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never, ever, ever, would I touch another man's set up.
Well, it doesn't matter whats on the line, it's mine, hands off! And if you have to be told twice, I'm not above giving you an old fashioned lesson in manors. As for lunch, you missed the point. Lunch was not important, giving the fish a couple minutes was. through countless hours of pike fishing over many years, I have learned that grabbing the line to quick results in pulling the hook out of the bait, more often than not (little tip for the rookie professionals). I don't know what your smok'in "silva", but where did you come up with 2 treble hooks? I have never used trebles for pike, I use gamakatsu circle. I do practice catch and release, but do like to eat pike if in the mood or it's necessary. And where I'm from, if you can see your tip up, you are attending it, nothing in the rule book about dashing to a flag. Bottom line, I'll fish my way, you fish yours.
For the record, I think you were both in the wrong. He shouldn't touch your flag and you should respect the fish. Grabbing the line too quick and sitting down for lunch are 2 different things. any hook in the stomach or gills will damage the fish, trebles are what I personally use, and have had great success with, thanks much. If I saw you leaving a fish to ingest your hook for several minutes while you ate lunch i wouldnt mind giving you a lesson in manners yourself, sir. There is the law, and there is common sense and respect for this fine sport. I think you can cross one without necessarily crossing the other. I mean, it wasn't "illegal" for him to grab your tip up, still a pretty douche thing to do, right? If it was a few seconds you were letting the fish take a quick run and I misunderstood the post, I apologise. If you honestly have let the fish run for several minutes before you can hook, maybe you should switch to treble hooks too, tough guy.
Ok mister make up any scenario so you have something to whine about. Lets try to address some of your delusions, first off, I never sat down to finish my lunch. My lunch happened to be venison sandwich, half gone, your small mind seems to think lunch was a five course meal that I sat down and finished for an hour. I think two bites of a sandwich, the last swig of my coffee and throw my jacket on would take a whole minute. Well I didn't get that far, I opened the door, said I know it's mine, closed the door and looked out the window to see my tip up in his hand. Don't sit at your computer and make up crap about a situation you know very little about. And I don't use double or single trebles because I think it would kill a lot of fish(not that I care what you use), I have used a single hook for many years with great success, and very few unintended casualties. " foolish man should ask more questions before shooting off mouth, grasshopper"
Ya, whatever. life really is to short for you to sit on your computer endlessly reading posts and trying to find any nit picky detail that you can try to justify complaining about.
Get a life, put the mouse down and go drill some holes.
I cant even imagine some idiot doing this to my flag. In Wisconsin we are allowed to tend 3 lines and I have watched wardens watch people for hours to see who has too many lines. This would have constituted too many lines for the guy which would have resulted in a fine. Now that would have been funny to see happen.
Not really, that wasn't his flag... nor his trap.Sounds like your DNR has plenty of time and resources, if I see a CO more than once every 3 or 4 years I feel like I'm being spied upon.
Our DNR is a joke.... They should be wiped out financially and start over from scratch......
That's not what eyesonice says...
whats up with all the bickering on IS now - a - days?? if you dont like what someone says in their post .. GO ON TO THE NEXT and i would have laughed at any warden who would give me a ticket for eating the last two bites of a sammy and throwing my coat on before going to a flag-i would see that douche in court and explain it to them so they could laugh at him too-maybe knock down his power trip.. and then i would already be at the courthouse for my trial for punching the flag napper in the jaw lol
Isn't that the truth!!! Start from scratch with new employees as well, most of them anyways.
NOREASTER- i dont like to get into the drama. i just never ,ever,saw any nasty comments or ol lady pestering posts like some of these on here and in many other threads BEFORE i became a member... and i admit i was a long time lurker of IS before i became a member and now that i am a member and getting more involved in the IS community i see so many of em that i like to stick to my main threads and reply to the regulars of that room and try to stay out of "chit chat".. but unfortunately there are alot of good reads in the general forum..and pike44- i thought the original post was hilarious just the way it was,i dont see how some people read that and got angered by it
I hear ya brother,some people just always see the glass half empty. Sometimes I wonder if a few of these guys are from "peta" posing as sportsman. and then some guy admits to ripping double trebles out of pike mouths and throats, and he's going to lecture me on leaving a circle hook in the water to long, lol. ::)Originaly, just wanted to know if anyone else ran into this, had no idea I would have to defend every detail of the thread. Oh well, probably wont bother posting again. To much agravation for me.
Been running into the same crap all over IS, was attacked on the VT boards for posting there by VT members, looking to provoke responses, all over a lame post about someguy whining about the accesses being plowed, in this the worst of winters in awhile. Last year I was attacked in PMs as well as posts because I pointed out a minnow trap was illegal for use in NH, as well as posting the daily limit for trapped bait(2 qts liquid). The year before I pointed out on the MA boards that they were only allowed one minnow trap unless they got a "Shiner Permit " from the state allowing them to use up to 10 traps, several of the posters bragged about big minnow hauls with multiple traps, couldn`t be bothered to check the regulations apparently. (i live in MA for a short time-don`t hold it against me JK) I immediately recieved PMs telling me noone cares about the rules, so mind my own business. Apparently John Q. Public is not only a moron, but a slob meat fisherman and a poacher, and let`s not forget internet tuff-guy.I take pride in adhering to the rules and regulations, and am growing weary of defending myself to people who could care less about the future of the sport and the rules and regulations. I agree with the aggravation factor, but hope you remain a poster pike44. Don`t let the trouble mongers bother ya, they are mild amusement at best and quite frankly several of my dogs crap larger than the lot of em!