1 My son home for the holidays (serving in the U.S. Navy)
2 My granddaughter (17mo's) tearing into her presents.
all in all 2 of the best gifts ever :uhuh:

Got a tie.......from a fishing buddy!!???































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:btu: - lucky bast...

Excellent!

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I had happy kids, see my family, and a good time.

got to spend time with my family EVERYONE, came home crashed out girls woke up at 5am santa came.. guitar hero at 5am full bore is a real nasty alarm..... up and at 'em 5am... then to candi's moms for a supper nice lunch and the girls tore into more presents... then to my moms then to my sisters for dinner.. then crashed out at 11pm... started work today at 6am.. :sleeps:

19" flat screen tv for the bedroom and Ugg boots to keep my bad foot nice and warm! BTW, if you haven't tried these things on, please do so. They are the Van Staal of boots!

We got ourselves a new HP computor. Also a new puppie. It is now a 20 # golden that my wife calls Bella and I call hooligan. I forgot what it was like to have a puppie with a "tude" around the house.

Then I vivsited Mom who has had some health problems, we made her day. Then I went to see my brother SKD and watched him suffer on the couch with out for awhile. He'll survive though. It was a great day.

I can relate to that. You can pick your friends but you can't pick your family. Wife gave our family a cruise to the Caribbean in March.

Got one too Crafty, best gift I ever got!!

If you can't go Paul just let me know and I will step up for ya !:jump:

Man I wish I had your money :shocked:

1...I got to spend tiem with both Wendy's Family & my own
2...I got continue my personal tradition to give some time to serve others at an event where people struggling to overcome substance abuse can gather to be "safe" for the holiday.A copy of The Striped Bass Chronicles
3...Some of those nice big and warm Remmington socks for under the Waders
4...A new Travel Mug with BasicPatrick engraved on it
5...A Patriots Scarf
6...Some $$ so me and the honey can do a Celtics Game and add more to the "Traveling Surfcaster" Fund

Do they provide an expense stipend for the Traveling Surfcaster column? I always found that writing anything that required travel was a losing proposition.

GSB 1202M blank, wonder what I do with a stick with no guides on it? sweeeeet

My wife and I met Mike Fixter in Ca. in Oct. She tracked him down and got me a pickie and a cigar. I can't wait till they can see water.

Smart woman. She knew not to mess with plugfest.

:biglaugh: Not my money. I'm poor. I just hope she keeps sharing.

I was going to say that it was copper with a patina fnnish.. that was made by hammering a sheet of copper into a wooden form that is the rough shape of the bass, then all of the details are hammered in with different shaped tools... Its called 'chasing' Nice specimen :heybaby:

I want one of these for Christmas-

Can you guess who this guy's son is??? :rtfm:
http://trophyfishcarvings.com/index.php?fish=home

it is not money that makes one rich..... :cool:

ayup

UGLIEST FISHERMAN GIFT
 

Can anybody top this for ugliest Xmas Gift?

Hmmmm....no, I can't...incredible work, though...:smokin:

What's the correct answer? :huh:

A trip to the Outer Banks in May with a house on the ocean from my wife's family to us. A family vacation from my parents also. Going to be tough to decide where to take it and when. Some nice cold weather gear for winter steelheading also.

That would be Ryan's Dad.

I recieved a nice blue Fish Hard/Live Long hoodie from Joe Lyons store. Block Island version, a great heavy sweatshirt. also a new 32" flat screen for the bedroom.

That cat looks my old big boy. Died in 2006. Never forget him.

And Ryan Smith would be...:huh:

Sorry, Flap, apparently I'm not one of the plugnoscenti - I guess that's RM?

Got to spend christmas in the morning with my grams who's been in a nursing home for the past 6 or so months, was nice to see her home again :kewl: Lotsa clothing this year. Got a pair of those ugg boots, and yes they are the Van Stall of boots :D

Great Success! :)

My daughter gave cash, my son gave me a new 18V Dewalt Drill, mother gave me the same jacket as big fish.
Also we got a new dog, a Shorkie, New designer mix of a Yorike and Shltz zue, 6# when full grown, our cat is 14#!

igot Call of duty5 and gears of war to beat up on hyefisherman and capecodkid on xbox live

sorry Matt ... so you been out in the garage alot ..

we adopted two family's together had 4 boys 18 months to 4 years it was great we didn't buy not one thing for ourselves.

i got to add one more thing. the best gift ever was my son being born!..Everything else I got just can't compare with him.

:hihi:....naa it's too cold out there....things better now, just Ma here for 2 more days....then going shopping for my gifts...wifey buying me a recliner & us a TV...

Xmas coincided with me hitting a 200 scratch ticket.. so I got spoiled

1. new stradic 8000
2. new penn 450
3. Nickelback tickets
4. New HD Camcorder
5. Books, lots of books.
6. Fallout 3
7. New printer

Yep, Ryan "RM Smith".

Hey West end, had to read that twice, thought it said a nice bluefish.

got a nice Redsox sweatshirt from Katie, her mom got us a Wii, got a $50 Bass Pro gift card, $100 in Long Horn Steakhouse gift cards and lots of cash for skiing from my family

grs pikes! they are so sweet.
slippers
new north face jacket.
aerogarden. i do enjoy planting/growing vegetables but this might be a bit much.. we will see

we don't exchange big gifts, just big stockings
we focus mostly on the kids.
But i did get a kayak, it was a birthday/slash christmas gift. (i guess turning 40 is a big to do)
got a sweet Red Sox jacket
100.00 bass pro certificate
red sox hat and glove set. not mittens
khakis for work, socks..
another year of OTW magazine.

but that pales in comparison to see the joy on my 5 yr. olds face.
That was my best gift.
Genuine happiness and gratefulness for every gift he received..
and he made out like a bandit...

My wife did pretty well too, after all she married me.

Nice George. My son's response to seeing Santa's gifts was "Holy Crap!!". Too funny, couldn't even yell at him.