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Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:15 pm to deeprig9
Wrapping them to prevent rot?
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:24 pm to deeprig9
I miss that red clay. I always know I'm almost home when I look down flying into ATL and see that red clay.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:25 pm to RhodeDawg
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I'd love to buy that aluminum Jon boat from you. Those things go anywhere.
1974 riveted Ouachita. My granddaddy bought it in Macon in 1974.
In the late 80's, he gave it to my dad.
In the late 90's, my dad gave it to me.
My boy will have this beat up old jon boat in his name in 16 years.
This little jonboat has caught crappie and catfish on lake Allatoona. It has caught redfish in Charleston, where I ran it aground and hit bridge pilings with it, got pulled over by watercops in Charleston harbor, the rivets leaked so bad that all of my beer cans were just floating in the bottom, I'm still amazed I wasn't arrested... It has caught trophy largemouth on Bear Creek Reservoir near Athens.
Now, we do pleasure runs in Tribble Mill lake until little boy is old enough to fish, probably next year.
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What are the black things under your fence posts? Some kind of connector?
Instead of digging holes and fricking around with concrete....
ETA- homebrewers will recognize the bucket I have holding up the trailer tongue.
This post was edited on 7/8/17 at 9:29 pm
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:29 pm to deeprig9
Sweet.
Drive them into the ground with a sledge?
ETA: sounds like the Jon boat aint for sale. Your son is 2 or 3 right? Is he your only child?
Drive them into the ground with a sledge?
ETA: sounds like the Jon boat aint for sale. Your son is 2 or 3 right? Is he your only child?
This post was edited on 7/8/17 at 9:38 pm
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:38 pm to deeprig9
More jonboat tales...
My dad took me to Lake Seminole in the late 80's with this boat, it had an old evinrude on it. We didn't catch a damn thing, but we did get stranded and had to paddle back to Jack Wingate's Lunker Lodge.
I took a girlfriend out on this boat on Lake Oconee in the late 90's on the 4th of July, we caught crappie under a bridge with the light of a coleman lantern (I still have) and watched the rich folks shoot off fireworks and listened to the Allman Brothers.
When my wife and I were still dating, around 2004, I tried to take her out to the Charleston jetties, and we got swamped by large wake from a freighter, I tried to tuck and run but a burlap sack randomly got caught in the prop so we were at the mercy of God because I had no control of the boat. We survived.
My best memories on this boat are still to be made. I remember sitting on this boat with my dad under the I-75 bridge on Allatoona, minnows down under the coleman lantern, eating vienna sausages. I want to carry on this legacy to Deeprig9 junior.
My dad took me to Lake Seminole in the late 80's with this boat, it had an old evinrude on it. We didn't catch a damn thing, but we did get stranded and had to paddle back to Jack Wingate's Lunker Lodge.
I took a girlfriend out on this boat on Lake Oconee in the late 90's on the 4th of July, we caught crappie under a bridge with the light of a coleman lantern (I still have) and watched the rich folks shoot off fireworks and listened to the Allman Brothers.
When my wife and I were still dating, around 2004, I tried to take her out to the Charleston jetties, and we got swamped by large wake from a freighter, I tried to tuck and run but a burlap sack randomly got caught in the prop so we were at the mercy of God because I had no control of the boat. We survived.
My best memories on this boat are still to be made. I remember sitting on this boat with my dad under the I-75 bridge on Allatoona, minnows down under the coleman lantern, eating vienna sausages. I want to carry on this legacy to Deeprig9 junior.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:39 pm to deeprig9
Did you work offshore or something? Why the name?
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:40 pm to deeprig9
I understand perfectly. That sucks about the sweet gum balls. Those things are a huge pain in the arse.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:41 pm to deeprig9
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I took a girlfriend out on this boat on Lake Oconee in the late 90's on the 4th of July, we caught crappie under a bridge with the light of a coleman lantern (I still have) and watched the rich folks shoot off fireworks and listened to the Allman Brothers.
My daddy went to school with Gregg at Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, TN.
This post was edited on 7/8/17 at 9:43 pm
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:42 pm to RhodeDawg
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Drive them into the ground with a sledge?
Depends on the ground. I drove mine in with the posts, piledriving them in. It sucked. It's not fun. It's not easy. But it is better than digging holes and fricking with concrete.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:45 pm to RhodeDawg
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My daddy went to school with Gregg at Castle Heights Military Academy in Lebanon, TN.
Have you googled Twiggs Lyndon?
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:45 pm to deeprig9
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But it is better than digging holes and fricking with concrete.
I heard that. Thanks for the tip.
Really cute young man.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:47 pm to deeprig9
Just did.
He was their manager?
He was their manager?
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:48 pm to RhodeDawg
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ETA: sounds like the Jon boat aint for sale. Your son is 2 or 3 right? Is he your only child?
The beagle is for sale.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:50 pm to deeprig9
Made me choke laughing.
Good dogs, loud as hell.
Good dogs, loud as hell.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:50 pm to RhodeDawg
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:54 pm to deeprig9
Holy frick. He got away with it. Amazing story.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 9:57 pm to RhodeDawg
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Did you work offshore or something? Why the name?
In high school in the 90's, one of my friends lived on a neighborhood lake in Cobb. Fishing from the bank, with multiple rods, you always had the big rod that you baited up heavy, slung out as far and deep as you could, and never walked too far away from without tying it off.... that rod was called Deeprig9. My friend named it that.
He's a homeless heroine addict in ATL now.... but the name stuck.
Posted on 7/8/17 at 10:00 pm to RhodeDawg
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Holy frick. He got away with it. Amazing story.
This post was edited on 7/10/17 at 9:32 am
Posted on 7/8/17 at 10:01 pm to deeprig9
Cool.
I'm a reverse carpet bagger. Came north to go to school in Boston.
My family is from SW GA though.
I'm a reverse carpet bagger. Came north to go to school in Boston.
My family is from SW GA though.
This post was edited on 7/8/17 at 10:14 pm
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