A Black and White Occasional Fishing Thread [Bandersnatch]

Welcome Piscators and Piscatrettes! (That’s an Izaak Walton reference. You people disappointed me last time by not asking). This is an occasional fishing thread which appears like clockwork every three weeks. Occasionally. All fishing content is on topic, the musings here are just prompts.

Oh, that drawing above was supposed to be in the Deplorable Gourmet. *glares at people*

So, this week’s jumping off point is the concept of the fishing partner. That’s a much deeper commitment than the fishing buddy. A fishing buddy is someone you’ll fish with, you talk about fishing, it’s a buddy. A fishing partner is someone you can count on to meet you at the Secret Spot at 05:00. He’ll share his spots with you and vice versa. And you get to a point where you trust each other enough to follow the other’s lead but only after it’s been talked through thoroughly. The wind sucks today, where can we find a good spot in the lee? (Cape Cod is on four bodies of water, so there is always something to try).

I met mine thanks to a site not unlike this one. It had a message board that was already archaic by 1995 standards. There was copious ball busting. Sock puppeting was enabled. Now, back then there were maybe a hundred or two people in New England who fly fished in salt water and knew what the internet was, so we eventually all met each other. Like this place the board had its own lingo.

There’s a floating dock on an estuary where there’s a chance to catch fish and enough room to make a backcast and you don’t have to put on waders so you can sneak it in on the way home to lying to the wife. I was there one evening and another guy was doing the same and we got to talking about where we’d fished and how we’d done and he said something about “Poppy”. That meant Popponesset Spit as surely as “dip my balls in pudding” means the 2016 election. So we gave the secret handshake and he’s been a reliable fishing partner ever since. I call him Lassie because he claims he can smell fish.

There’s a trout writer out in Colorado, John Gierach, who has made a cottage industry of going fishing with his partner and writing about what happens. The partner, A.K. Best, has got a couple of books and sold a ton of flies out of that. Do you have a fishing partner?

One day, this guy showed up at that bulletin board:

Tony Stetzko and "Bertha"

That’s not a photoshop. It’s 1981. That was, I thought, the world record striped bass but it was only the Massachusetts record. Missed a guy from Jersey named Frank Church’s record by a little. Still, the guy is a legend, and one day he showed up on the board. I thought it was a sockpuppet. It would be like Andrew Breitbart showing up in the comments here.

I got to know him pretty well. We were not close personal friends but he treated me like one. Sometimes he was down and out and sleeping under the counter of his copy shop, sometimes he was married to a girl with a big farm and shooting coyotes off the porch at night. He was always the same in either case, and also a damn fine watercolorist.

So when I decided to go with the Black & White motif for this thread I went looking for a Hemingway picture and fell into a rabbit hole. That’s some Italian girl photographer.

He was a legitimate innovator in offshore fishing. He was living in Havana, had the boat Pilar built, and sought out the world’s leading expert on marlin fishing. The world’s leading expert had caught about seven of them. Within a year Hemingway caught seventy in a season.

And to tie all the threads together we have the book thread, the fishing thread, the drinking thread, the gun safety thread, and the child-rearing thread all in one picture. I assume that’s a Thompson but await correction. He did write entertainingly in Esquire about actually shooting himself in the leg with that gun, presumably drunk.

Now, for the next Occasion, some people have submitted fishing brag pics. I think we’ll do fishing brag pics of Morons and Lurkers, sort of like the pet thread. So if you have any fishing brag pics send them to aoshqfish at gmail dot com

Posted by: CBD at 07:35 PM

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1 This post is fishy.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 16, 2019 07:38 PM (+Tibp)

2 But Hemingway is way cool. Nice one Bandersnatch.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 16, 2019 07:38 PM (+Tibp)

3 Roomy in here

Posted by: Blutarski at March 16, 2019 07:38 PM (+Tibp)

4 Oh, that drawing above was supposed to be in the Deplorable Gourmet. *glares at people*

Some folks just don't appreciate the various Salmo species.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at March 16, 2019 07:39 PM (DMUuz)

5 I am smelling something fishy again

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2019 07:40 PM (BbGew)

6 I'd also suggest that a fishing partner will chuckle at your errors, but won't tell anyone about them.

Did I ever tell y'all about the time I didn't put the plug back in my john boat? Yep. It went a lot like you'd think. And my friend never said a word to anyone else but we laugh about it to this day.

Posted by: Moron Robbie, search engine expert at March 16, 2019 07:43 PM (xyung)

7

I'll show you my spots if you show me yours.

Posted by: Joe Piscato at March 16, 2019 07:44 PM (aKsyK)

8 How exactly do you fish with a Tommy Gun?

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2019 07:44 PM (BbGew)

9 Moron Robbie, search engine expert

That's a good friend you got there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 16, 2019 07:44 PM (u82oZ)

10 Oh, that drawing above was supposed to be in the Deplorable Gourmet. *glares at people*

In case you missed it, Horde, Bander drew that fishy.

Someone, by which I mean me, has the original drawing what is the cover of the Deplorable Gourmet.

This is because I'm Better.

Posted by: alexthechick - Superelite Ragebunny. Hopping all around. at March 16, 2019 07:44 PM (GbPPJ)

11 Skip

Sure it's not the Italian photographer?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 16, 2019 07:45 PM (u82oZ)

12 "How exactly do you fish with a Tommy Gun?"

Are you gonna ARGUE or are you gonna FISH???

Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 16, 2019 07:46 PM (w7KSn)

13 Yep, that's a Thompson. No mag in it. No compensator as well, so watch out for the muzzle climb.

Posted by: Captain Ned at March 16, 2019 07:46 PM (XIfux)

14
So long and thanks for all of the fish

Posted by: TheQuietMan at March 16, 2019 07:46 PM (ziy5X)

15 Fishing Sponge

Posted by: FIRST!!!!! at March 16, 2019 07:48 PM (C1NyB)

16 Absolutely not, Mr. Game Warden! We're all on the up-and-up here.

Let me introduce you to my ex-girlfriend, - she's nice!

Posted by: Fritz at March 16, 2019 07:49 PM (LuPts)

17 >>> Cape Cod is on four bodies of water

Buzzards Bay makes three. Are you counting the canal?

Posted by: fluffy at March 16, 2019 07:49 PM (AYbh1)

18 When I was a little kid, Grampa Tony lived four houses up the street. He'd take me bass and walleye fishing - my job was to bail and fish between bailing. I'd sleep over and be woken up to the strongest black coffee ever made way before sunrise. We'd be back home before lunch - had a ball.

Sometimes, we'd even catch a fish.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2019 07:50 PM (Y4EXg)

19 Some folks just don't appreciate the various Salmo species.

May I geek out? I shall geek out. That was drawn of a brook trout, salvelinus fontinalis, which is a char not a true trout. True trout are like the brown trout, salmo trutta.

The difference is that trout have dark spots on a lighter background and char have lighter spots on a dark background, and also something about volmer teeth. I don't know what volmer teeth are.

Of course, Atlantic salmon are salmo (salar). All of the Pacific salmon are oncorhyncus. So then some Poindexter said hey the rainbow trout is native to the Pacific so we should call it oncorhyncus (mykiss). Except all of the true Pacific salmon die when they spawn and the rainbow doesn't, because it's a trout, and should still be called salmo gairdneri the way god intended.

You can go on about STEM but sometimes scientists are stupid. It's like saying Pluto isn't a planet.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 07:50 PM (fuK7c)

20 So long and thanks for all of the fish
Posted by: TheQuietMan

I see John Wayne's The Quiet Man is on TCM tomorrow night.

Posted by: Blutarski at March 16, 2019 07:51 PM (+Tibp)

21 Is this an open thread, or do I have to go back downstairs?

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy at March 16, 2019 07:51 PM (muu15)

22 Is this an open thread, or do I have to go back downstairs?

Posted by: Emperor Country Boy
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Sock Mr. Limpet and say whatever you want.

Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2019 07:52 PM (Y4EXg)

23 If you ever find yourself in Islamorada, there is a replica of Pilar right in the middle of the Bass Pro Shop.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 07:52 PM (/tuJf)

24 Fishing Thread!

Nice job, Bander!

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2019 07:52 PM (HPFi/)

25 Buzzards Bay makes three. Are you counting the canal?

I thought of that, I might have said five. Bay, Ocean, Sound, Buzzard's Bay. And the canal really is its own place.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 07:52 PM (fuK7c)

26 >>> Pluto isn't a planet.

Pluto is a dog. Duh!

Posted by: fluffy at March 16, 2019 07:53 PM (AYbh1)

27
That meant Popponesset Spit as surely as "dip my balls in pudding" means the 2016 election

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I'm an expert in modern politics. I'll investigate and report back.

Posted by: Shep Smith at March 16, 2019 07:53 PM (sy5kK)

28 I overlooked the Sound. I'm a landlubber when it comes to maps.

Posted by: fluffy at March 16, 2019 07:54 PM (AYbh1)

29 We are taking non fishing downstairs if you want to go there

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2019 07:54 PM (BbGew)

30 In the rivers (mostly impoundments now) in MO, we have spoonbill... an ancient, mostly cartilaginous fish.
Firm flesh, so it can be grilled, fried, BBQ, etc., etc..
Anywho, somewhere I have a pic of my (then) 15 year old son with an 85 pound female.
It was longer than him.
Big fun.
I'll hunt for it for the next round.

Posted by: MarkY at March 16, 2019 07:56 PM (zo8qG)

31 18 When I was a little kid, Grampa Tony lived four houses up the street. He'd take me bass and walleye fishing - my job was to bail and fish between bailing. I'd sleep over and be woken up to the strongest black coffee ever made way before sunrise. We'd be back home before lunch - had a ball.

Sometimes, we'd even catch a fish.
Posted by: Tonypete at March 16, 2019 07:50 PM (Y4EXg)

Now THIS is what is meant by fishing.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at March 16, 2019 07:56 PM (sy5kK)

32 I've had the same fishing buddy for 25 years.

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2019 07:56 PM (HPFi/)

33 >>I've had the same fishing buddy for 25 years.

I hit 30 years with mine this year. I don't know what to get him.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 07:57 PM (/tuJf)

34 I overlooked the Sound. I'm a landlubber when it comes to maps.
Posted by: fluffy at March 16, 2019 07:54 PM (AYbh1)

Charts.

Landlubber indeed.

Posted by: DR.WTF at March 16, 2019 07:57 PM (aS1PU)

35 I was a crick fishin kid during the summers I spent at my grandfather's. Clearwater/Selway/Lochsa river drainages. Haven't fished much since until last summer when my oldest drowned a few worms. She was thrilled to catch them and even fascinated, not squeamish when we cleaned them. I have 2 lakes within ten minutes of my abode and about 4 more within a 30 minute drive. Think we will be doing considerably more of that this summer.

Posted by: Sock monkey wanted: organ grinder, willing to train at March 16, 2019 07:58 PM (Srwpw)

36 i don't have any pictures, but i have a brag - i once caught three trout on one three hooks on one line while fly fishing on the espouse.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 16, 2019 07:58 PM (Pg+x7)

37 Granddaughter

Posted by: Sock monkey wanted: organ grinder, willing to train at March 16, 2019 07:59 PM (Srwpw)

38 Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 07:57 PM (/tuJf)
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Have Jewells make him or her some earrings.

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2019 07:59 PM (HPFi/)

39 That's a good friend you got there.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 16, 2019 07:44 PM (u82oZ)

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"Why you doing this, Doc?
Because Wyatt Earp is my friend.
Friend? Hell, I got lots of friends.
I don't."

Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 16, 2019 08:00 PM (xyung)

40 Have Jewells make him or her some earrings.
Posted by: Weasel

... out of flies.

Posted by: MarkY at March 16, 2019 08:00 PM (zo8qG)

41 If you ever find yourself in Islamorada, there is a replica of Pilar right in the middle of the Bass Pro Shop.

Replica as in full size? Wow.

There's a good book from a few years ago called "Hemingway's Boat" that covers everything from the commissioning of Pilar and the people who designed and built her to his adventures on her.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 08:01 PM (fuK7c)

42 Was going to go fishing today out here in East TN, but it was chilly and windy (roughly 50F). If the sun had ducked behind a cloud it would have been less enjoyable... so I'll put it off for another week and we'll get temps in the 60s a bit more routinely.

Gotta get me a filet knife. The spot I fish is good for rainbows and browns, and I pull them in with relative ease with a spinner. Well, once I figure out which color of spinner the finicky bastards are interested in that particular day. It's been years since I've cooked anything I've caught, and I'm looking forward to it!

Posted by: Arch Stanton at March 16, 2019 08:02 PM (qHJDl)

43
... out of flies.
Posted by: MarkY at March 16, 2019 08:00 PM (zo8qG)
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Yeah!
My pal Tom is a true sportsman. We can be fishing the same spot with the same gear; he catches fish, and I don't.

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2019 08:03 PM (HPFi/)

44 ... damn splchk. that's:

three trout on three hooks on one line while fly fishing on the esopus.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 16, 2019 08:03 PM (Pg+x7)

45 In the process of booking a fly fishing float trip for Mr. NEC as a surprise for his birthday. We'll be in MT for a month this summer and he'll float one of the rivers in the Bitteroot Valley. Asked our friend that lives there if he wanted to go along. He said yes. Yipppeee. I don't have to go.
My favorite photo is my 11 year old brother teaching my 4 year old self how to cast. We were on a Magician Lake in MI for a weeks vacation. I look very proper since I'm in a dress. So cute. I miss my brother. He's been gone for 40+ years.

Posted by: never enough caffeine at March 16, 2019 08:03 PM (N3JsI)

46
There's a rum called "Papa's Pilar" with a little Ernest Hemingway signature under the "PP" part of the bottle.

As far as I can tell, the rum itself has nothing whatsoever to do with Hemingway, except-

that the maker's say it was inspired by Hemingway's spirit of adventure.

So, Ernest Hemingway, writer, fisherdude, boxer, adventurer has finally reached the apex of his American fame as the Spokesman in Absentia
for fermented sugar cane juice.

call him "The Old Man and the Seagram's"*

Pilar rum itself is pretty tasty, if a bit overpriced.

*Yes, Seagram's is now defunct. But hey, it's a brilliant joke.

Posted by: naturalfake at March 16, 2019 08:04 PM (CRRq9)

47 The best ever fishing story of all time is still the 6 guys sailing across the Pacific on their balsa log raft the Kon Tiki in 1947, and catching about 8 sharks with nothing bit their hands.

http://tinyurl.com/Icebacks-v-Sharks-Not-even-c

And it's a B&W pic!

Posted by: Sharkman at March 16, 2019 08:05 PM (6qa8a)

48 The 30th wedding anniversary is pearl, so a pearl handled fillet knife?

Posted by: slowdown at March 16, 2019 08:05 PM (E+yET)

49 ... it really happened! i was in waders, pretty deep, cast, reeled, and felt a hit, i pulled up the rod (a bamboo harvey) and there were three trout on the line, i yelled out "hey matt!" - he introduced me to fly fishing - but the line dipped down and they were gone.

Posted by: musical jolly chimp at March 16, 2019 08:06 PM (Pg+x7)

50 >>Replica as in full size? Wow.

Yep. And pretty well done, too. It's the centerpiece of the store which in and of itself is fishing mecca of sorts. Sits right on the Gulf and a number of guides work out of the attached marina.

I little commercial but the resort next door has a great beach bar. If you have a fishing Jones and you haven't fished the Keys you should treat yourself. It is fishing nirvana.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 08:07 PM (/tuJf)

51 And it's a B&W pic!
Posted by: Sharkman

Cool! I had that book as a kid.
What'd they use as bait?
(7 men started out...)

Posted by: MarkY at March 16, 2019 08:07 PM (zo8qG)

52 I caught a minnow once. Biggest mistake of my life!

Posted by: Prof. Roy Hinkley at March 16, 2019 08:07 PM (LuPts)

53 This fishy thread is Aramid Fiber butt it impresses me massively, and so monthly too baby!
Ya'll gotta get ceramic knifes because its 2019 and ya skipped out - The guys get shirts, PERIOD. And all of you need to get at least 1 (per-person) fucking ceramic knife, PERIOD. How else are you going to cut a hole in a kevlar fiber plate? Oh, yeah sure: with a Diamond blade but your cheap-ass still aint got a ceramic kitchen knife in every glove compartment. How are you going to cut a LIVE 16,000 volt power line EVER in your life fool? Metal blades are SO 2016!!!

Posted by: MoJoTee at March 16, 2019 08:08 PM (2yhkc)

54 Kon Tiki was a great flick. Going thru dad's stuff. Cuba related, found Tarjeta De Turista cards from Aug. 14, 1957.

Posted by: Infidel at March 16, 2019 08:09 PM (9L2du)

55 Used to go fishing with Gpa. Some of my favorite memories.

Posted by: Ronster at March 16, 2019 08:13 PM (KEcGI)

56 where does the guy on the right in the first Hemingway photo have his right hand?

and yes, that's a Thompson

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 16, 2019 08:13 PM (rf8q9)

57 I have several fishing buddies but my fishing partner is Mrs. JTB. She has put up with my younger, dumber fishing treks, shares laughs we've had (mostly due to my clumsiness), enrolled me in a fly tying class as a gift, and out fishes me with annoying regularity. And all this while she won't touch live bait or any fish she catches. (She has learned to chase a night crawler around the container lid until she can get a hook in it.) Oh, and she is allergic to seafood and shellfish of any kind so couldn't enjoy eating any we kept.

The perfect fishing partner.

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 08:14 PM (bmdz3)

58 Yes, that's some Italian girl.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2019 08:15 PM (ePWRo)

59 where does the guy on the right in the first Hemingway photo have his right hand?

Inge Feltrinelli's ass.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 08:16 PM (fuK7c)

60 I watched the Donna Reed show when I was sitting with my aunt. The episode was about 4 guys planning an impromptu fishing trip. 2 of them said they had to ask their wives, and the other two mocked them for being whipped.

Posted by: kallisto at March 16, 2019 08:16 PM (UsFoH)

61 Weasel, so you don't have to go fishing around- you've got mail.

Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2019 08:17 PM (xSfgz)

62 JTB you need to come home. I'll go fishing with you.

Still a few stripers left.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 08:18 PM (/tuJf)

63 is the Italian photographer lady wearing a shirt?

Posted by: kallisto at March 16, 2019 08:18 PM (UsFoH)

64
61 Weasel, so you don't have to go fishing around- you've got mail.
Posted by: Ben Had at March 16, 2019 08:17 PM (xSfgz)
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Got it! Thanks!

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2019 08:20 PM (7Jxmz)

65 is the Italian photographer lady wearing a shirt?

Posted by: kallisto at March 16, 2019 08:18 PM (UsFoH)

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looks like some sort of primitive tube top...

and panties too, damn the luck.

Posted by: redc1c4 at March 16, 2019 08:22 PM (rf8q9)

66 Hemingway is the one who killed himself with a shotgun, right? That was one weird dude.

Posted by: dantesed at March 16, 2019 08:23 PM (88xKn)

67 JTB you need to come home. I'll go fishing with you.

Still a few stripers left.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 08:18 PM (/tuJf)

I confess, at first glance, I read that as "There's a few strippers left!"

Posted by: Mikhael Avenatti at March 16, 2019 08:23 PM (f3oO4)

68 Many moons ago, I was on a drift boat out of a small town in south Florida at night. It was the 7 pm boat which would stay out till 11 pm and then head in.

There was a Japanese lady on board with the other passengers and we all fished and talked and had a good time. Someone caught a nice sized shark and hauled it in the boat. It was put in the back with the other fish after being subdued with a few clubs.

While it sat on the deck, the Japanese lady proceeded to cut chunks out of it and then dined on a few small bites while offering everyone around her a taste.

I declined.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 16, 2019 08:25 PM (Z+IKu)

69 redc1c4

Yes. I checked very closely, for science.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at March 16, 2019 08:25 PM (u82oZ)

70 62 ... "JTB you need to come home. I'll go fishing with you.

Still a few stripers left."

My God, just realized I haven't fished salt water for almost 40 years. If I ever get back to RI, it would be a hoot to go fishing with you. And an excuse to get new gear. I don't think my ultra light 2 or 4 pound test spinning rigs would be appropriate. :-)

Mrs. JTB asked if Elvis goes fishing with you.

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 08:26 PM (bmdz3)

71 JTB sounds like your wife is a keeper. I feel bad that she can't eat seafood though. Just. Dang.

Posted by: kallisto at March 16, 2019 08:26 PM (UsFoH)

72 Italians used to be a lot of fun but now they're mostly miserable like the French.

Posted by: kallisto at March 16, 2019 08:30 PM (UsFoH)

73 >>Mrs. JTB asked if Elvis goes fishing with you.

You don't need to bring anything but yourself. I've got you covered.

I usually leave Elvis at home when fishing. Too many sharp things and he barks at the fish which is problematic. He's more the cocktail cruise type.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 08:30 PM (/tuJf)

74 71 ... "JTB sounds like your wife is a keeper."

Hi kallisto, I absolutely agree. My only regret is I didn't marry her sooner.

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 08:32 PM (bmdz3)

75 A bit of SE Texas fishing the past weekends... white bass were plentiful, largemouths so so.
Also caught several nice cats...

Fish, that is.

Posted by: Anon a mouse at March 16, 2019 08:32 PM (Bc1aB)

76 Cool! I had that book as a kid.
What'd they use as bait?
(7 men started out...)

Posted by: MarkY

Almost impossible to find a better adventure story for a kid to read. I had that book as a lad, as well.

I recall that they were fishing for tuna with lines and one of them decided to hang a fish over the side holding it by the tail.

Shark came up, chomped fish, flipped over to dive and exposed its tail. Ballsy Iceback reached down and grabbed shark's tail fin (perfect gripping material as shark's skin is like sandpaper), yanked backward which sends water backward over the shark's gills, rendering it sleepy. Then haul the toothy monster aboard.

Posted by: Sharkman at March 16, 2019 08:35 PM (6qa8a)

77 My fishing partner and I have salmon fished for years. He has a great deal on a cabin for spring steelhead, but he can't make it. I might go with a different guy that could qualify as my fishing partner if he lived closer.

Posted by: clutch at March 16, 2019 08:41 PM (kiSdp)

78 Catching a nice marlin like that one must have been a thrill.
When you see them on the dock like that, they are deep blue colored, but dead.
In the ocean they bring their own light show with them, flashing all kinds of neon colors.
Saw one breach one time, all lit up like Las Vegas.

Posted by: navybrat, sometime commentater at March 16, 2019 08:43 PM (w7KSn)

79 Grilled salmon, rice, and asparagus is the perfect meal. But tomorrow? That would be corned beef and cabbage, crusty bread, Irish beer, and for desert a wee dram of Bushmills.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 08:44 PM (qBNEP)

80 Little known Fact Tiger Shark caught on a rod and reel was caught off the Myrtle Beach resort pier was 1700 lbs in the 1960s. The record stood for largest caught until 2005 and was broken by a fisher is Australia that was 5 lbs heavier.

That record was crushed in 2015 with an 18 foot tiger shark caught off the coast of Australia.

Posted by: Piric at March 16, 2019 08:44 PM (4xpVO)

81 Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 08:44 PM (qBNEP)

What's this "wee" crap?

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 16, 2019 08:45 PM (f3oO4)

82 That fish has my butt.

Posted by: Captain Marvel at March 16, 2019 08:47 PM (Tyii7)

83 ...and for desert a wee dram of Bushmills.
Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 08:44 PM
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Proddy swill.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 16, 2019 08:48 PM (NtglE)

84 What's this about strippers?

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2019 08:48 PM (7Jxmz)

85 Commissar Hrothgar, it's like this. I just may go to church tomorrow night and don't want to be too, well.....you know...from the alcohol.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 08:51 PM (qBNEP)

86 Despite the cold weather until very recently, reports around the Potomac River are talking about herring, white perch and bass being caught. Some hearty soul caught a muskie in a local lake. And crappie are becoming active going after wooly worms. This is a few weeks sooner than I expected. The shad should be running in the Potomac soon.

Great! Now I have to check the line on my spinning reels. (Fishing from shore or a pier, there isn't always room for a fly fishing back cast without becoming a public danger.)

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 08:51 PM (bmdz3)

87 >>What's this about strippers?

Strippers work the pole. The pole works stripers.

Either way, the pole is a winner.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 08:52 PM (/tuJf)

88 A fishing thread. And i'm reading it.

And enjoying the hell out of it.

whoda thunk it. Only on Ace...

Posted by: Mr Wolf at March 16, 2019 08:53 PM (z7BSm)

89 That record was crushed in 2015 with an 18 foot tiger shark caught off the coast of Australia.
Posted by: Piric at March 16, 2019 08:44 PM (4xpVO)

There were 25 foot kid-eating sharks in Captain's Pond over the border from Haverhill when I was little and nobody will ever convince me otherwise.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 16, 2019 08:53 PM (t+qrx)

90 I know that stripers on the east coast are a big deal, but how about bluefish? When I was stationed in Maine we'd fish for them and had a riot. Good to eat fresh out of the water also.

Posted by: clutch at March 16, 2019 08:53 PM (kiSdp)

91 I grew up trout and bass fishing on my own. Mostly because that's how I found the best spots. I've fished in the northeast and various midwestern states. Also done some deep sea fishing.

I watched a show last night on fishing for White Sturgeon in the Salmon River. That's on the bucket list.

Posted by: Marcus T at March 16, 2019 08:54 PM (VkWRL)

92 What do you suggest, IrishEli? I mean instead of proddy swill? Whatever the hell that is, because I'm only a little bit Irish.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 08:54 PM (qBNEP)

93 I think my favorite fishing is with light tackle on the flats in Florida.

Posted by: Weasel at March 16, 2019 08:56 PM (7Jxmz)

94 Very long Twitter thread (not 'rolled out' anywhere) about Christchurch events in realtime, and YouTube, Twitter, and NZ cops and govt censorship...
https://twitter.com/nickmon1112/status/
1106394433157779456

Posted by: andycanuck at March 16, 2019 08:58 PM (Dh1wo)

95 I caught as many catfish off hibernation as keeper sauger and walleye today, and suspect the latter two may be my last of the season. Anyone who knows where that happened, within 150 miles, is a fisherman (at least a freshwater one).

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 16, 2019 08:59 PM (w18Ad)

96 >>I know that stripers on the east coast are a big deal, but how about bluefish? When I was stationed in Maine we'd fish for them and had a riot. Good to eat fresh out of the water also.

I hate Blues. They destroy gear (and fingers if you aren't careful) and disrupt the stripers. And they are easy to catch, they will bite anything. And I don't like cleaning or eating them.

Other than that, cool fish.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 09:00 PM (/tuJf)

97 What do you suggest, IrishEli? I mean instead of proddy swill? Whatever the hell that is, because I'm only a little bit Irish.
Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 08:54 PM
~~~~~

Jameson's - Papist holy water.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 16, 2019 09:00 PM (NtglE)

98 That lady doesn't look Italian, she looks N. African. Algerian.

Posted by: kallisto at March 16, 2019 09:00 PM (UsFoH)

99 I completely hate Pixie, who ate the heartfelt post I wrote and that's all I have to say now.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. at March 16, 2019 09:00 PM (HHwP5)

100 I know that stripers on the east coast are a big deal, but how about bluefish?

Bluefish are the zucchini of the fish world. At times of plenty you can't give them away.

Very tenacious fighters. Very toothy. The way you unhook a striper is to lip it -- put your thumb in its mouth. This is a very bad idea with bluefish. I only did it once.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 09:01 PM (fuK7c)

101 Can't wait for warmer weather to get my pontoon on the lake (Isabella in California). We had a wet winter and the lake is rising nicely. Crappie should start hitting in a month or so. Last year we caught six crappie over 15".

Posted by: Lurker John at March 16, 2019 09:02 PM (SnLSx)

102 IrishEli, I never think to buy Jamesons. Can I drink it any time? Cause if I can, I'll surely get some.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 09:03 PM (qBNEP)

103 @96:

Yep. When it comes to Blues, they are low on the table list. Not high on stripers for eating but it's still night and day.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 16, 2019 09:04 PM (w18Ad)

104 >>I think my favorite fishing is with light tackle on the flats in Florida.

I knew you were a wise soul.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 09:05 PM (/tuJf)

105 I was in a B ampersand B in Ireland years ago where the meals were at a communal table so you got to talk to people.

I made some reference to Bushmill's being a Protestant whiskey and the Irish snorfled. That's an American-Irish thing, the Irish don't care.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 09:05 PM (fuK7c)

106 I used to have a friend, but he died in November. He would have been a fishing buddy, if we had ever been fishing together.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. at March 16, 2019 09:06 PM (HHwP5)

107 90 ... clutch,
I never caught many bluefish surfcasting in Rhode Island, although I got a bunch on a charter boat on the Chesapeake Bay. I like blues smoked but stripers or mackerel are tastier and more versatile. Blues are a lot of fun to catch, though. Great fighters. And keep away from the teeth.

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 09:07 PM (bmdz3)

108 Commissar Hrothgar, it's like this. I just may go to church tomorrow night and don't want to be too, well.....you know...from the alcohol.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 08:51 PM (qBNEP)

'Tis a foine excuse ye have there, me boyo...

and there's always Monday!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 16, 2019 09:08 PM (f3oO4)

109 Whoa! I could make a pair of really sexy thigh-high boots out of that top fish.

Posted by: The Moocher, all good taste, all of the time at March 16, 2019 09:09 PM (xSo9G)

110 If I get to pick anything I'll choose wading a slow moving creek with some rocks here and there to churn up the water and overhanging trees to cast under. Some old collapsed dams are nice, too. Three feet deep, maybe up to eight in spots. No waders or anything fancy, just shorts and some old tennis shoes in the summer heat. A short ultralight rod, a spinning reel, and a little plastic container of a dozen or so lures. Mostly topwater.

But the best part is it takes work to fish it and it drives most people away, and they'll never know how easy it is to catch five to seven pound largemouth bass just because they haven't learned to be wary of the lures.

Posted by: Moron Robbie - search engine expert at March 16, 2019 09:10 PM (xyung)

111 Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 09:00 PM (/tuJf)

Do blues and stripers usually school near each other? For a midwestern kid they were a lot of fun.

Posted by: clutch at March 16, 2019 09:10 PM (kiSdp)

112 usquebaugh

aye, that is the vital drink!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 16, 2019 09:11 PM (f3oO4)

113

You elderly homos need to spend less time talking about fishy matters and more time musing on smoking hot Italian actresses...

Posted by: Just Sayin at March 16, 2019 09:12 PM (UFLLM)

114 No Presbyterian service on Monday, Hrothgar me lad.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 09:12 PM (qBNEP)

115 I watched the Donna Reed show when I was sitting with my aunt. The episode was about 4 guys planning an impromptu fishing trip. 2 of them said they had to ask their wives, and the other two mocked them for being whipped.
Posted by: kallisto at March 16, 2019 08:16 PM

There's a huge difference between "May I go on a fishing trip with my friends?" and "Do we have anything planned for next weekend? If not, I'm going fishing with my friends."

Posted by: Chuck C at March 16, 2019 09:12 PM (zCabI)

116 >>Do blues and stripers usually school near each other? For a midwestern kid they were a lot of fun.

They do. They swim the same waters and are active at the same time cashing some of the same bait.

They are a good fighting fish on light tackle and I don't mean to be snobby about catching them, I just don't have a lot of use for them.

Posted by: JackStraw at March 16, 2019 09:17 PM (/tuJf)

117 Can I drink it any time? Cause if I can, I'll surely get some.
Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 09:03 PM
~~~~~

Sure. To be perfectly honest, I'm not a big whiskey drinker and I can't tell the difference between Bushmill's and Jameson's. Both are very good. It's just the old Protestant/Catholic row reduced to who makes the better whiskey.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 16, 2019 09:17 PM (NtglE)

118 I love fishing. Bought my fourth and last boat 2 years ago. Mostly like pan and walleye fishing.

Posted by: Yep at March 16, 2019 09:18 PM (lMsxO)

119 For a couple of years I lived in the St. Pete Beach area of Florida. I'm not a Florida fan since I prefer having seasons but fishing from a seawall or bridge was fantastic. Using light saltwater spinning gear made it a sport. Snapper, sheepshead, snook (if you were damn lucky), sea trout are fun. Lady fish (local name, no idea what they are) are like small torpedos and hit at full speed. Too bony to eat but great fighters on light tackle. Good memories.

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 09:18 PM (bmdz3)

120 That's an American-Irish thing, the Irish don't care.
Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 09:05 PM
~~~~~

Kinda like corned beef.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 16, 2019 09:19 PM (NtglE)

121 No Presbyterian service on Monday, Hrothgar me lad.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 09:12 PM (qBNEP) /i]

Exactly me point, boyo!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 16, 2019 09:20 PM (f3oO4)

122 Well, IrishEli, I'm off the hook because we Presbyterians are above such silliness as arguing about what alcohol to drink and how to drink it.

Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 09:20 PM (qBNEP)

123 Inge Feltrinelli.

Posted by: Burger Chef at March 16, 2019 09:20 PM (RuIsu)

124 There's a huge difference between "May I go on a fishing trip with my friends?" and "Do we have anything planned for next weekend? If not, I'm going fishing with my friends."

I made a math error calculating how much sand to buy for filling a sandbox and multiplied something by 9 instead of 3, so we had a good deal of excess sand in the driveway.

I was supposed to leave on a weekend camping fishing trip and my wife wouldn't let me leave until I had got rid of the sand.

I'm not married anymore.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 09:22 PM (fuK7c)

125 Back in the old day when I was in my teens, when I was salmon "fishing" (wink wink no sir not poaching) when I was thirsty I drank water out of the river. I wonder what parasites I've been carrying since then.

Posted by: The inexplicable Dr. at March 16, 2019 09:23 PM (HHwP5)

126 @124:

That truly is an irreconcilable difference.

Thanks for this thread. Lots told, all good, by someone who fishes.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 16, 2019 09:25 PM (w18Ad)

127 Spent hundreds of hours as a youth, saltwater fishing with friends. Tidal rivers, sounds. It was a great way to while away the summer days.

In Fall, thoughts turned to hunting.

I was later to learn that urban youth, and particularly those from large cities in north, had no such experiences.

Posted by: The Moocher, all good taste, all of the time at March 16, 2019 09:25 PM (CDGwz)

128 Crap. /Moocher

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc. at March 16, 2019 09:25 PM (CDGwz)

129 Fraser Anning is an Australian Senator who has been an outspoken opponent of Islamic immigration.

At a press conference a limp-wristed bastard came up an egged him and the Senator busted his little c*ck-sucking face with a couple of lefts before some other Aussie badasses choked the little f*cker out.

https://tinyurl.com/y6t93adb

Posted by: Paolo at March 16, 2019 09:26 PM (gCzjH)

130 No one asked about the Izaak Walton allusion because we're all so awesome that we got it. :-P

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at March 16, 2019 09:26 PM (EurWg)

131 Inge Feltrinelli.
Posted by: Burger Chef at March 16, 2019 09:20 PM (RuIsu)

Igni Ferroque.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 16, 2019 09:27 PM (t+qrx)

132 I come in peace and love.
I will do my best in everything.
Until the day I keel you.

Posted by: Muslim sleeper at March 16, 2019 09:27 PM (ePWRo)

133
At a press conference a limp-wristed bastard came up an egged him and the Senator busted his little c*ck-sucking face with a couple of lefts before some other Aussie badasses choked the little f*cker out.

https://tinyurl.com/y6t93adb
Posted by: Paolo
---------

Note how the press phrases their 'news'. It's straight up bullshit spin.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc. at March 16, 2019 09:29 PM (CDGwz)

134 No one asked about the Izaak Walton allusion...
------
*?*

Does the Izaak Walton League still exist?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc. at March 16, 2019 09:30 PM (xSo9G)

135 My only complaint about fishing is it cuts into time at the target range. Or is time at the range cutting into my time fishing? So many existential questions.

Time to sip some bourbon and contemplate.

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 09:31 PM (bmdz3)

136
Does the Izaak Walton League still exist?
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc.

*looks*

Yup.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc. at March 16, 2019 09:31 PM (xSo9G)

137 Off Latin lover sock

Posted by: Bitter Clinger at March 16, 2019 09:32 PM (gCzjH)

138 Who's Izaak Walton?

Posted by: Jake Kengle at March 16, 2019 09:33 PM (CQjFn)

139 Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc. at March 16, 2019 09:29 PM (CDGwz)

The Aussies gave it up a long time ago when they relaxed their immigration standards.
Too bad the Senator didn't ask for ID and an age check before punching that little twerps lights out!

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 16, 2019 09:33 PM (f3oO4)

140 Too bony to eat but great fighters on light tackle.
Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 09:18 PM (bmdz3)

We used to go for panfish over "game" fish. For one thing, the limit was something like fifty per day. For another, catching a bluegill is about as hard as catching a cold. Finally, they're just delicious.

Of course, there's no saltwater fishing in Michigan, but there are game fish. You could hook a big fish and fight it and get a nice picture of yourself holding a fish. You could eat it, I guess. But pan-fried bluegill probably tastes better. Less exciting, but tasty.

Posted by: hogmartin at March 16, 2019 09:35 PM (t+qrx)

141 raser Anning is an Australian Senator who has been an outspoken opponent of Islamic immigration.
At a press conference a limp-wristed bastard came up an egged him and the Senator busted his little c*ck-sucking face with a couple of lefts before some other Aussie badasses choked the little f*cker out.
https://tinyurl.com/y6t93adb
Posted by: Paolo at March 16, 2019 09:26 PM (gCzjH)

Glad to see......the little punk asked for it.

Little light in the ass to be assaulting someone.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at March 16, 2019 09:36 PM (Z+IKu)

142 Oh, man...

Just saw this ad on Fox. All the dynamics of a SNL spoof commercial

MyGiddel.com

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc. at March 16, 2019 09:36 PM (CDGwz)

143 Kinda hard for to idolize Hemingway, even in the slightest.

This is a guy who used to pull up a chair, watch Che brutalize and execute prisoners, and got a good laugh out of it all.

His ending himself with that shotgun cheated fate. He deserved so much more suffering than that.

All of his accomplishments, writings, feats at sea with rod n' reel. Not worth a damn fucking thing, for his sympathies with Castro, Che and their murdering lot.

https://tinyurl.com/yymrdft6

Straight up. Hemingway was the Jane Fonda of the literary age. Some one who knows where his grave is, needs to post the location as a public urinal.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at March 16, 2019 09:37 PM (QzJWU)

144 Who's Izaak Walton?

He wrote "The Compleat Angler" in (*cheats and looks it up*) 1653, considered the first fishing book.

It's a set of dialogs between Piscator, the fisherman, and his student Viator.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 09:38 PM (fuK7c)

145 Who's Izaak Walton?
Posted by: Jake Kengle
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He was famous for shooting birds, then doing nice, detailed paintings of them. Hmm...hold, it...I may have the wrong guy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc. at March 16, 2019 09:38 PM (CDGwz)

146 Never enjoyed reading Hemingway, never liked the guy.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc. at March 16, 2019 09:39 PM (CDGwz)

147 https://tinyurl.com/y6t93adb
Posted by: Paolo at March 16, 2019 09:26 PM (gCzjH)

The article said most people support the teen. But the teen initiated the confrontation by being a bully and a jerk.

I can't help but contrast the kid with Sandmann.

Posted by: Emmie at March 16, 2019 09:39 PM (4HMW8)

148 Fishing was something I did in MN with Dad. IDK what I'll do now.

Posted by: DaveA at March 16, 2019 09:40 PM (FhXTo)

149 Straight up. Hemingway was the Jane Fonda of the literary age. Some one who knows where his grave is, needs to post the location as a public urinal.
Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX
Posted by: Jim at March 16, 2019 09:37 PM (QzJWU)

His grave should be festooned with Hanoi Jane Urinal Cakes (still available on Amazon I believe).

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 16, 2019 09:40 PM (f3oO4)

150 Straight up. Hemingway was the Jane Fonda of the literary age. Some one who knows where his grave is, needs to post the location as a public urinal.
-------

You've seen it before, but here 'tis again:

http://tinyurl.com/y8jahzf8

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc.,. etc. at March 16, 2019 09:42 PM (xSo9G)

151 Here's another pic of that catch. Don't think Ernest is looking at the fish.

https://preview.tinyurl.com/y5l6or5p

Posted by: Muslim sleeper at March 16, 2019 09:43 PM (ePWRo)

152 Posted by: Emmie at March 16, 2019 09:39 PM (4HMW

If you willingly commit physical assault on anyone
in a public place, you have effectively declared yourself to be an adult and deserve a disproportionate response!

Of course, those are the old rules of civilization...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 16, 2019 09:43 PM (f3oO4)

153 This is a guy who used to pull up a chair, watch Che brutalize and execute prisoners, and got a good laugh out of it all.

That is utterly unsubstantiated. It's source is a fag boy who worked for George Plimpton and fag boy didn't tell the story until Plimpton was dead.

The story is that Hemingway said to Plimpton and some other journalists "there's something you have to see". They made a picnic basket full of drinks so that they could appear to be just enjoying the sunset and also because they were alcoholics.

The story, if true, is that once -- once -- Hemingway took journalists to witness Che's executions.

That does not imply endorsement. It's showing journalists what's going on.

Hemingway left Castro's Cuba, which was his favorite place to live, and never returned.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 09:43 PM (fuK7c)

154 143. hmm that story of Papa watching prisoners being killed for the fun of it fits in with my theory of him being a closet fegelah. I think all his uber macho activity was to cloak his essential queerness.

Posted by: kallisto at March 16, 2019 09:45 PM (jtqoO)

155 ONT is up. Stop playing with your poles and move up.

Posted by: FIRST!!!!! at March 16, 2019 09:48 PM (C1NyB)

156 Ok I've refrained myself until now. Saw the reference to proddy in a post so....

*puts on orange shirt*

*puts on bowler*

*clears throat*

Hurrah! Hurrah! We are the Billy Boys;
Hurrah! Hurrah! We make a lot of noise;
We're up to here, we never fear - we all are Billy's sons,
We are the Glasgow Billy Boys.

We belong to Glasgow we're Orange and we're true
Scotland is our countr-ee our colours white and blue
We're Protestants and proud of it we're known near and far
Glasgow Billy Boys they call us.
(to be sung raucously and offkey)

My fellow horders who are truly of the shamrock will know what I mean.
*locks doors and closes shutters, waits for response*

Posted by: Sock monkey wanted: organ grinder, willing to train at March 16, 2019 09:49 PM (Srwpw)

157
Who's Izaak Walton?
Posted by: Jake Kengle
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Walmart

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at March 16, 2019 09:49 PM (aKsyK)

158 Dad took me on my first and last fishing trip when I was 6. We were below Hauser dam on the Missouri. In the short time we were there I managed to hook trees, myself, a brother, and dad. Oh, and the only fish a 5 lbs brown trout.

Posted by: Beartooth at March 16, 2019 09:49 PM (3OT++)

159 140 ... Hogmartin,

I love going for panfish and keep an ultralight rig with 2 pound test line handy. I like to use size 10 or smaller wet flies, gill bugs or wooly worms, with a small bobber to be able to cast. Bluegill and crappie are great fighters for their size and with that rig lets me feel the fight. Plus, there is the chance of a bass now and then which will make things lively.

Last year I picked up a 3 weight fly rod but haven't used it yet. I should give it a try this summer for panfish.

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 09:50 PM (bmdz3)

160

Couldn't be bothered with Hemingway. Also couldn't read 3 paragraphs of his drivel.

I'll save pissing on a grave for John Kerry.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 16, 2019 09:54 PM (S/hVx)

161 Inge was a big leftie. Inge famous for photographing big lefties. They were personal friends with Castro.

Posted by: Braenyard at March 16, 2019 09:57 PM (ePWRo)

162 Posted by: irongrampa at March 16, 2019 09:54 PM (S/hVx)

If ever a grave deserved Hanoi Jane Urinal Cakes...

Posted by: Commissar Hrothgar at March 16, 2019 09:57 PM (f3oO4)

163 Bander, Thanks for another fishing thread. They are always enjoyable.

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 09:58 PM (bmdz3)

164 92 What do you suggest, IrishEli? I mean instead of proddy swill? Whatever the hell that is, because I'm only a little bit Irish.
Posted by: Eromero at March 16, 2019 08:54 PM (qBNEP)

Bushmills is produced in an Ulster village that is over 90 per cent Protestant. Jamesons is produced in Cork, in the Republic.

Hence the distinction of Bushmills as Proddy swill.

Posted by: Fox2! at March 16, 2019 09:58 PM (MwFQu)

165 Thank you, JTB, although it's become a Defense of Hemingway thread.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 16, 2019 09:59 PM (fuK7c)

166 I should qualify that I am a teetotaler, but not a Pioneer.

Posted by: Fox2! at March 16, 2019 09:59 PM (MwFQu)

167 @ 159

Yes indeedy, a 5lb bass on an ultralight will concentrate one's attention wonderfully.

My favorite rod is a Fenwick FF756 that I use for everything under 10lbs.

I also have a pair of Mitchell 300 reels--the original ones-that I modified the feet on so they'd work on the Fenwick.

Because we (cousin and I) used to backpack is why I did this, it lets me carry just one rod.

Posted by: irongrampa at March 16, 2019 10:00 PM (S/hVx)

168 *locks doors and closes shutters, waits for response*
Posted by: Sock monkey wanted: organ grinder, willing to train at March 16, 2019 09:49 PM (Srwpw)

Prepares Molotov cocktails (using Jameson bottles, of course).

Posted by: Fox2! at March 16, 2019 10:02 PM (MwFQu)

169 Even if Hemmingway were a Red--and I suspect it was Lefty celebrity narcissism more than the real thing--he wrote "Big Two-Hearted River" and did for fishing what Walton did before him: he defined fishing as man's greatest receational endeavor that otherwise would be working in an imperfect world. He therefore rests with angels and anglers, pretty well the same thing if you squint.

Posted by: Trump poisoned my cat at March 16, 2019 10:08 PM (w18Ad)

170 167 .. irongrampa,

I never thought to fit a light spinning reel on a fly rod. It would be easy enough and I have extra fly rods and spinning reels to try it. Thanks for the idea.

Posted by: JTB at March 16, 2019 10:09 PM (bmdz3)

171 A good fishing (or hunting) partner is hard to find and even harder to keep. They move away, get married, get divorced, get old, die...always something. If you are lucky you find one or two in your lifetime.

Posted by: rocdoctom at March 16, 2019 10:20 PM (AILSO)

172 Posted by: Sock monkey wanted: organ grinder, willing to train at March 16, 2019
~~~~~

Sure it's a grand old team to play for,
Yes it's a grand old team be glad,
When we read it's history,
It's enough to make your heart go sad,
God bless them.
We don't care if we win lose or draw,
Darn the hell do we care,
Because we only know that there's going to be a show,
And the Glasgow Celtic will be there,
And the Glasgow Celtic will be there.

Posted by: IrishEi at March 16, 2019 10:21 PM (NtglE)

173 I put a new plank or two on the pier and worked on the hydraulic steering on the boat. Not exactly fishing, but getting there.

Fishing friends, or friends of any kind are scarce as hen's teeth.

Posted by: Jinx the Cat at March 16, 2019 10:40 PM (ekmuQ)

174 Missed the thread, mostly. Desktop slipped a cog. Anywho, ThanX! for the fishing thread. Even with the Hemingway stuff. Don't matter none. BUT We have the https://izaakwaltoninn.com/ just outside of Glacier if anyone is feeling like spending some long green while fishing.

McGyver, out

Posted by: McGyver at March 16, 2019 10:43 PM (gMngZ)

175 Late to the thread, but wanted to say I like the illustration Bander! Please share more outtakes from the book in the future.

>>> While it sat on the deck, the Japanese lady proceeded to cut chunks out of it and then dined on a few small bites while offering everyone around her a taste.

That is some fresh sashimi!

Posted by: LizLem at March 17, 2019 12:02 AM (TnaCl)

176 Oh, and while I do not have a lot of love for Hemingway as a person, his stamp on American literature and the Erican spirit is irrefutable. I feel bad the lefty English academics are trying to memory hole his legacy due to toxic masculinity. That is not who we are.

Posted by: LizLem at March 17, 2019 12:05 AM (TnaCl)

177 *waves at LizLem*

These are the good outtakes from the cookbook:

https://bit.ly/2Hz1EWS

I'll ask in some thread whether you've seen this. Thanks for the props.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at March 17, 2019 01:18 AM (fuK7c)

178 I think I love this!

Posted by: Summer of Love at March 17, 2019 01:45 AM (FJrl0)

179 Golden trout wilderness many moons ago.

Posted by: Summer of Love at March 17, 2019 01:52 AM (FJrl0)

180 Irene Felinghetti photographer ! So there's two things that smell like fish on Das Boat...................the fresher the better.
It was a dark and stormy romper........

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