Fishing Rhino

All we are looking for right now is interest, not commitments. Scheduling these things is not easy, that's why a meeting of any and all interested fishermen/women is important. Gramp, Tate and I don't mind doing a bit of organizational stuff to get things started, but it's up to all to see that we hit the ground running before next spring. The invite is out, and the door is open. All you have to do is walk through it and have your say.

I still don't get the point. My post was quoted by RW. Since I didn't see the posts that "disappeared" I could not have been referring to them. Apparently my post was misunderstood.

Who was being nasty? I wasn't even aware a couple of posts had disappeared.

Somebody's having fun with this.

When/If you meet the right one, you'll lose some, or maybe much of your interest in fishing. If she doesn't become the priority in your life, she ain't the right one.

Learned a couple of new techniques from a couple of new friends. That should probably be reversed since making new friends tops learning new techniques. The number one goal is to get back to Lake Champlain at least a couple of times next season.and top what one of those new friends were able to do this year thanks to the advice of the other new friend.

Good catch! I don't think I ever notice the date on "recent" posts. Heck, I don't pay attention to the date on any posts.

If you have Christmas Eve on Monday, you're going to be a couple of days late. It's Saturday this year, unless we've been looking at the wrong calendar.

Marcia and I have the family Christmas dinner at our home, so we are up early and in the kitchen. No turkey, we had that on Thanksgiving. We have a TripleM Budaball ham. We peel and cut up potatoes, carrots, sometimes turnip and butternut squash. We've got it down to a science, and since we usually eat around two in the afternoon, it's not a hectic morning. We don't buy gifts or even cards for each other. We'll have about twenty here for dinner. After dinner the grand nieces and nephews will open their presents followed by dessert. After all the dinner dishes are washed, the leftovers stowed away, and the relatives have gone, we kick back and relax.

You want to fish a Senko in the weeds? I use a Buckeye 1/8th ounce Flick It jighead with a wire weed guard. It comes through the stuff pretty good. You'll need to adjust the guard if it snags or when you catch a fish. Be sure to line it up with the point of the hook, about 3/16" (+ or - 16th") from the point. You'll find out what works best in your type of vegetation. Wacky rig the Senko. You can also use Jackall Wacky Jig heads or anything similar. Another hook that works very well for me is the Gamakatsu weedless hooks with the plastic weed guard. http://www.basspro.c...uct/58035/47270

When it comes to fishing, if I get a chance to go, I go. I don't stay off the water because of the solunar tables or any other formulation that supposedly tells when the fishing will be good or bad. I've had good fishing on cloudless bright sunny days when the water is like glass, and I've had bad fishing under the same conditions. Likewise for breezy, cloudy, drizzly days. Full moon, new moon, quarter moon, half moon, cold fronts, rising barometer, dropping barometer, I may be dead wrong, but I don't give 'em a thought. The thing is this. It's always nicer to have poor fishing on a good day than to have poor fishing on a lousy day. None of it really matters since I'm going to fish anyway.

Or maybe vice versa. Maybe she needs to explain things to him and he needs to be a bit more understanding.

Married the same woman? Does that make you husbands-in-law?

Pats two touchdowns, three possessions. So far, it's a barnburner. Oops. TD called back. Ball on one foot line.

Broncos 218 yards of offense in the first quarter.

The rubber has met the road, and the game is on. Denver isn't waiting for late in the game to do some scoring. Pats scored on their first possession. Can the Denver defense contain the Pat's offense. Interesting so far.

That's fine that fishing comes first. You're being honest about it. Now, having said that do not get into any type of serious relationship. It will not work. Not if you truly mean your fishing comes first. Your wife is seriously injured. You have a fishing date with a buddy. What are you going to do, go fishing, or be with your wife? You can substitute child or other immediate family member in the place of wife.

Fishing and farming. You have to understand that you are always at the mercy of the elements, which are beyond your control. With farmers, it's too much rain, too little rain, late or early killing frosts, and when none of those toss a ro*** in your way, it can be critters or insects that can devastate your crops. No amount of preparation can deal with too much rain. Irrigation can help with too little, provided it's available. If you cannot handle those setbacks, then you need to find another occupation. Golf, as you mentioned it Scrutch, is similar in this respect. You need to be in control when you hit a bad shot or get a bad bounce. If you let it get to you, it will cost you strokes until you get your emotions back under control. I was decent at golf once upon a time. Then I got away for a while and had trouble breaking a hundred. I was a good stroke a hole worse than I had been. It got me extremely frustrated until I decided if I was not having fun I should do something else. When I could laugh at my horrible shots, I had fewer of them. Never got back to my best days, but I was having fun. That's what it's supposed to be.

Don't expect her to change, unless you are willing to change. This is what courtship is all about, determining compatibility. It seems your fishing expenditures are a thorn in her side. Unless you can reach some sort of understanding, it will only get worse. Some people get married hoping to change the other person. That's a bad gamble that rarely pays off. There is only one person you can change, and that's you.

You are absolutely correct. Now, having said that, I have previously stated that one of the things that separates, or rather elevates KVD above many other pros is his ability to control his emotions. In so doing he does not waste time having tantrums or celebrating a good fish lost or caught. He may do such things, but I have never seen it when he loses or catches a hog. He treats it as just any other cast, and goes right back to fishing without wasting time emoting. That is something to be admired and emulated. I would say what really bothers me about Ike's outbursts is that some applaud them as something to be emulated simply because it's entertaining. My attitude on such things is probably based on my years as a commercial lobsterman. I had to learn to live with gear that got ruined or lost due to storms, or being torn up by draggers. I'll never forget one particular incident. We had seven hundred pots fishing very productive bottom. All the gear was well marked with high fliers at both ends of the half mile long trawls with radar reflectors at each end plus a flag on the northwest end of the trawl. They were also marked with inflated polyform balls two feet in diameter. On a calm clear night we witnessed a large scalloper towing through our gear. The high fliers were easily seen in the radar and they appeared as a series of blips on the screen. When all was said and done, the scalloper had towed up nearly three hundred of my traps which were never found. The average cost per trap including the ground line and terminal gear was over fifty bucks per, totalling fifteen grand, plus the catch they did not produce for the rest of the season. On that trip we caught over six thousand dollars worth of lobsters, or fifteen dollars per pot. Those three hundred lost pots cost me 4500 dollars in stock for that trip, plus what we lost in stock for the remaining two months of the season. Was I angry? Darn tooting I was. But I didn't react by destroying more of my gear. And one other thing. I had to pay for every bit of my gear. No sponsor to replace what I lost. That was neither the first nor the last of several times I had lost gear, but thankfully no others were nearly as bad.

Was his last name Bell? Sorry , I couldn't resist. Then again, maybe you had it coming to you for that "old guys" description since I resemble that remark.

Try this site. Found it seaching for flexible tubing. They have various sizes in different materials. On the left side of the following page there is a list of several tubing materials. There should be something ideal for your application. While it appears they sell in volume, you may be able to find someone who sells what you want in smaller quantities. http://www.gvc.net/p...d-through-316id

Hey Steezy, you can kill two birds with one stone. Attend the road trip and scout for an ideal place to put a dock.

Your biggest problem is not solved. I'm still around. I'm anxious to see them (soon I hope).

I use the InvisX, and am perfectly satisfied with it. It's an odd line in one respect. It seems to be made like string cheese. If you nick it, a "thread" may begin to peel away. It seems to be a combination of individual threads, somehow fused into one. I couldn't get the InvisX in four pound test for my light rig, so I used red label. About half the price of InvisX, and I have nothing negative to say about the Red Label.