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Lol. I remember when I was a kid and fell for that ?

You can tell we are in the heart of winter for a topic like this. In the fist fight thread I mentioned my fight involved me using judo. I took it up very young in the first grade and I had a very good sensei. He was a military guy and we lived on a military base. So there she was… The most beautiful girl in the class. Piercing round eyes, straight long hair and a killer smile. I felt “funny” and became speechless whenever I saw her. Also, my heart rate seemed to increase but didn’t know why. One day she came to class with crutches. She had broken her leg. And she had the class sign her cast. Fast forward a couple of weeks. By this time I had been taking judo for a few months and not only getting pretty good, but also loving it. Well, what to do you know. Halfway through the class, the door opens and my jaw dropped onto the mat. In comes Vanessa who still looked great, even with crutches, lol. I wave to her and she acknowledges me with a smile. I started thinking how cool it would be if she started judo, and then I could teach her everything I know. That would be great! Keep in mind the innocence of kids this age. I asked her if the was going to learn judo and and if so how would she do it with a broken leg? She replied that she wasn’t. I was somewhat relieved because I didn’t know if I could train her since she had a broken leg. Of course, my logical brain analyzed the facts. Vanessa is here. She is not here to become a student. So why is she here? And that is exactly what I asked her. She just smiled and said, “My dad is the teacher.” I was shocked and amazed. Wow. Maybe she’d be teaching me something. Oh well. She’s still cute though. While I was quick to learn judo and it did come naturally, I am slow to learn other things. Those weird feelings and heart palpitations I was experiencing translates to a serious crush, lol. That’s as far as it went. I end this with a smile coming across my face as I reminisce. This was the mid-70s. And while I never liked the look of bell bottoms, what a different time where kids played outside until they got called home for supper. And nowadays, both kids and adults are stuck to their phones everywhere they go, even when driving! -ib

I fist fight but once when I was in 1st grade, there was a very aggressive older kid in 3rd or 4th who terrorized everyone but never me. Then one day he grabbed the books I was carrying out from under me and dashed a short distance away, stopped and turned around to face me. I asked him to give me back me books and he refused. He said I had to take them from him and he took off. There we’re two things he didn’t know about me. I was super fast (sprinter’s thighs lol) and I was pretty ding dang good in judo despite my age. I easily caught him and he had to drop my books to take a swing at me. Then the strangest thing. Instinct just took over. I stepped aside to evade his punch and grabbed his punching arm and threw him with a hip throw. It’s been so long but think the name of the throw (phonetically) was called Ogoshi (hip throw) and when my throw put him on the ground I pinned him with one of the judo pins whose name escapes me (kata-gatame?). Anyway, it’s one of the pins a beginner learns. He squirmed and wriggled in the ground but he wasn’t getting away and eventually he yielded. I told him don’t you ever take my books ever again — and he never did. What I found weird was that I didn’t even think. My actions came out instinctively and his undisciplined “punch” seemed so slow. I didn’t want to hurt him, I just wanted my books back. So not a fist fight in the formal sense because while he threw a fist, I didn’t. Or is it still a fist fight, lol?

Longjohns at 52? That’s a warm day in wet Seattle lol. As for panty hose, shoot, this is shorts weather ?

I’m with you in theory but my threshold is $100 and this amount buys a whole lot of spinning reel. The more you spend, you might get a few more refinements and possibly a reduction in overall weight. Fortunately, the choice is ours to make whether those refinements/improvements is worth the cost. Gotta love that. ??

No more than $20. If $50 is his selling price, he probably knows he’ll be lucky to get that and is probably expecting $25-$30. To your 20, he might say $25. Decline and walk away and he just might acquiesce to you $20. Learned from my mom who was a master haggler. It’s odd how for the most part in the US (there are exceptions of course) we don’t haggle much. Most of the rest of the world does. Garage sales and places like offer up and the like are the exceptions and it’s so much fun.

Ah, indeed. I know what you’re talking about now and I’m with you in those cases. When a lure is too large (even worse when there are trebles involved), I will use the improved clinch in those cases as it avoid what you described. Come to think of it as it’s winter, I think my primary use of the palomar is when drop shotting. ?

I pretty much use the improved clinch knot and palomar. Just curious, what is it about the palomar you find hard? I ask genuinely as my “weakness” is the double uni. I get it at home, memorize it and by the time I’m on the lake, I just can’t remember how to tie it and I can’t risk losing with a knot tied half guessed. I truly experience a Beevis and Butthead moment 100%. ?

Why did I click on this thread? Now I have to click on the link, lol.

It seems to be the trend and has been for a while and I also don’t like it. Some of Shimano’s lower end models still have them but from the nasci, the AR is gone. I like the AR while I might be an old dog, and while I can still learn new tricks, I refuse to with the AR switch. AR switch or bust, lol. I’m joking. Fortunately, I have no need to get a new spinning reel, but I’m ready to accept that the AR is a thing of the past.

It is a little faster but you will pay extra for it. Almost had to do that once. I also have an enhanced DL and I think it becomes mandatory in my state this year in May. However, I don’t trust the gov. any further than I could throw it. If I travel to Mexico or Canada, you can bet you bass, even with my DL, I’m also bringing my passport, lol. It’s my only handheld proof that I am a US Citizen besides my birth certificate as I was born on a U.S. military base overseas, lol. Mine is close to expiring too. Also, if I am not mistaken I think the cost is the same whether you renew your passport expired or not. Weird story. I was flying back to the US from Korea on a 747. There were two lines. One for citizens and the other non citizens. Some buffoon was “directing” people (as if the travelers couldn’t tell what line to go to. So I make my way to the citizen line and as I do, he notices that, looks and points at me and then points to the non citizen line but I continue in the citizens line. He then comes up to me and says it without saying it, probably thinking I didn’t speak English, “This line.” By this time he’s right in front of me so I stop, bust out my blue passport and said to him, “This means I go in this line, right? a$$ wipe,” no I didn’t say the last word but I was getting upset. Well, the shock ticked him off and he pulled me aside and they made me open my luggage. Of course I complied since I had nothing to hide. In retrospect, it sent me to the very front and I got out faster than usual. This was in the 1990s.

I don’t know that many pros but I actually have a few in common with you — Cranks - Takahiro Drop Shot - Aaron Martens (I gave this a try after watching him and now it’s one of my most effective techniques) Rapala lures - Italo Labignan Senko - Roland Martin, lol. Ah, son…. ? Bait skipping - Shaw Grigsby

Bulldog’s gear is so beautiful and pristine such that I suspect he’s devised an invisible force field that protects them from scratches and debris but yet allows hands to use the reels, lol.

I did it for a while when things got compromised. It is currently unfrozen but I have been pondering whether to keep it frozen since I don’t plan on any major purchases any time soon and it can be unfrozen rather quickly. Looking forward to seeing what those more knowledgeable on this subject have to say and share. ?

I second this motion!! ??

JP is very good, but here’s another one of my favorite motivational speakers:

@MN Fisher: Wow! I did not know that. ?

AKA the Jolly Green Giant’s wife …?

This topic just had to come up today. I got my first pair of prescription glasses today and I’m in my early 50s. My wife gave me the “we ain’t getting any younger spiel about my eyes” even though I told her they were fine, uh for the most part. My eyesight is still good generally speaking but the farther the distance and the smaller the letters, the blurrier they get and I rely on pattern recognition to read. I’m talking greater than 100 ft so. Near is alright. The eye dr. I didn’t need them so I was right, but I could benefit from using them. Okay ? ? My new glasses are for seeing better from a distance and I will remove them for things real close. I tried the glasses driving home in the evening and it was really nice. I will do my best to not bring them when I’m fishing unless I get that thingofajig you put on the ends so if they fall off my head I won’t drop them on the ground or worse, the lake.

That was really good. Seeing the horn in that video brought to mind a memory from Henry Mancini, who was one bad dude. Pink Panther, Moon River, Baby Elephant Walk to name a few he’s composed. But here’s another he wrote, and if you’re going to go all out on the brass, here you go https://youtu.be/dechpnavTyA If you played video games in the 80s, you might recall the game called Spy Hunter. They used it in the game and how cool it would be to see more young folks learn these instruments.

I’m going to guess DB lives in California, lol. Things are expensive in WA state too so I’m laughing with and not laughing at. One of our local stores limited eggs to 2 dozen per person because of the Evian flu issue.

For me, it depends on the lure. For example for me, in-line spinners and spoons, 100% prefer single hook. Crankbaits and jerkbaits? I prefer trebles. barbless or not? Barbless is far easier to release them. So I prefer them. If you are afraid to lose your fish, then I suggest you hone your skills such that you don’t need to use a barb as a crutch. True “fish on” skills need no barb. Period. I learned this as some rivers and bodies of water are barbless in my state and from it I realized I was hooking and landing large salmon without a barb. If barbless can handle salmon, then it can handle bass. now I’m definitely not some barbless fiend. If the regs allow them, use them by all means. if you are catch and release, I’m telling you it’s way easier to release. The one scenario I dislike is releasing fish with barbed trebles and there are two or three barbed tines to release the fish from.

I hereby confess, that is not only one heck of a shower curtain but one of the coolest/best I’ve ever seen. Good ol’ Totoro. ? Ironically, I discovered ghibli music on a completely random encounter around 2017-2018. I was looking for relaxing music I could work to and came across some piano version on you tube. The piano music struck a chord with my ear. I was thinking, hmm… this is really good. Even enough to figure out most of the first piece on the piano by ear. From there, I discovered more of this studio ghibli music by Joe Hisaishi and then Miyamoto’s works.

All I know is that I heard of this in the old iron chef shows as the Chinese iron chef used his XO (English translation in the dub pronounced it as ex-oh). Ive always wanted to try it because I know it would be good. So from one Asian American to another help a brotha out and at share that recipe, lol. One of my best friends who I lost touch with introduced me to sambal bajak and you can put it on practically everything except cereal. although he was of Chinese heritage , I think Sambal might be of Indonesian or Malaysian origins. This stuff is gold.

I like the Erhu too! If I ever come across one, I’d try to learn to play it. Ghibli’s Castle in the Sky with an erhu Same song OST for reference As for the hegalong, I am told the top string is is kept to being a drone, open note and that the second string is where the action is had. However, that is probably not set in stone. As for the tuning, I couldn’t tell you since I don’t know myself, but if I had one, I would experiment with 3rd, 4th, 5th spacings and if possible, even octave spacing (akin to sound garden’s Mind Riot - I think all of the guitar strings are tuned E, which is odd for a guitar but it’s pretty cool. It gives the guitar a unique sound). Lastly, thanks for the new rabbit hole for me to jump into with those artists. I am looking forward to it. Any maybe you and I normal and everyone else isn’t, lol.