The new Naked Party Thread.

[voluptuary_manque]

Speaking for myself, and given that I exercise regularly and there is no history of heart disease in the family, I'll risk it. Been train riding through the Canadian Rockies for the last 12 days. It was spectacular. Now I have to walk off all the weight I gained. Damned Canucks try as hard to feed you to death as Africans. Gotta love 'em!

 

[TxRad]

Welcome back Bear.

Some beautiful countryside to be train riding through.

Meet any interesting... Uh... Characters along the way. I smell plot bunnies.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Pity, but 'twas not not the case. I wish! However, I am very fond of my MIL and she made a great traveling companion. I have posted two new stories in the last two days, though. Further adventures of the Kiss of the Spider Woman and A Treat Turns Tricks. I'm thinking about another for the latter series. Something about two freshman girls at Benthamsthwaite College playing Laura Croft: Tomb Raider in the old tunnels under the campus and running, naturally, into Teddy.

 

[TxRad]

Fun and good company is always good.

Glad to see you writing again.

How's the fishing? It's been way to hot here for the daytime. Too wet also but it looks like it too shall pass. A couple of trips between midnight and daylight have yielded some good crappie and excellent cat over my green LED fishing light. It works even better than the old white floating lights. Uses a whole lot less juice also.

 

[Handley_Page]

Fun and good company is always good.

Glad to see you writing again.

How's the fishing? It's been way to hot here for the daytime. Too wet also but it looks like it too shall pass. A couple of trips between midnight and daylight have yielded some good crappie and excellent cat over my green LED fishing light. It works even better than the old white floating lights. Uses a whole lot less juice also.

Please would you explain that in simple terms for me ?

 

[TxRad]

Please would you explain that in simple terms for me ?

Which part? The too hot during the day, fishing at night, or the green LED light?

Years ago, when we fished at night, we either hung a gas lantern over the water or fitted a car headlight bulb to a coffee can and hung it just above the water. The gas lantern you had to pump up ever so often and the car headlight used up a battery pretty fast. Both worked in any case to bring in bait fish and that brought in the game fish.

The LED light I use is high intensity and green. LED's draw far less current for the light they put out so the battery lasts far longer. The green color does not attract mosquitoes, which is a plus. The green does attract micro plankton and microscopic larva and water bugs that in turn attract the bait fish, which attracts the game fish. The one i use is designed to go down to 18 feet max but most of the time i use it at 6-10 feet according to the water depth. About halfway seems to work the best.

I fish to the outside of the light and about even with it for crappie and bass and several feet below it for the catfish.

 

[Handley_Page]

Which part? The too hot during the day, fishing at night, or the green LED light?

Years ago, when we fished at night, we either hung a gas lantern over the water or fitted a car headlight bulb to a coffee can and hung it just above the water. The gas lantern you had to pump up ever so often and the car headlight used up a battery pretty fast. Both worked in any case to bring in bait fish and that brought in the game fish.

The LED light I use is high intensity and green. LED's draw far less current for the light they put out so the battery lasts far longer. The green color does not attract mosquitoes, which is a plus. The green does attract micro plankton and microscopic larva and water bugs that in turn attract the bait fish, which attracts the game fish. The one i use is designed to go down to 18 feet max but most of the time i use it at 6-10 feet according to the water depth. About halfway seems to work the best.

I fish to the outside of the light and about even with it for crappie and bass and several feet below it for the catfish.

So you hang the green LED over the water and fish your bait under it ?
This is a technique I've never encountered.

Rolf, a large glass of whatever he wants and set up suitable restoratives for anyone else, please?
Zinfandel was it, Bear ?

 

[TxRad]

So you hang the green LED over the water and fish your bait under it ?
This is a technique I've never encountered.

Rolf, a large glass of whatever he wants and set up suitable restoratives for anyone else, please?
Zinfandel was it, Bear ?

The lantern and headlight of old you kept above water for obvious reasons but the green Led light is completely waterproof.

You can but it works better if you lower it into the water and suspend it about half way between the bottom and surface. I don't know what bait fish you have there but the shad here will make a large ball around the light as they swim in circles.

This is the one I use. I sealed mine with silicon for waterproofing after reading the reviews before I bought it. I've used it for a couple of years now.
Green Fishing Light

 

[SweetWitch]

Okay, I'm worn out on this reno. How many pathetic, inept past repairs am I going to have to re-do? Two large cans of drywall mud later, I'm beginning to think this was all done by someone with a visual issue, rather than experienced contractors who were supposed to have built his house. I need to find out who they were so I can make sure I never hire them for anything.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

This is a high tech version of the Polynesian technique of spearfishing beneath the light of a torch burning on the prow of a catamaran or dugout canoe. It's worked for thousands of years. In some hoity-toity jurisdictions it's considered unsporting. Bah!

And, yes, thank-you, another Zin would be appreciated. I ate at my club tonight but had to limit my consumption as I couldn't take the light rail into the city and had to drive there and back. There was some protest going on that blocked the lines. Anti-private prisons? Really? Don't these kids bother to read the news? Washington is severing relationships with private prison companies and the announced it last week.

Sheesh!

 

[Handley_Page]

This is a high tech version of the Polynesian technique of spearfishing beneath the light of a torch burning on the prow of a catamaran or dugout canoe. It's worked for thousands of years. In some hoity-toity jurisdictions it's considered unsporting. Bah!

And, yes, thank-you, another Zin would be appreciated. I ate at my club tonight but had to limit my consumption as I couldn't take the light rail into the city and had to drive there and back. There was some protest going on that blocked the lines. Anti-private prisons? Really? Don't these kids bother to read the news? Washington is severing relationships with private prison companies and the announced it last week.

Sheesh!

Good Morning, Chaps and Chapesses.
Coffee's ready.

I wonder how long it will be before our lot realises that using a private company for prison, etc., is just not on ?

TxRad: Thanks for the griff on the lamp.

 

[TxRad]

Good Morning, Chaps and Chapesses.
Coffee's ready.

TxRad: Thanks for the griff on the lamp.

There are a couple of videos on youtube about making one of your own.

 

[Handley_Page]

There are a couple of videos on youtube about making one of your own.

I just found a couple.
Thank you

 

[SweetWitch]

Any good tequila left?

 

[TxRad]

Any good tequila left?

Always.

 

[Handley_Page]

Any good tequila left?

Always.

Very True.
Quality stuff from the highlands, too.

Anyone fancy a coffee ? It's a bit early for alcohol.

 

[SweetWitch]

Highlands tequila? I thought that was whiskey.

 

[TxRad]

Highlands tequila? I thought that was whiskey.

What? You never heard of the Highlands of Mexico?

 

[Handley_Page]

Highlands tequila? I thought that was whiskey.

Apparently, a lot depends upon the exact agave plant and the nicest comes from an altitude (or something like that).
See here

What? You never heard of the Highlands of Mexico?

I hadn't, I admit !

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Interesting. Thanx for that.

 

[Handley_Page]

Interesting. Thanx for that.

I'm not convinced of the type of Tequila available over here.
I'll settle for a decent scotch, thanks.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Finding true sipping tequila isn't easy every place in the US. In fact, here in Oregon where the hard liquor is a state monopoly, the only way you can get the good stuff is mail order. Fortunately the SCOTUS decreed that trying to forbid mail order alcohol sales was "in restraint of trade" and unconstitutional. Still, it is a bit of a PITA.

 

[SweetWitch]

Finding true sipping tequila isn't easy every place in the US. In fact, here in Oregon where the hard liquor is a state monopoly, the only way you can get the good stuff is mail order. Fortunately the SCOTUS decreed that trying to forbid mail order alcohol sales was "in restraint of trade" and unconstitutional. Still, it is a bit of a PITA.

Exactly, Bear. I do love a fine tequila. The choices in our area just got more narrow. I have to drive to Missouri to get the good stuff.

 

[Handley_Page]

Exactly, Bear. I do love a fine tequila. The choices in our area just got more narrow. I have to drive to Missouri to get the good stuff.

Is this because of different State Laws ?
Or dim suppliers ?

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Differing state laws. It's incredibly complicated. A little silly, too.