Fishing with a senior friend

Re: Fishing with a senior friend

feeds@yuku.com (BlackHillsBill) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:49:45 GMT

" . . .Fishing is fishing."

Maybe. But the way you do it is special, Pete. The picture and the explanation
of how you and your remarkable friend go about it (so completely content with
one another) made for one of the finest posts I've read here in a long time.

A dozen or so years ago I encouraged student poets to try to discover the
"pure lyric"--a poem so compact all nonessentials were stripped away, so what
remained was...

Re: Fishing with a senior friend

feeds@yuku.com (sharps4590) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 21:06:53 GMT

Ain't nuthin' like a good dog for a buddy.

Vic

Re: Fishing with a senior friend

feeds@yuku.com (DrakeBob) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:35:27 GMT

Terrific picture, Pete. That looks like a great way to spend a day with a great friend. Watch out for those blues, nasty buggers.

To date, no Somali pirates have been seen on the Cape. Only tourists from New Jersey who are known to actually leave money behind them to the delight of the local restaurateurs, inn- and shopkeepers. If it were otherwise, they'd be worth protecting yourself from... just kidding, you-know-who, wherever you are.

Re: Fishing with a senior friend

feeds@yuku.com (mr flymph) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:44:20 GMT

Pete,

I believe your fishing companion is just as lucky to have a pal like you!

Re: Fishing with a senior friend

feeds@yuku.com (Pete from MA) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 10:40:08 GMT

good advice. you do get robbed out there. The seals have a way of grabbing a good bass & there are the ever present packs of vicious blues that tear into nicely tied flies. One morning while minding my own business casting flies into a rip a fish shaped like a football decided to mug my fly, and like a coward scream away tearing off line, and within a a few seconds spooling me.... I hate that.

Re: Fishing with a senior friend

feeds@yuku.com (uintaangler) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 09:45:40 GMT

Pete that is a nice picture, but I am a little surprised after reading the lengthy thread in another section of the forum, as it appears that you are not packing any "protection" in the event that Somali pirates should suddenly appear and attempt to take you and your old friend hostage.
The prevailing sentiment appears to be that you should never assume you are safe anywhere you fish and therefore you should never go fishing without your pistol.
In the future I hope you...

Fishing with a senior friend

feeds@yuku.com (Pete from MA) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:22:51 GMT

Big and old (12 years) . We fish Cape Cod in the summer, driving the boat out to an area where we can have a little quiet and we beach the boat. I lift him out to a sandbar that is starting to show as the tide falls and we set up a little camp. It takes a little extra work but its worth it to share the time with a best friend. I feel like a lucky guy. I know its not trout fishing...but... fishing is fishing.