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I haven't yet. I'm borrowing my coworkers wilderness atak (or something)
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My late birthday gift finally came in. Wife got me a monogrammed lighter what's one of the phrases my grandpa always told me when I was growing up and learning to fish.
Probably the nicest present I've gotten in a long time.
If you see another guy fishing that needs help, it's your responsibility to go and render aid, regardless of how retarded it might be. Be a knight .
You just want people to be able to go spend fun time on the water, if you can help facilitate that, you're doing a good job.
Any day of fishing, is a good day of fishing...
I unfortunately don't have kids, and it's something that bugs me all the time, but you do what you do can to teach kids being a proper outdoorsman.
Hunt, fish, whatever, there are wonderful principles that kids can really learn the skills that are vital to them becoming great person. Those activities socialize them and make them have too critically think at times, and in order to catch the fish they have to do a bit of problem solving to determine what their biting on. And the bite constantly changes based upon the area you live in or the seasons, so there's that constant engaging challenge to dissect and figure out the missing puzzle piece to land a nice fish to bring home for your family for dinner.
They should also be encouraged to do celebratory tasks of cleaning an animal or filleting a fish. Kids ought to have an understanding of what it takes field or lake to table. Some of my fondest memories was sitting out in the driveway for a couple of hours cleaning fish that my step dad might caught early that morning out in the Gulf prepping everything and getting raining for a Saturday night fish fry with family or the neighbors.
Get them involved, and really enjoying the outdoor, instead of staring at a phone.
Take time and pride in their accomplishments, especially if they hook a a bigger fish than you ever caught.
There are just a lot of other benefits helps to instill discipline with keeping / maintaining and being safe with a fire arm for fishing gear, or maybe a small Jon boat.
There are just simple rules one can follow to have a good life, especially if we're going to make certain the kids are hat grow up don't turn out to weirdos. And so many of simple fishing rules apply to your everyday interactions.
However that notion is going down pretty quick. I guess that's why it's so important to try to teach kids whether you have any or if it's your nephew or niece the way that we were taught to o be or act.
I do apologize for the rant and just kind of really made me think about stuff, and life was a lot simpler back then.
You know what though I shouldn't have to apologize about this,. Go out hunting or fishing, do it with friends or family ,whatever, go have a great time and enjoy the outdoors, because it will always at least help make you whole or give you peace, or at least teach the upcoming generations how to be decent people.
Edit: sorry talk to text
Probably the nicest present I've gotten in a long time.
If you see another guy fishing that needs help, it's your responsibility to go and render aid, regardless of how retarded it might be. Be a knight .
You just want people to be able to go spend fun time on the water, if you can help facilitate that, you're doing a good job.
Any day of fishing, is a good day of fishing...
I unfortunately don't have kids, and it's something that bugs me all the time, but you do what you do can to teach kids being a proper outdoorsman.
Hunt, fish, whatever, there are wonderful principles that kids can really learn the skills that are vital to them becoming great person. Those activities socialize them and make them have too critically think at times, and in order to catch the fish they have to do a bit of problem solving to determine what their biting on. And the bite constantly changes based upon the area you live in or the seasons, so there's that constant engaging challenge to dissect and figure out the missing puzzle piece to land a nice fish to bring home for your family for dinner.
They should also be encouraged to do celebratory tasks of cleaning an animal or filleting a fish. Kids ought to have an understanding of what it takes field or lake to table. Some of my fondest memories was sitting out in the driveway for a couple of hours cleaning fish that my step dad might caught early that morning out in the Gulf prepping everything and getting raining for a Saturday night fish fry with family or the neighbors.
Get them involved, and really enjoying the outdoor, instead of staring at a phone.
Take time and pride in their accomplishments, especially if they hook a a bigger fish than you ever caught.
There are just a lot of other benefits helps to instill discipline with keeping / maintaining and being safe with a fire arm for fishing gear, or maybe a small Jon boat.
There are just simple rules one can follow to have a good life, especially if we're going to make certain the kids are hat grow up don't turn out to weirdos. And so many of simple fishing rules apply to your everyday interactions.
However that notion is going down pretty quick. I guess that's why it's so important to try to teach kids whether you have any or if it's your nephew or niece the way that we were taught to o be or act.
I do apologize for the rant and just kind of really made me think about stuff, and life was a lot simpler back then.
You know what though I shouldn't have to apologize about this,. Go out hunting or fishing, do it with friends or family ,whatever, go have a great time and enjoy the outdoors, because it will always at least help make you whole or give you peace, or at least teach the upcoming generations how to be decent people.
Edit: sorry talk to text
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moonarchia
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Got my Stella 5000 sw out of storage and dropped it off to get serviced. Putting 30 lbs braid on it. Guy was telling me he wouldn’t be fishing docks for snook and reds with something like that.. Any recs on a reel for fishing big reds and snook around docks? Shimano Calcutta conquest A maybe?
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I don't know. I haven't bought regular gear in ages. As far as salt, it's hard to beat Penn. I forget what their higher end model is called, I think it's the black and gold one. Shimano is great too, or Abu Garcia.
If you have access to Academy, their H20 house brand stuff is actually good, and I probably made in one of the major manufacturers factories, but they also at least I still believe have lifetime warranty. If it ever breaks you can bring it in with a receipt and they'll replace it with the same model or newest model equivalent. I've got a bunch of their rods and reels and they've all held up and fish well.
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TheBeagle
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I love Penn reels. I have a Battle III 5000 reel paired up with an 8' medium heavy rod I use for surf fishing and it is smooth as butter even after a few days getting roughed up in the salt. I think Penn makes another tier higher though. The combo I bought was like $170 and the next tier is like $330 or so.
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Their battle series are wonderful combos.
I want to say the super high-end version is maybe called the president or something, or maybe I'm confusing that with pflueger. They got their gold and black one though that almost look sort of looks like an old school real from back in the day, I think they look great, it's not as futuristic as their modern offerings.
I didn't realize they've gotten that expensive though wow, but I guess that's not a surprise. Fucking bullshit though.
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Meth-addict fish, aggro starlings, caffeinated minnows: animals radically changed by human drugs – study
Addiction, anxiety and sex reversal have been reported in species by researchers as a range of substances contaminates ecosystems
"A recent study that measured 61 different drugs from 104 countries from rivers in 1,052 locations found 43.5% of the sites had traces of at least one drug that were above safe levels for ecological health."
don't have time to dig into at the moment to look rivers vs lakes, but known many that would never eat river fish only ones from lakes.
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I've never heard of anyone who would not eat river fish. I've only heard from people who would not eat fish from specific lakes because the lake was known to be heavily polluted.
Now that I think about it, I would not eat anything from the rio grande. So there's one river.
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I think it's probably still safe in most cases, just don't eat out of a body of water next to a major metropolitan area. I thought that the department of game and wildlife for most states will typically go out and do water testing on most bodies of water to see just what the state of the system is, check fish populations annually, etc.
Doesn't mean they might not report it, but it's not killed me, unless you count the third arm I grew a few years ago.
Do I believe that the quality of the water and a lot of places has gotten worse over the years, probably, but you still have to think during heavy rain years, how much of the current water gets flushed out to wherever. I guess shit rolls downhill, so maybe it's dicier in the southern states.
I just know I wouldn't eat anything up in Ohio.
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If they find pollutants that exceed a certain regulatory threshold, they're about equally as likely to change the regulations as they are to fine some big company or make them do something about it.
Our entire government is gangsters. They're in service to the grift, not us.
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Man, that's awesome. Assuming you're harvesting the shark. Can't tell what kind it is, but they're normally good eating.
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Black tip. Harvested yes. Gutted and bled it right in the kayak so the meat would be good.
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Yeah I know it's kind of wonky with the method of making certain the meat doesn't get tainted or weird. I've been caught one in a long time but I thought the thing was he always bleed em quick.
I was looking at the photo and I could see the little black tips on the fins but I wasn't quite certain. That's going to be some great dinners.
Grarts, buddy.
We're you out solo?
Xarpolis
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My son got his first fishing rod yesterday. That's what he wanted for his 7th birthday. In addition to LEGO's and a tablet and shit. But one of his friends at school fishes on the walk home, so my son wanted to join him with his own fishing rod instead of borrowing the friends.
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Assuming you have one for yourself so you guys can go out fishing.
That's great, though.
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Nah, I'm not into fishing. I'll sit with him while he fishes, but I would prefer them as pets and not with a hook in their mouth. But good on him for having an interest in it. It keeps him away from "Mom, I want to watch!"
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