Hey guys. My computer isn't workin right so this is from my ph. Won't be as long.😆
Still above water, Rich, took me out on the Petaluma today.
Was a beautiful day and we caught 5 fish. Two drinks and two 20+ inchers.
We kept the 20s and then we get a hit that pops the rod holder out and the rod points straight behind the boat. Line was just screamin off the reel.
It's a wonder that I didn't loose the rod.
I get the rod out and fight a fish to the boat and it's a 30 inch, 11 pound Striper.
We couldn't believe it. We measured it, weighed it and took it's pic then released it.
That was it for the day and we were off the water by noon.
Thanks Rich for such a wonderful day. 🤠👍

A friend of mine traded a highly customized lifted truck with a supercharger and custom paint for a new $40k custom Harley, he was clueless about them, blew the original highly built motor within the first 150 miles, and had a lower horsepower 103 spec engine put in, it leaked oil after it sat for awhile, and for some reason he assumed it had blown a seal and he left it sit for the last two years.

To make a longer story short, he got cancer, called me and said he was in desperate need of cash, and he needed me to help him sell some things. I asked him what he wanted for the Harley and he said $8k given he thought it needed a new engine. I have a neighbor that buys and sells estates and anything he can make money on, so I told my friend I'd tell him figuring this needed a new engine at $5k or so and it would easily sell for around $20k.

I told my wife and she said no, you are not buying a motorcycle, I said I wasn't even thinking about it, I was going to tell my neighbor James. So she gets to asking about how this thing is brand new and how much a new engine would be, and what it would sell for, she said if James can make over five grand why don't we buy it and make the money ourselves? I was stunned and didn't answer, and she said Keith, did you hear me? I said yeah, but I nearly had a heart attack and didn't know what to say...So I told my friend I could go $6k, he countered with $6500 and I said done. So that's how I came to bring a Simms custom with a $5kTaylor paint job that is black with metallic burgundy ghost flames home yesterday.

I called a shop about a new engine and they said it didn't need it, it's a Harley, they leak oil when you start them up if you leave them sit for awhile, which this guy had done.

I use about same recipe just dark brown sugar instead. Non-iodized salt is super important when making any marinade. Many never realize that. Many ask me if I used Teriyaki because brown sugar and soy tastes much the same. One thing I do is put crushed red peppers on 1/3 -2/3 of the batch and it gets eaten faster. Smoking temperature of luhr Henson little Chief Smoker is 160 big chief is 200

Higher temp dries it quicker but will have less smoke flavor. The first 20 minutes is when the majority of the smoke flavor is absorbed.