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| You know you're getting old when your pre-departure checklist reads something like this:
1. Boat key
2. Pain killers
3. Glasses - in case you have to re-tie while on the water
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We do what we have to do to keep fishing !! |
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Location: MN | Don't forget your meds ...  |
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| wrist brace
strap for sore elbow
Pepsid. |
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| That sounds like my 20's, 30's and 40's so far have been much healthier thankfully! BR |
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Location: Ontario | Is 51 too old ?? Cause I use all that stuff |
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| I had to put my glasses on and pop 2 aleave to readthis |
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| 51 isn't old. Unless you are 25. |
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Location: Ontario | Leaving for 10 days on Saturday. I've had the depth finder on the kitchen table for a week. You start misremembering things at 51.
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | My list for the cabin has " don't forget wife"
I'm not that old but it fits the gap for an excuse!! Ha Ha
Glasses are the worst. I need them for up close/readers so I bought like 30 pairs of readers and put them everywhere I go. Now I have to push myself to actually put them on! (Now that's a male age thing) |
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| jakejusa - 7/17/2013 12:21 PM
My list for the cabin has " don't forget wife"
I'm not that old but it fits the gap for an excuse!! Ha Ha
Glasses are the worst. I need them for up close/readers so I bought like 30 pairs of readers and put them everywhere I go. Now I have to push myself to actually put them on! (Now that's a male age thing)
I have so many pairs of cheaters. I have four pair down by the work bench just in case I would breakdown and read the instructions. |
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| The women you're attracted to all call you Dad. |
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| Wait till you are 66, the lists gets a bit longer, if you can remember where you left it. |
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Location: E. Tenn | ...going back to the dock to get something you forgot, and forgetting what it was you went back for.
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Location: Ontario | Thank God for cell phones...If you remember it. |
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Location: MN | Tim R - 7/17/2013 12:21 PM
Leaving for 10 days on Saturday. I've had the depth finder on the kitchen table for a week. You start misremembering things at 51.
I use an Excel spreadsheet as a checklist.
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Location: The desert | Recovering from a night of drinking is like recovering from surgery. |
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| Folks, you are approaching this issue of memory in entirely the wrong way. What I tell my adult children is that my memory is fine. The difference between my memory and theirs is that mine is like a main frame computer that has been accumulating data for over sixty years. I have an incredible number of files, within hundreds of folders. Some is still on magnetic tape. Some on discs, etc. It takes time to retrieve data from that huge memory bank. Their memory on the other hand is like a little laptop, with two or three folders with five files each in them. Does not take long to find what you are looking for when there is so little data there to begin with. |
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Location: Ontario | Memory comes and goes. The pains are constant. The eye site continues deteriorating. The desire to fish keeps growing. |
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| Cheaters. Lol. Also have them stashed everywhere - including 2 pair in the boat!
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | 1) Meds are a must or maybe you just like the pain.
2) "Bandit" to keep that tennis elbo in check.
3) 2 pair of glasses because you're going to forget where you left the 1st pair.
4) "Depends" for that boatside hit...it will scare the crap out of ya! |
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Location: Roscoe IL | Toilet paper
Ben gay
Black socks
Magnifying glass
Advil
And last but not least... Extra cushion for the seat. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | When your joints start to give out and you need surgery to repair them. I had ankle surgery a couple of weeks ago and am going be on crutches for at least another month. My Dad always said that someday those old injuries would catch up to me. Don't know what hurts more - where my ankle was sawed apart and then screwed back together or my leg where the surgeon took the bone grafts from.
Muskie fishing for me this year - not so much. Maybe in September. Maybe. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | Another one: When you carry a defribulator in your boat and train your fishing partner how to use it - just in case if you hook another 55. |
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Location: Pigeon Forge TN. | Your old when you have been 38 for 33 years, but in 6 more years, when you turn 39, you will be young again. |
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| I spent all last weekend on my boat since my wife was away on a business trip. Slept in it at night and fished all day. My list included toilet paper, pain medication, glasses, sunscreen, generator to recharge my batteries, and bug spray. I also have to put in my checklist to make sure that the plug is in every time I launch by boat.
I have still not completely recuperated from last weekend. Wont stop me from fishing again this weekend tho... |
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Location: Minnesota | You know you're getting old when you have to keep directions to your house in your wallet. |
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| ......when you consider Viagra as a way of not peeing on your shoes! |
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Location: Minnesota | Junkman - 7/19/2013 1:46 PM
......when you consider Viagra as a way of not peeing on your shoes!
On your shoes or in your face . . . is there an option C? |
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| When the first decision you make on the water is not what to throw first, but how any Advil to start the day with... |
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Location: Ontario | Does Viagra affect the daily afternoon nap for 2 hours ? |
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| Tim R - 7/19/2013 4:59 PM
Does Viagra affect the daily afternoon nap for 2 hours ?
Keeps 'ya from falling outta bed!  |
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| When they offer you the senior discount at McDonald's without asking for it. Geeezzz I'm only 53 |
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Location: Ontario | Going into paradise for 10 days...closest neighbor is 2 miles away. Just popped an aleve !!
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | When you arrive at the lake and ask the folks you are fishing with to remind you of what you forgot, but forgot to tell them to remember. |
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| When something new hurts after a day of casting. |
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| they call it the golden years!!! uhhhhhh I haven,t seen the gold yet. just keep trucking and enjoy the best, shake things off have a good laugh about it. |
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| only when you run out of bologna!! |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Thanks guys! After reading about everyones problems, I feel 20 years younger. Going to tear up my AARP card and head out to the water! |
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| When you prefer trolling to casting only because its easier on old arms and you can sit a while. |
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Location: one foot over the line | You search for your missing truck keys for 45 minutes only to realize that they have been in your hand the whole time. And, don't even get me started on the day that i found my phonebook in my refrigerator. |
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Location: Minnesota: where it's tough to be a sportsfan! | Mornings can start at ANY dark 30...but there is a list of things that must happen before we leave the cabin. Nothing moves until IT moves...some days are worse than others. |
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| Jake just
Get some of that chocolate flavored Fiber One and munch all day
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| jakejusa - 7/23/2013 12:39 PM
Mornings can start at ANY dark 30...but there is a list of things that must happen before we leave the cabin. Nothing moves until IT moves...some days are worse than others.
This is why it's important to keep TP in the boat. If I waited for IT to move I'd never make it to the water! |
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Location: Tomahawk, WI | Every fart must be tested a little before letting it go. |
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| nothing like eggs overeasy and some bacon to get things moving. getting things to stop moving takes Amodium AD but that tkes a bit to kick in somedays |
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Location: Racine, Wi | The words never trust a fart start to mean something. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Better than the words "I hope that was a fart" (depends). |
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Netman - 7/24/2013 11:03 AM
Better than the words "I hope that was a fart" (depends).
See brown stain in boat and motor section. |
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| The old neighbor guy's statement.... "That just sounded wet." Right. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | You're getting old when you start carrying a port-a-potty in your boat. |
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Location: Maple Grove, MN | You have surgery and find yourself comparing it to all your previous surgeries.
You get a letter from the Hospital informing you that the tenth surgery is not free. (It was worth a shot anyway.)
Your neighbor comes over to let you know that your kids are making bets with their kids on what you're getting fixed next year. And, by the way, how is that shoulder doing these days?
Due to physical problems, you haven't been fishing for so long that your boat is overflowing with old cardboard boxes, swimming floats, half-empty water bottles and a bunch of other stuff. And your fishing tackle is buried somewhere under all of that.
You find yourself saying "If I can get out fishing this year" instead of "When I get out fishing". 
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Location: Thief River Falls MN | When two 1.75's of Crown barely gets u through a week at Herbies.... "Ten"denitis I guess. |
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Location: Ontario | Lost 2 pair of cheaters by 3rd day of vacation. Had to go into town for a new pair. Aleve is holding up ok. Naps are becoming full fledged sleeps. Life is great. |
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| Love this discussion! I have 2 to add:
Worried about losing your expensive hearing aids when leaning over to release a fish, but also worried that without them you won't hear your partner yell, get the net!
This one happened, 20 years ago, I was still fairly young but my fishing buddy's step dad was not. We raised a big fish 10 miles from nowhere on LOTW. We were all doing the Fig. 8; the fish didn't hit. The step-dad took a vile out of his pocket and started popping pills. I asked, what's up? He responded, nitro! Yikes, I asked him what the heck he was doing out in the middle of LOTW chasing Muskies? He said there was nothing he'd rather be doing! We still call that spot the Nitro Rock and now I understand what he meant |
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Location: Greenfield, WI | When you remember fishing in a 14' aluminum johnboat, without sonar, without a trolling motor, with a hand drawn map, having to retie 5-10 times per day because the line would fray, having only one fishing rod which was a 5'9" fiberglass rod which for its time was a long (heavy) rod, carrying only 6 muskie baits (and none of them were a Slammer!), and the loose rope start 15HP outboard was two years older than I was...........and we still caught fish! |
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| Steve Van Lieshout - 7/27/2013 9:18 PM
When you remember fishing in a 14' aluminum johnboat, without sonar, without a trolling motor, with a hand drawn map, having to retie 5-10 times per day because the line would fray, having only one fishing rod which was a 5'9" fiberglass rod which for its time was a long (heavy) rod, carrying only 6 muskie baits (and none of them were a Slammer!), and the loose rope start 15HP outboard was two years older than I was...........and we still caught fish!
No map, 5'6" rod, and a 10 hp Johnson Sea Horse... I kinda miss dem days!! |
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Location: E. Tenn | Guest - 7/27/2013 11:57 PM
Steve Van Lieshout - 7/27/2013 9:18 PM
When you remember fishing in a 14' aluminum johnboat, without sonar, without a trolling motor, with a hand drawn map, having to retie 5-10 times per day because the line would fray, having only one fishing rod which was a 5'9" fiberglass rod which for its time was a long (heavy) rod, carrying only 6 muskie baits (and none of them were a Slammer!), and the loose rope start 15HP outboard was two years older than I was...........and we still caught fish!
No map, 5'6" rod, and a 10 hp Johnson Sea Horse... I kinda miss dem days!!
..and I forgot to logon....
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