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Post by penhook on Apr 6, 2017 19:57:52 GMT -5
i love to eat fish and wild game i not only love to fish i am a good hunter too hwen it comes to deer hunting,i provide deer meat for my household family and my neighbors and my aunts uncles and grandparents i love the outdoors and to farm and be with my many animals i have
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Post by penhook on Apr 6, 2017 19:58:51 GMT -5
oh and it dont matter about me fishing cause i ant caught one anywhere ive been in the past like 8 trips no lie
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Post by Deleted on Apr 6, 2017 20:51:20 GMT -5
bassmaster, as with most new members, they get frustrated because they only get vague answers to the questions they ask. Settle down and settle in and let folks get to know you a little better.
The top fishermen (bentrod, mward, yam, gator, johnr), etc. on here, didn't get that way by following the herd, they blazed their own path. You don't realize it right now, but you have a lot to learn.... hang in there.
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Post by hotdog on Apr 6, 2017 21:48:52 GMT -5
Bigun, I'm glad to see your still here sharing wisdom.
Have a great weekend folks.
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Post by penhook on Apr 7, 2017 7:17:25 GMT -5
i've been here a little over a year and i'm still finding new things out
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Post by 31Airborne on Apr 7, 2017 7:52:05 GMT -5
Amazing what one can learn by reading, listening, paying attention to detail. Tons of info in the reports in this site (and others) that are invaluable to novice and seasoned anglers alike. A lil patience goes a long way in this sport. A genuine commitment to learning and how to protect and preserve this amazing resource will open doors you'll never find on your own.
Since you missed (badly) my point above I'll be a bit more direct: bragging about a PB fish will garner tons of congrats and props from the folks on this and other sites. Bragging about catching, fileting, and eating a trophy fish will likely close the doors you're trying to open. If you're gonna eat fish eat the knotheads. Let the big girls live so they can make more big girls for the rest of us to [hopefully] enjoy. A genuine interest in learning and protecting will provoke others to sharing info that'll help you do both better. If I need to revisit the other kind of provocation you don't get it (and likely never will). I hope it's the former.
Fish hard, listen harder, protect hardest.
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Post by penhook on Apr 7, 2017 10:49:10 GMT -5
i have already said that i am gonna mount the big fish and i ate the two little one that weren't so little
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Post by greg on Apr 10, 2017 15:28:00 GMT -5
i have already said that i am gonna mount the big fish and i ate the two little one that weren't so little You ever heard of a Replica Mount? They look great, and the real one swims away.  |
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Post by penhook on Apr 10, 2017 19:25:59 GMT -5
Never heard of it and probably will never use it I am an authentic man
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Post by mwardncsu on Apr 10, 2017 19:53:44 GMT -5
Never heard of it and probably will never use it I am an authentic man Replica mounts can look as good - if not better - and look better over the long term, than skin mounts - as long as you use a good artist. There are plenty of molds for all sizes of fish and they can make it look just like the real thing. Skin mounts start to look like crap after some years. It's the choice of looking at the (replica) mount and remembering the memory of the catch - and it being sweetened by knowing that fish swam away to grow and be caught again - or knowing it's hanging on your wall, likely not having reached it's full potential. |
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Post by 31Airborne on Apr 11, 2017 10:40:03 GMT -5
Provocation or provocation? Listening is an acquired skill.
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Post by bushwacker on Apr 11, 2017 13:39:02 GMT -5
It's just the same as deer hunting for me now. There was a time in my life and fathers and Grandfathers where you had to shoot a buck. That was the mindset back years ago. Now I will let a lot of very nice bucks walk to have a chance to grow in to trophy's. I have people all the time tell me, Well you know the next guy is going to kill it. He may and it may be a trophy for him or it may be a kids first buck or he may make it to walk by me again when he's mature and be a real trophy for me. I know I could have killed him but letting him walk when he is not to his full potential gives me drive to find him again down the road.
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Post by Red Bear on Apr 12, 2017 12:02:50 GMT -5
granted, i was hard on the kid for keeping a bass who apparently had just laid her eggs. but i have to agree with him about the mounts. i much prefer a skin mount over a replica mount. replicas look so fake. like i could go buy them for 9.99 at walmart with a made in china imprint on them. i'll take a skin mount over a replica any day. my aunt wanted a new mount. i caught a 5.25 largemouth one night fishing off the dock and she wanted to mount it. we had Farrens mount it and it looks great. His house is full of amazing taxidermy work, he gave me and my aunt a tour and had us sign a guestbook, it was pretty cool.
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Post by mwardncsu on Apr 12, 2017 15:02:45 GMT -5
granted, i was hard on the kid for keeping a bass who apparently had just laid her eggs. but i have to agree with him about the mounts. i much prefer a skin mount over a replica mount. replicas look so fake. like i could go buy them for 9.99 at walmart with a made in china imprint on them. i'll take a skin mount over a replica any day. my aunt wanted a new mount. i caught a 5.25 largemouth one night fishing off the dock and she wanted to mount it. we had Farrens mount it and it looks great. His house is full of amazing taxidermy work, he gave me and my aunt a tour and had us sign a guestbook, it was pretty cool. It totally comes down to the artist involved. I agree I've see some BAD replica mounts. However I've also not seen a skin mount hat has weathered the years well either. |
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Post by Red Bear on Apr 13, 2017 11:27:38 GMT -5
My aunt and uncle had skin mounts done of SML Stripers about 20 years ago or more and they still look great. Sure, there are some amazing artists out there who have done great paint jobs for replicas. my problem isnt with that though, it with how fake it looks. Theyre most always too shiny, look like plastic, just not very convincing to me. Give me the real fish for a mount any day of the week. You dont even have to actually have ever caught a fish in your life to have a replica of one made...
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