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| For you boat owners/operators, what are some rules in your boat? Have you had people break them, and what is the wackiest things you seen your boat sluts do or bring with them?
I've had a bad year for boat sluts, and the rules are tightening up for 2007.
Captain Bligh (aaaargh) |
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Location: Hartland, WI | when they bring too much tackle. there is no need for a lakewood or two and 5 rods.
two rods and a plano is all you need.
i cant stand clutter in the boat.
JJ
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | NO ALCOHOL!!!!!!
That is until the days fishing is done, then we can either Celebrate or Drown our miseries
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Location: lansing, il | too much crap yup!
no bottles! let someone brake that rule once never again!! |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | peeing on the gunwhales. Nobody likes Sprinkles.
Edited by Gander Mt Guide 11/16/2006 10:56 AM
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Location: Athens, Ohio | I just read a story of courage on MS NBC:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15446032/
Got me thinking about a "no cigarettes" rule for 2007. Hmmm. m |
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Location: Palm Coast, FL | #1 rule...If you desire to keep a fish go to rule #1A
#1A...you have to swim to shore with the fish and...go to rule #1B
#1B...you also have to dodge the lures I will be throwing at you on the way to shore!  |
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Location: Lake Vermilion Tower, MN | My first and most important rule is; "Don't hook the guide"! 
I also insist that everybody has a good time while out on the water.
No Alcohol....you'll be surpried how much better an angler you are when your sober.
"Ace"
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Many of the good rules seem to go from boat to boat.
Not hooking me is a very good start!
Another rule that I have is, I don't care if you are excited, you never stomp all over the electronics cabling (which isn't easy to get at) or the control panels on the front deck. I guide from the the back deck on my Tuffy Esox Magnum. |
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Location: New Berlin,Wisconsin,53151 | Bring your own equipment don't except to use mine. I have a couple friends who lose baits and don't replace them.
If you smoke don't throw your filters in the lake.
If you have to pee use the pee can.
If you eat don't smash the droppings in the carpet.
Every now and then offer to pay for gas or launch fees. At the very least offer............
Netman |
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| I dont mind alcohol at all, I celebrate every catch in my boat with whiskey, havent had a problem yet, I did take out a couple newbies this summer, I also operate from the back of the boat, and My number one rule for rookies in the front is ALWAYS make overhead casts, none of this side-arm crap cause you think you can cast. I took a pacemaker to the shin at about 90mph. I dont know what hurt more, the hook, or the metal tail whacking my shin bone!
I dont really have many rules, smoking and drinking allowed, havent had any burns in the carpet yet in 4 years with my new boat. (suprised?)
havent had anyone fall out, and only one hooking incident, and that was myself taking one for the team.
I would have to stress that watching out where you are stepping when you get in the boat is a must, Had a buddy fold over some eyes on a favorite rod of mine.
Oh yeah, and absolutely positively No taking my secret weapons out for your personal satisfaction. I have some baits that no-one throws, 2 to be exact, a suick and a TR twitcher, as saric said in an article a while back, ": you dont want to be sleeping on the island with the mosquitos if you lose that bait.
Otherwise, have fun, catch a nice fish, and we'll have a drink. |
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Location: Fishing the weeds | No Smoking. No Drinking. No Figiting with any of the controls in the boat. NO COMPLAINING! If you break it because of your own negligence, you bought it ( Accidents are accidents but, I have had people break things like rods and laugh about it ). Any of these things will earn you a trip to shore. Pat |
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Location: Otsego, MN | Bringing you whole arsenal of baits when you know your only gonna use just a few any way.
Eating in the boat and smashing the food in the carpet.
leaving your trash in my compartments |
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Location: NeverNever Lake | Rule # 1 : Anything you wanna do is fine with me!
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | Man, tough crowd here! Only a few rules in my boat---you break it, you fix it---if you have limited time or are unprepared for the weather, best have a ride waiting at the landing---no cell phones going off---Have fun. |
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Location: lansing, il | yup raze she could do whatever she wanted to in my boat too! |
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| Hi all,
Only a couple of rules. First if you break it you replace it. Secondly and most importantly have fun. If you complain or piss and moan your trip will be your last. At least with me. I enjoy my time out on the water and I have been very lucky to share my boat with some really great folks.
By the way I've never had to enforce any of those rules yet. I hope it stays that way.
Dave |
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Location: Minnesota | #1 Rule: Keep Casting |
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| When were in my boat the other guy is responsible for the beer and munchies. That's about the only rule, never had anyone break my equipment or burn the interior, few beer spills, thats about it. |
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Captain Bligh was an extraordinary sailor who vowed to bring breadfruit back to the Queen. His sailing and mapmaking skills were brought to the fore under the tutelage of possibly the greatest sailor the world has ever known, Captain James Cook. Like Bligh, Cook had no use for those who would not obey orders or perform their duties.
Fletcher Christian had a fondness for the ladies. Christian and Bligh could not get along. To this day, the ancestors of Fletcher Christian and his band of mutineers inhabit Pitcairn Island in the Southern Ocean.
After sailing thousands of miles in a lifeboat after the Mutiny on the Bounty, Bligh would later become the Governor of New South Wales, Australia, where he would become the subject of another mutiny. This would become the only successful armed takeover of a colonial Australian government.
He rubbed people the wrong way on land and on the sea.
Cook was killed by Hawaiians on his third and obviously last voyage to the Pacific.
Kevin
I'm tired of the traditional green bean casserole. Suggestions are welcomed. |
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Location: Waukesha & Land O Lakes, WI | I bet he wouldn't have been nearly as salty if he'd have had that woman ^^^^ with him. |
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| LOL
Surprised nobody has said no puking and no pit stops!
I'll take Kevin's share of the casserole
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | Fletcher Christian had a fondness for the ladies. Christian and Bligh could not get along. To this day, the ancestors of Fletcher Christian and his band of mutineers inhabit Pitcairn Island in the Southern Ocean.
*yes, BUT, then Christian and some of his men were killed by the islanders they were living among. AND, many have noted that statistically (they actually compared # of lashes per man/ship) Bligh was not any more harsh a naval man than those of his day. It was more the 5 months on Tahiti that softened the men, and made them (possibly) prefer the loose morality offered by the island ladies over the harsh disciplined world of life at sea on a British sailing vessel.
Lox and bagels for lunch on Thanksgiving, now thats livin! |
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Location: Northwest Chicago Burbs | AND, the Hawiian Islanders that killed Captain Cook (after basically worshiping him as a god, talk about irony) cooked the flesh off his body (and though it is disputed) and might have eaten him.
If he truly had been such a great sailor he might have learned the one cardinal rule (as stated in Apocolypse Now by the character Chef) "Never get off the boat"
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| my uncles rule is no cheetos in the boat lol |
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| Go ahead and smoke, but be prepared to be downwind from me. Excercise common sense while doing so. Unless we pop a nice fish, then I break out the Cubans and we drift about aimlessly at some point later on.
No drinking. Drunk people tend to do stupid things. And if you miss netting a huge fish for me, you won't get a breathalizer, you'll get a kick in the nuts!
My boat is not pristeen by any means, but if you chew, you better be a swallower or a good spitter.
Nothing gets thrown in the lake except lures.
No talking politics.
No talking while the outboard is running.
You should have crapped before you got in the boat. If you have to take a dump, you better give "water-birth", or crap in one of the plastic garbage bags that I have on board and then take responsibility for it for the remainer of the outing.
Act like an adult 75% of the time.
Don't piss me off.
Be polite to others. They will remember my boat, not your face or big mouth.
If you step on the shaft of my trolling motor while exiting the boat, you will be bitch-slapped and reamed out in front of everyone at the boatlanding. I know 2 people who will testify to the severity of this rule.
It's an unwritten law that if you break or knock anything overboard, you will replace it....even customized Avids. I would do the same in your boat.
Your opinion and suggestions are welcome when it comes to spots to fish and how to fish them. If it's a body of water that you are more familiar with than I, I would expect it and would do the same for you.
I'm not a guide, so don't expect me to act like I am.
I have two cameras. Whatever we catch goes back....unless we plan on eating it. NO, not muskies. I do enjoy pike and walleyes.
If I stop fishing abruptly and lay down flat on the bottom of the boat, it's your baby to do whatever you want. When I recover it's back to business as usual.
If we are working along a weed edge or some other break, I EXPECT you to come up to the bow and fish along side me. I can cast left or right handed, you should learn how to.
Make yourself familiar with the layout of the boat and where the tools and net are stored. I'm not going to be giving you a tutorial when a fish is fighting for its life.
Relax and have a good time. If you drank 2 Redbulls and smoked half a pack of butts and are wired, don't expect me to speed up. You are required to downshift and fish at a speed that is comfortable to me. I last much longer that way.
Have boat landing etiquette. Again, people will remember my boat and vehicle, not your face.....especially your mouth.
Respect your elders.
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Location: Brookfield, WI | Good points Andrew, and all true. If anything, Cook was more harsh on his men than Bligh. In fact, it was his hard headed attitude towards thievery by islanders and desertion of several of his men, that led in part to Hawaiian islanders killing him on the beach while his men looked helplessly on.
Bligh's mistake was that he let "his men" off the boat too often, and when he tried to be the disciplinarian Cook was, the Tahitian lifestyle had changed them.
Bligh was not the man Cook was. There are islands in the Pacific where Cook is both revered for bringing the outside world, and places where he is mostly reviled for the same thing.
For those that have more interest in the life of James Cook there are many fine biographies.
The most famous is propbably J.C. Beaglehole's "The Life of Captain James Cook."
For a whimsical view of Cook's travels, I suggest "Blue Latitudes" by Tony Horwitz. Horwitz is a travel writer who retraced Cook's journeys through the Pacific. It's a fun book that gives insight into how the people descended from the "savages" of Cook's and Bligh's time of discovery/conquest actually feel. I loved it.
Kevin
I would love to try oyster stuffing, but the family will have none of it.
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Location: Monee, Illinois | DONT TALK GOLF!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Waxing Philosophic, here, are we?
Only rule in my boat? Don't pick on Dad. |
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