Can anyone remember back when going fishing was having a basic a simple no frills reel, a plastic bobber that never stayed put, a cheep hook. and even cheeper line. You walked to any stream or pond with some backyard worms or stale bread, and catch a blue gill Ah the thrill of the fight.
Now it's intense courses lasting over an hour, on how to:
Set up and use a not so cheep bait caster,
Seminars on fishing tactics that are semi commercials,
Matching lines, rods and reels and loops fish,
A several hour course on how to set up how to push the right buttons and interpret your almost 2K fishing finder does it come with a PHD at end.
Special glasses to see the fish,
Magnifiers to be able to thread on your bobber stopper,
Hire or marry a porter to carry a 400lb tackle box loaded with gear you might use once,
And don't forget: fishing fashions, it's more important to look good than feel good.
Then the whole list of regulations, license, tags, countless no trespass signs and the yada yaddas go on and on.
Your simple 5 min trip on a spur of the moment to fish has turned into a major undertaking.
OH my writing this already made me tired....... Nap time
BUT GOTTA LOVE IT EHHHH?
and modest too LOL
well late late happy birthday
I ponder if native Americans still send, into the wilds : naked unarmed, foodless and avoid human contact at all costs young men who trek alone for a long period time to be tested to become great spiritual leaders could it be the reality of BF
never rule out escaped captives ie===== so called pets
Gotta love how nature finds a way
thank god for large cal riffles. Isn't Fla stuff smaller then its northern or western cousin
they have seen black ones in upstate NY. They took pics of em but no 100% proof.
Ah wonder when we will get into big foot
Or the Joisey Devil. I hear tell in some states you can not shoot something like that
yea I loved in VT for 13 years same same with cats they thought it was catamounts but they were dome in , in about the 30s but we seen them but no pics then one day a fish and game has tracks and sees cubs turns out they are eastern mountain lions from Canada guess they came down the A trail.
Yea saw one coming home from a drive inn in VT. F&G said ah its a coy dog hell only a cat throws its tail to counter balance and my animal whipped it well
Then agin some peeps have weird pets its only illegal if you get caught ehhh?
I owned 850 acres and know I had moose on the property but never saw one [alive] did shoot an emu on my property yea they do taste somewhat like chicken
see ur in CT lived a few years in old Gren-witch LOL on the spelling but they are
last week I saw what looked like 2 does in full panic mode run across the road in front of our car.. Then stop. one turned around only it didn't look full deer type. longesh pointed nose and they looked larger than any deer I have ever seen. Mind you I live in farm country in PA in Adams county. been hunting, some what seems a billion years Oh the deer where darker color than usual with a slightly lighter color rump and short tails, their snout was shorter and somewhat broader. Thought they looked elk like. Now in PA we have elk in a county that is about a 3 hr drive from where I saw them. And understand does stray away from a heard to drop their babies then rejoin the heard . But that far (think Not) Then called fish and game to find out about deer/ elk management farms they is one a hr away but say none escaped ??? Now fish and game are looking into zoos and private farms that may keep stuff like that illegally .
Now realize it would have helped if I had my camera but how many of u have one with you and see hardly nothing then leave it home and wham 8 mill are there..
I know there is stuff out there and just because of no proof we write it off
We don't have muskie or pike in the lake so will go with braided line say 20lb that I have. I plan to use live bait 2-3 feet behind the bouncer hellgrammites or minis.
I will also do a test, drifting with troller right down the center ditch Using a bouncer with live and or lure and down rigger with a lure at the same time. Let you all know those results when these weather conditions improve. That ditch is about 40-45 ft deep the rest of the lake is 2-20ft deep (man made) It's a fairly large lake. It's over 300 A with 5 coves great bass fishing. Oh and has a ton of docks and boat houses on it. Our assoc dues pay for stocking it as well. And it is spring fed. Pics to follow soon. Good thing about this is our ramps are open and its a semi gated community. Most fishermen on the lake catch and release. Know one resident that caught a near 4lb crappie and released it
Or just go to the downrigger
made up some BB's what size (inches} would the average bait leader be (mono) and should it be mated with a wire leader. Fishing for Wallies
as I would talk an joke with my patients we have the head of a 15YO on a 2000YO body.
Come to think of it where in the He__ __ !!! are those Golden Years they talk about??
I always felt we are here for a reason and things happen. We are just to stupid too understand why.
Perhaps it's Gods way of trying to bring us closer to reality and to him.