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At any rate, I figured I dedicate this post to scupper plug options. Perhaps the most visible plugs at retailers are those made buy Ocean Kayak. From the picture below, you can see they come in a variety of sizes. I’ve heard the yellow, or small ones, fit the Tarpon best. AC&K has them reasonably priced at $3.00/plug. more
However, I also like the Heritage Kayak solution to plugs as well. Kris had no complaints about water seeping in on our first trip. Heritage uses 1-hole rubber stoppers, like you would find on a chemistry beaker or something. Kayak fishing stuff.com has a pair priced for roughly the same as the OK option above. You can see what they look like below. [links]
Many of you might remember this completely awesome scene from the movie Tommy Boy. After my first couple of outings in a kayak, the song I often sing to myself while paddling is “Fat guy in a little boat”. I especially felt this way on my first trip in my new yak. As I noted in that post, I had prepared myself for a little water coming in through the scupper holes of my WS Tarpon 120. But, when I was fully loaded, my center hatch was basically rendered useless due to the amount of water in the bottom of my boat.
And that’s about all I’ve found… [links]
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Well, I guess first and foremost, the reason I've started this blog is to keep track of my fishing exploits. I've wanted to keep a fishing journal for some time now, but have procrastinated about doing it. Since pen and paper didn't seem to work out, I thought maybe an electronic version would be easier to keep track of. I don't know how often this thing will be updated, but I will try to pretty regularly. here
Now, on to a little about me. I am married to a wonderful and very understanding woman. Understanding in the sense that she knows how much I yearn to fish, and never gives me a hard time about the time I spend on the water. I have two great kids, one who adores fishing as much as me, and the other who likes the idea, but not so much the actual act of fishing. My job, or as I like to think of it, the thing that keeps me off the water more than it should, is that of a Deputy Sheriff. Don't get me wrong, I love my job, but it does keep me from my hobby a little more than I think it should. Of course, that could just be because I'm a fishing addict. [links]
Still don't know about that whole "fly fisherman" thing though. [links]
Heard from a friend who said the striper were moving into the creek channels at a local lake, so I HAD to go see if I could coax one out with my fly rod. Beautiful day, nice scenery, and 5 willing fish brought to hand from a fly I tied. more
All in all, a perfect day on the water. here
Somehow, Phil's winning personality and magical ability to destroy things and then put them back together have made him such a star that people actually write stories about him and post them online for the world to make fun of. "It was time to bond, seal and repair his soul," wrote one fan. In another story, Phil Swift, "The lord of darkness," plots multiverse domination and can only be subdued with "the blessed flex tape." [links]
Because evidently there are people who have joked that Flex Tape and/or Flex Seal's other line of amazing products might actually be delicious, Phil Swift felt it was necessary to post a video on Instagram warning fans to keep the stuff out of their mouths. Now, it's not super-clear why this was something that needed saying out loud, but we are living in the Tide Pod era, after all.
Finally, there are the class-action lawsuits. Or really, just one dude on YouTube who says he wants to put together a class-action lawsuit because Flex Seal destroyed his pond. Poor consumers. If only they knew, "When the product doesn't perform as expected, it's typically because the product was not applied correctly." Flex Seal wins. more
It's great to be a meme lord and also the owner of a wildly successful line of products that may or may not work as advertised. But so many normal humans would let that go to their heads! Not Phil Swift, though, who clearly has the vision to see ridicule as an opportunity to sell more Flex Tape and Flex Seal.
JD Motorsports is just as gushy about their sponsor as every other normal human with an occasional need to coat, seal, and protect. "I can't thank Phil Swift enough for all of the support over the years," said Johnny Davis, who owns the JD Motorsports team. "They have been a very valuable part in the building of our race team, and their products are used almost daily at our shop." Wait, what? So besides taping a car back together after a crash, Flex Seal and Flex tape get used for regular, everyday car maintenance? Has JD Motorsports actually read the Amazon reviews? Just wondering. here
Flex Tape is good for so much more than just taping boats together. It's also a great way to prank someone. You could, you know, cut up your neighbor's boat and tape it back together or something, although come to think of it, that would probably not make you very popular with your neighbor, so maybe don't do that. Or, you could just do what the NBA on TNT crew did to Charles Barkley, which is way less expensive. The crew cut up a bucket ("That's a lotta damage!"), repaired it with Flex Tape, and then demoed the repair by pouring water into the bucket while holding it over Charles Barkley's head. Except it wasn't the Flex Taped bucket, it was another bucket, which means Barkley actually ended up soaked. [links]