On Mon, 22 May 2017 10:46:54 -0700 (PDT), xyzzy <
xyzzy...@gmail.com>
wrote:
>On Monday, May 22, 2017 at 1:40:17 PM UTC-4, J. Hugh Sullivan wrote:
>> On Mon, 22 May 2017 08:40:51 -0700 (PDT), YosemiteSam
>> <
Yosem...@byteme.com> wrote:
>>
>> >My dad was a hunter his whole life and I hunted up until a few year ago.=
> H=3D
>> >e hated trophy hunters and his reasoning was valid. Hunting is for food=
>=2E..=3D
>> >=3D2Eperiod. The pleasure he got was "putting food on the table" not ki=
>lling=3D
>> > for bragging rights to the biggest.
>>
>> Sounds like what I told our sons - you kill it, you clean it, we eat
>> it.
>>
>> I averaged catching more than 100 bass per year for at least 17 years.
>> All but 2 were put back in the water - a 5# and a 10#. They are
>> hanging on the wall behind me.
>
>My bachelor cabin was next to a boat launch. One day I was taking my walk =
>when a fisherman asked me to take a picture of him with his catch so he cou=
>ld prove to his buddies that he caught it. I did and wondered why he neede=
>d the picture as proof, and then he walked over to the water and released =
>them all. Cool.
Of course that reminds me of a story...
I was president of our fishing camp (about 60 miles away) for 17
years. There were about 40 cabins and trailers on a lake about 3 miles
long. A member had been fishing for about a year without catching a
decent size bass. His boat was passing mine 40-50 yards away when I
caught a 4# as I recall, unhooked it and put it back in the water - I
thought he was going to have a heart attack. When I got back to the
dock he was waiting to ask me how to fish.
The big bass were in the lily pads and we made our own lures -
teaspoon with handle cut off, hole drilled in front for split ring and
prop from an Arbogast lure, a hole drilled in the center to rivet a
hook with a skirt and at least 30# test line. We used the fastest
Garcia reels available at the time. Later on buzz baits were available
commercially.