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GreatwhiteNorth

GreatwhiteNorth

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Bob Zmuda said:
Hell yeah! Going for the big boys! I usually use a 5-7 wt in our lakes and a 3-4 on our small technical creeks. Definitely not getting trophies! Ha. But (to me) it's so fun try to catch these lil trout. They are spooky as SHIT, picky about your drifts and smarter than the average fish.

All about stealth and finesse. :)
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Hell yeah, skinny water is tough and those guys see everything!
Fished a lot of Bones, Tarpon, Permit & Snook in S. Fla in my youth on the flats.
Cast over their back (or even show them a line shadow) & it's over.
 
whitebb2727

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GreatwhiteNorth said:
Hell yeah, skinny water is tough and those guys see everything!
Fished a lot of Bones, Tarpon, Permit & Snook in S. Fla in my youth on the flats.
Cast over their back (or even show them a line shadow) & it's over.
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We wade fish here a lot in the summers. Mainly bass. Take and throw out in the shoals with night crawlers and let them float down.

Good fun.
 
Grandpapy

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Grandpapy said:
So, is that a time clock on the wall?? Paying yourself? I hope you weren't on the clock taking these photos.
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I should rephrase this, Nice job! What is that on the wall? How do you get so much done??


I blame it on ghost and green crack from Manitou Springs and a 36 hr dry spell. I need to make use of the smileys in place of proper pronunciation.:oops:
 
curious2garden

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Jimmyjonestoo said:
I love box wine.
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Same here, one of the better daily table wines I've found was in a box. Although box wines lack the pomposity, diversity and will never have the cellaring ability of bottled, better quality wines are being brought into the boxed market all the time. Generation X has changed wine packaging by their increased consumption to all our benefit.

I love not having to deal with bottles for my simple table wines although I still do for lack of availability. I look forward to more coming into the market. Cellared is for special occasions. I have a decent sized house at 3,000 sq. ft. and still don't really have room for a wine cellar, who does these days? Boxes (if you know your chemistry), give you a good quality product for a decent price that lasts longer in better condition, VIVA technology.

Indagrow said:
Went out fishing before work today on the boat, ended up getting 32 strippers in three hours. A lot of them where schoolies (17-20") bulking up for their migration to NC but I managed to lead the group a bit and let my gear sink then pull through to get some of the bigger guys below...View attachment 3807059
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Very nice fish, I see you are on that leg, how are you feeling? How's it coming along?
 
cannabineer

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Jimmyjonestoo said:
I love box wine.
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Ikr?? They used to be bad wine badly packaged. But the superiority of the package is actually driving good and soundly-built wines in an impermeable and oxygen-excluding container that does not have the "tick-tick-tick, your wine is dying by the second" mortal urgency of pulling tree bark out of fused sand.
I have some bottles left from when I was acquisitive about a cellar. I carried all the pompous snobbery attitudes toward cork in glass, properly capsuled with lead. But I neglected my celllar machinery and gave the bottles an overtemp event that broke their backs. I weep for the case of '90 Margaux I cooked to half-death, and when I drink one it is an act of memorial and contrition. Had that great work of one of the finest years in the collective memory of the Left Bank been swaddled in a modern polymer pouch designed to fiercely exclude our reactive atmosphere ... it might still show what made it great.
 
GreatwhiteNorth

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True story,
Out at the remote lodge a group of us spent a week just hanging & hunting. One chick was so hung up on her bottled wines and absolutely refused to try any "out of that damn box" so a buddy and I fished out one of her empty's and refilled w/ box. We prodded her to try the box but she refused whilst pontificating on how much better hers was because it was in a bottle.

I though she was going to turn inside out after she finished & we told her what she had been drinking.
Lol - an epic and hilarious moment.
 
Singlemalt

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The ex and I went to this place a couple weeks ago http://www.derbywineestates.com/. Did the tour etc. Pretty upscale wines $30+ bottles. I wanted to go in the working side ( tanks, barrels, bottling side, etc) and see the operation. Anyway, I see these cylindrical containers roughly 1 and 2 gal sized, that I've never seen before: a plastic shell with a bladder within. Asked what they were. They were for restaurants, effectively a "box". You'd order the wine, they'd fill from the cylinder and deliver a carafe to your table. Apparently, restaurants dislike individual bottles, so these were developed. The same $30+ bottle wine is also in these cylinders. We tasted and did a side by and there was absolutely no difference. They think they may introduce these for home availability in a few years at around $100-200 per. Not yo mama's boxed wine anymore
 
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