctly. Correctly, in this case, means not lifting the fish out of the water, it means not netting the fish, it means not viciously ripping the hook out. Merely clip the leader as close to the fish as possible to let it go. Even if you see the hook in the jaw, don't risk it, clip the leader. None other than John Mc Cosker, director of the famous Steinhart Aquarium, will confirm that the hook doesn't rust out, it just falls out (barbless hooks are required again this year). Salmon have been displaying somewhat of a comeback and it behooves us to do our part to protect the resource.
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Removal of 100-Watt Electric Light Bulb from Rectum
from Annals of Emergency Medicine
November 1982
To the Editor:
In all societies, individuals have introduced foreign bodies into the rectum, penis, and vagina, sometimes for sexual gratification and sometimes for unusual psychological reasons. The literature contains many reports of such instances, particularly with respect to foreign bodies in the rectum. Objects reported include stones, coke bottles, plastic vibrators, pencils, sticks, a baseball, knives, screwdrivers, the U-bend of a sink, a sponge rubber ball, glass tumblers, a pickle bottle, and a beer glass.
This case report adds to the list a 100-watt electric bulb, an object not previously reported, and describes the technique used for the successful removal of this fragile object.
A 54-year-old man presented with the complaint that two days earlier he had drunk whiskey and "did something" to his rectum. He was obviously embarrassed and reluctant to explain his problem. Rectal examination revealed a hard, smooth, globular mass. The results of the rest of the physical examination were within normal limits.
When asked specifically, the patient admitted that an electric bulb had been in his rectum for two days. He said he had gotten drunk, accepted a wager of $100 and, using shaving cream as a lubricant, had inserted a 100-watt electric bulb into his rectum. The next day, sober, he realized that he had done a "stupid" thing but believed that the bulb would come out unassisted. After two days he became aware of difficulty defacating, and when he began to experience difficulty urinating, he became frightened and sought medical help.
AP and lateral films of the pelvis verified the location of the electric bulb in the rectum, and the patient was taken to the operating room. He was placed in a face-down position with his hips elevated. The buttocks were separated and held apart by a circular metal ring. With the aid of malleable retractors in the rectum, the electric bulb was visualized, but it was not possible to get a gloved finger over the maximum diameter of the bulb.
Toy darts with suction cup ends were used to draw the electric bulb to the sphincter. After drying the glass surface of the bulb with ethyl ether swabs, we attempted to attach the suction cup end of the dart to the eletric bulb with cyanoacrylate cement. Four attempts of this maneuver were unsuccessful: the cement would not stick.
The patient was then turned to the lithotomy position and another dart was successfully attached to the bulb without any glue, and the bulb was pulled to the sphincter.
Three #24 Foley catheters with 30-cc terminal balloons were lubricated with mineral oil and passed over the maximum diameter of the bulb. The catheters were placed at the six, ten and two o'clock positions. Throughout this procedure, a steady pull was maintained on the attached dart.
After it was verified by digital examination that the tips and balloons of the catheters were beyond the maximum diameter of the bulb, the balloons were inflated with 30 cc of water, and about 30 cc of mineral oil was injected into the rectum through a Foley catheter. A steady pull of about five pounds was applied to each catheter, and after about ten minutes the sphincter began to dilate and the bulb began to emerge.
The electric bulb finally came out through the external sphincter with no further complications. Sigmoidoscopic examination showed no bleeding or other injury to the rectal mucosa. After 24 hours of observation, the patient returned home.
The literature describes various methods that have been employed to retrieve foreign bodies from the rectum. Because this electric bulb was a large object (maximum diameter, 61 mm; length from metal end to top, 114 mm) made of fragile glass, special consideration had to be taken to avoid breakage that would have resulted in lacerations to the rectum and adjacent structures, with consequent complications.
Ideally, the bulb should be removed intact from the rectum through the anus. If this is not possible, the abdomen must be opened and the bulb gently squeezed through the rectum and the anus, with great care taken to avoid injuring the rectum. Should this method be unsuccessful, the sigmoid colon must be opened and the bulb removed through the abdominal incision; however, opening the sigmoid colon is a very lenghy procedure with severe morbidity and a prolonged recovery period,, and this maneuver should be reserved as an extraordinary measure.
no. no.n o. maybe back in the 70's when he was vry gy but not now. Hot model wife. Plus I heard that he was teaming up with Page Hamilton from Helemt as his guitarist. i think Bowie r0x0rs
It seems that there has been some equipment purchsed to further monitor and evaluate the Space Station's structural integrity. There is an interesting comment here about the space station and it's potential ailments.
Seek out Hogwash. #164 thank you! One of my old UIDs from Geekizoid (RIP). Speaking of which, where the hell is every one from that site. I think I saw Spork_Testicle here the other day.
This post: way too on topic for a first [post. Might I recommend placing CLIT some where in your next effort. This will make it much more enjoyable for the rest of us. Thanks.
I'm seeing taco all bent over, backed up to one of those jets, getting his bowels pummeled by 30 gallons a minute. His climax includes screaming out Hemos' name at the top of his lungs becasue he's getting his cock sucked off under water. CowboNeal has a bullwhip out and he's whacking micheal in the ass with it while he's tounging out roblimo's furry turdcutter. I think that this got filmed. That's why I'm talking about it. They ban me a lot because they know I've seen it. It makes them mad because taco has been trying to get me to TacoSNot with him and his buddies for a long time. I wouldn't do it. He won't stop emailing me about it. It was bullshit. One day I got this email about him getting a hot tub. I was like, wow! That's great, I suppose you wna't me to come over and ghet in it with you and your ass pirate friends. He said yeah, that was basically his idea. He wanted my never been fucked before ass. I told him I liked girls but he refused to let me go. He kept calling all the time, he kept emailing me. So I started to troll slashdot because I was getting really pissed about it. Now he's banning me all the time because I wan't get wet with him and his dark tunnel ramming friends. So now he's trying to post this article about a hot tub and he's looking for people to come over and get fucked by his team of elite elephants while getting their nipples shocked in his homosexual whirlpool. Beware!
So after he stopped calling me for a while, I began to wonder what had become of his little pool. It turns out that he fell in love with the pool guy who comes over to clean the thing. They get to gether with all of tacos buddies and give it to each other but good! It looks like taco is trying to get some sort of commity of gay whirlpoolers together here. I wouldn't trust clicking through to the links because taco will tarack you down and start emailing you about coming over to watch underwater DVD gay porn that he and his friends have previously filmed with other unsuspecting victims.
I wouldn't mention any thing about it on slashdot though like I have, it will get you bichslapped rather quickly among tacos aquatic anally fettished freinds. It seems that even though he is adamant about contacting every one he can about it by posting the story, he would still like to remain anonymous in the final act of bringing you over for a little spin cycle in the hottub of anal love
This has been a handybundler CLIT PSA. Keeping you informed!
Hidden in IBM's announced cuts Tuesday was a new microchip strategy that analysts say is a major change.
"It's radical," said Richard Doherty, head of research for Envisioneering Group in Seaford, N.Y. "It's a second radical movement within a decade."
The first came in 1993, when IBM began selling its microchips to customers outside the company. Previously, chips went only into IBM computers.
Tuesday, IBM announced it will formalize a major push to not only manufacture chips for outside customers but also to provide comprehensive computer chip design services as well.
"It's a very important announcement," said Risto Puhakka, analyst with VLSI Research Inc. in San Jose, Calif. "IBM has so much advanced technology that there are so many customers who are talking about it and who want to get going with this thing."
What is it?
Not yet formally named, it's called a "design services business unit" that will consist of existing IBMers in various sites, including Essex Junction, and Hudson Valley Research Park in Dutchess County, N.Y.
IBM senior vice president John Kelly, head of the IBM Technology Group that includes Microelectronics, said Tuesday the new unit is "expanding our efforts to make IBM's long-standing capabilities in chip, circuit board, software and system design available to customers.... Early research shows this is a huge emerging opportunity."
IBM cited forecasts of a $5.7 billion market over the next five years.
IBM also said Tuesday it is pushing harder on foundry services -- selling chips to customers who don't have their own facilities and focusing on the high-end market where profit margins are high, which is IBM's traditional style.
Consumer product chips and communications chips are two of the first areas to be pursued.
John O'Leary, Kelly's chief spokesman, said many customers are no longer looking for just the cheapest chip. They're looking to cut their costs overall by outsourcing a bigger chunk of chip work.
Most foundries are having "a hard time meeting that demand," he said. "They're having a tough time manufacturing; they're not used to cutting-edge manufacturing." This is a market that IBM has the strength to sell into, he said.
Puhakka agreed.
"IBM, I would argue, is definitely the most credible of the integrated device makers who are entering in this business," he said. He said top competitors include Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore and TSMC and United Semiconductor
Manufacturing, both in Taiwan.
Not only making chips, but designing them, is getting tougher, too, O'Leary said. "As the technology advances, it gets harder to design to... it's a much tougher job. There are a lot more subtle electrical issues to deal with." More customers are thus pushed to outsource this work. Companies say, "We want the technologies, but we don't want to maintain a big internal design staff to deal with them."
A third focus is "standard products," mostly the PowerPC line and custom chips known as "ASICS," which are application-specific integrated circuits and are made in Essex Junction. ASICS is a $1 billion yearly business for IBM.
IBM is focusing on its high end products, including chips using the new technology -- copper wiring -- instead of aluminum. Essex Junction makes both types of chips and Tuesday's cutbacks in Vermont were targeted toward eliminating older technology.
IBM's strategy is something of a gamble. The company has never been a low-cost producer of anything, observed Will Zachmann, head of Canopus Research in Duxbury, Mass. "Is IBM really going to compete on a commodity-like basis? First, you have to have a huge demand for a lot of chips, then you've got to do it better, faster, cheaper than than they do."
Wally Raisanen, vice president at Chipworks in Scottsdale, Ariz., said, "If you're going to get into the consumer work, you have to deliver a complete product." He surmised that IBM will "stick with the high-margin end of that bag and if somebody suggests that they put that all together and ship it, they'll do it, but not for cheap."
/They kind of go hand in hand. What do you think? Here's the poop.
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*I'd like to think the last one is a perfect decsription. I don't know. I guess it's up for grabs. They both have a certain appeal. I would like to state my point in saying that it's liuke the W3C. Except were more like the World Wide Web Troll Consortium -- or the W3TC.
"a study which says Windows over an 8 month period of time was far more secure than Linux."
Using what? Third party liscensed software. Doing what? Costing you more by creating more head aches. Shall this pot call this kettle black for any reason other than it purely a troll statement to say such things.
Please enlighten me: Just how is any form of windows more secure than any form of Linux. Windows has no security. Period. They rely entirely on external security variables and integration. Linux however, is the contrary. With expandable options that run far deeper in spectrum than what I have seen in Windows. When was the last time a Windows EU saw the light of any thing like IP Chains or Portsentry witrh out having dish out big money for it, run it, still know far less about the subject, and in the long term and not have near as many controllable options.
Every thing is crackable to a degree. It all depends on the level of commitment you have in making sure what has failed, does not fail again.
Yes, me too. With a bowl of hot grits in one hand and my new Rolling Stone / NataliePortman issue in the other it's a little hard to navigate at times.
Cntrlled Cntur Trlling and Slipping
Cntur trlling is smething that I really enjy.
Cntur trlling will allw yu t present yur bait right in frnt f the walleyes nse. In cld frnt cnditins this is essential. What yu're trying t d is stay n a particular depth, r cntur, where it lks like the walleyes are hlding.
Walleyes are a structure riented fish, mst f the time. Yu might find large schls n sme Great Lakes that dn't relate t specific structure, but by an large they seek ut structure. These walleyes will be tight t the bttm, laying in the hles between rck and cuts in the bttm. They may be feeding, r waiting in ambush t find an easy meal that cmes their way. When fishing structure, yu have t be able t stay tight t the structure r yur lure presentatin will nt be in the strike zne f the fish. Mve just a bat length away and yu will be ut f luck.
The key t lcating walleyes in the river in the spring and early summer starts with lcating a series f bstacles and then allwing yur bait r lure t present itself in a natural manner s the walleye can race frm behind the bstructin t acquire the ffering and then race back int the slack water area t digest his meal and await anther.
In the spring f the year the turbidity f the water subsides and walleyes are mre visually stimulated as they see fd flating by the slack water areas. This is nt t say that all walleyes see their fd befre they strike and in sme cases they strike mre ut f vibratin and smell than they d frm visual identificatin.
Althugh the backtrlling technique is still ideal fr vertical jigging and live-bait rigging in deep water, walleye prfessinals tday favr trlling frward with a small ?kicker,? typically a 9.9 t 15 hp utbard. Why? It allws them t fish large bdies f water such as reservirs mre effectively at higher speeds that electric trlling mtrs can sustain. Trllers cmmnly use crankbaits, bttm buncers r weighted three-way rigs with crankbaits, spinners r spns. T really slw dwn and fllw the cnturs I use the sea anchr tied ff the bw r starbard side f the bat. This acts like a brake and if I have t keep the rpm?s up a little n my kicker r big mtr it still gives me cntrl t make an inside curve r t allw the lure t track evenly behind the bat n the cntur. If I want t jig a prductive area fr walleyes the Drift Cntrl sea anchr cmes inhandy here als. It gives me cntrl ver the stern f my bat s I can fish a given cntur perpendicularly. By attaching the Drift Cntrl t the stern cleat adjacent t the current it gives me a brake that slws dwn the drift f the back end f my bat and I can crrect the angle with the bw munt trlling mtr. r I can als attach anther ne t the same side f bat in the bw giving me mre drag and a slwer presentatin when I vertically jig this cntur.
ne reasn that I like t use jigs while fishing fr spring walleyes in a river system is the cntrl an angler has. Vertically jigging fr walleyes gets my bld pumping and believe me n thse cl crisp spring days when it wuld be nice t be n shre burning a campfire. I need all f my bld pumping just t stay warm. With the prper head design and weight, jigs are the mst versatile f all river techniques, frm the shallwest flded cver t the deepest, fastest current.
The majrity f river fishing with jigs invlves either slipping the current r drift fishing the current breaks. The presentatin is a simple lift-drp-pause methd f jigging, raising the jig sme 3 t 6-inches as yu slip dwnstream. The jigs that I prefer t use are Fireball jigs because f the runded head. The runded head allws the jig t bump alng the bttm and nt get hung up in snags r brush. If yu are as vertical as pssible, the jig will stand up allwing the hk t be expsed away frm the flr f the river. When yu tip the jig with a flathead minnw the minnw stands up and lks like it is trying t pick up the jig. As the minnw struggles against the weight f the jig it sends ff wunded signals and the natural scent attracts the walleyes and allws them t hang n just that much lnger. If the walleyes seem t be just biting the tails ff the minnws the Fireball ffers an additinal eye s yu can easily attach a stinger hk. The stinger hk is a great additin in thecld waters f spring and summer. Clrs f the jigs shuld be bright in dingy water. Clrs such as flurescent range, chartreuse and my all time favrite gld are great fr fishing thse spring walleyes. Anytime that yu can bring attentin t yur bait it will help yu up yur dds fr catching thse spring walleyes. Weights may range frm 1/8 t 1/2 unces, but yu shuld stay with the weight that is the lightest that will allw yu have cntact with the bttm. River walleyes have a tendency nt t suspend as much as the walleyes in the lake and yu dn?t have t wrry abut missing a strike zne that is in the fish clumn. I will tip my jig with sme plastic if I want t slw dwn the rate f fall, but current usually fights gravity faster and defeats the purpse f vertical jigging.
Slack water fish can als be fund by pitching jigs f 1/16 t 1/8 unce t shreline r cver like flded wd r bulders. The angler in this situatin shuld use a lift drp retrieve t slip r quarter the jig dwnstream as it is retrieved back t the bat. This is a super tactic fr fishing eddies, wing dams r shallw mid river shals. Even in slack water areas I will use the Drift Cntrl sea anchr t slw dwn my presentatin and t stay with active feed walleyes. This same technique is als ne that I use when I fish large bdies f water like Lake Erie. When yu find the feeding fish and there is nt a structural element t stay with yu really want t thrw a Drift Cntrl sea anchr ut and stay with thse fish. therwise yu culd be blwn ff the spt and away frm the active fish. Being in cntrl whether yu are fishing a trlling a cntur, slipping the current r wind r fishing slack water r big expansive waters is the key t catching mre fish. I hpe these techniques prduce fr yu and hpe t see yu n the water sn!
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Salmon Butt Fucking
... and why not? Unencumbered with the need for giant cannonball sinkers to get the bait down to where the salmon are feeding, rods and reels changed from the big saltwater outfits capable of landing a marlin to the much lighter rods and reels typically used for steelhead in rivers. This allowed for a much livelier tussle from the hooked salmon. Skippers liked the fact that since the method involves drifting, their fuel bill is reduced considerably.
... plenty of safety margin. Now you need a rod to help control the fish; therefore, the need for the fast taper rod.
by handybundler
For as many years as I can remember, salmon fishing was a matter of trolling, trolling, and more trolling. Then, somewhere in the early 80's, butt fucking was introduced to the Central California coast. This technique proved itself to be popular not only with fishermen but with party boat skippers as well
For a few years, salmon fishing took on kind of a split personality; there was the early season trolling bite that went from opening day until Memorial Day, and then there was the butt fucking bite that went from Memorial day until the season's closure. This split personality had sort of a biological basis for it. It was reasoned that the early salmon were rather scattered and require lots of bait dragging to encounter them; thus, the troll bite. Memorial Day usually signaled the arrival of massive bait fish schools into the area, setting up conditions more suitable for the butt fucking bite.
The problem with this scenario is that so many people have fallen in love with butt fucking that there has practically been a boycott of boats that cater more to the trolling aspect of the sport! It has become somewhat of an "if I can't mooch, I ain't fishing" attitude. These people would rather catch zero fish butt fucking than a limit trolling. Skippers, desperate for a paying clientele in the early season, had to find some way to get these people on board. The answer appears to be, at least for the time being, deep butt fucking.
The practice of deep butt fucking no doubt had its roots with rockfish fishermen as they would "accidentally' catch salmon while working shrimp fly rigs near the bottom in deep water. I was able to get quite a few salmon to hit pink and white, or green, blue, and yellow shrimp flies right around the end of January. One year, on a rockfish trip one week before the season opener, the boat hooked and released 14 salmon on shrimp flies. On opening day, using traditional salmon techniques, the boat landed only three salmon fishing in the same general area. Obviously, something was going on here!
To understand the differences involved with the deep water butt fucking techniques, we should first review the standard butt fucking rig as used throughout the latter part of the season.
The standard butt fucking rod runs between 7'6" and 9' in length, and is represented quite well by the "standard" medium power steelhead bait rod. Look for a 8 - 17 lb. test line rating on the rod, and a rather even parabolic bend to the rod under flex. This flex is important because there has to be some sort of shock absorption built into the system or a lot of hooks will be pulled out of the salmon's rather soft mouth structure. With the standard forty or so feet of line out on a typical butt fucking depth, the line itself isn't going to provide a lot of stretch to absorb a salmon's powerful head shakes. The third major source of shock absorption, an angler's ability to lower the arms in sync with the salmon's movements, can only come with practice and after quite a few lost fish. It's hard to keep a cool head when there's a hot fish on the end of your line!
Tackle for deep water butt fucking is decidedly more powerful than that used for standard butt fucking. A large part of this no doubt is due to the larger sinkers needed to get down to the necessary depths . Whereas the standard sinker used in butt fucking will run from two to six ounces, sinkers for deep butt fucking will start at six to eight ounces and will go up to about a full sixteen ounces. Sinkers of this size will double over the typical butt fucking rod.
Buttfuckers will have a forest of rods to pick from when it comes to a standard butt fucking rod, in both graphite and fiberglass. When it comes to the bigger weights, most graphite rods will tend to be on the too stiff side; but this is the nature of the graphite beast. I find that properly designed fiberglass rods are vastly superior for this particular deep water work. It should have a light but not soft tip, a firm but yielding midsection, and a little bit of an authoritative butt. It should have a fast rather than parabolic action, and all transitions should be smooth.
This may sound like a hard item to find, and for many years it was, because it didn't exist. Those rather clever rascals over at Hi's Tackle Box in San Francisco felt the need for such a blank so they took it upon themselves to design it. The result was spectacular. Built by Cal*Star in Southern California, the resultant eight foot blank is named the T608 in butterscotch yellow and BT608 in black. It was designed so that as much as two inches can be trimmed from the tip and four inches taken off the butt, for a variety of subtle variations. Another tremendous stick is the PT80 designed by that fishing guru Tony Andreini and built by Seeker. A third option is a blank that is designated 196-8 and is available from several different manufacturers including Cal*Star, Fenwick, and Daiwa. The 196-8 is not quite the rod the other two are (if you are really picky) but is generally a little easier to find, and will do a good job, nevertheless. If you are a graphite buff and can't or won't be caught dead with a fiberglass rod in your hand, then consider the G*Loomis HSR 1021 C or its shorter brother, the HSR 981 C. These are absolutely fabulous rods guaranteed to lighten up your wallets a little bit, but are definitely worth it, true stand outs in a graphite crowd.
The change in rod designs from the parabolic to the fast taper has a lot to do with the depths fished in deep butt fucking. With forty feet of line out on the typical mooch, assuming a 30% stretch factor for mono line, there will be about twelve feet of stretch to contend with, a distance the typical salmon can cover in 1.5 seconds. If the rod didn't give a little, you would be losing a lot of fish. With 100' - 120' of line out for a deep mooch, the typical line will give you 30' - 36' of stretch to play with
It should go without saying that any reel used should be in top shape with a butter smooth drag. Here too, is a subtle but important difference between reels used for standard and deep butt fucking. While standard bait casting reels and their wider brothers (such as the Ambassadeur 5600-C3 and 6600-C3, and the Shimano Calcutta 250 and 400) are fine for standard butt fucking, a slightly larger reel gives you a lot more control with all that line out. Although it doesn't have a level wind, the Penn 501 has been the reel of choice for a lot of people. Its narrow, tall spool picks up line quickly. Level wind fans can look into something like the Penn 310 GTi, Daiwa SG 47 LC with its line counter, or the Shimano TR 200G. New from Shimano for 1996 will be a big brother to the Calcutta line that will be known as the CT 700. Equipment buffs, start your drooling!
When it comes to line, I like to keep it simple. Standard diameter, salt water lines work fine. They don't have the stretch of the thin style monos and are much more abrasion resistant. Advantage, Ande, Maxima, Berkley Big Game, Izorline, and P-Line's CXX X-tra Strong all have strong followings and rightly so. Modern line extruding machines are producing quality lines unthought of only ten years ago. What about the new super-braid lines? I haven't used them yet for salmon, but then, you already know how I feel about stretch and how it can land more fish for you.
There are subtle but important differences between rigs for standard and deep water butt fucking. The standard rig (fig. 1) consists of the main line (A) going through a sinker slydo (B) to which is attached the sinker (C). The main line is then tied to a good quality snap swivel (D). The six foot, 10 - 15 lb. test leader (E) has a loop on one end, and a 1/0 - 4/0 octopus hook (F) snelled to the other end. The bait, usually an anchovy or a small herring, is threaded on to this leader by use of a bait needle. Sometimes a small orthodontic rubber band is slipped over the gills to prevent the from flaring open.
As mentioned before, standard mooch weights hover around the four ounce mark. Deep butt fucking weights average 10 - 12 ounces, and are heavy enough to detract from a salmon's fight. Last year, I introduced the use of trout sinker releases for deep water butt fucking and the results have been very good. I also introduced a two-piece rig and it has also met with success.
The deep water butt fucking rig (fig. 2) consists of the main line (A) tied to a trout sinker release (B) to which the sinker (C) is attached. The main leader (D) consists of a four foot piece of 15 lb. test mono to which there is a plain snap on either end. This leader is threaded through several beads along with a one ounce egg sinker (E). The short leader (F) consists of a two foot piece of 15 lb. mono with a loop on one end and a 1/0 to 4/0 octopus (G) snelled to the other. The bait is threaded on to the short leader the same as above.
These subtle differences are important in deep water butt fucking. The trout sinker release disposes the weight with a mere 1.25 - 1.5 lbs. of pull, as opposed to the standard salmon sinker release's 3.5 - 5 lbs. of pull. The egg sinker on the main leader helps to keep the bait from spiraling up and tangling on the main line when dropping the rig to depth. Should the bait spiral up, the short leader is not long enough to reach the sinker, and will fall harmlessly past the round egg sinker.
I used to never worry about it, but now I won't fish without some kind of scent on my bait. For some reason, the Dr. Juice Trout and Steelhead scent has been working better than the Dr. Juice Salmon scent. Last year, for whatever reason, a 50/50 mixture of Pro Cure's Shrimp scent and Pro Cure's anchovy or herring scent just drove the salmon nuts!!
If you are like thousands of others, you will be fishing out of a party boat and will have nothing to say about where you go to fish. The last few years, however, have seen the early bite first developing at the Deep Reef. This big ol' slab of real estate in located roughly eight miles west-south-west from Princeton Harbor. Much of the action seemed to center on the east side of the reef, but this year may be different. How deep should you be fishing? Suffice to say that last year several salmon moochers were surprised to find a ling cod on the end of their lines!
SIDEBAR: Unlike many other fish, the salmon does not have a large air bladder. This is significant in that should you desire to release a fish brought up from down deep, you may do so without damage to the fish IF you do so correctly. Correctly, in this case, means not lifting the fish out of the water, it means not netting the fish, it means not viciously ripping the hook out. Merely clip the leader as close to the fish as possible to let it go. Even if you see the hook in the jaw, don't risk it, clip the leader. None other than John Mc Cosker, director of the famous Steinhart Aquarium, will confirm that the hook doesn't rust out, it just falls out (barbless hooks are required again this year). Salmon have been displaying somewhat of a comeback and it behooves us to do our part to protect the resource.
Removal of 100-Watt Electric Light Bulb from Rectum
from Annals of Emergency Medicine
November 1982
To the Editor:
In all societies, individuals have introduced foreign bodies into the rectum, penis, and vagina, sometimes for sexual gratification and sometimes for unusual psychological reasons. The literature contains many reports of such instances, particularly with respect to foreign bodies in the rectum. Objects reported include stones, coke bottles, plastic vibrators, pencils, sticks, a baseball, knives, screwdrivers, the U-bend of a sink, a sponge rubber ball, glass tumblers, a pickle bottle, and a beer glass.
This case report adds to the list a 100-watt electric bulb, an object not previously reported, and describes the technique used for the successful removal of this fragile object.
A 54-year-old man presented with the complaint that two days earlier he had drunk whiskey and "did something" to his rectum. He was obviously embarrassed and reluctant to explain his problem. Rectal examination revealed a hard, smooth, globular mass. The results of the rest of the physical examination were within normal limits.
When asked specifically, the patient admitted that an electric bulb had been in his rectum for two days. He said he had gotten drunk, accepted a wager of $100 and, using shaving cream as a lubricant, had inserted a 100-watt electric bulb into his rectum. The next day, sober, he realized that he had done a "stupid" thing but believed that the bulb would come out unassisted. After two days he became aware of difficulty defacating, and when he began to experience difficulty urinating, he became frightened and sought medical help.
AP and lateral films of the pelvis verified the location of the electric bulb in the rectum, and the patient was taken to the operating room. He was placed in a face-down position with his hips elevated. The buttocks were separated and held apart by a circular metal ring. With the aid of malleable retractors in the rectum, the electric bulb was visualized, but it was not possible to get a gloved finger over the maximum diameter of the bulb.
Toy darts with suction cup ends were used to draw the electric bulb to the sphincter. After drying the glass surface of the bulb with ethyl ether swabs, we attempted to attach the suction cup end of the dart to the eletric bulb with cyanoacrylate cement. Four attempts of this maneuver were unsuccessful: the cement would not stick.
The patient was then turned to the lithotomy position and another dart was successfully attached to the bulb without any glue, and the bulb was pulled to the sphincter.
Three #24 Foley catheters with 30-cc terminal balloons were lubricated with mineral oil and passed over the maximum diameter of the bulb. The catheters were placed at the six, ten and two o'clock positions. Throughout this procedure, a steady pull was maintained on the attached dart.
After it was verified by digital examination that the tips and balloons of the catheters were beyond the maximum diameter of the bulb, the balloons were inflated with 30 cc of water, and about 30 cc of mineral oil was injected into the rectum through a Foley catheter. A steady pull of about five pounds was applied to each catheter, and after about ten minutes the sphincter began to dilate and the bulb began to emerge.
The electric bulb finally came out through the external sphincter with no further complications. Sigmoidoscopic examination showed no bleeding or other injury to the rectal mucosa. After 24 hours of observation, the patient returned home.
The literature describes various methods that have been employed to retrieve foreign bodies from the rectum. Because this electric bulb was a large object (maximum diameter, 61 mm; length from metal end to top, 114 mm) made of fragile glass, special consideration had to be taken to avoid breakage that would have resulted in lacerations to the rectum and adjacent structures, with consequent complications.
Ideally, the bulb should be removed intact from the rectum through the anus. If this is not possible, the abdomen must be opened and the bulb gently squeezed through the rectum and the anus, with great care taken to avoid injuring the rectum. Should this method be unsuccessful, the sigmoid colon must be opened and the bulb removed through the abdominal incision; however, opening the sigmoid colon is a very lenghy procedure with severe morbidity and a prolonged recovery period,, and this maneuver should be reserved as an extraordinary measure.
no. no .n o. maybe back in the 70's when he was vry gy but not now. Hot model wife. Plus I heard that he was teaming up with Page Hamilton from Helemt as his guitarist. i think Bowie r0x0rs
Hi. FP. CLIT. Props to all fizrt postang hot tubbers! Eat it.
Don't ask, Teletubby.
What I'd like to know is, who is the girl on the far right? Much better body and she's a tad bit hot. A/S/L of these BSD zealots pls. tks.
It seems that there has been some equipment purchsed to further monitor and evaluate the Space Station's structural integrity. There is an interesting comment here about the space station and it's potential ailments.
Seek out Hogwash. #164 thank you! One of my old UIDs from Geekizoid (RIP). Speaking of which, where the hell is every one from that site. I think I saw Spork_Testicle here the other day.
This post: way too on topic for a first [post. Might I recommend placing CLIT some where in your next effort. This will make it much more enjoyable for the rest of us. Thanks.
Linux Lewis? oh, and Linux, THATNKS FOR BEATIN tySON's ass.
"but jets that can do 30 Gallons per minute?"
I'm seeing taco all bent over, backed up to one of those jets, getting his bowels pummeled by 30 gallons a minute. His climax includes screaming out Hemos' name at the top of his lungs becasue he's getting his cock sucked off under water. CowboNeal has a bullwhip out and he's whacking micheal in the ass with it while he's tounging out roblimo's furry turdcutter. I think that this got filmed. That's why I'm talking about it. They ban me a lot because they know I've seen it. It makes them mad because taco has been trying to get me to TacoSNot with him and his buddies for a long time. I wouldn't do it. He won't stop emailing me about it. It was bullshit. One day I got this email about him getting a hot tub. I was like, wow! That's great, I suppose you wna't me to come over and ghet in it with you and your ass pirate friends. He said yeah, that was basically his idea. He wanted my never been fucked before ass. I told him I liked girls but he refused to let me go. He kept calling all the time, he kept emailing me. So I started to troll slashdot because I was getting really pissed about it. Now he's banning me all the time because I wan't get wet with him and his dark tunnel ramming friends. So now he's trying to post this article about a hot tub and he's looking for people to come over and get fucked by his team of elite elephants while getting their nipples shocked in his homosexual whirlpool. Beware!
So after he stopped calling me for a while, I began to wonder what had become of his little pool. It turns out that he fell in love with the pool guy who comes over to clean the thing. They get to gether with all of tacos buddies and give it to each other but good! It looks like taco is trying to get some sort of commity of gay whirlpoolers together here. I wouldn't trust clicking through to the links because taco will tarack you down and start emailing you about coming over to watch underwater DVD gay porn that he and his friends have previously filmed with other unsuspecting victims.
I wouldn't mention any thing about it on slashdot though like I have, it will get you bichslapped rather quickly among tacos aquatic anally fettished freinds. It seems that even though he is adamant about contacting every one he can about it by posting the story, he would still like to remain anonymous in the final act of bringing you over for a little spin cycle in the hottub of anal love
This has been a handybundler CLIT PSA. Keeping you informed!
Is that the long lost shit encrusted pink skirted la-la dancer only knnnnnnnnown as pork_vestibule?
You are the fucxking best. CLIT on, homiez!
IBM reveals new strategy
... Early research shows this is a huge emerging opportunity."
... it's a much tougher job. There are a lot more subtle electrical issues to deal with." More customers are thus pushed to outsource this work. Companies say, "We want the technologies, but we don't want to maintain a big internal design staff to deal with them."
By Craig Wolf
Poughkeepsie Journal
Hidden in IBM's announced cuts Tuesday was a new microchip strategy that analysts say is a major change.
"It's radical," said Richard Doherty, head of research for Envisioneering Group in Seaford, N.Y. "It's a second radical movement within a decade."
The first came in 1993, when IBM began selling its microchips to customers outside the company. Previously, chips went only into IBM computers.
Tuesday, IBM announced it will formalize a major push to not only manufacture chips for outside customers but also to provide comprehensive computer chip design services as well.
"It's a very important announcement," said Risto Puhakka, analyst with VLSI Research Inc. in San Jose, Calif. "IBM has so much advanced technology that there are so many customers who are talking about it and who want to get going with this thing."
What is it?
Not yet formally named, it's called a "design services business unit" that will consist of existing IBMers in various sites, including Essex Junction, and Hudson Valley Research Park in Dutchess County, N.Y.
IBM senior vice president John Kelly, head of the IBM Technology Group that includes Microelectronics, said Tuesday the new unit is "expanding our efforts to make IBM's long-standing capabilities in chip, circuit board, software and system design available to customers.
IBM cited forecasts of a $5.7 billion market over the next five years.
IBM also said Tuesday it is pushing harder on foundry services -- selling chips to customers who don't have their own facilities and focusing on the high-end market where profit margins are high, which is IBM's traditional style.
Consumer product chips and communications chips are two of the first areas to be pursued.
John O'Leary, Kelly's chief spokesman, said many customers are no longer looking for just the cheapest chip. They're looking to cut their costs overall by outsourcing a bigger chunk of chip work.
Most foundries are having "a hard time meeting that demand," he said. "They're having a tough time manufacturing; they're not used to cutting-edge manufacturing." This is a market that IBM has the strength to sell into, he said.
Puhakka agreed.
"IBM, I would argue, is definitely the most credible of the integrated device makers who are entering in this business," he said. He said top competitors include Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore and TSMC and United Semiconductor
Manufacturing, both in Taiwan.
Not only making chips, but designing them, is getting tougher, too, O'Leary said. "As the technology advances, it gets harder to design to
A third focus is "standard products," mostly the PowerPC line and custom chips known as "ASICS," which are application-specific integrated circuits and are made in Essex Junction. ASICS is a $1 billion yearly business for IBM.
IBM is focusing on its high end products, including chips using the new technology -- copper wiring -- instead of aluminum. Essex Junction makes both types of chips and Tuesday's cutbacks in Vermont were targeted toward eliminating older technology.
IBM's strategy is something of a gamble. The company has never been a low-cost producer of anything, observed Will Zachmann, head of Canopus Research in Duxbury, Mass. "Is IBM really going to compete on a commodity-like basis? First, you have to have a huge demand for a lot of chips, then you've got to do it better, faster, cheaper than than they do."
Wally Raisanen, vice president at Chipworks in Scottsdale, Ariz., said, "If you're going to get into the consumer work, you have to deliver a complete product." He surmised that IBM will "stick with the high-margin end of that bag and if somebody suggests that they put that all together and ship it, they'll do it, but not for cheap."
FreeClIT is not dying!
OpenCLIT is not dying!
NetCLIT is not dying!
Follow the leader!
/They kind of go hand in hand. What do you think? Here's the poop.
consortium Pronunciation Key (kn-sôrt-m, -sh-m) n. pl. consortia (-t-, -sh-)
1.] An association or a combination, as of businesses, financial institutions, or investors, for the purpose of engaging in a joint venture.
2.] A cooperative arrangement among groups or institutions: a library consortium.
3.] An association or society.
4.] Law The right of a spouse to the company of, help of, affection of, and sexual relations with his or her mate.
community Pronunciation Key (k-myn-t) n. pl. communities
1.]
a. A group of people living in the same locality and under the same government. b. The district or locality in which such a group lives.
2.]
a. A group of people having common interests: the scientific community; the international business community. b. A group viewed as forming a distinct segment of society: the gay community; the community of color.
3.]
a. Similarity or identity: a community of interests. b. Sharing, participation, and fellowship.
4.] Society as a whole; the public.
Ecology.
1.] A group of plants and animals living and interacting with one another in a specific region under relatively similar environmental conditions. The region occupied by a group of interacting organisms.
*I'd like to think the last one is a perfect decsription. I don't know. I guess it's up for grabs. They both have a certain appeal. I would like to state my point in saying that it's liuke the W3C. Except were more like the World Wide Web Troll Consortium -- or the W3TC.
In short, I'm down with any CLIT!
All for CLIT
CLIT far all!
Spread those meat curtains and let the sun shine through!
CLearly, I Think that this is acceptable.
CLearly I remember having Told you about logging in before posting right, Apple Crumbcake. I claim it.
"a study which says Windows over an 8 month period of time was far more secure than Linux."
Using what? Third party liscensed software. Doing what? Costing you more by creating more head aches. Shall this pot call this kettle black for any reason other than it purely a troll statement to say such things.
Please enlighten me: Just how is any form of windows more secure than any form of Linux. Windows has no security. Period. They rely entirely on external security variables and integration. Linux however, is the contrary. With expandable options that run far deeper in spectrum than what I have seen in Windows. When was the last time a Windows EU saw the light of any thing like IP Chains or Portsentry witrh out having dish out big money for it, run it, still know far less about the subject, and in the long term and not have near as many controllable options.
Every thing is crackable to a degree. It all depends on the level of commitment you have in making sure what has failed, does not fail again.
Yes, me too. With a bowl of hot grits in one hand and my new Rolling Stone / Natalie Portman issue in the other it's a little hard to navigate at times.
Thanks for the help!
I CLaIm This AC Firts ps0t as my very 0wn.
More a sarcsastic tone. Read the rest of my postings.
As this is the first day not being grounded from slashkitty I thought I might chime in with some sort of whimsical-semi-on-topic nonsesnse.
Personally speaking, DOS is Banther fodder.
Only because they fiannly realized, after taking it in the wrong direction, it was a proven method: file alocation
hi Strom! good work! Enjoy.
Cntrlled Cntur Trlling and Slipping Cntur trlling is smething that I really enjy. Cntur trlling will allw yu t present yur bait right in frnt f the walleyes nse. In cld frnt cnditins this is essential. What yu're trying t d is stay n a particular depth, r cntur, where it lks like the walleyes are hlding. Walleyes are a structure riented fish, mst f the time. Yu might find large schls n sme Great Lakes that dn't relate t specific structure, but by an large they seek ut structure. These walleyes will be tight t the bttm, laying in the hles between rck and cuts in the bttm. They may be feeding, r waiting in ambush t find an easy meal that cmes their way. When fishing structure, yu have t be able t stay tight t the structure r yur lure presentatin will nt be in the strike zne f the fish. Mve just a bat length away and yu will be ut f luck. The key t lcating walleyes in the river in the spring and early summer starts with lcating a series f bstacles and then allwing yur bait r lure t present itself in a natural manner s the walleye can race frm behind the bstructin t acquire the ffering and then race back int the slack water area t digest his meal and await anther. In the spring f the year the turbidity f the water subsides and walleyes are mre visually stimulated as they see fd flating by the slack water areas. This is nt t say that all walleyes see their fd befre they strike and in sme cases they strike mre ut f vibratin and smell than they d frm visual identificatin. Althugh the backtrlling technique is still ideal fr vertical jigging and live-bait rigging in deep water, walleye prfessinals tday favr trlling frward with a small ?kicker,? typically a 9.9 t 15 hp utbard. Why? It allws them t fish large bdies f water such as reservirs mre effectively at higher speeds that electric trlling mtrs can sustain. Trllers cmmnly use crankbaits, bttm buncers r weighted three-way rigs with crankbaits, spinners r spns. T really slw dwn and fllw the cnturs I use the sea anchr tied ff the bw r starbard side f the bat. This acts like a brake and if I have t keep the rpm?s up a little n my kicker r big mtr it still gives me cntrl t make an inside curve r t allw the lure t track evenly behind the bat n the cntur. If I want t jig a prductive area fr walleyes the Drift Cntrl sea anchr cmes inhandy here als. It gives me cntrl ver the stern f my bat s I can fish a given cntur perpendicularly. By attaching the Drift Cntrl t the stern cleat adjacent t the current it gives me a brake that slws dwn the drift f the back end f my bat and I can crrect the angle with the bw munt trlling mtr. r I can als attach anther ne t the same side f bat in the bw giving me mre drag and a slwer presentatin when I vertically jig this cntur. ne reasn that I like t use jigs while fishing fr spring walleyes in a river system is the cntrl an angler has. Vertically jigging fr walleyes gets my bld pumping and believe me n thse cl crisp spring days when it wuld be nice t be n shre burning a campfire. I need all f my bld pumping just t stay warm. With the prper head design and weight, jigs are the mst versatile f all river techniques, frm the shallwest flded cver t the deepest, fastest current. The majrity f river fishing with jigs invlves either slipping the current r drift fishing the current breaks. The presentatin is a simple lift-drp-pause methd f jigging, raising the jig sme 3 t 6-inches as yu slip dwnstream. The jigs that I prefer t use are Fireball jigs because f the runded head. The runded head allws the jig t bump alng the bttm and nt get hung up in snags r brush. If yu are as vertical as pssible, the jig will stand up allwing the hk t be expsed away frm the flr f the river. When yu tip the jig with a flathead minnw the minnw stands up and lks like it is trying t pick up the jig. As the minnw struggles against the weight f the jig it sends ff wunded signals and the natural scent attracts the walleyes and allws them t hang n just that much lnger. If the walleyes seem t be just biting the tails ff the minnws the Fireball ffers an additinal eye s yu can easily attach a stinger hk. The stinger hk is a great additin in thecld waters f spring and summer. Clrs f the jigs shuld be bright in dingy water. Clrs such as flurescent range, chartreuse and my all time favrite gld are great fr fishing thse spring walleyes. Anytime that yu can bring attentin t yur bait it will help yu up yur dds fr catching thse spring walleyes. Weights may range frm 1/8 t 1/2 unces, but yu shuld stay with the weight that is the lightest that will allw yu have cntact with the bttm. River walleyes have a tendency nt t suspend as much as the walleyes in the lake and yu dn?t have t wrry abut missing a strike zne that is in the fish clumn. I will tip my jig with sme plastic if I want t slw dwn the rate f fall, but current usually fights gravity faster and defeats the purpse f vertical jigging. Slack water fish can als be fund by pitching jigs f 1/16 t 1/8 unce t shreline r cver like flded wd r bulders. The angler in this situatin shuld use a lift drp retrieve t slip r quarter the jig dwnstream as it is retrieved back t the bat. This is a super tactic fr fishing eddies, wing dams r shallw mid river shals. Even in slack water areas I will use the Drift Cntrl sea anchr t slw dwn my presentatin and t stay with active feed walleyes. This same technique is als ne that I use when I fish large bdies f water like Lake Erie. When yu find the feeding fish and there is nt a structural element t stay with yu really want t thrw a Drift Cntrl sea anchr ut and stay with thse fish. therwise yu culd be blwn ff the spt and away frm the active fish. Being in cntrl whether yu are fishing a trlling a cntur, slipping the current r wind r fishing slack water r big expansive waters is the key t catching mre fish. I hpe these techniques prduce fr yu and hpe t see yu n the water sn!