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Location: north west wisconsin | So my wife just saw how much the Cady Weagle was going for on e-bay and the first question out of her was "wheres your tackle box?" ....
What are some of the things you tell your "other half" to justify some of the prices we pay for musky fishing?
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Location: Stevens Point, Wi. | I don't ask what her clothes cost, she doesn't ask what my toys cost. Ignorance is bliss! |
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Location: On your favorite spot | My Dad is a very straightforward and honest man. A pastor of 25 years, deeply religious. However, every time we'd buy some fishing stuff, we'd come in through the garage and put it right in the boat. "She doesn't ask and I don't tell" or "Your mother doesn't really need to know about that"
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Considering marriage, my girlfriend asks "are we going to share our accounts and finances?"
"Most of them sweetie, most of them." I'm gonna keep my account named 'Thorne Bros' in my name only.
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For all the fishing time with my Dad you'd think I'd have been served with a few sermons over the years, but by far, hands down, without a doubt, the best advice ever recieved on the water: "You got women, you got problems."
Off subject, the only time I've EVER heard my Dad use any foul language was on the boat when we were musky fishing. Sometimes that just brought it out of him. Good memories......
Lucky to have a woman that knows her way around Thorne as well as anybody.
Edited by Marc J 3/1/2008 10:45 PM
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Location: Bloomington, MN | #1 KEEP YOUR MOUTH SHUT!!! I've got a Shimano Trinidad 16n coming Monday. I can't take a vacation day on Monday, and I can't intercept the parcel! Odds are that on Monday night I will be spending the evening /night until dawn before emerging to sneak off to labor camp in the crawl space with my Lava light and ash-tray. THEY JUST DON'T UNDERSTAND!!!!!!!! |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | Hey guys help me out here. What's a "other half". I have no clue and have heard of much of this muskie lingo, but that I have not heard about. |
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Location: Southeast Wisconsin | I put mine on the "50/50 plan" long ago...I only tell her about 50% of the stuff I buy and that it only costed 50% of what I paid for it.
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Location: Iowa Great Lakes | I'm lucky my wife buys me things like GPS units, trolling motors, muskie rods and reels. Shes the one bringing home guns and stuff without asking. |
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Location: Rhinelander | To quote someone on these boards "My only fear when I die is that my wife sells my fishing equipment for what I told her I paid for it" |
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Location: Long Prairie, Minnesota | She don't ask, I don't tell........a box comes, she puts it on the counter, i come home from work and take it to my dwelling in the basement. Open it down there so she doesn't know the exact number of lures I bought, just that I bought "some" lures. She understands that I am die hard musky and that is just how it is going to be. Somtimes she calls me retarded when I am musky 24/7, but she understands! I have the greatest wife in the world. When she buys herself things, it is no big deal to me and I feel she deserves it for letting me stock up on tackle. And as my brother says...."It is always easier to ask for forgiveness than it is for permission!!!!" |
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Location: Yahara River Chain | shaley - 3/2/2008 8:46 AM
I'm lucky my wife buys me things like GPS units, trolling motors, muskie rods and reels. Shes the one bringing home guns and stuff without asking.
Shaley, does she have a sister???  |
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Location: Mauston, Wisconsin | I'm blessed with an very understanding wife- she knows how much I love chasing muskies. I usually find out a few weeks later what "I" bought her while I was gone in pursuit of these toothy critter's. I don't even ask what it cost! Neither does she!
Have fun!
Al
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Location: Greenfield, WI | Although I'm a newlywed (of only 31 years) I learned long ago that if you take care of the lady first, nothing but good things happen!
If you start out with things for yourself only, and try to "make it up" to her, you will never be percieved to catch up! |
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Location: Elk River, Minnesota | I don't have issues at all with my wife on purchases for my own well being. First and foremost, we run 3 checkbooks. One for me, One for her, and one for paying the bills. We each get a two week allowance that stays in our own checkbooks, the rest goes to the joint for bills, groceries, gas, joint purchases, etc. So...if she goes and buys something, it's out of her money...just like when I purchase something, it comes out of my money.
Extremely simple, and it is stress free since there is no hassle over money.
Been doing it ever since we got together 11 years ago, and it has never caused any issues whatsoever.
So...when I go to the toy store and purchase a few "needed" items, she cannot question it...and vice-versa.
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Location: Rhinelander, Wisconsin | Sue buys Muskie lures all the time. If I buy one, I better buy her one or let her use it... |
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| sworrall - 3/2/2008 11:11 PM
Sue buys Muskie lures all the time. If I buy one, I better buy her one or let her use it...
Pretty much how my wife is, but I can guarantee you that the first baits in my box that were pink, were hers. NOW, I buy a LOT of pink baits, and she's on a black craze. She also keeps the boat clean(er that I do), and chews me out when I don't clean it to her standards. This past year after the accident, I had never seen a woman on such a rampage as having her custom Loomis rods at the bottom of the drink. She wasn't concerned a bit for my safety, only her rods.(I say that in jest....somewhat) |
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Location: Richland Center, WI. | If she does not ask I do not offer to tell what I just bought. Now if I am asked, the question must be specific. How much did you pay for that? Too much may be the answer. If pinned down, then I need to cough up the purchase price. Usually I don't get asked and my wife will often ask if I want something for musky fishing for a birthday, Christmas or something and then the answer is always the same. YES!!!!!
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| I think I'm with Ben on this one.....50/50 plan. Although the wife does seem to buy a new pair of shoes for every 4-5 baits that come in the mail. I joke around with her every time I see a new pair of shoes and say "that's another couple musky baits for me". She just laughes but she is probably on the 50/50 plan as well when it comes to shoes, clothes, jewelry, etc. |
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| this year for Christmas my wife was looking to buy me something for fishing. I told her not to, but she was determined to do so anyway.
She spoke with my brother and he gave her a few recommendations. With this, she picked up my Rollie and Helens catalog. BIG MISTAKE on my part for leaving it around.
Before looking at the catalog, she didn't know the difference between bull dawg and calcutta, but she does now. Then a few days after Christmas when I used my Cabelas gift card she gave me and bought a few lures, she was right there when I pulled out my tackle boxes.
Fortunately I was able to convince her that I purchased almost all of this stuff when I was a bachelor. |
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Location: NW burbs of Chicago | We have a $100 rule in our family... for anything. You can spend up to $100 before you need to make sure it's OK with the other person.
I'm sure that just ensures that Andrew places a lot of small orders for things |
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| a latte every other day equals a bulldawg and lasts about as long ... asking permission to live your life simply does not rock. |
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Location: deephaven mn | my situation is this, her money is hers mine is mne. we both deposit monthly into our joint account for house payments ect. we do talk if we need to make a major purchase. boat, car ect. where it could effect the other. i sometimes wish she new how much i spend on fishing. might help me control my spending. how much is to much? |
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Location: Ft. Wayne Indiana | From an eariler thread.....I thought chicks didn't get in the way of fishing....now your hiding things from her, lieing, not spending what you want to...etc....
Looks like I just might have been right!!! LOL |
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| If I could only spend 1/2 the money on fishing that my wife spends shopping...  |
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| MikeHulbert - 3/3/2008 10:45 AM
From an eariler thread.....I thought chicks didn't get in the way of fishing....now your hiding things from her, lieing, not spending what you want to...etc....
Looks like I just might have been right!!! LOL
i'm sure there's going to be a way to put you in your place on this one too mike ... i'm waiting to see this one, should be good! |
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| Ya Hulbert, You just wait. What am I saying, this is Hulbert I'm talking to. You'll never get married. |
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| We were "shopping" at a Gander Mountain one day, and my youngest says to my wife, "I thought you didn't like shopping", (a statement my wife has made many times) to which my wife replied, "Oh, this is different. This is FUN!", as she was examining a display of minnowbaits.
I'm good with the "other half" guys. To each his own, eh, Mike? LOL
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Location: Sun Prairie, WI | I have worked hard my entire life and now with retirement just days away, the situation is this,
As long as I keep the freezer stocked with panfish,walleye, pike, etc. I am good to go fishing and spend what I need to accomplish the task. She asks no questions, we have our own hobbies and sports, and she goes fishing with me at times!! Tough job, but I think I'm up to it!! |
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Location: Pewaukee, Wisconsin | I am laughing as I read this thread because my birthday is the 11th of March and my wife has already ordered me two gifts and now today she asked if I still wanted that MuskyArmor Pedistal mount tackle box. Kieth said it will be delivered to my house soon.
THANK YOU HONEY....
Marry the "ONE" and you will not look back at single life. |
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Location: Illinois | I don't go to bars. (except at lunch when I fish)
I don't play in a bowling or softball league
I don't golf.
What more do you want me to give up?
Truth is I don't want to do any of those other things very much, but it certainly is a good excuse to fish or buy more lures. |
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Location: Mayer, MN | MikeHulbert - 3/3/2008 11:45 AM
From an eariler thread.....I thought chicks didn't get in the way of fishing....now your hiding things from her, lieing, not spending what you want to...etc....
Looks like I just might have been right!!! LOL
Mike did you find that Pacifica yet?
Jason Roberts
Mayer, MN
Edited by lots of luck 3/5/2008 12:49 PM
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