wasilvers
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So is it just me or are you very possesive about your fishing rods and such? I will loan my car out to just about anyone. Even offered the boat to a few friends. But you go touching my fishing poles and it really 'upsets' me. Does anyone feel the same way?
Some background might explain how I got this way...
As a teen, some gal cost me a very nice double hookup of specked troud on a two hook rig - these were big fish for the area. I had hooked them and knew I couldn't get both on the pier by swinging them up. She saw I was going to lift the fish by the line (hand over hand) onto the pier. She TOOK my pole from me and tried to flip these two trout on the pier. MMM yeah, that didn't work - don't remember is she lost one or both of them, but I do remember that she touched my fishing equipment - and that pissed me off. I didn't want to talk to her ever again - and didn't. :evil:
One day my wife and I were enjoying a day at the beach at one of our local lakes. We had fished a bit on the pier and I saw she was having trouble casting. We went to an open area on the beach and I was showing her how to cast with a spinning reel. So while we are standing there, a guy we know comes up and start talking. He found out what we were doing and 'stepped right in' He grabbed the rod and started showing my wife the same thing I had showed her. I got mad, but as he meant no harm - really he didn't - I let him feel useful. The results were one lost favorite fishing lure and me being mad at him. For some reason, he had adjusted my drag down tight. I had gone back to fishing and replaced the weight with my favorite fishing lure. On the first cast the bail flipped shut. That lure sailed on forever after the line snapped. Did I mention it was my favorite fishing lure?
To this day I have 3 rods that only I use. No kids can touch them. The wife can, but she doesn't. I don't even like other people handling the rods to store them in the boat for me. Maybe that's from letting the wife store the rods inthe car one day after a trip. She closed the door and managed to break off the tops off every single rod.
#-o
Some background might explain how I got this way...
As a teen, some gal cost me a very nice double hookup of specked troud on a two hook rig - these were big fish for the area. I had hooked them and knew I couldn't get both on the pier by swinging them up. She saw I was going to lift the fish by the line (hand over hand) onto the pier. She TOOK my pole from me and tried to flip these two trout on the pier. MMM yeah, that didn't work - don't remember is she lost one or both of them, but I do remember that she touched my fishing equipment - and that pissed me off. I didn't want to talk to her ever again - and didn't. :evil:
One day my wife and I were enjoying a day at the beach at one of our local lakes. We had fished a bit on the pier and I saw she was having trouble casting. We went to an open area on the beach and I was showing her how to cast with a spinning reel. So while we are standing there, a guy we know comes up and start talking. He found out what we were doing and 'stepped right in' He grabbed the rod and started showing my wife the same thing I had showed her. I got mad, but as he meant no harm - really he didn't - I let him feel useful. The results were one lost favorite fishing lure and me being mad at him. For some reason, he had adjusted my drag down tight. I had gone back to fishing and replaced the weight with my favorite fishing lure. On the first cast the bail flipped shut. That lure sailed on forever after the line snapped. Did I mention it was my favorite fishing lure?
To this day I have 3 rods that only I use. No kids can touch them. The wife can, but she doesn't. I don't even like other people handling the rods to store them in the boat for me. Maybe that's from letting the wife store the rods inthe car one day after a trip. She closed the door and managed to break off the tops off every single rod.
#-o