Originally Posted by fishbones (Post 583575)

Sorry Jimmy. I edited my post so no one will know where it is. By the way, I have a spot on one of the ponds that produces guaranteed tourney winner fish and has little fishing pressure. Are you the guy with the white 5 gallon bucket or the one with the orange Home Depot bucket that fishes off the concrete platform there?

Originally Posted by RIJIMMY (Post 583610)

I'm the guy with two home depot buckets, lawn chairs and one of those hats with the two beer cans on it. I also only us a 9ft surf rod and a VS, you never know what can be lurking in those ponds and you dont want to be under-gunned!

Originally Posted by numbskull (Post 583604)

Nah, you got it all wrong again. You use eels because you are morally corrupt.........probably from over exposure to ponography as an adolescent. Fortunately age and marriage will eventually atrophy your testicles to the point where you no longer need to catch fish when you go fishing and you can find true happiness in hoarding expensive plugs and high end fishing reels.

Originally Posted by Flaptail (Post 583616)

Hey!!!!! thats cutting it to close to home!:eek5:

Originally Posted by numbskull (Post 583617)

Shut up, I'm busy pontificating about the ills of humanity. When I get to lower species I'll notify you.

Originally Posted by numbskull (Post 583604)

Fortunately age and marriage will eventually atrophy your testicles to the point where you no longer need to catch fish when you go fishing and you can find true happiness in hoarding expensive plugs and high end fishing reels.

Originally Posted by Back Beach (Post 583640)

The sawdust must be getting deep. :lama:

Originally Posted by Flaptail (Post 583157)

Some people need the attention, the spotlight. If someone wants tp participate in one or many competitions so be it. There will always be a pecking order established in anything, running, baseball soccer etc. Fishing is no different. There will be those who think thier SH!T doesn't stink and others who think they are right by thier anonymously posting, word of mouth of just plain braggadocio.

Bait vs. plugs, fly vs. spin, conventional vs spin, plugmaker x vs plugmaker y. You can express your opinion but human nature is human nature. That is why communisn could never work, one guy always wants to be better than the rest.

Better to sit back observe and quietly comment to yourself. You cannot please everybody. The OTW Striper Cup is part tournament and part publicity campaign. Not everyone can afford a nice boat or a nice truck or has had any kind of stature in a given endeavor, this gives them that opportunity. It's not for everyone's tastes.

I find it better to keep this sport more personal and try to attain what I seek from it on a personal level. I wasn't always of that ilk but with age comes wisdom and the understanding that it means so much more when you get to an age where you realize that you may only have so many decades to go before it's over.

Time will take it's toll on all of us. Enjoy it for whatever you like but in the end it will never change things.

Originally Posted by fishbones (Post 583570)

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The only tournament I do every year is the town of Mansfield freshwater tournament at the pond by the police station. QUOTE]

WHAT ??????? Thanks Dude, thanks for blowing my best freakin spot! Thats all we need in Mansfield is more goofs from this site parading all around, bad enough we now have LL Bean!
God, is ANYTHING sacred on this god forsaken site!

Originally Posted by numbskull (Post 583551)

Of course fishing with eels is still cheating.

Originally Posted by Tagger (Post 583674)

While your sticking your chin out ,, How do you catergorize so called pluggers who try to morph thier plug into bait .. I'm talking stink plugs(pogey oil) , smelly jelly,,eel skins on a plug . Insecurity issues ??

Originally Posted by numbskull (Post 583682)

Higher intelligence............ except, of course, for the ones who hook themselves doing it :rude:.