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I like my Boga and I've carried one for many years, although I often don't use it even when I have it. But every once in a while you get that fish that just seems to have it in for you or has a plug wedged oddly on it's face and that's when it comes out. It adds just enough buffer to make dealing with a fiesty fish a whole lot safer. Deciding not to carry it on me all the time last year really bit me in the ass. The arm, actually. It was back on my belt immediately after the above incident. |
here is a question.... OK maybe more of an opinion.
Topic: Hook Set what do you think dictates a good hook set? to clarify. all things being equal, same size rod, reel, same line, drag setting, "J" hooks, lures or jigs the action of the rod or the drag? both? wondering.... |
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Now, THAT'S the Skitts :cheers: we ALL know and tolerate :wavey::wavey:.
hope that all is well in yer neck of the surf, Mike!!? first good belly laugh in a looooong time, bro. THANKS!! :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :rotflmao: |
On how difficult it is to understand women....
A friend of mine just retired as a dot com multi millionaire and finally buys his dream house on the beach. Now he has everything that he ever dreamed of (guy is kinda shallow). So he’s walking on his new private beach one morning and he comes across this lamp. So he rubs it and out pops a genie. The genie says to him, “I’ve been in that bottle for 500 years. Thanks for letting me out. As a token of my appreciation I’m going to grant you one wish for anything you want.” So my millionaire buddy thinks to himself, “well, I pretty much have everything I’ve ever dreamed of, but I love Europe and I hate flying. “Build me a bridge to Paris”, he says. The genie rolls his eyes, wipes his brow, starts to perspire and says, “Wow! A bridge to Europe, so much to think about, steel, concrete, engineering for over 3000 miles. Is there anything perhaps a little easier that you may want instead?” So my buddy starts to think about it again, finally he says, “ok, make it so that for the rest of my life I will always understand women.” The genie starts to sweat again and after fidgeting for several minutes says, “one lane or two?”.
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Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, Jenny and the Jets:) com'on now girl freind, I was speaking in general. Its kinda of like recycling, you can only do your part and not worry about your careless neighbor. Imo, to many guys (myself included at times) repeatedly want to impress their neighbors. Just saying I landed a couple 30# isn't enough, they can't take the time out to take a pix, heck they may miss a fish.
I often wonder...if they where in a situation where they where one of the last people on earth, some kind of catastrafy, would they continue to fish the way they do now? Hell freakin NO! They'd have no one to impress and they wouldn't wanna clean fish either. |
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Well for one, I don't think I'm a "selfish pig". I am guilty of often taking my legal limit of Striped-Bass home with me. I don't display my fish thru-out the neighbor-hood looking for admirers. Most of the time it's in the dead of night, and NO-ONE even knows I've come or gone. During the fall I stock freezer(s), there are some who no longer fish but truly enjoy the fruits of my labor and the labor of friends who sometimes fish with me and offer their fish to me knowing where it will end up. Not on the market nor the internet but in someone's basement freezer, not filleted as that wastes too much (meat/fish) in their eyes, so they chop it up and use every possible piece of (meat) that the fish has to offer, head, eyes and all. We didn't ALL come from a deep golden pocket who would rather buy clean, bleached fish rather then undress their own. I enjoy the act of giving. In my case it is very self-less. It's very rare that you see pictures of my fish on the net, normally they're used as Jokes to a thread, not for self proclamation. I eat fish all winter, had some last week for that matter. It was delicious, even to a "pig" like me. The families that I provided fish for last season were VERY grateful, and there were no gifts exchanged for the fish, only LOVE in one way or another. We all have our reasons for keeping the legal limit. We shouldn't judge unless we're ready to be judged ourselves. LeCounts1099 - I respect your outlook and your attempt at keeping the fish mortality to your lowest possilbe number. You are following your heart as I am mine, and I admire that quality. Please keep in mind that we ..as 2 different people, could possibly have our heart lead us into taking different actions, neither one being less noble. (Again, not looking for nobility here from anyone, respect is NOT gained on the internet). |
[QUOTE=Goose;573027]Jenny, Jenny, Jenny, Jenny and the Jets:) com'on now girl freind, I was speaking in general. Its kinda of like recycling, you can only do your part and not worry about your careless neighbor.QUOTE]
Very true statement and now that you REALLY have me thinking about it that way, I feel kind of silly! I think I am getting a little touchy latetly :o |
I'm gonna slap you Gee Forces with G-Forces. you speaking of a 'fairweather fan' is like me speaking selfish pigs....I know ya know that ya little bass-tid. I been eatin frozen fish all winta too,,so there.
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Sorry if it seemed like a personal attack, I think & hope you know it wasn't meant that way. It just seemed like a good opportunity to share in why some of us keep the fish that we do. I'd like to think there are others like me, who do not keep fish solely for monetary value nor Internet value, but infact to satisfy others. If I don't have a pre-home for the fish that are caught that night, and my own cavity is full, they go back. It's not about raping the stock or show-boating nor anything else for that matter, it's about filling someone's eyes with joy and quenching my own thirst for doing things that a LOT of people lack these days, giving without wanting to receive. I don't have much to offer, and to the right person....a freshly caught fish is "price-less". My father didn't teach me how to fish primarily for enjoyments' sake, when we caught fish, it meant there was less money spent at the market, life was different back then coming from a different country with NOTHING but pride in oneself. Luckily, I don't have to fish for that reason, but I'll never forget those times and that there are always people out there like that, who could use any additional help as we did growing up. I KNOW you know where I'm coming from - Gee-force slapper ...:yawn:........:zup: |
...by the way, youz' guys are in trouble now, I'm coming out of hibernation for awhile, so expect to be attacked on your STUPID threads as well as encouraged on your RESPECTFUL ones.
...and I'm not worried about a BAN, that's the flavor of my deoderant already, so I'm used to the feeling. :D :pats: .........sorry, no questions for "#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^&" either........maybe a question for John though - If #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& will no longer be posting, perhaps a thread started or directed at him should be removed/locked? Seems our lovely moderators have no problem locking other threads, why not this one? Maybe fishaholeic is right and moderators as well as members enjoy this type of thread. ??? . . . Nothing personal Mr. & Mrs. moderators....you know I have much respect for most of you. :wave: |
Bloo...I can only speak for myself here but when I saw the thread and read it I thought about locking it......but after thinking about it a little more I realized that many would be looking for a reason for his absence and that explained it....I did not see anyone attacking him so thats is why I let it be. I am still new to this moderating thing and finding it hard at times to make the right choice. One way or another someone will not be happy.
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But Jenn, thanks for replying - and forgive me for putting my post above in the wrong thread, at the time that I typed it, I thought I was in the "did #^&#^&#^&#^&#^&#^& get banned" thread and John already locked that one earlier today.... There were some cheap shots in that thread, and it's not healthy to pick on someone who can't defend or explain themself. |
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I love it when the Boss-Man says I'm right !!! :buds:
...also love to get whipped like that . . .... :eek::lasso: |
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