Are you in the Coots, Codgers, and Crones Club (CCCC)? If so, prove it.

 

I fished yesterday morning for three hours, launching at 48 degrees and leaving at 54 degrees. I'm fishing from a small boat, so I set the bass in the net on my lap to work on them, and between the mist and the bass, my britches got wet. After three hours of simply sitting, my cooled, wet legs barely worked when I had to climb out of the canoe and ascend the steep slope to reach the path through the woods, making me a card-carrying CCCC member. 

Catch clean cook consume?

 

Sometimes 😎 

 

Oh yeah pics....

 

 

Sometimes they swallow the hook and that's when you gotta have a fish fry!

Clever, @Pat Brown!

@Swamp Girl Katie, I may be the head coot!

"You don't quit fishing when you get old,

You get old when you quit fishing."

I joined the club in September. The Dr put me on a blood pressure pill. My muscles to start to stiffen up after sitting in the same position for long periods. I fished for half a day yesterday and complained about my backache the rest of the day. Old people problems…

Edited May 4, 20251 yr by treble hook

39 minutes ago, treble hook said:

I joined the club in September.

 

I sadly welcome you to the Club. We don't begin our meetings with "All, rise," but rather, "Keep it parked, ya old farts."

 

43 minutes ago, Lottabass said:

Katie, I may be the head coot!

 

Your majesty!

 

I'm a card-carrying member.

 

Hadn't thought a lot about it in the past.  Moreso recently.  I get more and more aggravated by the disdain and sometimes vicious attitude from younger folk towards elders and elderly.   Almost as if the 'OK, Boomer' meme, funny at first, gave permission to let loose on the aged.  Rather disturbing.  Certainly not all, by any means, but the occurrences seem to be increasing.   Or maybe I'm just noticing it more.

Told my fishing partner I was out of commission for fishing today because I have had to stay out on my daughters farm and babysit while she jetted off to Mexico City for a mini vacation with a friend.  My fishing partner claimed we need to get in shape for our upcoming trip in 2 weeks to St Clair.  I said I’ll get plenty of workout the next few days.  Getting ready to head home today and here is what I accomplished.  
 

Fed, filled water troughs and groomed 15 of the 26 horses on her property.

Played rodeo clown to avoiding getting trampled by her Bull who likes to tip over his trough and move his feed bucket so you have to come in his pen to get it.

Hung her Edison lights.

Weed eated around the main barn.

Fixed fencing.

Re attached boards holding cross ties in the barn.

Fed and exercised her 3 German Shepards.

Fixed 2 doors, toilet seat and the Rhoumba back in working order in the house. 
And my least favorite thing….clean litter boxes and feed 4 indoor cats and 1 barn cat. 
 

So yeah, I’d like to join the CCCC club because at 67 I’ve paid my dues, but sometimes life just gets in the way. 😂😝

Whoa, @TOXIC! You're right; It's too soon for you to be issued a CCCC card.

Other than the 1 time fixes, that list repeated itself every day. 😂

Just finished up 3, 10-hour days filming with the Elite and MLF pros on their boats....standing all day long in the heat...walking up and down a hill for water/food between breaks while lugging camera equipment...

 

I seemed ok most of the time, but at night...man, my lower legs were on fire!!  They felt 3-feet thick! I had to have a couple of aspirin each night just so I could sleep!!

 

When did THAT start happening??

Are you in the Four C Club (CCCC)?

Not sure.

But I'm working on it just in case. 

A-Jay

As a 77 year old I only qualify as a coot & codger. The rest of you guys might want to look up the definition of crone before you answer. @Swamp Girl is pretty sneaky with her knowledge of the English language.

I am in the Old Farts Rule Club😎

Tom

57 minutes ago, A-Jay said:

Are you in the Four C Club (CCCC)?

Not sure.

But I'm working on it just in case. 

A-Jay

 

You're mighty fit to be in the CCCC, but you've circled the Sun enough times to qualify. Your call.

 

Dwight, if I were a rose, my bloom is long gone. When a rose loses its petals, you're left with thorns. Alas.

Add another C to the club and I'll join.  Curmudgeon, Coots and Codgers.

 

48 minutes ago, Alex from GA said:

Add another C to the club and I'll join.  Curmudgeon, Coots and Codgers.

 

 

Deal! Henceforth, we are known as the Five C's: Curmudgeons, Coots, Codgers, and Crones Club. Our annual meeting shall commence, but only after we take a nap. Or two.

62 this summer. The phrase fish through the pain is true . Thank God for Tylenol 

I'm in my seventh decade and life has taken it's toll. Don't move as far or as fast as I used to, and pain meds are part of my life. Guess you could add me to the club. 

Well ill be 42 at the end of the month so while im not old in the traditional sense I do have a bad back and I'm easily irritated so I suppose I qualify.

I was feeling proud of myself one day last week.  I took out a 16 year old boy and his 40 something father, about half my age.  The next day they couldn't make role call for another round;  Grandma said I wore them out.

2 hours ago, Tackleholic said:

I was feeling proud of myself one day last week.  I took out a 16 year old boy and his 40 something father, about half my age.  The next day they couldn't make role call for another round;  Grandma said I wore them out.

 

Well, I'm proud of you too. 

Is this the club where every time you stand up or sit down you have to let out a grunt, a sigh, or some other non verbal utterance?  If so, I’m in.  I’m not sure when it started but it’s all the time now.  tie your shores?  Big sigh.  Stand up from the couch?  That’s an “ooogh”.  Bend over too long and then stand up straight?  That’s an “eeigh”, followed with some dainty movements until you’re right again. 

Well Glenn, you can change your thread name to lactic acid.

I’ve been umpiring two games a week and my knees remind me I’m not 60 anymore.

10 minutes ago, casts_by_fly said:

Is this the club where every time you stand up or sit down you have to let out a grunt, a sigh, or some other non verbal utterance?  If so, I’m in.  I’m not sure when it started but it’s all the time now.  tie your shores?  Big sigh.  Stand up from the couch?  That’s an “ooogh”.  Bend over too long and then stand up straight?  That’s an “eeigh”, followed with some dainty movements until you’re right again. 

 

Yes, that's our club!!! We sometimes fart too.