Quite wasting all your $$$ on the latest fishing gear...

Sailor Steve · 08-24-08, 06:32 PM

ML, you remind me of a couple of favorite anecdotes.

1) I occassionally see a bumper sticker that says "Time spent fishing cannot be deducted from a man's life." Love it, even though I don't fish myself.

2) Years ago I read a little piece about a guy taking a class in sailing. He said the instructor came into the classroom and said "I've written something on the board. Read it, and then tell me if you don't understand it, and I'll give you your money back and you can go; no harm, no foul." So he read the board and all it said was "I can teach a man how to sail. I can't teach him why."

Blacklight · 08-24-08, 07:50 PM

Back when my father was young, my grandfather was a serious weekly fisherman (They lived in Burlington Vermont, walking distance from Lake Champlain). Anyway, my grandfather was a man with hardcore simplistic values about fishing. It was done with a fishing pole, a hook, and a good old worm, not some fancy lures and expensive tacklebox full of crap.
Anyway, my grandfather's friend dissagreed and had hundreds of shiny, fun, hooky little lures for every occasion and my grandfather always ridiculed him because of it.
My grandfather, decided to be silly one weekend and poke a little fun at his friend's fancy lures. One of his jobs was manufacturing wooden teeth. He built a pair of chompers, weighted them down a little, and took them on the fishing trip with his tacklebox toting buddy. He tied the wooden dentures to his fishing line and cast off. Now you would expect this to be totally rediculous (and it certainly looked that way), but you can imagine that reeling the thing in made the dentures wobble and spin like mad through the water. Suddenly, my grandfather got a bite. He reeled in a huge fish.... and then another.... and then another. He caught a LOT of big fish with it. Apparently the fish are attracted to big old sets of wooden dentures spinning around through the water up there.
The next trip however, he gave up the wood chompers and went back to worms.

Monica Lewinsky · 08-24-08, 08:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

ML, you remind me of a couple of favorite anecdotes.

I enjoyed EVERY minute. Felt good ... did good, caught the fish, released it ...then let it go for someone else to catch on another day.

Yea, seems weird. I released the fish for YOU to have the same fun!

Felt good to the right thing!

StdDev · 08-24-08, 09:11 PM

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Originally Posted by Monica Lewinsky

I enjoyed EVERY minute. Felt good ... did good, caught the fish, released it ...then let it go for someone else to catch on another day.

Yea, seems weird. I released the fish for YOU to have the same fun!

Felt good to the right thing!

Gotta admit..
when I was working on the commercial boat they didnt exactly share your viewpoint

As for moby tuna there.. took about an hour 15 min. to land him... it hurt a lot!
However the very first tuna (bluefin) I ever caught was about as bad... and it only weighed 30 lbs! caught on 15 lbs outfit ... took a little over an hour...

TarJak · 08-24-08, 09:17 PM

As the well known saying goes, lures have caught many more fishermen than fish.

1480 · 08-24-08, 11:47 PM

And all I was going to add was, thats TINY for a channel cat. The state record too, spoiled in the midwest I guess.

ML you're absolutely right, getting a hit, setting the hook, and the battle, nothing like it in the world. Some days you're the bat others you're the ball......

08-24-08, 06:32 PM	#1
Sailor Steve Eternal Patrol Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: High in the mountains of Utah Posts: 50,369 Downloads: 745 Uploads: 249	ML, you remind me of a couple of favorite anecdotes. 1) I occassionally see a bumper sticker that says "Time spent fishing cannot be deducted from a man's life." Love it, even though I don't fish myself. 2) Years ago I read a little piece about a guy taking a class in sailing. He said the instructor came into the classroom and said "I've written something on the board. Read it, and then tell me if you don't understand it, and I'll give you your money back and you can go; no harm, no foul." So he read the board and all it said was "I can teach a man how to sail. I can't teach him why." __________________ “Never do anything you can't take back.” —Rocky Russo Last edited by Sailor Steve; 08-25-08 at 12:25 AM.

08-24-08, 07:50 PM	#2
Blacklight Ocean Warrior Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Connecticut Posts: 2,507 Downloads: 145 Uploads: 0	Back when my father was young, my grandfather was a serious weekly fisherman (They lived in Burlington Vermont, walking distance from Lake Champlain). Anyway, my grandfather was a man with hardcore simplistic values about fishing. It was done with a fishing pole, a hook, and a good old worm, not some fancy lures and expensive tacklebox full of crap. Anyway, my grandfather's friend dissagreed and had hundreds of shiny, fun, hooky little lures for every occasion and my grandfather always ridiculed him because of it. My grandfather, decided to be silly one weekend and poke a little fun at his friend's fancy lures. One of his jobs was manufacturing wooden teeth. He built a pair of chompers, weighted them down a little, and took them on the fishing trip with his tacklebox toting buddy. He tied the wooden dentures to his fishing line and cast off. Now you would expect this to be totally rediculous (and it certainly looked that way), but you can imagine that reeling the thing in made the dentures wobble and spin like mad through the water. Suddenly, my grandfather got a bite. He reeled in a huge fish.... and then another.... and then another. He caught a LOT of big fish with it. Apparently the fish are attracted to big old sets of wooden dentures spinning around through the water up there. The next trip however, he gave up the wood chompers and went back to worms. __________________ Be my friend or be a mushroom cloud. "I am coming at you. You will explode in a couple of minutes !"

08-24-08, 11:47 PM	#6
1480 Lead Slinger Join Date: May 2007 Location: Chitcago, Illinoise Posts: 1,442 Downloads: 74 Uploads: 0	And all I was going to add was, thats TINY for a channel cat. The state record too, spoiled in the midwest I guess. ML you're absolutely right, getting a hit, setting the hook, and the battle, nothing like it in the world. Some days you're the bat others you're the ball...... __________________

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08-24-08, 09:17 PM	#5
TarJak Fleet Admiral Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia Posts: 17,052 Downloads: 150 Uploads: 8	As the well known saying goes, lures have caught many more fishermen than fish.