Fishing Arizona & The Colorado River – Page 2 – Fishing, Hunting, and Everything Outdoors in Yuma and Across Arizona

How is Yuma Bass Man Doing Now?

ByBob La Londe June 17, 2024

Since eliminating the forum overall traffic has dropped from when the forum was public, but not that much from after the forum was taken private. There was lower traffic initially after the format change, but it has been growing back up towards the same levels as when the forum was still online.

General Information

Join Rumble

ByBob La Londe June 16, 2024

Join Rumble. Its maybe not 100% uncensored, but its 500% better than YouTube. https://rumble.com/register/JustAnotherGunGuy/ You might notice when I post a fishing, tackle making, etc video here I always post the link from one of my Rumble channels. Most of the time I also post the exact same video on the same or similar name…

Tackle Making

THIS Is Going to Cost Me Money !!!

ByBob La Londe June 15, 2024

Hi, I am a custom mold maker, and this is going to cost me money…

Tow Vehicles

I Ordered A Second Badlands 12K Winch

ByBob La Londe June 14, 2024June 14, 2024

If you have followed any of my adventures you know I’ve been getting my use out of an 8000lb Warn winch this year. I’ve loaded a couple 3/4 ton trucks for hauling, several weeks back my sons car, and recently rescued somebody stuck in the sand so I could get them out of the way…

Tackle Making

When All The CNC Machines Are Busy…

ByBob La Londe June 12, 2024June 12, 2024

When All The CNC Machines Are Busy You Can Still Rough Out Blanks On The Manual Mill In The Back

Fishing

Can you think of a way to fish a soft plastic you think might not work with a Club-O?

ByBob La Londe June 11, 2024June 12, 2024

Wow! I think he might have fished a Club-O more ways than I have. Link: How I Fish The Club-O ~~~

Tackle Making

ITS A MYTH – You Just Have to Change (XX)% is a Myth!

ByBob La Londe June 6, 2024

Here are some things to think about for those in the tackle business. ITS A MYTH – You Just Have to Change (XX)% is a Myth! https://www.tacklemaker.info/index.php?topic=30.0 A Patent is Not a Magic Shield https://www.tacklemaker.info/index.php?topic=29.0 Patent, Trademark, Copyright https://www.tacklemaker.info/index.php?topic=28.0

Hunting & Shooting

Double Gun Project – MAC SXS Shotgun – manufacture nat. d’armes de chat

ByBob La Londe June 3, 2024June 3, 2024

One of my projects is this double 16 ga “MAC SXS Shotgun – manufacture nat. d’armes de chat” (C&R) action I bought a while ago. Stock and action is complete. No barrels, block, or forend. I found a good deal on a couple unfinished generic barrels a while back and put them in the safe…

Hunting & Shooting

If You Buy On Gunbroker – Beware

ByBob La Londe June 3, 2024June 3, 2024

General Info: It should be obvious, but nobody is going to ship a gun to anybody but a federal firearms license holder. If you are an 01 or 07 license holder you should have no issues in that regard except for the exceptions listed listed below. If you are an 03 license holder qualified guns…

Tow Vehicles

Bob’s Off Road Recovery – Sorry, No T-Shirt

ByBob La Londe June 2, 2024June 2, 2024

Did a sand recovery yesterday. I took my big old 3/4 ton crew cab Chevy diesel 4×4, and left the Jeep at home. Lessons learned or relearned… Air down BEFORE you drive up the sand dune. Check the length of your farm jack hand, and get a cheater bar if you need one. The little…

General Information

NEW PHONE

ByBob La Londe May 31, 2024

NEW PHONE. Most of my contacts did not update. If you want me to have your number text me and tell me who you are. If not, that’s okay too.

Hunting & Shooting

That’s Not the Name! That’s The Caliber!

ByBob La Londe May 31, 2024

I know of three revolvers that as near as I can tell the model name is also the caliber. Dan Wesson 357 Magnum Colt 357 Magnum (“I frame” if I recall is the first Colt model chambered in 357 magnum. Yes, before the Trooper (Trooper existed in 38 special)) Astra 357 Magnum (Spanish made &…

General Information | Tackle Making

I Ship All Over the World – You Can Too (Any Non-Restricted Nation)

ByBob La Londe May 30, 2024May 30, 2024

This is generally what I do for international shipping because its easiest for me. I have a good relationship with my local mail carriers. When I have packages going out I leave them a note in the mailbox. They come up to the shop and pick them up. It is not necessarily the cheapest, but…

Tackle Making

New Hollow Body Floating Tube Frog Version 1 – FAILURE!!!

ByBob La Londe May 24, 2024May 24, 2024

Tackle Making

Okay, There is A Secret Forum

ByBob La Londe May 20, 2024

Nah, not really. There is no secret forum. I don’t know if I’ll ever run a fishing forum again of my own. I did however rekindle Tackle Maker. Tackle Maker is about making fishing tackle. There is a fishing chat section as an after thought, but that’s really intended for tackle makers to show of…

Hunting & Shooting

1899 (1904 or 1905) 303 Savage

ByBob La Londe May 17, 2024

1899 (1904 or 1905) 303 Savage I’m looking at an 1899 Savage right now. Probably made in around 1904, but possibly as late as 1905 depending on who you believe. It’s chambered in 303 Savage. Savage’s answer to the 30-30 Winchester. (Yes, I know they aren’t the same. LOL) It’s got the half octagon barrel…

Tackle Making

Is There Any Meaningful Difference – Hitching Post Bait Keepers

ByBob La Londe May 12, 2024

Bob's Other Projects

Wrenches And Sockets And Ratchets … Oh, My!

ByBob La Londe May 12, 2024May 12, 2024

As I’ve posted before my dad had a lot of stuff which I am tasked with using, repurposing, or getting rid of. Things like a couple similar size generators side by side that both started on the first or second pull and ran appropriately with a load. (No, I didn’t scope them.) I have just…

Boats & Boating | Fishing

A Karen (and a Karen Jr) Screamed At Me – We Also Caught a Couple Fish

ByBob La Londe May 5, 2024May 5, 2024

I worked most of the day yesterday. I had gotten one custom mold design roughed out, and I was waiting on feedback from the customer before starting work on the “pretty” details. A buddy of mine called late in the day and said he was available if I needed help with anything or wanted to…

Fishing

The Afternoon Bite Has Started

ByBob La Londe April 28, 2024April 28, 2024

One of my fishing buddies called me up yesterday and wanted to hit the local water. I finished up the CAD/CAM for a custom mold for one of my customers, and I was at a stopping point waiting on feedback from another before wrap up. I wasn’t quite ready to take either to the machines…

Hunting & Shooting

Remington Rand 1911A1 Pistol

ByBob La Londe April 26, 2024April 26, 2024

Remington Rand 1911A1 Pistol What can you tell me about it and its history? I was not really aware of it until I ran across this one owned by a friend. It was his dad’s service weapon in WWII. First I looked up its value using the completed sales option on Gun Broker, and then…

Boats & Boating

Ran When Parked…

ByBob La Londe April 24, 2024

Yeah, I bought another one.

Bob's Other Projects | Tow Vehicles

I Broke My Warn Winch

ByBob La Londe April 21, 2024

Okay… maybe that’s a bit of an over statement, but it needs to be repaired! Please follow along as I figure this out.

General Information | Tackle Making

CNC Molds N Stuff – Shopping Cart Upgrade

ByBob La Londe April 16, 2024

The data base for the shopping cart for CNC Molds N Stuff appears to have been corrupted. Please just use the search function or contact me using the contact form on the website if you are looking for something and can’t find it. www.CNCMOLDS.com

Bob's Other Projects

Travel Tool Kit

ByBob La Londe April 12, 2024

I’ve got a pretty good travel tool kit my wife gave me for Christmas several years ago. It’s got enough tools it might qualify as a starter mechanics set. It’s one of the more complete all in one mechanics sets I’ve seen for a travel set. It’s also pretty heavy as you might imagine. For…

Tow Vehicles

Destructive Lock Nuts Suck

ByBob La Londe April 12, 2024April 12, 2024

I recently had to install new axles on a trailer in order to get working brakes on the trailer… Don’t lecture me about how you could have done this or that and not replaced them. They were oddballs and I wasted a couple weeks looking for other solutions. The u-bolts that came with the new…

General Information

The Eclipse Over Niagara Falls

ByBob La Londe April 9, 2024April 9, 2024

An associate, dare I say friend, sent me this photo. Les Neidig is the now retired owner of Able Security. (I’m the partially retired owner of The Security Consultant). We still chat from time to time on one of the security groups. It came up that while I was neck deep in alligators he was…

Tow Vehicles

RANT – I Really Wanted To Buy A New Truck, But…

ByBob La Londe April 8, 2024April 8, 2024

I was thinking about trading in the tow vehicle, and scrapping the truck on the trailer, but I’ll probably keep driving the Chevy and fix up the Dodge to sell as a runner. Every vehicle I sell will be one they don’t. (RANT!) Does the local car dealership owner come to your church and put…

Fishing | General Information

A Brand New Lake in Arizona

ByBob La Londe April 8, 2024April 8, 2024

It looks like Salt River Project is in the process of planning a storage battery like in the Salt River / Roosevelt Lake area. The way it’s described in the article at the link below is they will pump water into the lake in the daytime when solar energy is abundant and release it back…

Fishing

20th…

ByBob La Londe April 5, 2024April 5, 2024

Well, I’m on the big bass board for YVRGC. Hopefully its good enough to stay on the board. I’ve hardly had any time to fish this year. Even had a blank day a few weeks ago with one of my fishing buddies. (Both of us). Oh, well. I guess just like, “fishing beats not fishing,”…

Bob's Other Projects

First Use of the Weld-bart-ler 187 Welder

ByBob La Londe March 26, 2024

I had asked about the Weldmark 187 a while back. It says Weldmark on the front, Hobart Bros on the side, and Miller on the gun. Yesterday I needed to weld some spring centers on some new axles… long story. It would have been more work than it was worth to make space to drag…

Fishing

Fishing Intel Gleaning HERE – Fishing Report From Mittry Lake

ByBob La Londe March 25, 2024March 25, 2024

Okay, posts about my attitude on forward facing sonar, and personal trials and tribulations working on trailers I am sure are not what you are here for. You visit this site for the fishing intel you can glean or scavenge. Here it is. My fishing report from the last weekend’s derby on Mittry Lake We…

Bob's Other Projects | Tow Vehicles

Those Axles – 2

ByBob La Londe March 25, 2024March 25, 2024

Well… nothing much to get excited about. I got the old axles off. Okay they are heavy. Maybe solid. Never expected that. The old spring stacks are also much taller than the new spring stacks. I’m going to see if I can use the old springs and hardware, but the tires and wheels are slightly…

Fishing

FFS – I Fished Yesterday

ByBob La Londe March 24, 2024March 24, 2024

I fished yesterday. My partner and I caught ten keepers. I never even turned on the electronics. We were about 5 pounds behind first place… did it matter. No. They were just better than we were. Its a fact, that a paper graph is better than a flasher… except when it isn’t. For me its…

Bob's Other Projects | Tow Vehicles

I Cut The Hitch Off My Jeep

ByBob La Londe March 21, 2024March 21, 2024

For the last tournament we fished I towed the ProCraft out to the lake with my Jeep. Its within the tow capacity (just barely), but I would rather use my truck. The AC wasn’t working in the truck, and its warming up here in Arizona. Anyway, the Jeep towed it just fine, except the hitch…

Fishing | Getting Started Fishing

Telescopes Like a Flipping Stick…

ByBob La Londe March 18, 2024

Most of us are probably familiar with the telescoping flipping stick. For the rest… no not like a multi section telescoping rod. Just one where main body of the rod can be pushed back into the butt section of the rod. This is fairly typical of 7’6″ to 8′ med-hvy to x-heavy fast to x-fast…

Tackle Making

The Ten Weight Cast Net Sinker Mold

ByBob La Londe March 17, 2024March 18, 2024

These are called a “Ten Weight” net weight because 10 of them will make up one pound (+/-). If you use pure lead and get perfect pours it will be a little over a pound, but pretty close. If you use unknown lead alloys or get less than perfect pours it a count of ten…

Tackle Making

Bending Pull Pins For 10 Weight Lead Net Sinker Mold

ByBob La Londe March 16, 2024

Boats & Boating

Bob’s Tips for Boaters #12 – Its a PUSH Pole Not a PRY Pole

ByBob La Londe March 16, 2024

Many of us have a push pole for area where its more practical to pole than to motor. Flat’s anglers often use a push pole to avoid stirring up silt as they chase shallow water trophies. I use one quite often to help me get into and out of tight spots when fishing. You probably…

Bob's Other Projects

You Do NOT Get What You Pay For

ByBob La Londe March 15, 2024March 15, 2024

If you have followed me for very long you know I can do a lot of things and take on a lot of projects and repairs myself. Its not because I’m cheap or because I don’t have any money… Okay sometimes it is. Often however if I just worked at MY JOB I’d be money…

Fishing

No Pictures of Tiny Fish – Canal Bank Adventure – March 5th 2024 – (secret tip)

ByBob La Londe March 6, 2024March 6, 2024

Five Minutes On The Water seems to be all I can take most times I get to go at all. I’m dealing with a lot, and any substantial time off usually has to be planned. If do have a whole afternoon to just go get the water and I invite you, then you better go. …

Bob's Other Projects

UPDATED: Tools That Used to be Quality Bargains

ByBob La Londe March 1, 2024March 3, 2024

Master Mechanic used to be Made in USA and had a great warranty. I seem to recall it was supposedly lifetime. I know in our little country store we replaced Master Mechanic tools on the spot and Cotter & Co (True Value Hardware and V&S Variety) reimbursed us periodically. Then they changed to made in…

Fishing

This is What 30th-ish Place Looks Like

ByBob La Londe February 25, 2024February 25, 2024

Here are four of our five fish limit. You aren’t missing anything. The fifth fish looked about like the other four. Click for full size image. I don’t know if we were actually 30th, but Dave Willhide and I made it out for the YVRGC derby yesterday (February 24th 2024). There were 35 boats in…

Bob's Other Projects | Tow Vehicles

Up Coming Projects – 1982 Ford Bronco Full Size 2DR

ByBob La Londe February 17, 2024

I may be pulling a 351W engine out of an 82 Bronco soon. It was parked back in the late 90s or early 2000s with low oil pressure. This will make the 4th or 5th time that engine was out. First time it jumped time at just over the 26K warranty. Dealer pulled it and…

Hunting & Shooting

Announcement! Public Meeting for new Solar Development!!

ByBob La Londe February 15, 2024

Announcement! Public Meeting for new Solar Development!! On Thursday, February 15, your voice is needed at a Bureau of Land Management meeting at the Yuma Public Library where the BLM will discuss a proposal for utility-scale solar energy development on public lands in Arizona. February 15, 2024, 5:00- 7:00 pm – Mountain Time Yuma Public…

Fishing | Getting Started Fishing

Flipping The River – Just a few suggestions

ByBob La Londe February 11, 2024February 15, 2024

Flipping The River Just a few suggestions Some folks say that all the big fish are caught flipping the river when the weather is warm. Well, I have to disagree about the river current being the only place to get fish to win. What you do have to do is figure the best time and place…

Fishing | Getting Started Fishing

Bait Casting Basics

ByBob La Londe February 11, 2024February 15, 2024

Bait Casting Basics The following works for me. With experience you will probably find some difference or idiosyncracies that are different, but work better for you personally. Most modern bait casting reels have two different adjustments you can make. Basic Controls 1. Some form of braking system or anti backlash control. a. Shimano and Pfleuger…

Fishing

More On Senko and Stick Worm Rigging

ByBob La Londe February 11, 2024

More On Senko and Stick Worm Rigging Amazingly I didn’t start wacky rigging because I thought it got more bites. In some circumstances I believe it does, but that wasn’t the reason. I started wacky rigging because of the number either missed or gut hooked fish on texas rigged wide gap hooks. I watched senko…

Fishing | Getting Started Fishing

Popper Fishing

ByBob La Londe February 11, 2024February 15, 2024

Popper Fishing There is no correct or best reitrieve for a popper. Some days letting it sit until the impact splash is totally gone and then giving it the tiniest of taps to make a fresh distrurbance is what it takes. Other days a quick steady retrieve is the ticket. The noise a…

Fishing | Getting Started Fishing

Some Tips For Fishing Braided Line

ByBob La Londe February 11, 2024February 15, 2024

Some Tips For Fishing Braided Line You don’t need a lot of braid on a flipping stick. If saving money is an issue for you spool the reel about half full of mono first and then attach the braid to it with back to back uniknots. Braid will slip on the spool if tied directly…