Fishing 2016

[SouthSoundTree-]

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[woodworkingboy]

Interesting!

 

[Limbrat]

HA HA HA! That's my backyard Sean! Thanks for finding that, very cool. I know several of the Revells, but not Gary.

 

[Limbrat]

Had a good day offshore but the sharks gave us fits. It wouldn't have been a fun day to swim in the Gulf. You would probably end up like this snapper

 

[FireFighterZero]

That looks like an ex-snapper.

What sort of fish is the long silvery one? Looks like a missile.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I've swum with sharks and barracudas in the gulf. The sharks didn't worry me so much as the barracudas. I was worried they would hit on my tattoos, thinking they were prey fish. One time I was face to face ,three feet away from a cuda... his teeth were quite impressive.

I wouldn't do that crazy shit now, lol.

Back then, I was ten foot tall and bullet-proof.

 

[cory]

 

[MasterBlaster]

You wouldn't believe the shit I did back then.

 

[FireFighterZero]

A full life eh? Thats got to be a good thing.

 

[MasterBlaster]

That's the only way I can sit on my ass and do nothing today.

 

[Limbrat]

That looks like an ex-snapper.

What sort of fish is the long silvery one? Looks like a missile.

That's a king mackerel Jim. He can swim like a missile too.

 

[stig]

When they swin above you, when you are diving, they really look like missiles.

 

[Cobleskill]

Stock that pond, Jim.



Had one absolutely huge pike in there that I'd been trying to hook for a couple of years without luck.
Just from watching his bow wave ( What do you call it when it is fish?) when he swam close to the surface, I knew he was real big.
One day my wife had a friend visit with two small ( Say 5 and 7 ) kids.
Not being used to kids and looking for some way to entertain them, I figured they'd probably like to go fishing.
So we went down to the lake and since they were from the city, they had no idea how to fish.
So I said: " I'll show you how it is done" ( I've often laughed about that line afterwards)
Cast a spinning lure and first throw, the big pike hit it.
I landed the damned crocodile, but just as I got him up on the bank, wriggling around and showing that barracuda like mouth that pikes have , the hook slipped and he went back in.
So I turned to the kids and ask if they wanted to try.

Nope!

Didn't even want to go near the water in fact.

I found a skeleton of a pike on the creek bank when I was about 5. I told my Dad I had found a dead alligator.

 

[Limbrat]

Took a very humble, fine southern gentleman and Viet Nam Vet that survived some pretty serious stuff, including a helicopter crash. I learned all that from a friend of his and when I asked him about it he said "everybody lives with danger of one kind or another". Right. He caught mackerel, bluefish, rock bass and blue runners almost every cast for a couple of hours. Wore him out. He tried to buy me some gas. I said "I owe you man". Caught two blue runners on the same lure.

 

[cory]

2 fer!

 

[MasterBlaster]

We ALL owe him.

 

[squisher]

Awesome big Ray. I love this thread!

 

[woodworkingboy]

I refused to enter into the military to go kill Charlie, told the selective service to f@ck off with my card. Got into a whole lot of trouble for it. Never expected thanks, but I wish someone would take me fishing. Maybe some Vietnamese who remembers getting unmercifully blasted to shit would like to?

 

[vharrison]

Hey, We would take you fishing anytime!

 

[woodworkingboy]

 

[Limbrat]

Be here at daylight in the morning Jay, got room for one more on the boat. Put you on some snapper and grouper like we caught today.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Chow down!!!

 

[FireFighterZero]

If he would just fly to Billings........Road Trip!

He could ride on the back of my motorcycle. Its a Yamaha, so I guess he would feel right at home.

 

[sotc]

Hey, We would take you fishing anytime!

Me too

 

[woodworkingboy]

Invitations well received! Thanks a lot!