When a salmon enters the river it's stomach shuts down as it prepares for running to spawn. The cloaer one fishes to headwaters the more difficult the fishing becomes. I liken this to the difference between rifle hunting on private land with feed plots, compared to bow hunting on public land.

When I salmon fish I use a double egg loop with two (sometimes three) red translucent beads (too small for teedubbya). This presentation mimics eggs with the idea being a salmon will assume the eggs need moved to a safe spot. When you feel that resistance you set the hook. In the upper river you have fallen/sunken tree branches and rocks to deal with and a fish can "run" up or down much faster than any human can rock hop. Landing a large King is an accomplishment and can sometimes come long breaks between even hitting one. Days even are common for even experienced fishermen.

Victor I admire your tenacity.

Really

ZRX1200 wrote:

could have been a BigFoots.... 😟

DrafterX wrote:

When a salmon enters the river it's stomach shuts down as it prepares for running to spawn. The cloaer one fishes to headwaters the more difficult the fishing becomes. I liken this to the difference between rifle hunting on private land with feed plots, compared to bow hunting on public land.

When I salmon fish I use a double egg loop with two (sometimes three) red translucent beads (too small for teedubbya). This presentation mimics eggs with the idea being a salmon will assume the eggs need moved to a safe spot. When you feel that resistance you set the hook. In the upper river you have fallen/sunken tree branches and rocks to deal with and a fish can "run" up or down much faster than any human can rock hop. Landing a large King is an accomplishment and can sometimes come long breaks between even hitting one. Days even are common for even experienced fishermen.

Victor I admire your tenacity.

Really

ZRX1200 wrote:

Hmmm... I always preferred throwing a set-net out and pulling in about 6-10,000 lbs of salmon a day (mostly pinks but a good number of reds and a few dogs/kings). But I'm more for efficiency in salmon fishing. Granted, haven't done that in a couple decades.

victor809 wrote:

Probably not an appropriate place to post this, considering the audience, and considering I've been MIA for a long while, but I thought I'd post something that seriously pissed me off this weekend. It seems somewhat appropriately timed.

A friend of mine from my rugby team (a prop, so a large 6' 260-280lb guy) was walking in Georgetown with his boyfriend, minding his own damn business when the two of them got jumped by two guys. They came up and kicked him from behind and managed to knock his boyfriend to the ground. Luckily, my friend is one of those people who considers a broken nose or cut to the head to be a good start to a game, so he was able to fight these two $ssholes off until a passerby yelled that they were calling the police, but they did hit him a couple times and kicked his boyfriend a number of times while he was on the ground.

So... nothing was said during the entire attack, no homophobic slurs, but at the same time nothing was taken and there was no obvious attempt to rob them. So whatever the actual motivation of the attack is, they're left with the fear that there are people out there trying to attack them simply because they're gay. That sh$t pisses me off.

What's the point of this post? There are a lot of idiots out there in this world, probably more than any of you could imagine. And every time I see or hear someone make one of those bullsh$t statements like "I don't agree with X, but if they do it behind closed doors" I think to myself that there is some idiot out there who (correctly) interprets that statement to be "I'm not going to personally do something about it, but I wish those people didn't exist" and decides to take it upon themselves to try to fix that for you.

victor809 wrote:

hehe, he's looking fer ya Doc, I've got some things to go get done

Numismaniac wrote:

My mom was a fairly tall woman with big feet (think Peggy Hill). I say was because they had to remove parts of her spine (not like mr lubner) and she is shorter now... but I digress

She worked as a fragrance model for many of the top designers and they either supplied her clothes or gave her clothes allowance. She always wore really nice things and rotated through many of the top department stores. My mom has never met a stranger, and is the least judgemental person I know. She became really good friends with a lot of people throughout the stores.

When she retired many of the guys asked for her outfits (particularly the shoes), and she gave them to them.

My biggest fear is I'll go to see a drag show, recognize some of my mom's outfits and I WILL GET A BONER

the end.

teedubbya wrote: