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| Saltwater fishing the Pacific! Fly fishing and casting topwater to marlin, mahi-mahi, and roosterfish is hard to beat!!! |
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Location: Kodiak, AK | I get caught up! I build two or three fly rods, and get my personal boxes full, then start working on getting flies and baits tied up so when the orders start coming in in the Spring, I'm ahead of the game.
Oh, and I'll be deployed this year again to somewhere in S. America looking for bad guys, so that'll take up some time too. |
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| Here is what you can do....
Sit back and replay all the giant muskies that you lost during your first season of muskie fishing. Because no one ever loses any small fish do they? And know that you will have to get used to those types of thoughts, because they will haunt you forever. And then just think about how many more giant fish you are going to encounter and lose again next year, and even more the year after that and the year after that, and on and on and on.... Or you can reflect back on all the time you should have been working on the house, fixing the leaking skylight that you promised your wife you would get to the week after next, only now it's three months later and you are trying not to remind her about it because she somehow forgot about it too...(only you know, deep down, she really didn't and you are in for a reckoning at some point in time that the world has never seen the like of!) Then there is the money you spent on the reels that you broke, or the rod that you dropped in the lake, or the lure that you lost when your stupid reel backlashed and your line snapped and your pounder flew into the netherworld below the waters surface the day after it arrived in the mail and it was the last walleye colored pounder that they had in the store! And don't forget about the trailer lights you just rewired last week, and now the other light on the right hand side went out...(*&(*&XX!!! And you can definitely spend a good amount of time reminiscing about the fights you had with your brother about which spot is the better spot to try out and who knows more about muskie fishing in the boat and the fight later on that resulted from no fish being caught on either spot at the end of the day and who's idea was it to skip the point on the other side of the lake, anyway, not MINE!!!! You can cherish those many sweet memories of days spent fishing out in gale force winds and freezing cold rain that chilled you to the bone and that would make the weather guys that stand on the beach in hurricanes look like woosies. Or better yet, think back on those nice sunny pleasant days with no clouds at all, but of course, no fish at all either, and you just keep asking yourself, why isn't there wind and rain so I can catch a friggin fish! Oh, and the Jetski's, can't forget about the JETSKI'S!!!!!!
And then you can ask yourself if it is really worth all the fuss and hassle, the time and money, the pain and suffering.
But before you come to a conclusion....
Think about the most memorable fish you caught this year....how it hit your favorite bait on the figure eight after you did everything right, and how it was barely hooked and yet you somehow fought it around the boat and under the trolling motor and your brother had an awesome net job right when it started to do a massive headshake and it ended up being your personal best, and how the adrenaline was flowing through your body so badly that your hands looked like they belonged to someone else, but you somehow managed to get it unhooked quickly and got her back in the water and watched her swim away strong with a slap of the tail that sent spray in your face. How afterward, you got a high five from your brother who is always there to fish with you when the time is right and how you took a few moments to sit back and relax for the first time that day and while reflecting on the fish you just caught you stopped and really took in the squadron of geese flying through the air overhead in a perfect V formation. How you you breathed deeply and noticed the smell of the fall winds and burning leaves in the air. And how you realized just how perfect the world is when you are actually out in it, enjoying what most people avoid as they run about in traffic, spend time shopping for this and that or stand in line waiting for some sale on something they don't even need or really even want and couldn't use to catch a fish or cast a lure or sleep in under the stars. And most importantly you remember how much you really enjoyed that one singular moment when most times you can't seem to remember how the days and weeks and months went by so fast while you were hurrying around doing the things that you had to do to survive in this world filled with responsibilities and stress.
And when you think back on that one special moment in time, you will breathe a deep pleasant sigh, sit back in your recliner while you are stuck inside during a cold January day, and you will realize that you have somehow gotten yourself involved in one pretty unique and rewarding way of life. A way of life that is twisted, frustrating and far from the realm of how normal people would choose to spend their time, but rewarding nevertheless. And before you know it, the ice will be melting away, and you will get out all the new lures you shouldn't have bought over the winter, pull the boat out hibernation from the garage at 3 in the morning so you can be on the water at the crack of dawn for the first day out on the water and a new year of fishing memories and you will go out and do it all over again. |
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| OH....you can also write really long posts on the internet too....I forgot to mention that somehow. |
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Location: martinsburg wv | fish musky year round little deer hunting |
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Location: Elko - Lake Vermilion | Toad,
What the.........???
Shut up and Fish !
Jerome |
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| Soon will be heading to run my charter boat the Swordfish down in Costa Rica. My partner just put in a new Cummins diamond series diesel so am looking forward to getting out there fishing for marlin and sailfish. |
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| Or 'ya could just try to read Toad's entire post... |
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Location: The desert | Toad, my humor meter might be broken (which I doubt), but if that was an attempt at being funny the boat left the dock and you weren't anywhere near the dock. If there is a sale on a new sense of humor I'd look into purchasing one if I were you. |
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| Toad may need a sense of humor, but PointerPride could use a whole new personality. |
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Location: The desert | Guest - 11/19/2009 10:47 PM
Toad may need a sense of humor, but PointerPride could use a whole new personality.
Have you checked the batteries on your sarcasm detector lately? My guess is they are running low. Try the E-Cells, they work well. |
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| Guest - 11/19/2009 11:47 PM
Toad may need a sense of humor, but PointerPride could use a whole new personality.
Toad may need a sense of humor, PointerPride may need a whole new personality, and 'Guest' could grow a pair of cojones and say this using a registered name instead of hiding in anonymity. |
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Location: Passaic, NJ - Upper French River, ON | " Organizations exist as a parasitic host for the community organizer in chief." |
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| Wheeewww, that's a relief....I'd hate to find out I did something funny when i wasn't trying to be. You could say it was long winded and wordy, yes, sappy, that too, I admit to being guilty of all these things when i get rolling sometimes on the keyboard after the ambien kicks in. I just like seeing how many people actually get sucked into reading one of those things. I was going for poigniant really, but probably not succeeding at that very well, either. I don't know, was that registering on anyones poignant meter? For future reference though, you'll know when I'm trying to be funny, because I type all my funny stuff in a funny pirate accent for added hilariousness. That kills.
I really was just answering the question in my own way and thinking that, as a muskie fisherman, at the end of the year you can always look back on your season and make an assessment on how things went. For me it was a rough year with a lot going badly on the home front that ended up translating to my time on the water. Enough that I wondered a lot why I do this crazy muskie fishing thing. But after things started to turn around for me on the water recently I realized again why I do what I do.
I guess I could have just said that and went and watched some basketball. My bad. As for purchasing a sense of humor, sounds like I'd spend my money better getting one of these "humor meter" thingamajigs. Then I would know when I was or wasn't being humorous, inadvertently or not, and avoid these highly embarrassing situations. I'd probably better buy a warranty for it, though, seeing as how they sound like they break quite a bit without anyone knowing.
Muskieaddict, I saw you trying to be funny too, luckily for you, I think you succeeded again.....this time.....but next time I will have me a meter to check...Yeaarrggg. |
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Location: The desert | ......strike two |
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| Seriously, sometimes people forget that when they respond to a post on the internet, they are actually responding to a person…not just some picture on a computer screen. No need to be an a-hole to someone you don’t know, is there? Would you say that to someone you met in person? You’re a kid still; you’ll figure it out eventually. |
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