North Platte WU
Newsletter Editor
Thursday Nov. 1, 2007
at Wyoming Game and Fish
We are back to our normal meeting day, being the first Thursday of the month for the balance of the year. We have also secured our regular Game and Fish meeting room date and time for the entire year of 2008 with the exception of Sept 2008.
At our last meeting, we voted to donate $7500 to a Casper College Scholarship endowment program that will be matched by a State Grant which makes our donation equal to $15,000. This is a perpetual program that uses the interest to fund tuition assistance to students. The total program is destined to be a total combined fund of thirteen million dollars which should be reached in the near future. Last year this fund earned a return of 13% but there is no guarantee of future returns.
We have applied to all of the Game and Fish commissioners for a "commissioners tag". These are big game hunting tags that commissioners give to non profit organizations that are then raffled or auctioned off as a fund raiser for these organizations. We hope to snag one to help us with the community service projects we undertake. We should know by late march if we got lucky.
At each monthly meeting we have a drawing from the entire membership. If that member is present he or she would win $100 gift certificate. Each month we added $10 to that. Last month it amounted to $160. Our lucky loser last month was Bob Heck. Fortunately for Bob, he was sitting in the front row. He was also a winner of a few items we raffle off at each meeting. Congrats Bob.
It is banquet planning time. Our fifth annual banquet will be March 8th 2008 at the Parkway Plaza. We will be having two meetings a month starting November and probably go to a weekly meeting early Febuary. We are always looking for volenteers to help with this process. If you would like to help give one of our officers a call to find out when the meetings take place. You will be more than welcome. For what it worth, we plan to sell 500 tickets which will make it the largest banquet so far. Even at that, I expect the tickets to go very fast, so if you plan to attend, get your tickets early. We always scramble to find tickets for those who decide late that they would like to attend. This is our main fund raiser for the club. I believe the ticket prices will be the same as lat year, $30 per ticket.
Useless facts and space filler
November is Peanut Butter Lovers Month
November 5th is National Donut Day
November 14th is National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day!
A bit about diesel
I recently had a failure with the injection pump on a diesel engine in a pickup truck. This led me to do a bit of research on why and what to do to prevent it in the future. I found a very informative site on the Internet that I thought I would share as many members have diesel trucks pulling their boats and fifth wheels.
The site is: http://dieselplace.com/forum/showthread.php?t=177728. This link goes to a independent study dealing with the lack of lubrication properties of the currently available diesel fuels. They tested the lubricating properties of untreated fuel and what happens when you add many of the available diesel additives. The tests were conducted using industry standard methods by an independent lab. I will shorten the study here. It basically puts a ball bearing in the tested fluid on a steel plate, vibrates it with a high frequency reciprocating machine for 90 minutes and measures the "wear scar" width. I highly recommend you visit the site for the complete study.
The manufacturers of diesel injection pumps say a minimum wear "scar" should be no more than 460 microns wide. The US standard for diesel fuel states a wear scar of no more than 520 microns.
The test were conducted on "untreated" fuels. Refineries add various additives to diesel fuel as it is loaded into the delivery trucks according to the vendors specifications. Texaco would be different than Amoco. Tests have suggested that the additive for lubrication is hit and miss and varies greatly, with some fuels testing zero for lubrication properties. This test/chart was for lubrication only and does not deal with anti-gel, water drop out, or other diesel properties.
The accompanying chart shows the results of untreated fuel with the manufacturers recommended amount of lubricating additive added to the fuel. If there happens to be lubrication additives at the refinery these numbers should improve over the chart numbers. If not, your guess is as good as mine. Pumps are very expensive, in the thousands of dollars. Personally I will be adding additive #6 for lubrication which is the cheapest of better additives and locally available.
Fishing reports, tips and tricks
On a local fishing trip to Glendo, I found the fishing to be good using a silver castmaster and blue fle-flys spoons on the east side of the lake across from the Reno boat ramp. We even caught a keeper walleye off the southern point that is directly north of the Marina with a blue #6 Salmo Hornet trolling.
We ended up with a 19 ½ inch walleye, a 17, and a couple of 15 inchers. We also boated a 24 inch catfish with the hornet. As a bonus we also caught a 14 inch Gizzard Shad, talk about fine eating.
By the end of the day we were one of 4 boats on the lake. I like this time of year.
These businesses support us
Here is the list of Donors and Sponsors of our 2007 Banquet. Drop by and say thanks!
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White's Marine Center Compression Leasing Sportsman's Warehouse Casper Well Products Rocky Mountain Discount Sports Overman Realty LLC Bentz's Town Pump Mckendree Trucking, Inc Liquor Shed Andreen Hunt Construction, Inc Eagle Claw Ken Mayer-Countrywide Home Loans Terry Doughty Extreme Exteri-ors Hilltop National Bank Ben Knox White's Mountain Motors Platte River Builders Silver Fox Lounge USA Trucking Lowrance Electronics Scott's HotShot Service Rick's Rocks Lathrop Equipment Co Wilson Equipment Hilltop National Bank Jim Ellison - Versa Ramp Parkway Plaza Walgreen's Overhead Door Company Staples Shakespeare Minn Kota | John Green Buffalo Creek Clothing Company Lake Tobin Lodge Greg and Tracy Alvar Red Butte Ranch Bed and Breakfast JTL Group Inc. John Ma-rohn Western Walleye Magazine Bakers Narrows Lodge Lowrance Pro Team Walleye Circuit Rick Mclaughlin A1 Tires Dave Underhill Overhead Door Company Shawn and Connie Edmonson Wyoming Builders Supply Xtools Kevin Reinhart Red Rum Sport Fishing Karst Motorsports Cowboy Auto Spa Team Outdoor TV by Lowrance Berkley Abu Garcia Mack's Lures Bar D Signs Woody's Little Print Shop Big Wyoming GMC Shoremaster Docks Walmart Artist Choice Gallery Woody G's Gallery & Frame Shop |
Some great quotes
You can hardly tell where the computer models finish and the real dinosaurs begin" - -- Laura Dern, on Jurassic Park
I loved Jordan. He was one of the greatest athletes of our time." -- Mariah Carey on hearing of the death of the King of Jordan.
"We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing." -- George Bernard Shaw
On the lighter side
Earl and Bubba
Two rednecks, Bubba and Earl, were driving down the road drinking a couple of bottles of Budweiser.
The passenger, Bubba, said, "Lookey thar up ahead, Earl, it's a dadgum police roadblock!! We're gonna get busted fer drinkin' these here beers!"
Don't worry, Bubba," Earl said. "We'll just pull over and finish drinkin' these beers then peel off the label and stick it on our foreheads then throw the bottles under the seat." What fer?" asked Bubba. Just let me do the talkin', OK?," said Earl. Well, they finished their beers, threw the empties out of sight and put the labels on each of their foreheads.
When they reached the roadblock, the sheriff said, "Howdy boys, ya'll been drinkin'?"
No sir," said Earl while pointing at the labels... me and Bubba's on the Patch."
About marriage
When our lawn mower broke and wouldn't run, my wife kept hinting to me that I should get it fixed. But, somehow I always had something else to take care of first, the truck, the car, playing golf - always something more important to me.
Finally she thought of a clever way to make her point. When I arrived home one day, I found her seated in the tall grass, busily snipping away with a tiny pair of sewing scissors. I watched silently for a short time and then went into the house. I was gone only a minute, and when I came out again I handed her a toothbrush. I said, "When you finish cutting the grass, you might as well sweep the driveway." The doctors say I will walk again, but I will always have a limp.
Moral to this story: Marriage is a relationship in which one person is always right, and the other is the husband.
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Tight Lines -- Woody G.