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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
4. ....
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.
Edited by Tim R 7/17/2013 12:22 PM
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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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| when you push the thumb bar to use it as a drag |
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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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