The thing about boat trailers is that they get backed into the water far enough to submerge the wheels whenever you launch your boat. The wheel bearings are not nearly as sophisticated as the ones on a car, and some water is bound to get in occasionally. This is not a problem until you go to put the trailer away for the winter. If you just put it away without checking and greasing the bearings, they might accumulate rust by spring. Then they are subject to seizing up on you when you least expect it, which can ruin your whole day.
You can have a professional check and grease your bearings, but it's not that hard and doesn't take that long to do it yourself, if you know how. Some wheels are equipped with grease fittings, but they don't work, they just put them on there to give you a false sense of security. What you need to do is pull the wheels, take the bearings out, clean them with gasoline, give them each a spin to make sure they are still good, and repack them with new grease. If any water comes out when you pull the wheels, you need to replace the seals. Like I said, it's not that hard, but you probably couldn't do it properly even after I explained it to you. What you need, in addition to the explanation, is for somebody to demonstrate the process for you, which is what Fred did on his show.
Fred didn't dis his sponsors, the deer piss company was not one of them, but you know how those corporations are, they conspire with each other against the common man. I'm sure the deer piss company put Fred on some kind of blacklist and, after that, no other company wanted anything to do with him. Same thing with the usurpers who got him fired from his old show. That show was on PBS, a notoriously liberal propaganda tool of the Establishment. When Fred started his own show, he had to go on a commercial network because the crooks on PBS had blackballed him. Of course I have no proof of any of this, but that's never stopped me before. I figure that it must be true because no other explanation makes sense.
Although hunters and fishermen have a reputation for lying, that's just an urban myth. I don't think that hunters and fishermen lie with any more frequency than the general population. If somebody were to do a study about that, I'm sure that would its conclusion. Of course, we would have no way of knowing if the people who did the study were lying about their findings, so I guess it wouldn't prove anything.
I'm not familiar with the Brian Williams controversy. I understand that he is some kind of news person, but I don't even know what channel he's on. I'm pretty sure that he will never be playing cards with Fred Trost in Michigan, though, because old Fred has been dead for some time now.
I have heard about that Duck Dynasty show, but have never watched it. I don't think we get whatever channel it's on. Of course it's easy to sound like a duck, but it's not so easy to put out a message that will cause a duck to come into your decoy spread. Animals have a very limited vocabulary compared to people, but they do a lot with inflection and tone of voice. You might think you're saying "Come on in, the water's fine." but, in duck language, you might be saying "Stay away, there's danger here!" Calling in game is a fine art, they even have national contests about it.
The more I think about it, I don't think those electronic callers are allowed for game birds and animals, just for predators like coyotes and foxes. I don't know if they play recordings of real animals or of expert callers using traditional methods, but they are supposed to be more effective than what most humans can produce. To elaborate on what I said yesterday: If you make a sound like a dominant male coyote, you may pull in some females if they are in the mood, but you will scare all the sub dominant males away. If you sound like a sub dominant, you will draw the attention of whoever's in charge, as well as other subdominants who might think they can kick your ass. If you think there are only girls out there, you might try the "pup in distress" call. The "injured rabbit" call is usually a good one to start with, but I have read that coyotes in heavily hunted areas tend to get wise to that one after awhile.
I'm sure that some of the gadgets thy sell to hunters and fishermen have some usefulness in certain situations, but they are no substitute for general knowledge and experience. As in real life, you have to be in the right place and do the right thing at the right time to be successful. Even then, there's a certain amount of luck and uncertainty about it, which is part of what makes it fun.
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