| |
 |
|
|
|
 |
|
 |
| |
| StriperTalk! All things Striper |
 |
07-11-2008, 07:48 PM
|
#1
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BasicPatrick
Larry,
Being a recovering addict my advice to you is to be very very stern with the boy. I know, I know, you have a big heart and you aren't that old so it was only just a few years ago you were high school and college age and probably experimented just like your son. Your good natured, "I wanna be a friend to my son," side must not win out. Stop it now when the only problem is plugs made by the competition.
I am warning you. If you play friend instead of Dad, "A box of flies" will be the least of your worries. Let this minor issue go unpunished and some night one of your close friends will run into "your son" going through the drive through at Dunks with a 9 inch sluggo dripping withsmelly jelly hanging from the rod in the rack.
Another year or so and yep, the inevitable will happen. He will be away at school and will e-mail you (they don't call anymore) a picture of a huge fish. You will call him so very excited and then in the middle of the conversation it will hit you. He went on a charter with those friends you know are no good for him. He will come home on summer break and will be asking if you have any friends that own a boat.
Less than a year later you will be helping him unload the trunk of the car and you will see what are obviously much used "Tubes & Parachute Jigs."
In the end it will all be out in the open and he will not even try to hide the "Cast net & a box of mustad treble hooks". It will be much toooooo late for you to stop it.
At this point you will have to let go and let God take care of him. You will stand at work yelling at one of your 10 non english speaking employees turning wood in the latest version of the man cave located at some suburban office park and you will be so ashamed when you recall the time you made the wrong decision.
You will be haunted by the repreated thought, "If I had only stopped it at that one plug, my son might have turned out a surfcaster". You will wake up in the middle of many a cold winters night seeing his name on a "commercial license with a Striped Bass endorsement." You will consider yourself a failure and you my friend, deserve better.
Now go beat the sheet out of him like the Dad you should be.
|
I can see it now.
US coats guard
Capt Nathan Wentworth !  |
LETS GO BRANDON
|
|
|
|
07-11-2008, 07:57 PM
|
#2
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: May 2003
Location: Newport, RI
Posts: 2,316
|
FYI for TianaBeachDude:
Threads like this are why THIS website are better then THAT website.  |
|
|
|
|
|
|
07-11-2008, 08:15 PM
|
#3
|
|
M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
Posts: 2,795
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
I can see it now.
US coats guard
Capt Nathan Wentworth ! |
...was convicted in a miltary tribunal of conduct unbecoming a US Coast Guard Officer. In a statement released under a new moon, a spokesman for the US Coast Guard stated that the otherwise well behaved Captain Nathan was found to have taken "a bundle of pre tied live bunker rigs" from a vessel in Stage Harbor he was supposed to be searching for contraband. The spokesman also stated he "hopes the young officer would take advantage of his time at Cuttyhunk Rehab, which was an alternative to facing time in the Brigg. |
"It is impossible to complain and to achieve at the same time"--Basic Patrick (on a good day)
 
|
|
|
|
|
07-11-2008, 08:32 PM
|
#4
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: On my boat
Posts: 9,703
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by BasicPatrick
...was convicted in a miltary tribunal of conduct unbecoming a US Coast Guard Officer. In a statement released under a new moon, a spokesman for the US Coast Guard stated that the otherwise well behaved Captain Nathan was found to have taken "a bundle of pre tied live bunker rigs" from a vessel in Stage Harbor he was supposed to be searching for contraband. The spokesman also stated he "hopes the young officer would take advantage of his time at Cuttyhunk Rehab, which was an alternative to facing time in the Brigg.
|
Gonna have to brainstorm for another name.
"Bigfish Charters" is already taken ! |
LETS GO BRANDON
|
|
|
|
|
07-11-2008, 08:46 PM
|
#5
|
|
Registered User
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: North Shore
Posts: 1,701
|
Hmmm ... what's that old saying? "Once you try bait .... you never ...?" I can't remember it ...
But ... Larry, you may want to get some form of parental monitoring software so you can monitor what Web sites he's visiting on the computer ... if you see such things as www.carpflavorings.com, livebaitfishing.blogspot.com, www.fishing-boating.com, www.bobberstop.com, edsbaitshop.com ... I'd get concerned ... |
"It was the blackest night! There was no moon in sight! (You know the stars ain't shinnin cause the sky's too tight) "
|
|
|
|
|
07-12-2008, 09:37 AM
|
#6
|
|
M.S.B.A.
Join Date: Jun 2002
Location: I live in the Villiage of Hyannis in the Town of Barnstable in the Commonwealth of MA
Posts: 2,795
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Raider Ronnie
Gonna have to brainstorm for another name.
"Bigfish Charters" is already taken !
|
How about :
BigFish Live
(100% Live Bait Fishing Charters) |
"It is impossible to complain and to achieve at the same time"--Basic Patrick (on a good day)
|
|
|
|
|
Posting Rules
|
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
|
|
|
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 03:06 AM.
|
| |
Hybrid Mode